This was my first time in Madison and I saw that they sold SEAFOOD BOIL and immediately booked it there. We got there in the middle of their lunch rush but still we're sat in a timely matter. I got half a pound of head on shrimp and got combo D with shrimp and crab. The flavor and heat were perfect! The bags came with loads of sauce and we're definitely 10/10 Sharlina was very sweet and attentive despite being busy with the rush :) Will definitely be back out next visit down here. read more

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The food here is extremely mid and service wasn't the best either. I suggest raging Cajun seafood boiler cheaper, better quality, bigger portions read more

Kind of a weird empty gray vibe when you walk in. Service was good - they don't check on you too much cuz nobody wants to be interrupted while bib'd up! FOOD IS SOOOO GOOD! read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Combo - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Fun place for seafood boil! My daughter and I were visiting while she was in town for business and we drove past a few times, and decided to give it a try. Lots of great seafood, great spicy options to add in your boil, which my daughter loved. Service was a little slow, but friendly. Fun atmosphere to go for a date, or to bring older kids who want to try something different. Would go back when visiting Madison again, for sure! read more

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Mad Seafood Boiler is a great dining option if you are craving seafood boil combos, seafood, and sushi! They have snow crab legs, king crab legs, and even lobster! It's a trendy, affordable, casual, fun place to enjoy seafood with your friends/family but prepared to get hands on busy with your food especially the messy buttery seafood boils! It reminds me of an Asian/Cajun style restaurant that brings the sauce with a-lot of delicious mouthwatering sauce options like garlic butter, lemon pepper, and you can choose how spicy you want the sauce! They serve a variety of different sushi, poke bowls, and even raw oyster platters but their seafood boils are the main attraction! You can pick different general seafood boil combos which have a nice mix of different seafood like crab legs, mussels, shrimp, crawfish, with sides like corn on the cob and rice. I love you can completely customize your seafood boil picking specifically the type seafood you want and how much of it, the type of sauce, and pick the sides. Even order more of a specific seafood, extra sides, and sauces like a la carte if you want! I put on my bib, gloves, and was excited to dig into my seafood boil combo with crab legs, sausage, potatoes, and shrimp! My seafood boil was hot and fresh! My spicy garlic cajun butter sauce took the seafood boil to the next level! It was absolutely delicious with an explosion of buttery, spicy, Cajun goodness but definitely messy so definitely wash your hands well afterwards or use hand wipes they provide! The service was great and prompt also! I definitely plan to come back to try more entree options! I really enjoyed Mad Seafood Boiler! read more

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My first review needs little updating aside from the fact that since my first visit, I've been to a few more Vietnamese-Cajun seafood boiler restaurants and this one still stands out as the best I've had outside of Washington DC and New Orleans. Make sure you wear the bib. read more

I recently visited Mad Seafood boil and ordered Combo A. I specifically asked for the sausage to be replaced with eggs, as I do not eat pork. I clearly told the waitress about my dietary restriction. When I received my order, it still came with sausage. I politely reminded the waitress that I don't eat pork and had asked for eggs instead. Instead of apologizing or correcting the mistake respectfully, she accused me of never telling her and was very rude about it. She took my bag abruptly, and the whole interaction made me feel uncomfortable. The Asian manager who came over was also dismissive and unprofessional. The way I was treated felt disrespectful and Islamophobic. Please don't waste your money here!! 0/10 read more

Nikki called me with an issue she noticed with my order. Had she not contacted me I would have been charged twice, so I'm incredibly grateful and SO glad she took the time to contact me. Excellent service, thank you so much! read more

By far the best Seafood boil place in America. Best prices. Best food I've ever had. They are always fast and very helpful with service. They also give you all the tools to enjoy the feast in a great environment! I found MAD in my second year of college and it was THE place my girlfriend and I would go everytime she visited. I have since graduated and I am SO SAD I no longer have access to this place. If you are in a 30 mile vicinity I recommend you go here and enjoy it, for me! read more

We came here for breakfast and it was so good. Will be back here for dinner tonight! Probably breakfast tomorrow too! #remembertopayforparkingmeter read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Love the seafood boil, and the sushi/sashimi. They have the soy paper wraps, and cooked "sushi" for those of us that despise raw fish and seaweed. read more

Bib me up! It's bout to get real messy in hereee! This place has been on my to go list for a hot second, and hot hot hot it was. I went with two buds and we were getting hangry. We ordered the Combo Wow Platter and a deep fried roll. The battle gear: a rocking hot bib with some plastic gloves to match. In comes the food, presented tied up plastic bag. Doesn't make for the craziest appetizing look, but untie it and BOOM it's a blast in the face of seafood buttery goodness. You had a choice of 3 kinds of butter, so of course we chose all three. Let's dissect this Combo wow: Crab legs - tbh disappointing, very little meat on these dudes. You'd break open a fatty leg hoping for a feast and all you got was the tinniest sliver of meat. Shrimp - these dudes soak up that sawwwce! This is the money ticket. Cooked well and classic Sausage - a delightful surprise of flavor! I only wish there were more Corn and potatoes - these are a welcome addition to the butter seafood bath, nothing amazing but yummy nonetheless The BUTTER - honestly was the highlight. I mean it's butter and it's spicy butter. My two favorite food groups. The deep fried roll was yummy! Even though it was deep fried it was a surprising fresh side to the seafood fiesta. It all ended up being 28 ish with tip. It's a fun experience and yummy, but maybe not the bestest value (although I define good value as my pants bursting at the seams and only a minimal dent in my poor college student income). Pro tip - with that left over butter, poor it all up in the rice you get. It's crazy delicious. TLDR: get the cute bib, with some splashes of butter on your face. You won't be taken aback by the seafood but be prepared for a butter filled heart read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Combo Wow Platter - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

We ordered here for a birthday dinner last night and it was good/medium quality. The prices are arguably decent for crab legs and fish, but there was such a fishy scent for everything we got. I ordered a poke bowl and the tuna didn't seem fresh, but I got through about half of the bowl. The crab legs came soaking in the butter garlic and I wished the corn wasn't also soaked. The shrimp dumplings were okay too, pretty squishy. Things were good, just not amazing. read more

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Got the seafood boil and was not expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised. All the seafood tasted good. I really liked the mussels. Service was fine, although the restaurant was a bit chaotic. read more

Mussels were tougher than they should have been. Shrimp were older. Like they reheated in the microwave on this occasion. Cajun flavor had no seasoned flavor. Zatarains from the bottle or box could have worked. 1 corn was old. The other corn was fine but even it nor the potatoes could soak up a flavor profile for that "cajun" seasoning. Try the lemon pepper flavor. Proper spring roll. I've had other places give an egg roll and call it a spring roll. Signage around says you cant substitute rice for corn, potatoes nor egg. I don't get the value not purpose of the rice just yet. They are running specials via Facebook or direct call ins for togo orders. read more

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Ok I don't even know where to start the bathroom was very disgusting very unsanitary. There's cleaning supplies on the floor and bath room inside stalls look ran down. Food was great. Staff? Horrible they never pay attention they're always on their phones. She saw us asking for help but than didn't even help she glanced and just completely ignored.. until another customer came in.. I wouldn't recommend going to this place unless u can handle their attitudes.. read more

I've been here quite a few times since they opened. They have an amazing black rice sushi (all their sushi I've tried has been fresh and great). All of their seafood boil combos are great, combos have changed overtime. Used to be larger more expensive combos for groups to split and now it seems to have branched out to smaller less expensive combos but for 3 people with tip we spent about $200. I always get the combo with all 3 flavors combined and level 3 spicy level (not spicy at all to me). Eggs are an extra $1.50 but it's so worth it to me. Love leftovers from here and their service is so friendly and on point! I will continue to treat myself to their meals when a craving hits!! read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Wow combo w/ a lb of crawfish added - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Love, I got some sushi. I'll be back to check out the other items. The service was on point and the ambiance was great. Keep up the great work. read more

The sushi was great! Delicious. They charged extra for the amount spicy mustard I like on my sushi--but I can overlook such nonsense But the appetizer--calamari with French fries was a HUGE disappointment! I forgot to take a picture because I was so disappointed--lots of French fries topped with a pitiful amount of calamari rings (Fried from frozen)--how can a restaurant that calls itself Seafood put this on the menu read more

I am basing this off of the meal only as I did a take out order for my debut stop at this place. I got the king salmon poke' bowl as it was ranked as popular item among customers and I love me some good salmon. The people were right as my poke' bowl was darn good! Super fresh ingredients, melt in your mouth salmon chunks. Very nice wasabi mayo sauce as well. Real sushi rice as it should be. Portion is pretty decent as well. My order was ready 5 minutes early when I came in to get it so they work fast. Place was not too busy at all when I stopped in about 815pm on a Wednesday night. I want to try their many, many, appetizers and sushi rolls next time. Their menu has a long list of each and they sounded so good! read more

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You will get lost in the sauce here and ITS REALLY GOOD! If you're a saucy one, this is def for you. It's on the saltier side but mixed your seafood and sides in there and it balances it out. You get a bib and a some super thin plastic gloves (I double pair and ask for more half way through). If you get the combos - along with the seafood choice, you also get corn and potatoes. For 2 people, we get 1 combo and then 1 lb of something else with the side of sausage (so good!). The shrimp is good size and juicy - skin is soft enough to eat with or peel easy. The clams were a big win for us and using the shell to scoop some extra sauce and a little rice is the perfect bite. The biggest disappointment but to not much surprise given we're in the Midwest was the crawfish - they were pretty small with very little meat. We got it with everything sauce (Cajun, garlic, lemon pepper) which I'm telling you, is really good. Staff is quick and attentive. No frilly stuff, just straight to business. Price I think is also really reasonable given the amount of food. read more

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Good! If you want sea food this is the place. They fill a bag up with crustaceans of your choice. I went on my birthday & won a free pound of crawfish off the birthday prize wheel. You pick the sauce & how spicy . Add some potatoes ,corn & rice & you're having a good time. I wore my bib but i opted out of gloves & napkins. It was so fun getting all messy & digging into this flavorful, large, sea food dish. No complaints here. But if I could give one suggestion I would say add some type of biscuit or some bread of some type. Otherwise this was a superb dining experience. read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Combo Platter B plus a pound of crawfish - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

3.5 stars. Again, as my previous review stated, this is NOT southern cajun food, but a new Asian style cajun that has become popular over the past couple of years (so don't come in expecting Louisiana style crawfish). I still come here quite often because this is the only seafood restaurant of this style in the area and I'm very happy that they have picked up business. That in mind, things can get busy and there have been times where we have waited well over 30-45 minutes to get our food on a Wednesday (so don't come here if you have somewhere to go afterwards). I would stay away from the other specials, like teriyaki dinner, etc. While cheap, not very tasty. They used to have good seafood combos available, but now I notice that prices of the combos are pretty compatible with just getting pounds of whatever seafood you want, which is something to take into consideration. I'm most disappointed that they took away the sausage from their origins (added more potato) and that the sauce quality has gone way down. Before, it used to be delicious and garlicky, and now there is barely any garlic flavor, just oil. I hope they start making their sauce like they used to again. When I come here, I like anything with head-on shrimp and snow crab. Crawfish isn't as good as some other places, so not my top choice but I enjoy them in the combos. Overall, decent option for Madison, just wish that service was faster and they went back to their original quality. read more

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Food was yummy and of a good quantity but it is served in a very casual manner (like most items arrive in a plastic bag!)

This spot delivered in perfect timing, after checking over the order we were missing only 2 items. We ordered enough to feed an army and even had left overs. Never got the two missing items but the company was too delightful to notice. read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - The food was amazing However, did not end up getting egg rolls or mixed rice. The meal was filling and cultivated charitable moments. - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Edit: 1/12/19 Sadly, this place is hit or miss which is very disappointing. I shared Combo B once again with someone else. This batch lacked flavor, the crawfish, and potentially 1/2 pound of shrimp. They were nice enough to provided the crawfish on a separate plate. We can't say for certain if the 1/2 pound was missing because we realized this halfway in. read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Why is it that after a poke bowl, your tummy is always so pleasantly pleased? The salmon poke bowl is very fresh tasting with edamame, avocado, cucumber slices, rice and greens. I had mine with poke sauce and would recommend tossing it to enjoy the great tasting sauce before eating your way down to find the yummy sauce! I also shared a small spicy crab roll with black rice. After reading the story about the health benefits of black rice, I just had to taste it, and it really is good! I'll be looking for this black rice from now on, especially if these health benefits are true! This is a great place to dine with a variety of items on the menu. read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Salmon poke bowl - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

I have been to this place multiple times since it's its opening and it never lets me or my guest down!! Best seafood boil I have had in the Midwest! Head off shrimp, crab legs, sausage, potato, and corn are my go to. Depending on the company the butter garlic is good, I am a huge fan of the spicy!! It's very spicy and good. It's always fun to wear a bib while you eat. Not sure this is a first date kinda meal though.... read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Absolutely stellar! I ordered the Combo A with Mussels, garlic butter, and mild spice. It was so flavorful and filling! This is a great spot to go with a group of friends for a comforting Sunday night meal. The waiter we had was great. I would recommend going here if you're looking for some good seafood! read more

Price was great for a seafood boiler! They had items available that accounted for the mess eating a boiler can create. Shrimp, which was my main meat, had zero taste. read more

Love how they give you gloves, a bib, and put down a table cloth. This type of food is meant to be ate messy! Makes it taste soo much better! read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Food is great for the price! Only $13.99 for a lobster tail? Eat it with the garlic butter and Cajun. YUM. I came during restaurant week, and the service was lacking. The drinks were not correct, some drinks never came, and some food was cold. However, the food was still good. I got the half pound snow crab and lobster, with sausage. Sausage is definitely the best side. Person with me got shrimp (with head on) and snow crab. Shrimp looked delicious. He said that the shrimp didn't absorb much of the garlic butter flavor but was still tasty. Second time I came was a normal day, but service was still a little spotty. Our water was never refilled, so I had to get up and ask. Not the end of the world, but the food can be spicy so water was appreciated. Will be coming back. Ok service, good food! read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

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The California roll was fantastic. The mussels were probably the worst meal I've ever had. They were too big to be tender. Hard to chew and not de-bearded. Really full of gunk inside. I ordered the lemon pepper sauce, but the predominant taste was the finely chopped onion that thickly coated the mussels. I usually like mussels, but these were bad. read more

I had gotten mixed reviews about this place from friends, but I've been really interested in trying so I finally did. Went with my mom and we were sat right away on a busy Friday night. We had been wondering why they weren't extremely busy with more tables filled, but the service was super fast and food came out really quick. That probably made for good table turnover time. We ordered edamame, the avocado salad, deep fried crab with French fries, the Tiger roll, and the Hot Girl roll. Of all the food, the French fries were actually the best I've had anywhere in town. The sushi rolls weren't mind blowing, but they hit the spot on the craving I'd been having. Edamame is edamame, can't really jazz that up, but the portion was plentiful. We plan to go back and try more of the seafood options. read more

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Needs work, a lot of work. The atmosphere here is fine, and relatively upgraded to other crab boils. Big, spacious area with a lot of seating. Service was courteous and timely. No where to easily wash your hands after getting messy from such an involved meal - gotta go to the bathroom. They have been open a few weeks now, but, they don't serve alcohol yet. I had a pound of shrimp and pound of king crab in a mild, all three sauce, combination. Added corn and andouille sausage. Add ons for any of the bags are 2 dollars a pop. A little disappointing - corn is 5 ears for 2 bucks at the grocery store, come on! The meat was cooked perfectly. The sauce was awful. First of all, the base seemed not have butter, it is some other oil. Spices were absolutely off. I tasted no Cajun, lemon, or pepper. I think there was even some asian influence playing a role in the sauce - that is okay if it is, but, please call it what it is if you are going to change up the recipe. Though the meat was cooked perfectly, multiple dips into the sauce made me lose morale and hope that my spot would be hit. Every bite made me feel more and more nauseated. At a place like this, people really are searching for that flavor explosion - you wont get that here, sorry. This restaurant is still in their infancy. I think the smartest thing they could do at this time is fix their sauces while there is a chance for revival. read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - To prevent that potential spill on your shirt. - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

The miso soup was very good. It wasn't particularly hot but given my food was delivered, I'm not overly concerned. Followed my soup up with the avocado salad. The avocado was fresh and it was a nice blend of lettuce. Came with a ginger dressing that was light and not too sweet. Topped off my dinner with the crazy salmon roll. The roll itself was good and the salmon was tasty. Unfortunately, my food was delivered with regular soy sauce vs the low sodium almost masking the favors of the salmon. Overall, very good! I'd recommend eating at the restaurant vs delivery. That would resolve both issues. read more

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I ordered via DoorDash and got fried shrimp tempura, crab Rangoon and combination of 3 rolls. The fried shrimp tempura was a 4 piece with French fries. The shrimp was still crispy and the sauce was very flavorful. The French fries was soggy- I guess it couldn't hold the ride to my place. The crab Rangoon was the best out of what I got. It was full of tasty cheese and crab stuffing and came with a tasty sweet sauce. The rolls that I got was spicy tuna, spicy crab and Boston roll. Both tuna and crab were not spicy enough for me. The Boston roll was so so but all 3 rolls was extremely fresh. I am sure to go back and try this place in person! read more

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I visited this restaurant yesterday with my coworkers and this was the cleanest place I've been since visiting Madison! The restaurant has plenty of options whether you want fried rice, sushi, or the newly popular seafood boil bags there was a lot to choose from. The waiter was very attentive and made sure we had everything we needed. I wish I had taken photos but the food was so delicious it was eaten within minutes! Everything was great and will definitely return before I leave Madison. Update: I returned and it was as good as the first time. Definitely a staple in Madison for sure! read more

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Honestly it's such a great price for a HUGE serving. I am obsessed with they're mussels, and Cajun seasoning.

Great food with beautiful presentation! Went as a group of 5 and all of us ordered sushi. I definitely recommend getting something off the special sushi section, it's more worth it than the normal sushi (albeit pricie read more

Mad Seafood Boiler - Philly Roll and Forbidden Roll (Black rice) - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

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