Marietta Crawfish is okay. I was looking for a new lunch spot to eat at with my coworkers that is close to the office and this place popped up on Yelp with a decent rating and number of reviews. For Cajun-style seafood nearby, I prefer AJ's on Roswell Rd (https://bit.ly/2SugYe3), but this place isn't bad. It's an acceptable alternative if you don't want to deal with the crowd/wait at AJ's.
This business has been around since at least 2014 and replaced (I believe) a Latin American restaurant (Las 3 Americas Restaurant). It's located in an old and somewhat sketchy strip with a TitleMax and Elations, an adult movie/novelty shop.
Marietta Crawfish is more than just a restaurant. It's a small grocery store and seafood market too. They have live, fresh, refrigerated, and frozen seafood for sale. Live seafood includes lobster ($13.99 or $15.99/lb), Dungeness crab ($14.99/lb), red crab ($10.99/lb), stone crab ($8.99/lb), blue crab, and crawfish (I think this was $5.99/lb). The latter two are available self-serve while the former are inside a tiny aquarium. Frozen shellfish includes snow crab clusters ($12.99/lb), king crab ($23.99/lb), spiny lobster tail ($10.99 each), cold water lobster tail ($9.99 each), and Dungeness crab clusters ($14.99/lb).
Other frozen, refrigerated, and raw/fresh seafood include different kinds of shrimp (previously frozen, royal red shrimp, Gulf shrimp; some wild-caught), whole fish, conch meat, live oysters, grouper fillets, sea scallops, yellow fin tuna steaks, and various fish fillets like cod, catfish, salmon, rainbow trout, flounder, ocean perch, tilapia, and whiting. Along with seafood, they also sell kitchen equipment and other related products so you can have your own fish fry or Cajun seafood boil at home. These items include large pots, deep fryers, and assorted seasonings, sauces, and seafood breading mixes. They also stock Cafe Du Monde coffee and some Asian groceries (I believe this business is Vietnamese owned and operated) such as bottles of Sriracha, Huy Fong Chili Garlic Sauce, Mama instant noodles, and Nongshim instant ramen.
As for the restaurant portion of the restaurant, it's like a poor man's version of one of those Cajun seafood restaurants on the east/northeast side of metro Atlanta (e.g. Shaking Crawfish on Buford Highway, Blazin Cajun and Fat Crab in Duluth). They offer the same sort of Cajun seafood boils here too; the environment and plating just aren't as nice. This place is really just a hole-in-the-wall with no real ambiance to speak of. The dining area has seating for only about 20 people. They've got a TV on the wall. When we visited, it was tuned to ESPN.
The seafood boils cost anywhere from about $11-40 per meal and include the typical red potato, sausage, and corn on the cob. They sell fried and grilled seafood meals that come with 2 sides for about $9-16 per meal. Fried and grilled po' boys run anywhere from $6-10 for half a po'boy to about $9-14 for a whole po' boy (po' boys include fries). They also have platters that come with an assortment of seafood and sides ($24-90), seafood baskets ($28-38), Cajun boudin balls (5 for $6); wings, chicken tenders, and chicken nuggets (about $5-30 per order); salads (about $9-13 each), lump crab cake (4 oz for $5.99), calamari ($5.99), spicy boiled turkey neck ($1.99 each), and more. They even have bubble tea, real fruit smoothies, and slushies (20 oz for $3.99). I don't think I would order bubble tea here.
There are also specials. For example, if you buy 5 pounds of boiled crawfish, you get 1 pound free.
We ordered a variety of stuff. A couple of my coworkers got meal #8 which is fried crawfish tail meat ($9.99 with 2 sides). They both enjoyed it. For what it's worth, one of them grew up eating crawfish in Florida. Others got shrimp po' boys, both fried ($6 half) and grilled ($10.99 whole), and I heard no complaints. I got a fried red snapper po' boy ($11.99 whole) and it was okay. The portion size was quite good, not only in terms of the overall size of the sandwich, but also in terms of how much snapper meat there was. The fried snapper fillets were generously thick and meaty. However, the fillet did have a bit of that fishy taste/smell and it could have been crispier and seasoned better. Also, the sandwich could have been dressed a bit more (the po' boys come on French bread with housemade remoulade, lettuce, tomato, and pickle). Generally though, the sandwich was fine and satisfying enough. The fries were par for the course. They were crinkle-cut and minimally seasoned.
Whether you dine in or order take out, meals are served in foam containers in plastic bags. Our sandwiches were wrapped in paper and our fries came in pouches. Condiments, eating utensils, napkins, etc. are self-serve from a bar next to the register. There was one cashier and we didn't see signs of any other staff. Given the small lunch rush, I was surprised how fast the orders came out, so kudos to them on reasonably fast service. read more