My boyfriend and I came in craving snow crab and left beyond satisfied--not just with the food but with the service too! Brooks was our waiter and he was AMAZING. Super attentive, always made sure we had what we needed, and his energy was so positive and fun--it honestly made our whole dining experience feel extra special. We also want to shout out Frank, who was equally awesome! He checked in on us throughout the meal, helped make some great recommendations, and just had a great vibe overall. You can tell both of them genuinely care about making sure guests have a great time. Thanks to Brooks and Frank, we'll definitely be back soon. Y'all are the best! read more

This place is quite good! Considering Austin is a landlocked city. I think the way to go is shrimp or crawfish when in season. I'm not sure if the crab is a good value. Wait times can be a while as this is not a fast type of meal. It is a very casual ambiance as well! read more

The food here is delicious! We waited about 40 min for a table, but the food came out fast once we were seated and ordered. Snow crab, shrimp, and live crawfish were amazing with "the whole sha-bang" sauce at medium spice level. It was the perfect amount of spice and flavor! read more

Waited 40 min to be sat but after ordering our food took 9 minutes to come out. Shrimp and sauce was delicious read more

I went here when crawfish season just started and it was extremely overpriced and crawfish was small. I got shrimp and crab and the flavors are really good. Service was great at all, they kept coming over to assist in bringing napkins or changing things on the table. Great environment. read more

Frank and Elise treated my wife and I like royalty. I've lived in multiple countries and had the best food know to mankind. I've been to the best culinary experiences in Italy, Spain, France, etc. and paid an arm and a leg for service this good. This establishment treats their customers like you are at a 3 star Michelin Restaurant for a quarter of the price. Superior service, cleanliness, taste, atmosphere, and all around perfection for the dinning experience. 100 stars, all the way, I highly recommend. read more

Loved it so much it's the only seafood boil place i like going too we never have a bad experience or long wait time read more

The Boiling Crab - crawfish, snow crab, egg, potatoes and corn - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

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I have been going to the boiling crab in Alhambra California for the longest and I was excited to see that a boiling crab opened up here in Austin. We came by on a Friday evening and waited about 10 minutes before we got seated which isn't too bad given this place is always packed on the weekends. We had the snow crab and we were glad that the crawfish was still in season. Ordered about 3 lbs of crawfish and 2 clusters of snow crab for about 3 people with the whole shabang sauce. Everything came out fresh as expected and tasted amazing. Great atmosphere and they play the best music. Will be coming back very soon read more

Quick service. Good ambiance. Food was good. Our server Brooks was great. Would come back. read more

The Boiling Crab - Shrimp - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

Food serves and food was a amazing and we had a great server named brooks. Everything was cooked to perfection!!!

Ewww 1) Shrimp, potatoes, sausage, corn in garlic sauce... shrimp was sweet but soft, garlic was abundant but raw, corn (frozen) was overpowered by garlic, sausage was soggy & gritty, potatoe was perfect. Soft shell crab basket - crab body wasn't cleaned -- super fishy. Fries were hot & crisp & spicy. Gumbo was sweet... weird. Ate 3 shrimp, 1 potatoe, 3 bites of gumbo, 3 bites of corn, 1/4 of 1 soft shell crab, & fries. $57. Oh! And everything came out one thing at a time. Weird. Staff was well trained on the food but the food was gross. read more

This place has the best soft shell crabs. The service was quick and very friendly. The restaurant was very nice inside, and it was definitely a place to go eat seafood. All there food is just outstanding so if you're looking for great seafood iI recommend giving this place a try. read more

The Boiling Crab - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

The Boiling Crab has opened up its first location in Austin during the season we needed it most. Crawfish farming and catching in 2024 is at a record low, so my partner and I had to try this place out to satisfy the seasonal craving. On a Saturday evening, we had about an hour wait. The plaza has good parking and there's other things around to kill some time. The host seemed very irritated to be there while the hostess working that day got us seated once our reservation moved up to first in line. The place has some booths and a crab shack kind of decor, so don't expect to look fancy in your bib and gloves. As for the food, I opted for crawfish and some blue crabs. Blue crabs need at least 2 crabs ordered which was about 1.5 lbs. Crawfish was ordered with the shebang sauce and at a mild spice level. I would say mild is the perfect level if you're looking to build spice slowly over time and still be enjoyable if you're a bit sensitive to it like I am. The shebang flavor is great, definitely addicting and I didn't feel like I needed to order anything extra juicy for the 2 lbs of crawfish. Adding a corn on the cob is more like 1/3-1/2 of a cob with little flavor or use. I would say skip it. The $7 for the sausage is a bit pricey but definitely a good addition in terms of taste. The crawfish itself ranged in size but erred a bit smaller. However, with the catches lately, I couldn't blame them too much. I would have to come back a different season to compare the sizes. I only had 2 dead (prior to boiling) crawfish which I considered pretty good. The blue crab was okay, but I generally enjoy crawfish more than the crab due to the work-to-meat-ratio. Ordering a sauce on the side is recommended. The garlic butter is in about a 1-2 oz little cup, but they also bring salt and pepper and juicy limes to mix so I didn't end up running out of sauce. I had a good meal, service wasn't bad, but the food ran a bit expensive. Crawfish was $15/lb while blue crab was $13/lb. It'll add up quickly considering I know many people that can easily down many pounds of crawfish. Ultimately pretty good in terms of flavor but will have to properly see how this place is when the crawfish isn't so scarce anymore. read more

Everything is nice. Seafoods are in good quality. Not too long wait, service is great. read more

The Boiling Crab - Crawfish - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

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The only reason I gave it 4 stars was because of the shrimp... it had that mushy texture as if they smushed them and cooked them and it wasn't just one it was almost 1/2 a pound . Crawfish was flavorful . They come by and give you a cup with salt and pepper with a side of lime.. try it was delicious when you dip the crawfish tail in it . Snowcrab was amazing. The sweet potato fries are giving !!! They are so good . Service was good always checked if we needed something even when they had 70 percent capacity. Thank you read more

The Boiling Crab - Head on shrimp , crawfish and 4 boiled eggs - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

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Finally a place that hits like Floridas seafood that I miss dearly. The options to choose from are plentiful! The bags are delicious! We came for my son's birthday and we did not regret coming! Service was spot on. The restaurant is cute and collective! Don't hesitate on coming here. Just come you won't regret it. read more

SHABANG SAUCE - enough said. Love the spice and flavor. Definitely on the pricier end - all the fixings are extra in addition to the crawfish. Blue crab was surprisingly juicy and fresh. The catfish and fries were good but nothing special. Gloves were flimsy and we had to switch them out twice because it get breaking with holes. Highly recommend! Parking is ample but the spaces are TINY. read more

Delicious and fresh crawfish. Good size crawfish, courteous staff, and love the seasoning. read more

The Boiling Crab - Best ever crawfish - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

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Food is seasoned well at a good price not to high it is seafood after all but doesn't cost a arm and leg like other places. Servers are really helpful with the menu have the prices per items written down and explain the different spice levels. They even let you sample the spices. Overall great restaurant. read more

This is hands down the best crawfish I have ever eaten in town. I been to pretty much every crawfish place in town too. I got the flavor The Whole Sha-Bang. That's the go to flavor you should pick. The shrimp, snow, and king crab were very flavorful. The wings are really tasted and crispy. The fries have a very good seasoning on them. I been there twice now and they have not disappoint. I can't wait to come back again. read more

No one greeted us when we walked in. We stood there a little over 10 mins before we were acknowledged. The manager was talking to a group of servers and saw us, yet did not say anything or came to greet us. None of the servers smiled and looked happy to be there. Our waitress did not come check in on us. The shrimp was over cooked and crawfish was not good. The fried fish and calamari were okay. They literally charge you for ketchup, mayo, and tatar sauce that taste like mayonnaise. I do not recommend this place at all! It's all about customer service and unfortunately it was just not good! Ambience is not welcoming..... read more

Garlic butter crab was some of the best seasoned crab I had! I found the spice levels a little misleading, as the medium spice crawfish wasn't all too spicy, but that might just be a product of my spice tolerance. Love the messiness of it all, made the experience so much fun! read more

OK, so this place has only been open a month and maybe they're still working some kinks out. This was my first visit and initially it was good. Waited maybe 15 minutes to be seated and drink orders were taken immediately. Shortly after, our food order was taken. Food came out fast and hot but things started going down from there. The service was great but the food was badly over cooked to the point that the shrimp were mushy. My cousin ordered king crab and it was rubber. The manager did attempt to make it right by remaking the legs and taking the shrimp off the ticket and also taking an order of the crawfish off too as a discount. I'm charging it to being a new business and will definitely try again as the potential is definitely there. Again, the service across the board was very good! The place itself was very nice. The women's restroom did need attention but overall the restaurant seemed to be clean and in order. read more

The Boiling Crab - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

I've ate at a few boil places, even out of state but The Boiling Crab has been my favorite out of all of them. Each place has their own style cut Boiling Crab stands out among the rest. read more

Went two weekends in a row and it was packed but we were quickly seated each time so that was a plus. Our first visit we ordered a couple lbs of crawfish, a lb of shrimp, 2 soft shell crabs, added a few potatoes and eggs, a kids chicken basket, a fried catfish basket which was roughly around $90. 1st visit everything was pretty good aside from the overcooked crabs which got removed but the real highlight both time La was the catfish basket. The fish is fried perfectly; crispy outer, flaky and seasoned really well..best fish I've had in a while. 2nd visit we made a family outing so we had a slightly bigger party, this time we ordered crawfish, shrimp, catfish basket, kids chicken and a couple margaritas. The margaritas are super limey and don't taste like they have any liquor at all (the premixed margaritas at HEB are more potent), the boiled seafood was overcooked, which made the shrimp hard to peel, the entire table felt like the crawfish tasted frozen not fresh. Market prices are wild: snow crab is $32 a lb and king is $70 we passed after seeing multiple tables only receive one cluster. Service is decent since they are a really busy establishment, literally any server will help you out and multiple check on you throughout the meal. That and the catfish basket is why this is a 3 star review. Bottom line this place is good in comparison to other options here locally but it's def overhyped and overpriced. Sadly the best thing they have to offer is the fried foods. I would return solely to order the fish, nothing more. read more

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I'd recommend the Cajun Medium spicy flavor. The dining environment is nice with decent service. The shrimp is a little mushy, not very fresh. Overall, i prefer the quality of seafood at Deckhands over here. read more

The Boiling Crab - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

The food here is incredible. Service is amazing. We had Andrea as a server and she was soooooo sweet , very attentive and had such a great personality that it really made the day awesome. The flavors are better than any other place in Austin or surrounding areas !!!!! read more

The Boiling Crab - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

Service by Brooks was 10/10, came to ask us if we were going okay many times which we appreciated!

our server went above and beyond to make our meal at The Boiling Crab amazing. He was quick, friendly, and gave great recommendations. Hands down one of the best servers we've had! Nathan G!!! read more

Great idea, but poor execution and way over priced for what it is..Love the concept and atmosphere. A few things to note: no silverware (all plastic), no draft beer- all bottles, and no buckets to put your empty shells in, you have to use plastic bags to discard shells, no biggie but kind of annoying when you're hands are a mess trying to put the shells into a plastic bag. Provide a bucket to throw the shells in, just seems like they don't want to have to wash any utensils or buckets. The crawfish were great and the seasoning options were tasty but for $15/lbs that's way overpriced. I understand the price for crawfish is based on availability but I just looked at the price per pound at Shoal Creek Saloon and it's $9/lbs. It's was great to check out a new local spot, but just don't seeing us come here very often. read more

YALLLLLL let me tell ya. Line was soooo long but once we got sat down Ms.Angelyna got us right. Immediately got out order, food took almost no time to come out and was pretty fye. There are alot of add ons but it shouldnt hurt your pockets lol! Ms.Angelyna thank you again ! read more

Place was average. Not bad but not great. I love a great hostess, they are the face of the restaurant and I honestly feel they can change anyone's first impression of a restaurant. Zoey was the hostess. Not friendly, not welcoming just a body there collecting a check. Food was okay, had the snow crabs, crawfish and lemon pepper fries. All were okay. Fries were just fries. My server was ok. To sum up this restaurant it was just ok. Very clean restaurant and had a fun vibe. read more

The Boiling Crab - Snow crab with all the sauces and medium heat level. - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

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The Boiling Crab was a delightful surprise. I was looking a quick bite and drink while I waited for my movie to start at the AFS. I tried their wings with corn on the cob and the shag bang sauce! I choose a spicy flavor. I loved it. Nice twang. It was the right amount of heat. Nick and Deli represented well. I'm going back. read more

The Boiling Crab - Me with a margarita! - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

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First tried this place out in Dallas so I was exited to see we finally got one. Their shabang sauce is second to none. By far the best sauce in Austin! I love how they load it with chunks of garlic. We waited about an hour but that was to be expected since they just opened a few days ago. Services was really good. It wasn't too crazy packed inside. My only complaint was that I asked for a pound of snow crab and only received 1 claw. Waiter said that next time i can let them know to get me exactly a pound so they can pull the heavier crabs because sometimes they go a little under. For the price I need my whole pound. We also got the fried shrimp basket and lemon pepper wings which my kids tore up. Both came out nice and hot. didn't get a pic of the crab but will next time! read more

The Boiling Crab - Fried shrimp - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

Love this place! We get a pound of everything and leave full and satisfied. We like to get medium rajun cajun flavor for a bit of a kick! read more

The Boiling Crab - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

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This place has a seatown vibe about it. By that I mean the seafood is great and the flavors and seasoning is even better. I have read a lot of reviews about the long wait, our party was able to get a table instantly when we walked into the restaurant on a Tuesday night. On weekends obviously expect to wait. I can't name a good restaurant that does not have a wait during busy days. The manager - I believe his name is Aaron took care of our party and made sure everything was on point. Highly recommend. read more

We had the shrimp and snow crab in shabang sauce, lemon pepper wings, and margaritas! Everything was great! The staff were very attentive and friendly. There are tv's everywhere, super casual and great atmosphere altogether. Can't wait to be back with my momma!! For those leaving reviews about the long wait, I've been to TBC in LA and they're SO busy because they're good! This place has great food! You won't be disappointed! read more

Best shrimps on town 1 lb shrimp Shabang Mild Lemon pepper fries Add sausage/corn read more

The Boiling Crab - Front Entrance - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Austin, Texas

Pros: Seafood was fresh, and flavors were great. Cons: The wait time was pretty long, and the service was a tad slow- to be expected their first weekend open. Also some of the shrimp were not deveined. Overall it's one of the better places for a seafood boil in Austin. We will be back. read more

Best shrimp in town, xxx is the best sauce also our server brooks give us the best service highly recommended.... also manager was very friendly read more