Most napkins per meal of any restaurant in Bastrop, fo' sho'!
They've got blue crab, stone crab claws, dungeness crab, snow crab legs, king crab legs, muscles, shrimp and crawfish.
They were very busy, even at 3 pm on a Sunday.
You can choose your spiciness level. Regular, medium, spicy and "xxx." We tried a medium and a spicy. I am not even curious about the xxx because the spicy (and even the medium) were plenty hot for us!
The place has a nice interior. It's the former (and beloved) Cedar's restaurant. And they had some nice music playing. And it's counter service only but they all seemed very nice.
We ordered 2 blue crabs, a pound of snow crabs, 6 red potatoes, corn on the cob and mushrooms. That was plenty for the two of us.
Blue crabs are far cheaper, and these were fine, but those snow crab legs were sooo goood!
They steam or boil the crab, place it in a plastic bag, add any veggies you ordered, then ladel in whatever sauce you ordered and toss to coat.
So... yeah... everything's real messy!
They don't give you a mallet, but you don't need one. The blue crab is already in two halves with the main shell removed. And they don't provide a bib (though we didn't spill anything on our clothes). And they didn't even offer wet wipes, just a large dispenser of napkins. But it worked for us. You just wash up after in the restroom.
Of course crab needs beer and they had a good IPA among other things.
We will return to work through the menu. We haven't had dungeness crab in awhile. And who doesn't like muscles?
My only issue here is, I have no idea how many calories I'm eating. They lay down the butcher paper and you dump out your bag of seafood and it's all in a pool of butter, but it's tossed while it's in the shell so I don't know how much of the gets to the meat. But it must be a lot, because the meat has so much flavor!
So, I'm planning a light breakfast, a return to Dockside for lunch, and a healthy salad for dinner. Sounds good to me! read more