Crawfish Shack

 If I had to pick one meal to eat before I die it would always be seafood. Lobster, shrimp, oysters, clams, crab. Gimme. So I knew I had to check out Crawfish Shack after it appeared on Creative Loafing's List of 100 Dishes in Atlanta and best spots for BYOB in Atlanta. A BYOB seafood place? Yes, please. 

Crawfish Shack is a hole in the wall off of Buford Highway right after Aloha plaza in a small shopping center. It is equal parts ridiculously cheap and insanely delicious.We decided to make date night out of it and turned up on a Friday night to a packed house. When you dub yourself a Louisiana Cajun Vietnamese seafood shack you are bound to have many suitors. 

You can purchase soups, dips, or your seafood raw by the pound to cook yourself or stay to drink and wait for your food. The restaurant is decorated like a beach shack with ships and hanging fishing nets. The tables are long benches that would be great for a birthday party to squeeze all your friends in (and probably some strangers)  Guess which we picked?

Cheers! 

Crawfish Shack made the list off 100 Dishes to try because of their Boudin Balls. It is a Cajun dish that I had never tried and it was a bit like a hushpup but less breading, more seafood-y goodness.They also come in a pork variety but were doing seafood here!

They are deep fried and come with a spicy dipping sauce. Obviously naughty for your diet, get them anyways and pop em' with no regrets.

For our meal, we split the Seafood Boil for ONE. It was stuffed with blue crabs, lobster, mussels, shrimp, sausage, and potatoes.

 Yes, this is food that they deem acceptable for one person to consume in a sitting.

I think this place and I are going to have an amazing friendship.