Friend and I had dinner last night at Mad Boiler, a cajun seafood restaurant.
We split an oyster po-boy for a starter. Oysters were fried perfectly, lots of flavor, way too much sauce/mayo on the po-boy, with less, this would have been a very good sandwich.
For the boil, one chooses a type of seafood: Shrimp (Head on) • Shrimp (Head off) • King Crab Legs • Snow Crab Legs • Crawfish • Mussels • Clams • Lobster (Whole) • Lobster (Tail) • Blue Crab • Dungeness Crab
Then sauce: Garlic Butter • Sweet Chill • Coco Curry • Cajun Louislana Dry Rub
Then spice level, 1-4 chilies
Finally, any additions such as: Corn • Sausage • Potato • Bread • Jasmine Rice
I chose the head on shrimp w/dry rub, 3 chilies, and added sausage & potato.
Friend chose crayfish w/garlic butter, 3 chilies, corn
We were warned that the dry rub is especially spicy & did we really want 3 chilies, we assured the waiter we did.
Seafood comes out in the bags that the items have been cooked in, one then empties the contents into a tray & digs in.
Crayfish were good but not worth the bother (IMO). The head on shrimp were so good, heads full of goodness and the tails cooked perfectly. Sausage & potato were nice add ons.
Restaurant does supply plastic bibs & gloves. We wore the bibs and skipped the gloves.
We were both quite pleased with the meal, nice heat/spice, seafood cooked perfectly.
Mad Boiler
1045 W Madison
Chicago, IL 60607
http://www.madboiler.com/
I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be.