Mud Bug Love: Where To Get Crawfish in New Orleans
It’s crawfish season in New Orleans. Along with the traditional boiled crawfish, you can find delicious crawfish dishes all over town. Here’s where we recommend you make like a mud bug and dig in!
Crawfish Tails are on the menu at Deanie’s Seafood and you can also have them in a bisque, an étouffée, over the dish of the day, in a po-boy or on a salad. We recommend their Crawfish Quartet–Louisiana crawfish prepared four delicious ways: crawfish étouffée, crawfish bisque, fried crawfish tails and crawfish balls.
Daisy Dukes in the French Quarter offers boiled seafood in season, but you can also have a Seafood Omelette with crawfish for breakfast. Sweet!
Acme Oyster House has Crawpuppies and a Fried Crawfish Tail appetizer TDF. They also make a memorable Fried Crawfish po-boy. Some locations serve boiled seafood this time of year as well.
ANNUNCIATION’s Seafood Au Gratin with Crabmeat, Crawfish and Shrimp is a game changer. Trust us, you’ll love it.
Blue Bayou Restaurant and Oyster Bar on Canal Street is a great place to get your crawfish fix. Their Mardi Gras Pasta with Shrimp and crawfish tails is fabulous as is their Crawfish Étouffée. Plus, you can order fried or sautéed crawfish tails as a side with anything. Yum!
Bobby Hebert’s Cajun Cannon in Metairie offers seven Cajun Pasta dishes you can add fried crawfish tails to for just $5. Get goin’!
Bourbon Heat’s Crawfish Étouffée comes with a huge hunk of mozzarella garlic toast. Heaven, I’m in Heaven….
Cafe Pontalba’s Blackened Redfish with Crawfish Étouffée will blow away. So will the view off Jackson Square. Come sit in this popular restaurant in the Pontalba buildings and enjoy!
Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop’s famous Mumbo Gumbo has crawfish in the mix but, we’ve got to tell you, his Crawfish Étouffée is as good as his gumbo. It features a quarter pound of crawfish tails in a rich Cajun roux with white rice. Fabulous!
Crescent City Brewhouse’s Redfish Acadiana features Louisiana crawfish, crab boil potatoes, seasonal vegetables and cream sauce. So good.
Head to 4141 on St. Charles Avenue for fresh beignets covered in a cheesy crawfish sauce. They also have a Shrimp & Crawfish Pasta and a Crawfish Étouffée you’ll dream about for decades.
Felix's Restaurant and Oyster Bar is serving Hot Boiled Crawfish with all the fixings as well as Crawfish Étouffée, Fried Crawfish Tails, and Crawfish Pasta with cream sauce. Peel out!
Landry’s Seafood House’s New Orleans Crawfish Bread is like Jazz Fest on a platter. You’ll adore it. Their Crawfish Étouffée is pretty darn good as well.
Messina’s Runway Cafe’s Catfish and Grits is topped with a crawfish corn maque choux. They also have an excellent Crawfish Étouffée. Spectacular.
Mulate’s Cajun Restaurant offers lots of fun ways to eat crawfish. We recommend their Cajun Sampler appetizer which comes with fried crawfish tails, grilled alligator, meat pies stuffed mushrooms, bite-size tilapia, grilled frog legs and fried calamari. They make a mean étouffée as well.
Oceana Grill is a must for crawfish lovers. Their signature dish Redfish Oceana is sauteed redfish topped with original crawfish mushroom cream sauce. They also make a delicious Crawfish Fettuccini as well as a spectacular Crawfish Étouffée.
The Pelican Club has a new take on some New Orleans favorites with Crawfish Étouffée and Crawfish Chili. Did we mention you’d be dining in one of the top restaurants in the country? Trust us, it’s worth the hype!
3rd Black Depot Kitchen + Bar’s Warm Crawfish Dip served with crostinis is a memory in the making. They also offer Season Savory Beignets–a crawfish drop beignet with roasted corn and poblano pepper creme. If you’re really hungry, order the New York Strip Steak with garlic ash, asparagus and a crawfish cream sauce. Ooh la la!
The crawfish dishes at Houmas House alone are worth the drive to Ascension Parish. Enjoy creations such as Bisque of Curried Pumpkin with Crawfish and Corn, Crawfish Arancini, and Crawfish Orleans Pasta, then stroll off the calories with a tour of this magnificent estate and gardens.
If these dishes sound delicious (and trust us, they are!), you’ll want to hurry, our crawfish loving friends, because this season doesn’t last long! And it could be next year before you get to dive into these delicacies again!
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