Boil Bay Cajun Seafood and Bar

Drinks are a 0/10. They all just taste like mixers, so nasty with not a pinch of alcohol. The seafood boils are always decent. I get the boil bay special spicy 8/10. Experience would be better if they had good drinks!

My fiance and I just went for lunch here and ordered the Combo D with shrimp (head off) and blue bay crabs (boil bay sauce and mild).
I grew up eating blue crabs so I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what they are supposed to look like. Unfortunately these blue bay crabs were probably expired, they were gray and smelled semi rancid. I asked the server when they got their delivery in of the crabs and neither she nor the manager knew when they were delivered which was very strange.. I feel like that was kind of a red flag.

Fortunately they did offer to take all of the blue bay crabs away and replaced them with our choice of shrimp (head off). They did not give us a discount or have the manager come out directly to apologize, which I don't mind since we didn't ask, but would've been an example of above and beyond customer service if it had occurred.

I'm thankful they listened to me about the crabs though and were accommodating enough to give us a replacement.

The restaurant itself was clean, it is very dark though. Staff was nice and the music was not annoyingly loud. My fiance said his drink was good (raspberry rum something). The seasoning for mild was definitely just mild! If we return again I'll order spicy. There were only 2 slices of sausage in our bag which was sad, but there were 3-4 potatoes and corn cobs. Portion size was good as well and definitely enough to share between two people.

Unfortunately I didn't take any photos, but just beware about the blue crabs! The snow crabs and shrimp seemed to be fresh and tasted just fine.

I’ve had better seafood boils. It was not seasoned properly tasted freezer burnt

We had a party of 6 for a 6p reservation. We arrived at 550pm. We did not get seated until 640pm. After asking three different people for water, we finally received water at 715pm (three of us did, we had to ask again for water for the other three). Once we ordered the food came out quickly. Paying was another challenge and we just walked up front to pay since our waitress disappeared again. We asked for the manager at the outset and she did everything in her power to avoid speaking to us only at the end to offer 15% off our next visit. I will not be back and the other five people in my party said the same. The upside, my drink was good and the DJ was good. I was not satisfied with my food. The price was decent for what I had.

Food was great

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I brought a combo c crab boil and within 3hrs of eatting...I had to call the emt to take me to henrico hospital to get two iv and three valves of blood token to be told I was food poisoned... I didn't eat all day anticipating to eat some seafood on Christmas to be bed riden and missed 4 days of work... today I got some relief finally( Sunday) after a Wednesday supposed to be fest

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sausage, Shrimp Bag, Shrimp Boil

Me and my boyfriend went here Tuesday night the staff in this place is horrible everyone looked liked they didn’t want to be there no one had a good attitude and we both knew we should have turned around!!! Not to mention the food was so bland I had a boil bag that I set up myself and it was ok about 3 hours arriving back at home I was vomiting found out it was food poisoning this was the only thing I ate that day.!!! Will never return or recommend to anyone at all!!!!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The Worse.
I sat AT THE BAR for 20 minutes before a gentleman who'd been there and had been served asked for some service for me (by this time...it was an experiment...I'm hard to miss 1 and 2 I'm a server and not noticing a new face with not even a menu is CRAZY); The food was lack luster. I asked for no potato double corn and got double potatoes 😏 no corn. And the sangria was THEE WORSE *meanwhile the joint in Southside Plaza has the BOMB food and drinks! Their SANGRIA and Lemon Drop is DELISH!
This place is for tha birds.
Servers need a 'Servers Workshop' or sumn.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

I walked in to order take-out and immediately one of the staff members started harassing me. NON-STOP, I wasn't even allowed to place an order or get a menu. All I wanted to do was spend money on some seafood. Do not go here. They cater to people of a certain skin color and who are in whatever network of cult that runs the place.

Chefs Touch 👨‍🍳

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I usually don't give reviews but boy was this place pure booty cheeks. My wife and I came here to have a nice dinner, 10min have gone by and decided to walk out. I saw servants walking around everywhere around us. Not one single greet or didn't say anything to us. Won't come here if it was the last sea food boil open. 👎🏻

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

I'm only giving one star because I have to in order to leave a review. If you are a real foodie and know your seafood, you'll know this is a rip off! They are using 5/8 or even smaller crab legs and only putting two per boil. I received 1 mimi potatoe,, and a piece of corn that looked like it was eaten. I paid $83 for damn near nothing. I do plan on contacting weights and measures. They are ripping people off. The prices on door dash and grubhub are way more than posted in the restaurant. The receipt from the restaurant said $52 plus 10% tax and my door dash order was $83. I'm not sure what the experience is in the restaurant but ordering delivery is not work it at all!
I also ordered the crab cakes the are smashed together and full of filler

Strawberry margaritas, 3 no flavor, sour. Had to get strawberry syrup and make it myself. So didn't drink it. Other 2 taken off tab. Ordered oysters that never came. Steamed, why did it take so long? Never got. We canceled because we were done and they were still not out. Blue crabs were still blue. Under cooked. Snow crabs were good and eggs. Sauce was ok. Experience not good.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 2

As a former server here I can say this is a ok place to eat but Please tip your servers in Cash if you can . This area is bad with tipping and the restaurant doesn’t take automatic gratuity. The staff is well deserving of much better wages They are really great !

Food wasn't cooked potatoes cold and sauce was watery. Not what we asked for. The customer service was great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 5