Great Messy Eats!!

I’m gonna try my hands on a being a food critic.

This is my review of an unusual eating establishment that I haven’t seen on the east coast. You have to go to the desert southwest if you want to try this place.

If you like/love spice and seafood and if you don’t mind getting your fingers/hands smothered with sauce plus you don’t mind tackling shellfish with heads, then this is a place to give it a try whenever you’re in Sin City. By car or by taxi, it’s not too far to get to. It is located off the main drag (Las Vegas Boulevard South) of where most of the mega hotel/casinos are on.

Hot N Juicy Crawfish is a great restaurant to get your hands dirty (in a good way)!

Atmosphere: plain looking dining room. Note/Warning: If you go, don’t wear anything white.

All tables in the dining room of the Hot N Juicy Crawfish are covered not with table cloth but with plastic sheets. There are no utensils (forks, spoons or knives) unless you ask for them. There are plenty rolls of paper towels at each table. They hand out plastic bibs to everyone.

Entrees: I’ve ordered a pound of the crawfish and a pound of shrimp, both with Cajun-style sauce. They have several types of sauces and different level of spiciness. You order these by the pound.

  

The orders are brought out in clear plastic bags with each the crawfish and shrimp in their spicy sauce. Each bag also contains some potatoes and some corn on the cob.

You just open the top of the bag and reach with your hand and just grab some shrimp/crawfish and start tearing the shells off and enjoy eating. It’s messy but good. Order some white rice, mix it in with the sauce and wow, all that flavor in the rice. You also eat the rice with your hands. If the one pound if seafood isn’t enough, just order another pound!

At the end of your meal, the waitress/waiter brings lots of moist handi-wipes for you to clean off your hands or you can go to the bathroom to wash your hands.

Hot N Juicy Crawfish is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, about 2 miles west of the Palazzo Resort/Venetian Resort Hotel on Spring Mountain Road.