Smokin’ Crawfish

Well followed the directions from the address took me to hot and juicy. Which sucked cause they had closed or I would have stayed to eat. Love hot and juicy but wanted to try something different really disappointed me!

Good place to eat, I will recommend it to everyone, definitely going back to eat here.

My wife & I are big fan of both Boiling Crab & Hot n Juicy. Last night, after 10 pm, Hot n Juicy was closed & we accidentally found this place called Urban Crawfish. Never been here before. It was around 10:25 pm and only one table was occupied. Late hours and it was understandable. Bit sketical but we decided to give it a try and ordered carry out. 1 lb Crawfish in spicy, 1 lb shrimp medium spicy & 1 lb shrimp extra mild sauce. What kind of sauces they were are not important in this review because everyone has different taste. Just because I didn’t like their sauce doesn’t mean it is a bad restaurant. Different restaurant… different recipe. …simple.
We got home & finally get settled to enjoy our late dinner on our day off. Well, very disappointing taste of sauce, but like I said, it’s only personal preference. I’m sure there are lot of people who love this recipe. But Crawfish not being fresh? That’s a totally different issue.
If you are Crawfish lover, like I am, you understand the joy of sucking the brain juice out of Crawfish. To me … that’s the best part. But at the same time It’s also one of the nastiest tasting thing if it is not fresh. I tried 6 crawfish and ended up throwing them away. Just terrible. I’ve never been a review writer on Unilocal.But paying $ & tasting not fresh shelfish? Its just very difficult to tolerate. Expecially when I’m a chef myself.
As I write this review with bad taste in my mouth, my wife is making a sanswich. I’ll let you take a guess why.

GOODBYE HOT N JUICY CRAWFISH and THE BOILING CRAB; YOU’VE BOTH BEEN REPLACED! OH MY WORD!!! This place is seriously DA BOMB!!! Everything was SOOOOO good! Really-​everything we ordered was SO delicious! We’ve been going to their competitors for years, but URBAN CRAWFISH STATION will be our new FAVE place when we’re in the mood for this kind of food. The entire staff (MIKA, BILLY) was super awesome: very attentive, FRIENDLY, and FUN! All I can say is WOW and YUMMY! Everyone should hit this place up! You will not be disappointed! We can’t wait to return!

Honestly, I gave 5STARS to this place before but I’m updating review today cause I’ve received bad services
When I craving some oyster and crawfish, I always come visit this place. Their services are awesome and all the survers are knowledgeable. But today, I’ve received very disappointed service from the surver named Miguel. He doesn’t look like professional about menu, forgot to bring stuffs, He throw the stuffs away when he brings to table. and he asked us to get a check while we eating. Uhm. very rude. But the other surver (blonde braided hair) she was really nice and knowledgeable !(normally this place giving awesome services to customer except him)
I wish he’s not my surver when I come back this place on next time

Greeted and seated immediately! Brought my senior mother and wanted the waitress to explain the combinations of seafood meals, sauces, and beers. MIKA (waitress) equalled ATTITUDE. Rude and short with explanations. She acted like I was imposing on her busy «two table» shift. She asked me not to use her name in my review. eventually she realized that we were customers not her enemies. Ruined my lunch (mentally) .although the food was incredible!!! Mika is a great server when not feeling inadequate to her customers, but the initial attitude received was unacceptable and unprofessional. There are too many places in Vegas. we will not return to be treated foul by someone who is expecting a tip.
We order three pounds of snow crab legs with Urban Sauce, six $ 1 delicious fresh oysters, and I loved the draft Asahi beer. The crab was plump delicious with every piece as yummy as the last. Great food… poor introduction.
Wish we had the Mika that served the last part of our meal in the beginning. Ridiculously rude fabulous lunch with my beautiful mother.

This is our first time at Smokin’ Crawfish and I will tell you, they are all about customer service!
The food is also amazing and it’s definitely worth every pennies and dollars!
Thanks for the amazing service, Billy! Thanks for making my first birthday meal memorable!

This is one of the best Cajun seafood places. Their smokin crawfish sauce is really good. If you like spicy, even their mild is spicy enough.
A MUST GO EAT PLACE IN LAS VEGAS!

Wanted to try a new Cajun seafood style restaurant and this place definitely hit the spot.
Smokin Crawfish has a similar style and taste like the popular «hot n juicy» or «boiling crab»
We ordered the «smokin deal» combo ($ 59.95) which included 3 of your choice (we picked snow crab, shrimp, and crawfish. About 1 lbs each) seafood with potato, corn, and sausage. I must say it filled the two us up quite nice! Amazing flavors, extra garlic-​y, and a nice medium spice. The seafood tasted fresh. Pick your seafood, your flavor, then your spice level. Soooo onolicious! I also tried their SOFT SHELL CRAB PO BOY, and oh boy was it delicious! Bread was soft and chewy, and crab was fried to perfection!
I will be back for sure.
Last but not least our server was so friendly and knowledgable I think her name was Nicole? (Young lady, soft brown hair) she checked up on us often and always had a smile on her face. Also Kim was great too! Great new spot, I think this place will be one of my «regulars».

For my 1000^th review, I’d like to talk about something I just love and crave — crawfish. Those that know us, they know we just love seafood and we were regulars among the crawfish circuit. However, we took a little break after having Little Guy and Little Gal because it’s just hard to get down and dirty when you have two kids with you.
But we are back… and hitting the crawfish cravings hard! We are always open to healthy competition among our old favorites and standbys and gave Smokin’ Crawfish a go. The crawfish was exceptionally clean, which is something we really appreciate and the flavoring is good. I’m all about some serious good head juice and their crawfish has it good — so sweet and oh so yum! (Smokin’ Style and mild is our current flavor profile and we only order crawfish.) After getting our initial fix here, we went back to our old place the following week and just found ourselves wanting more Smokin’ instead. And so we came back again and again. We were there on a weekly basis for awhile, which is a big deal when you get limited date nights. We even returned despite the Husband getting some Smokin’ Style juice straight into the eye and having a major Hitch moment. (Not a pretty sight shall I say, and pretty scary for a moment there too.)
Two pounds of crawfish will get you a potato and corn thrown in, but we usually opt for all potatoes. We also like to do two pounds at a time so the crawfish stays nice and hot and we can pace ourselves.
I crave crawfish these days and we can’t wait until we get our date nights to get down and dirty there. Plus, their music choice just rocks when I’m there! I find myself grooving when I’m eating, and it’s probably because I’m just so happy eating crawfish again. But they have some serious TV action happening here, so we can easily catch up on our favorite sport teams while we grub too.
Parking is easy breezy here which is a major plus. They have some nice happy hour deals on beer buckets which I notice are quite popular. In the back, there’s a lobster claw machine where you can win a lobster for $ 2. If you catch it, they’ll cook it!

This place is better than excellent!
we love this restaurant and all the food that we ordered were delicious. The shrimps, clam, and the oyster are one of the best in twon. I highly recommend those who love sea food must come to this fabulous restaurant. Also, our server Billy was most helpful and friendly, two thumbs up for his hospitality make us feel like home. Love this place and will definitely come back here again.

Excellent food and service here! We arrived right before opening on a weekday and were the first customers seated right at noon. Parking was right outside the door. It is located in a strip mall with lots of parking available. This area of Vegas is a bit «sketchy», but we had no issues at lunchtime on a weekday.
Our server was exceptionally good (a young man from Alaska): friendly, helpful, respectful, and interesting. Great guy! He helped with suggestions on the menu and had good advice.
The food was outstanding. The only thing comparable was previous trips to New Orleans where I’ve had the best Cajun food ever — but this place was very good and unexpectedly comparable to top Cajun food from NO.
The bacon wrapped shrimp appetizer was wonderful, and our main course lobster with shrimp and crawfish were top notch. We got the smokin’ style sauce which I recommend, and the $ 59.95 Smokin’ Deal with choice of crab legs, dungeness, or lobster, along with a pound of 2 of the following: crawfish, clam, mussel, shrimp, blue crab. Not all choices may be available since they arrive fresh. We had the medium spice which was nice. I would have liked more spice but my daughter does not like super spicy so medium with the smokin’ flavor was a great compromise and tasted great.
This $ 59.95 deal along with the bacon wrapped shrimp appetizer was perfect for 2 people. We arrived hungry and were ready to eat!
We will definitely come back on our next trip to Vegas! Thanks for reading!

This place is quiet for mid week, two tables occupied. They offer ‘by the pound’ tonight they have two oysters, one clam, and four crabs choices.
If you want combination platers, they have four to pick from. You pick your spice flavoring, set the level of spice, and then your ‘combination’.
We’re big eaters and was going for the biggest combo but reconsidered and we left hungry, to embarrassed to order more, (next time we know!)
They have bottle beer, domestic and foreign. They have tea and soda, but it’s ashame they don’t have draft with iced cold mugs, that would be ‘the bomb’ oh and some french bagets to take in some of the juices we left in the bottom of the bag!
Our server was busy talking to the other table but the rest of the staff was attentive and helped out, we’ll go back to try the poor boys and the fried platter!

First off, if you haven’t seen my past reviews of seafood spots, I am a HUGE shellfish fan. I love my crab, shrimp, oysters and clams. Living in a desert oasis AKA Las Vegas it is very challenging to find a decent true seafood spot, and I’m not talking about your run of the mill strip joints. I am always on the hunt for the local family owned authentic places where I can get my seafood fix on.
Soooo aside from Boiling Crab, Hot ‘N Juicy Crawfish and Crab Corner, options can be very limited as far as true affordable seafood. In comes Smokin’ Crawfish, in the heart of Chinatown kitty-​corner on the SE side of Spring Mountain & Decatur, next to the SF asian supermarket. Parking was fairly easy, got a spot directly in front of the joint. Holy Crap! it opens at Noon (like their fellow eat spot neighbors, except for Phở So 1) and its 11:55.
As Ellen F. and I waited in our car for the joint to open the front door opens and a smiling friendly looking dude (Billy) waves us in. AWESOME! totally catering to potential customers and inviting us in instead of standing around and chit-​chatting with other employees (as you’ve seen at other establishments). He sat us down and explained how their menu works.
They have different combos that include your choice of anything from King Crab, Snow Crab, Lobster, and Dungeness with a choice of mix and match of Crawfish, Clam, Mussel, Shrimp and Blue Crab. It also included 2 corns, 2 potatoes, and 6 sausages. All for $ 59.95, honestly not bad deal considering the variety (seafood like this is never cheap). More than enough for me and wifey.
They offer several different sauces. Garlic butter, lemon pepper, louisiana style, cajun and «Smokin Style» which is a combo of all of the sauces together (highly recommended). Lets just say I was more than satisfied with the portions. I also ordered a half dozen Kumamoto Oysters which were bomb with horseradish, cocktail sauce and tabasco. We also got bacon-​wrapped shrimp and I drank 2 heinekens.
I have to say this place was much better than Cravin Cajun (now closed) which offered similar delights, the atmosphere was comfortable and clean. The service was great, Billy kept checking in with us and was totally friendly and patient with our questions (I am very inquisitive). The only negative about the place was the prices were steep, with just Ellen F. and I the check came out to $ 125 before the tip, I did also order another pound of snow crab though. But for this kind of delicacy it is in line with the rest price wise, and I don’t mind paying for good seafood. Will definitely be coming back again next time I’m jones-​ing for flavored crab.

Hot and Juicy whaaaaaat? This is like that place but amazeballs!!! Like A-​M-​A-​Z-​I-​N-​G! Cesar Q. and I arrived hungry about 10 minutes before opening. We patiently waited in our car and to our surprise right at noon a young man opened the door and waved at us to come in. High five, Dude! Not only did you open on time, you actually acknowledged us! Like «hey, common in». He made me feel like we were his best friends stopping by his home.
To our surprise this awesome guy happened to be our waiter. His name was Billy from Alaska. He was knowledgable about the menu and really helped us decide what to have.
We decided on one of their specials, the $ 59.95 «Smokin’ Deal». And let me tell you, it was smokin! Absolutely worth he price. The 2 of us shared 1.5lbs of snow crab, one pound of shrimp and one pound of clams. It also came with corn, potatoes and sausage. For flavor we had the «smokin style» and heat level of 8. It was great! A little to spicy for my taste but I survived. The Husband loves the heat so of course I obliged! We also opted for an order of the bacon wrapped shrimp thanks to Billy’s suggestion. I highly recommend these little babies if you enjoy bacon. YUM. We did grab some of the Kumamoto oysters too. I mean it is my husbands last day off for a while and well… these little suckers are known to be an aphrodisiac after all.
The ambiance is great inside and the seating is comfortable. The restaurant is on the Southeast corner next to the asian supermarket (to the right).
While we didn’t try anything else they did offer a few meals like shrimp fried rice that we were told is a huge portion, salmon and a pasta option. They offer po-​boy sandwiches and other non seafood options like chicken wings, frog legs and French fries, 3 different kinds.
I highly recommend this place. They offer more than the other restaurants that are comparable. Service is amazing and the location is great as its maybe 2 minutes from the freeway.

This place is a seafood dream come true. This was my first time coming here and I tried as many things as I could. We came when it was between lunch and dinner so there wasn’t that many people there. The waitress that sat us was friendly and funny.
We started off with frog legs and alligator tail. These were battered and fried and the basket version is served with fries. The frog legs were big and cooked just right. It wasn’t dry like others I have tasted. The alligator tail was also cooked right. I would have liked them to be chopped up in a different shape than bite size squares, but thats just a quirk of mine. I also should have ordered something different than ranch dressing to dip in.
For the main course, We ordered the $ 69.95 platter that consisted of lobster, crawfish, clams, and shrimps. We also ordered 1 additional Dungeness crab. This was sauced with their Louisiana style sauce, medium heat so not too spicy. When I opened up the lobster it was like Christmas for me! It had the orange roe and the gooey fat that I love! It was so fat and sweet, I wish I had another! The crawfish too were big and juicy. We didn’t intensionally order the clams, we actually ordered mussels. But that mistake was fine because that was good too and cooked just right. The crab was somewhat disappointing because it wasn’t as fat as I anticipated but the meat was sweet and delicious. The shrimp were okay, a little overcooked but that was mainly for my friend who didn’t really like crawfish that much. If it wasn’t for the crab, I would have given this place 5 stars. But I will back again, maybe they will get that 5 star then.

A visit to the fambams in Vegas meant that we had to get some Boiling Crab-​type spot. Has it become a tradition for us to do this when we see each other? I’d like to think so!
After finding that Boiling Crab was still closed mid-​drive on Flamingo, I turned to Unilocal in my time of need and it came through with this gem!
Our service was stellar and she didn’t miss a beat. We all ordered our shrimp with their Smokin’ sauce and this sauce ranked pretty high for me! It doesn’t have the saltiness that Boiling Crab has and the shrimp was perfectly done — meaning that the shell didn’t stick and the shrimp had just the right texture.
You can dump your shrimp out of the bag and eat on a rimmed silver plate. Wish it was a bowl as I feel like it’s easier to swirl my shrimp around but I made do!
Sauce spice for my fiancée and I was medium and it was just right. Not as potent as what we’ve had before but we could definitely taste it. Of note: their «extra extra mild» was great for my mom, who’s super sensitive to spice. Add the dollar oyster deal they have for their happy hour and you’ve got a very, very solid & satisfying Cajun seafood spot in Vegas for everyone. Will definitely be back when I’m visiting family again!

Wow uh what happen?
We ordered 5 lbs of «ALIVE» crawfish, calamari, fries, and rice.
The fries were honestly okay and tasted bad after it wasn’t hot anymore. The calamari was good except the portion got way smaller this time around.
The 5 lbs of «alive» crawfish did not taste alive to me. EVERY SINGLE CRAWFISH was soggy and mushy. I’m no kidding. The shell from head to tail was soft! I was so disappointed. I even had to ask our waiter if these were alive! Of course he made up some bogus story that they were alive and he even found a turtle in the shipment and kept it. BUT last time I checked, alive crawfish isn’t suppose to fall apart. The crawfish were also all so small that it was sad. They were smaller than my index finger.
I didn’t like their sauce this time around either. It tasted watered down and lacked in that strong Cajun flavor.
The service was slow and forgetful. Our food came our different times within 10 minute frames of each bag. It wasn’t even that busy and the servers couldn’t get the orders right. Our waiter kept forgetting to get our beer and was so slow on getting anything we asked.
WHATS EVEN WORSE… My boyfriend found not one, but two strands of hair in our bag.

Glad to have another crawfish boil spot in town! Location is in an awkward corner of a plaza, but interior is nicely decorated with a seaside theme– I like their entryway, and their lobster-​claw-​catch game. Plus they have beer and sake, as well as a few TVs to watch a game while you’re there.
We had a pound each of shrimp and crawfish, with potatoes, sausage, and corn, in their Smokin’ Sauce (a combination of all of their seasonings), at medium heat. Their heat scale is a bit more relaxed than other places, but the flavors were good. Crawfish and shrimp were nicely sized, but I really liked their fried softshell crab basket the most– perfectly cooked, nicely crisp and seasoned crab, over a generous bed of Cajun fries, for $ 12. Huge dinner for two, total with tax under $ 50.
TIP: they offer 10% off during their grand opening with Unilocal check in– but only Mon-​Wed, between noon and 4PM, so pop in for a weekday lunch if you want to save a few bucks, but their pricing is fair compared to other spots in town.

Move over KFC! This is the new «finger licking good»! This is the place to be when I want to get down and dirty!
Smokin Crawfish is the newbie on the block. Their signature spices just made my palette crave for more of their «Smokin Style» seasoning which contains all of their spices in one A-​M-​A-​Z-​I-​N-​G flavor! The right touch of sweetness, garlic, and spices makes this the «WOW» factor for me! The «Garlic Butter» is another must try! Don’t let the name fool you! It’s unlike any other garlic butter!
This place definitely has the edge over other competitors for me. The friendly atmosphere and great food surely made a lasting impression! It’s across the plaza from Hot and Juicy Crawfish in the intersection of Decatur and Spring Mountain.
Smokin’ Crawfish, You’ve earned my 5 stars!