Captain Sal’s Seafood

We came to NOLA to eat crawfish. We drove around city to find the good crawfish place, we went to 3 places to order 1 lb to try. Captain Sal’s Seafood is the best one we found in NOLA. (We like little bit spicy) We come here to eat for 2 days before we leave. If you like crawfish, I highly recommend this place.

It was not the place to go. Horrible is putting it lightly. Save ur money and ur time. they don’t give refunds

Eating here is like a mini adventure
So, we decided that we couldn’t leave New Orleans without eating crawfish so we used Unilocal to find us a place that was nearby and we found this place.
When we arrived it was definitely not what we expected. For some odd reason the workers thought we weren’t going to eat there so they made us park out on the street or they would tow our car. I guess they thought we wanted to park there and watch the parade (which was cancelled due to the weather), but if we did we would look out our window on Canal street or just walk out of our hotel. I find it odd how they just assumed we were there for parking and not for food.
Anyways, let me get started on the «décor.» The place is worst than a dive bar. I would expect it to be condemn soon based on the structure. Dive bars are nicer than this place only because they dim the lights and you can’t see what’s on the floor and walls… hahaha. Perhaps this place should do something similar. The place had buckets all over the floor and at first we assumed it was for us to throw our shells in, but its really for the water that was dripping (dripping is an understatement) from all over the ceiling! The worst part is the bathroom does not have water. You have to ask them to turn it on and they would go outside and turn the water on, but only if you let them know… there isn’t even any paper towels to dry your hands. The smell of fish was pretty overwhelming, it wasn’t a good smell of fish either, moreso like rotten fish.
Now to the food… they got some bizzare food in there… stuff i’ve never eaten and I’m pretty hardcore and will eat anything. However, pig snout/​nose is not something i would touch. We get in and order 5lbs of crawfish, which came out of a tub next to the cashier (it wasn’t warm) in really dirty looking water. I’ve never had crawfish like that before so i assume that’s how its done. We also ordered 1lb of shrimp and two orders of corn on the cob (8 total). It was all shoved in a plastic grocery bag so we found a table and sat down and proceeded to eat. They didn’t even give us anything to throw away our shells so we had to get creative.
I think it was not crawfish season because they were tiny! The crawfish were sooOO salty that we were dying of thirst, but we didn’t dare ask for water due to the lack of hygiene we’ve seen. It was a good thing we had corn to help subside the salt mine in our mouth. The shrimp wasn’t too bad tasting, even if it was cold. We probably ate 2lbs of crawfish between the five of us before we gave us. When we got up to leave the entire table collapse. Fortunately for us we are all pretty young with quck reflexes or else some of us would be missing some toes!
I think the best part about the whole adventure had to be one of the worker. She runs over and asked us if we were ok and of course we were. She also wanted to know if we were done eating because if we weren’t they would give us more (our crawfish were all over the floor). Then she started to go on & on about how she hates working there and how this place is terrible… it was quite theatric and humorous. When she realize they turned off the water on us again she started yelling at the other workers. It was funny to us.
We were really mature about the whole situation and took everything in stride, but when we got into our car it was quite funny. You just had to be there to see the look on everyone’s face when the table collapse to the waitress screaming and the lack of water. The workers there are pretty nice, its just too bad the building itself is so rundown.

Sketch. Talk about a whole in the wall. Perhaps we came an hour before closing, or came the day it was thunderstorming but when we walked in to this joint, I was not excited to try anything. There were buckets all around the dining area which I thought was for crawfish shells but it was actually for the leaks coming through the ceiling. The place also smelled fishy… made me worry if they had pass the health department check. The bathroom was out of paper and the water didn’t turn on… we had to inform the staff to turn on the sink so we could wash our hands.
Anyway, to the food. My group and I were all out of towners and we couldn’t leave NOLA without eating crawfish. The crawfish they served here were scooped out from a shallow serving bin and I’m not sure how long it was soaked in that brine for. Ordered 5 lbs for 5 of us, a pound of shrimp and some corn. The crawfishes were extremely small and salty. Thank goodness we had the bland corn to clean our palates. We also had a lot of soft dead ones. And somehow the crawfishes tasted a little too fishy. Not sure if they’re fresh crawfishes or frozen and perhaps they’re much better when in season but these just tasted like small fishy salt packets. The boiled shrimp were… ok. They were also salty and tough. The highlight of my meal was the corn.

I was craving fried oysters and had heard good things about this place so I decided to stop by. I was disappointed. I ordered the oyster platter, which came with fried oysters, steak fries, and a salad. I also ordered corn on the cob as a side.
The oysters were chewy — Fried oysters should never be chewy!!!
The steak fries were starchy. The salad was just iceberg lettuce with some tomato slices. And most disappointingly, the corn was bland.
I paid about $ 15 for this unsatisfactory meal. Ugh.
Also, it’s inexplicable to me that they don’t have any cocktail sauce to go with their seafood. It seems all they have is ketchup and more ketchup!
I might come back here during crawfish season, but it’s doubtful.

A trip to Big Fisherman is like having a frigid spouse in a sexless marriage. It always seems to be closed when I’m looking to score. But fortunately I’d made a mental note of Captain Sal’s and was still able to get my wanton fix of hot boiled crawfish when I desperately needed it.
Look, I don’t know how this compares to boiled crawfish in general. Before this place, I’d only had it at crawfish boils and Big Fisherman, so it’s probably not the best out there for you mudbug aficionados seeking the best of the best, but it certainly does the job, and at $ 3.99/lb, it did the job exactly in the way high end prostitutes don’t — quick, cheap, and with optional crabs.

**CRAWFISH AND CORN ON THE COB MAKES ME HAPPY**
My last lunch in NOLA was 2 pounds of boiled crawfish ($ 3.99/lb) and one piece of corn.
Critters were neither small or big.
It was spiced well, but wasn’t memorable.
I had bigger and better for $ 9.99/lb, so perhaps an unfair comparison.
The corn was *ok*, I’ve had better as well. Fresher, crispier, and tastier.
Overall, an ok place to satisfy my crawfish fix.
I would do it again.

I wish I could give this place 5 stars, I really do. In fact, I was going to until last week! Up to then things were on the up&up: –crawfish pretty consistent in size and taste (it was getting bigger, as a matter of fact), the rest (corn, potato, sausage) decent in size and tasty. And then, for the past, what, 2 – 3 times things were just horrible. The crawfish batch had just way too much debris, it was loaded with useless bits and pieces, the corn and the potato was sour in taste and mushy. Not to mention, I’m pretty sure I got shortchanged around a half pound of mudbug.
All in all, this place offers pretty decent crawfish, but New Orleans is crawfish city. Here you’ve gotta do better than this!
Oh, yeah: –you’d better have cash on you. Their credit card machine is down a lot.

Went to Tulane’s Crawfest yesterday, and after eating crawfish seasoned with only celery, I needed a cayenne-​infused crawfish pick-​me-​up.
This wasn’t the place. Everything was a mixed bag:
Corn — cooked in unsalted water
Pig Feet — Very spicy. Things were looking up.
Crawfish? Kinda’ blah. Not really spicy at all. I’ve had better at Rouse’s.
My friend’s po’ boy looked good, but I think she just she wanted to carbo load on a fried sandwich.

My neighborhood boiled seafood fix!
I can’t speak for the sandwiches or fries or anything that isn’t boiled crawfish, shrimp, or crabs. But seriously, y’all, that’s enough to give this place 4 stars.
This place is probably equidistance from my house to Big Fisherman, but I usually choose Captain Sal’s for my routine boiled crawfish fix (at least once a week, once the season kicks into high gear). Why? Because the crawfish aren’t as SALTY as they are at BF, and because the lady who runs the operation at Captain Sal’s is ADORABLE and always fishes out the biggest crawfish in the batch to toss into the bag for me. You don’t always want to eat the biggest crawfish (good way to break a fingernail, y’all), but the sentiment is nice. :-)
I just realized this review reads as though Brittney Spears had a vocabulary lesson:
«You taste like paaaradise, and I need a vacation tonight! So if I said I want your crawfish now. .. would you hold it against me?»

Good prices, loaded shrimp po-​boys, and mediocre chinese food. Worth picking up to eat at the house but eating inside can be a little on the depressing side. They also sell individual beers.

If my wife could only eat two foods for the rest of her life, she would eat french fries and mangos.
Captain Sal’s doesn’t serve mangos, but they do serve french fries. Very good french fries. Amazing french fries, in fact. Astounding fries. Everything smelled good, but we were only there for the fries. (We got detoured on our way back from the post office at Louisiana and Danneel.)
I wanted to order piles of crawfish and fried shrimp because it just smelled ace, but I didn’t want to spoil my dinner, either.
Keep in mind, though, that this is a total local joint. It’s pretty much a dive, but all the neighborhood people know the food is nice so they duck in when touristas turn up their noses.
Yes, I will be back. Oh yes. Oh oh oh oh oh yes.
Accessibility notes: Mobility device accessible from the parking lot with wide doors and low counters. Lots of table seating so chairs can easily be moved to accommodate mobility devices. No braille signage or menu available. Loud (cooking noises) with potential language barriers for hard-​of-​hearing customers.

I’ve eaten Shrimp po’ boy’s at a number of places in New Orleans but this place has the best ones. ASK TO HOLD THE MAYO or get the mayo on the site unless you love it. Otherwise, you’re in for a face full or mayonnaise.
Also, their fried chicken wings are greasy and tasty. You will gain weight from eating here, but you’re in NO so it’s bound to happen anyway.

YUCK!!!
I went shopping on magazine street and I asked the nice sales attendant where I should eat. She said, «go to Capt Sal’s seafood. They have great po’ boy’s. » Sweet! She even wrote down what I should order. Double sweet!
So off I drove and ordered the sandwich and to my dismay, the sandwich was horrendous.
If you want to throw up, then get one of their sandwiches. It tastes nasty. Like, they scraped it off the floor from a bourbon street club bathroom nasty.
The bread was hard, the shrimp tasted muddy and they slapped on the mayo like they were TRYING to make sure that I gain 200 pounds.
Seriously, save your money. don’t eat here.