http://www.nashvillescene.com/bites/archives/2009/03/13/cajun-steamer-crawls-with-crawdads Comments On: Cajun Steamer Crawls With Crawdads by Carrington Fox en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Based on SL reviews might have to reconsider.
Odd opening hours to me for sure.Would any of you consider a "recon in force"--(old military guy here)trip to this restaurant by a gaggle of board posters to check this place out on our own?
Please advise.Alan.
Posted by alan]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:24:52 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by anon amos]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:37:01 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by S L]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:09:11 -0500 Nashville Scene GP is a 40 mile drive for me. GP website suggests that they are only open on limited days and hours and their website pics suggests that all of their food is served on styrofoam plates.
Styrofoam plates don't get it done for me.
I'm funny that way.I prefer my meals on china.Alan
Posted by Alan]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:10:14 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Anon Amos]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:45:39 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Carrington Fox]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:02:43 -0500 Nashville Scene Taking things a step further--when MS Fox suggests that South St restaurant was a suitable sub for a seafood dinner--again I have to disagree.Every meal that I have ever ordered at South St has arrived at my table---again smelling like bait.Just like Chappys on Church St---the seafood IMO is a abysmal.
IMO the bait smell does not equal good seafood----it's simply not fresh.It suggests to me the same old,same old---pour the 6 month old mystery frozen seafood (probably from China) right out of the bag and into the fryer.Just like Captain D's.
Lunch at Captain D's cost maybe $7---I spent $40 at CS (for two)two weeks ago.
Anyway here is my response to MS Fox's review or CS:
Just a couple ideas about your review of the Cajun Steamer in Cool Springs.
After reading your review all I can conclude is that the wife and I must gone there when the restaurant was having a very bad day.The wife and I loaded up and went to the Steamer for lunch a couple weeks back.
As you described the place was very crowded and there was a wait.I remembered thinking at the time about why the building was designed in such a way that if there was a wait there was nowhere to stand that didn't block the front door.No biggie though and soon we were seated.The decor was as you described---interesting.
We found some of the wait staff to be somewhat "interestng" in appearance also.Almost all were either heavily tattooed,pierced in odd places,had unusual hair color or all three.I'm not a prude on this subject----really I'm not and usually don't care what people do to their bodies.But this one young waitress had a large block type tattoo across her back that read something like "Think and Learn"--I found this a little disconcerting for sure.A lot of these type body decorations could have been covered up with a waitstaff clothed in T shirts--the usual attire in these type establishments.
Anyway---on to the food.
Wife ordered the raw oysters which were all huge and quite tough.She has eaten 1000's of them while we lived in FL and these were simply not good.This is TN so we are lucky to have raw oysters period.She ordered the fried green tomatoes and they were coated with a very thick breading that certainly didn't help the tomatoes.IMO fried green tomatoes are best when they are dipped in a thin tempura type batter.I ordered the boudin balls took one bite and pushed the rest away.Each were heavily coated with a raw mystery meat inside without a hint of spice as the menu had suggested.Fried oysters and a fried shrimp po boy were the entrees.Both arrived at the table and instantly the aroma of "bait" engulfed us.This is always a bad sign and sure enough---it was bad.Atypical frozen seafood poured out of a bag and into the fryer---Captain D's quality at best.For a $40 lunch I expected better.
As a positive you were quite right to praise the French loaf that the po boys were made with.You correctly point out that the loaf is where most po boys go wrong.I was impressed enough that I asked the waitress where the loafs came from--she didn't know but now because of your review I do.
Anyway enough of my rambling--I'm sure that you have to better things to do.Feel free to pass my thoughts on to the Steamers management if you care to.I found it interesting that just a few days before I was going to post on a local food blog of places to NOT go for meal to read your review with a very different take.Alan.
Posted by Alan]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:43:31 -0500 Nashville Scene