Not way back, you’d have been hard-pressed to discover a Louisiana-style, Low Nation or East Coast seafood boil within the Milwaukee space. However as quick informal seafood boil ideas crop up throughout the nation in droves, the Cream Metropolis isn’t far behind.
For the reason that pandemic started, at the least 5 new seafood boil eating places have scuttled onto the scene, providing competitors for native ideas like The King Crab Shack, which opened its first location on twenty seventh Avenue in 2016 and Crab It Your Approach, which debuted Downtown in 2019. Even St. Paul Fish Co. in Mequon has added New England model seafood boils to their common menu.
Most eating places provide menus padded with add-ons: po’boys, fried seafood or burgers. However the primary attraction is the build-your-own seafood boil which affords clients a alternative of seafood, seasoning and degree of warmth (delicate to “I can’t really feel my mouth” scorching).
To partake, clients collect – usually in teams – taking seats at communal tables armed with plastic gloves and protecting bibs. Earlier than them lie plastic baggage, puffed to the gills with steam. Inside, tender shrimp curl round saucy crawfish. Garlic buttered clams and mussels mingle with vibrant pink crab legs joined by halved pink potatoes and corn on the cob (in or out of season).
Seafood crackers open broad, releasing tender meat from crab and lobster claws. Buttery fingers grapple with corn on the cob and potatoes soaked with flavorful sauce. In between slugs of chilly beer, diners chuckle and trade small discuss earlier than returning to select the clams from their shells and slurp them down.
And similar to that, the informal, communal, messy-as-hell seafood boils – which originated as seasonal outside actions on seashores and in backyards – have change into the most well liked indoor exercise within the Midwest.
Head to one in every of these native spots. Most provide each dine-in and carry-out choices.
Crab du Jour
9080 N. Inexperienced Bay Rd., Brown Deer, (414) 355-5565
4638 S 76th Avenue, Greenfield, (414) 667-2722
crabdujour.com
Choices: soups, salads, burgers and po’boys together with cajun-style seafood boils
Crab it Your Approach
823 N. 2nd St., (414) 455-3837
crabityourway.com
Choices: seafood platters, po’boys, “Titanic tots” and Louisiana-style seafood boils
Artful Crab
11340 W. Burleigh St., Wauwatosa, (414) 312-8291
craftycrabwauwatosa.kwickmenu.com
Choices: oysters, fried seafood, seafood platters or New Orleans-style seafood boils
The King Crab Shack
âÂÂâÂÂ3881 S. twenty seventh St, 414-763-0551
thekingcrabshack27th.com
1330 E. Brady St, 414-210-4287
thekingcrabshackbrady.com
(Coming quickly) 5265 N. Port Washington Rd.
Choices: fried seafood and seafood boils; Vietnamese dishes at twenty seventh Avenue location solely
Laughing Crab
5712 W. Capitol Dr., (414) 763-4855
laughingcrabmilwaukee.com
Choices: seafood baskets, catfish or shrimp sandwiches or seafood boils.
LowCountry
1114 N. Water St., (414) 252-0015
lowcountrychicago.com/milwaukee-wi
Choices: fried seafood, sides and Low Nation seafood boils.
Pink Crab Juicy Seafood
5547 N. Lovers Lane Rd., (414) 429-9574
Redcrabseafood.com
Choices: fried seafood, po’boys, Cajun seafood boils
St. Paul Fish Co.
The Cannery, 6200 W. Mequon Rd., (262) 200-9909
Stpaulfish.com
Choices: New England model lobster, crab or blended seafood boils