Address: | 4810 W Spring Mountain Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89102, USA |
Phone: | +1 702-891-8889 |
Site: | hotnjuicycrawfish.com |
Rating: | 4.4 |
Working: | 12–10PM 12–10PM 12–10PM 12–10PM 12–11PM 12–11PM 12–10PM |
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Jason Lum
When I think of Hot n Juicy, my first thought is not crawfish. Probably more along the lines of Megan Fox, Denise Richards, or Megan Good. Crawfish has always been a tough food for me to try. It looks like a ghetto version of a lobster crossed with shrimp and for the longest time I have given it the nickname of "Little Cockroach". I always felt why would you eat a crawfish on purpose? Its like choosing ground beef when you can have steak. Shrimp has always been my favorite weapon of choose for any of these cajun "Boiling Crab" type places, because of the efficient flavor to value ratio. A Crawfish is usually about 9 to 10 bucks a pound and is about 60% shell and 40% meat (I will later find out 90% shell or greater and less than 10% meat). Trust me for a pound of crawfish. You will pay a handsome penny and will not have enough meat to make a crab salad or even an appetizer with crackers. How did you find out about Hot N Juicy Crawfish? How does it taste though?? Hows the quality? Stop being negative! You might say. I am guilty of watching Man Vs Food like the majority of all the yelp reviews for this restaurant. Normally, MVFs track record has been fairly poor, but this is different! Who doesnt like Asian flavors crossed with Cajun style? Thats like saying you dont like Amerie (so hot!) or Hines Ward (not as hot). I ordered 1 lb Shrimp and 1lb of Crawfish to give Crawfish a try and have my shrimp as a back up, both Hot n Juicy style. The shrimp was great of course, although it was slightly under cooked. I think thats because maybe no one ever orders shrimp. It was a nice big size almost Jumbo shrimp sized and it tasted pretty good with the Hot N Juicy sauce, but nothing to jump out of your seat over. Shrimp is a dollar more than crawfish, but its worth it, because it is 95% meat and 5% shell. Time for my first taste of crawfish! At first, I honestly did not know how to eat it. I tried using my shrimp peeling skills, but I looked like a squirrel trying to get a nut. I finally swallowed my pride and asked one of the pretty waitress to help show me how to suck head. Get your mind out the gutter!!! Ha ha.. but thats how you are suppose to eat crawfish. You first suck the head, thats what she said (thats what she said) then you eat the meat. Hmmm.. Good thing this review is PG. The flavor of the juicy coming from the crawfish was a lot better than the shrimp! The taste is very delicious. Its like sipping a hot bowl of pho and some zesty tomato based Italian dish. Maybe thats a bad analogy. Lets say the restaurant smelled and tasted like a cross between a Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant and a Cajun grill. If you look around the restaurant you will see nothing, but people with smiles on their faces. This is unusually, because most restaurants I go to most people look impatient or serious. This is definitely a plus! My rating might be a tad bit harsh, but I feel it is truly honest. I do recommend that you give Hot N Juicy a try, only if you get there early and dont mind driving in to "Chinatown" (didnt see many Chinese places mostly Vietnamese restaurants, but all Asians look a like right? Dont answer that). If you are from Orange County and are spoiled by the Boiling Crab and other restaurants like it, be warned you may not like this place. There is less spicy and a little less flavor. If you are a Asian Cajun newbie, this will be a great start for you. I will go back again with my friends that have watched Man Vs Food, but Im not a fan of great head with no meat, no pun intended.
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Marshall Calvert
Food is delicious. Service is the worst. Eaten at this location 3 times. Once was okay. Last two have been complete crap. Henderson location is the best. Go there. Do not come here. 25 min to be seated. Thats fine, we expected this its a popular place. However the moment we sat down it began. I went to give my order and the girl answered questions of other people away from our table. She rushes through misses key things like which sauce. What kinda of fish ect. I have to get up and go to them to fix the orders as we knew is couldnt be right. So thats all well and done. Wrong. Completely different girl comes and says. "I need to retake your order she got none of it and needs it all again.. okay done... wrong again. Order starts coming out. Wrong food. We get food we didnt even order and missing one we did. "They will fix it so sry. We are busy and arent paying attention tonight" This girl was nice. Others could care less. Rest of the food comes. I ordered hot juicy sauce mild wife ordered garlic butter on her crab. Both sauces EXACTLY THE SAME. No crackers. I go up... because its fast food now you service yourself less its time for them to hand you a bill. Tell the now guy at the counter. He tells me no. It looks that way. It tastes completely different. Go back. NOPE its juicy sauce. Even has the paste in the bottom and is super spicy. The guy comes... no crab crackers. Argues with me that its garlic butter. I pour the stuff out on my glove and say which is wrong then? They cant both be exactly the same and be two different sauces. He continued to argue with me then says fine we will just take it back. At this point Im not eating anything new. I dont need spit from some guy who wants to argue what everyone else there could plainly see. 10 mins later dinner about done crab crackers come.... great. Get drink refills. Which came but hardly which is odd since they are busy now. They just decided that counting drawers was more important than waiting tables. Which were completely covered in bags of trash. Not just ours. They literally left all dirty napkins cups trash anything you used on the table piled up until you are completely done then take some of it away so they have room for the bill. I will never come here again. $115 bill I gave them a $10 tip. Only reason I did so is I think they chop it and the couple of people who worked the other tables and didnt act like they worked at a walmart shouldnt be screwed for them. Id imagine these people take half of what they earn. I normally give 20% or more. I wanted to give $0 but I couldnt bring my self to do it. As I was paying the first girl attempted to say she was sorry for the way the night went and the crab mistake. I told her its over, no sense in saying sorry now when your employee wants to argue across the restaurant with me during my meal. GO TO THE HENDERSON LOCATION. ITS WORTH THE DRIVE. 1000% better service. If youre carrying out the food here is the same. The service here is awful.
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GABRIELLE BADRA
Went here with my fiancé after we got our marriage license from downtown. This is our favorite place and I can tell boy did we receive the worst service EVER! The waitresses were all over the place with all of the customers, it was about 9:15 when we got there so 45 minutes before closing and I had to get up get our own straws after I asked 2 times, I had to get up and get our own bibs and asked her 3 times for a bib, she brought mine and my fiancés food 15 minutes apart and to boot it took her 40 minutes to even bring my food out. The people behind us sat down 15 mins later and got there food 15 mins before us. I couldnt forget that they brought us potatoes that were hard as a rock I couldnt get anyones attention so I walk up to the counter and the lady behind there is on the register and she was very rude telling me she was off but will take care of it and we never saw our new potatoes , by the time she came to us I asked about them she tells me I guess the waitress misunderstood you and our kitchen is closed. Over all food is pretty good service was terrible and I will never go back to this one. The ladies in there need help they were all over the place not just one all of them were. I saw them mess up 2 other tables orders it was an absolute mess. Hot n Juicy needs to hire more help and better servers plain and simple.