A Cracking Good Crawfish Time at Yankee Pier
Messy, but good.
That’s what a crawfish boil is all about, as you tear into a pile of tiny crustaceans with your fingers to dig out the coveted sweet, almost lobster-like morsel of tail meat.
Tie on a bibb and grab your shellfish crackers to enjoy exactly that through May 5 at all Bay Area Yankee Pier locations (San Jose, Lafayette and Larskpur), which are featuring crawfish boils for $35 per person during dinner service until supplies run out.
My husband and I were invited as guests to experience that irresistible taste of New Orleans this past Sunday, as a Zyedeco band grooved on the sidewalk outside the Santana Row Yankee Pier.
One order of the crawfish boil is pretty sizable, so if you want to nosh on a few other menu items, you might want to share one like we did.
We started with half a dozen premium oysters on the half shell ($16.50), which included my fave Kumamotos, so delicate, sweet and nutty tasting.
Monterey calamari ($10), lightly breaded and crisp, tided us over until the main attraction arrived.
Good thing we split it as what arrived was a sheet pan groaning with two fist-sized boiled new potatoes, three tender artichoke halves, pickled cippolini onions, a bulb of roasted garlic, warm French bread, and 1 1/2 pounds of crawfish that had been cooked in a spicy broth.
You have to work for your reward here. But it’s worth it when you put a nugget of crawfish meat in your mouth and experience a singular taste of the Big Easy.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Seafood Watch” guide, by which Yankee Pier abides, gives live, farmed crawfish from the United States a “best choice” nod.
Apparently, a lot of folks have quite a hankering for them, too.
Sunday night, the restaurant went through a whopping 160 pounds of crawfish just like that.
Gorgeous food! I’d love to taste crawfish…
Cheers,
Rosa
Oh Carolyn, they all look so good…I totally agree with you really messy but really good 🙂
Hope you are having a wonderful week!
Yummy! What a feast! So worth the work and the mess.
You guys have some of the best oysters…hands down! Throw in crawfish, and it’s a party.
i am so thrilled by your photos! gorgeous!
I’m drooling here! I adore seafood and I’d devour everything. I was lucky enough to try Kunamoto oysters in Canada!
Wow, looks amazing, I think we will head south to Santana Row very soon! Thanks for sharing!
As usual, your article and photos make me hungry.