Michael’s Seafood

Crawfish boil was not made to order. It’s precooked, placed in a clear bucket and scooped out when ready to be sold. It was cold as well. When I dumped out into a larger bowl, I noticed there were celery, garlic gloves and round onions (cut in half) which was charged to me in the weight. All of that «extra» boil stuff should have been taken out before weighing. It weighed at least a pound. Considering I paid $ 3.59 a pound, I should have to pay for theses garnish. Crawfish is soft. Has decent flavoring to it but I am paying for live boiled crawfish during crawfish season… no frozen crawfish. Thanks but no thanks.
I gave two stars for the flavor but that’s it.

Ordered 60 lbs of live crawfish. When I got there, the sacks were ready and they even loaded them in the truck for me. Staff was friendly as always, and they have great prices for decently sized live crawfish. My go-​to seafood shack.

Fresh seafood at the best prices. The oysters are always salty and cold. Very good shrimp and fish as well.

In the greater New Orleans area, this place will just about always have the cheapest prices along with some of the best quality, crawfish are always clean and fat and the service is fast. Seems family owned, I can always count on them offering lower prices than anywhere in buck town. Live crawfish almost no dead, maybe one or two. Good stuff here.

Who knew? Qiana did… she recommended the place to me.
Nicely sized medium & large sized RAW shrimp that look like they’re right out the Bayou (not Bayou St John); $ 3 & $ 3.50/lb, respectively. Pay inside, present your receipt to the gentleman outdoors & be gone.
Parking is very random as people are pulling out & in to partake of these Bayou-​born morsels.
I can only comment on this process, but while indoors, I was able to see there are other food items available… Guess I’ll have to go back during Crawfish season; Pinching heads & sucking tails!!!

I asked my brother where he’s been purchasing his crawfish (live) this year and he said Michael’s (which was formerly Gator’s and before that an oil change place). I called them for a price on pre-​boiled for a party and they were 20 cents cheaper (and day of even cheaper than that) than anywhere else. I placed my order and gave them a time. Easy peasy.
The price was good, picking up and paying was easy. So why 3 stars? The pre-​boiled just weren’t that great. They were OK. And I was glad that I could get potatoes and corn sides. But the potatoes seemed like they were just boiled plain and then had spices dumped on them.
I would use them again but maybe just for live…

OK I know what you are thinking, «This place has pretty good boiled seafood. Why did you rate it so low?» Well to answer that question let me say that I like Micheal, but to cancel reservations for crawfish that were made well in advance is not the best for business. Also I might add that historically I boil somewhere around 1500 – 2000 lbs of crawfish a year. I would love for Michaels to be the place to sell me those crawfish, but he hasn’t really put much effort into earning my business. Plus on occasion he doesn’t go to the docks everyday to get fresh crawfish. As a result I have been sold sacks of crawfish that had quite a few with straight tails if you know what I mean. I just would like to think at the very least that if you were going to sell someone old crawfish you would at least care enough to open the bag and sort out the casualties (not to mention all the debris, sticks, and fish heads which were used as bait by the crawfishers). In short I like Michael’s better than some businesses which are right down the highway, but not nearly as much as a few places. Michael’s is however a fine place to buy boiled crawfish if that is what you are looking for.