Pier 81

Overall a 5. I had a large seafood boil with crab legs, shrimp, mussels, and sausage. The crab was slightly overcooked, but flavor was spot on. I requested the Cajun spice and medium heat. The corn and potatoes were awesome. If you like seafood boils, then you should try this place.

The food and service was AMAZING, but I was not impressed with how the manager handled an issue. We ordered the Dreadnought. On the menu there are slashes between each item except at the end where it specifically states 1 lb Crawfish And 1 lb Sausage. The waitress declared the sausage was an additional option. I said but it says and! She said let me talk to the manager. She comes back and tells me they’ve found a lot of issues on the menu, and that she’s sorry but the manager said it’s extra. I told her I still didn’t agree, and she said she’d go have the manager come talk to me. She came back and told me he wasn’t going to come talk to me and that he would only half the sausage with me. It was $3, so I said fine. A manager should always be willing to come talk to a patron. I suggested to the waitress that maybe they should invest in some stickers or a Sharpie until they run out of menus because it’s false advertising!!

So I just tried Pier 81 for the first time since their opening and I was thoroughly impressed. I started off with an order of hush puppies, fried calamari and 2 raw oysters(1st time eating raw oysters). The hush puppies were full of flavor and the calamari was absolutely delicious and fried to a perfect golden brown. Being this was my first time trying raw oysters I decided I had better put a bit of Tabasco sauce on them to help the mental block I was putting on myself. After putting the oyster on to a cracker, I opened wide and was delightfully surprised at how yummy and good they were. Moving on after the appetizers I decided to choose the largest pre-picked boiler they offer, the Dreadnaught. I chose to get a snow crab cluster and lobster tail as my main meat options and then went with 1lb of shrimp and 1lb black mussels as my add-on’s. Next came the difficult choice of what seasoning and spice level. I didn’t stray far from my norm and went with spicy Cajun. After a much anticipated short wait my tray came out completely overflowing with food. (did I forget to mention you also get 2 corns and 2 red potato’s)

Every single mouthful of food was bursting with flavor and the spice level was just right to make your lips burn just a touch. I think I counted 29-30 shrimp and over 25 mussels in the “pound” they advertise on the menu. The servers were all walking by saying “that’s a lot of food. No way you’ll eat it all”

Well folks, challenge accepted and conquered. Now that I’m done it is time to slip in to a food coma for a bit but I will most definitely be back for round 2 and try something different

👍👍 Two thumbs way up

Treated myself to a meal here. Shelby is an excellent server, she gave me great service as she was also doing her closing side work. The snow crab shell was a bit disappointing as they were very soft. I was informed that all the forks have disappeared since they opened just a few days ago. So eating the meat out of my crab legs was quite a challenge. All in all I was satisfied with my meal and very satisfied with the service.