The wait staff is all very nice and helpful. Once you have placed your order someone will come over and tie a plastic bib on you and give you gloves (your hands will still stink but I suggest wearing the gloves). Your food arrives in plastic bags- weird I know, but it keeps the seafood soaking in the amazing sauce! From there get ready to work, everything comes in the shell with the head still attached so its not a glamorous experience. On numerous occasions I have pulled the head of a shrimp or cracked down on a crab leg and spicy boil sauce flung into my eye- not cute and slightly painful!
We have gone several times (my boyfriend is obsessed with this find) and tried a lot different things our favorites are:
Shrimp boil special mild
Lobster boil special mild
Snow Crab boil special spicy (the spicy sauce def has a kick to it and will make your nose run- I love spicy, but I also like to taste my food. I found ordering 1 spicy dish allows you to dip your "mild" seafood in the spicy bag which to us was a nice compromise).
Garlic bread is a must! You use them to soak up the delish sauce your seafood comes in.
Order the corn on the cob, it comes in the bag soaked in the garlic butter and is delicious!!!!!
The softshell crab appetizer was good (comes with Cajun fries), but nothing to die for. The mac and cheese here is surprisingly tasty, but not necessary!
Things you should know:
1)Ladies put your hair up- if not it will be coated in garlic butter by the end of your meal.
2)Don't plan on going out after unless you don't mind reeking of garlic.
3) Don't wear white or light clothes its pretty much inevitable you will get splatter on you from cracking the lobster, crab etc.
4) Yelper's talk about the waits.... blah blah blah. Go after work around 6:30 you should be fine. You can also eat at the bar, weekends are definitely busier.
5) I would stay away from the crawfish, so much work for so little reward.
The Boil
139 Chrystie St
(between Broome St & Delancy St)
http://www.theboilny.com/
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