Shoal Creek Saloon offers up delicious Louisiana-style cookin'. Fried seafood, piles of boiled crawfish, and gumbo. We went to this cajun place last Saturday night and found a table by the bar. The room was crazy packed because of the annual seasonal crawfish boil so service was exceptionally slow. The food was quite tasty, however. They had run out of shrimp earlier in the evening so we split a basket of fried oysters, crawfish and catfish. The four accompanying hushpuppies went fast. Mark had a huge serving red beans and rice with sausage. He cleaned his plate easily and hungrily. We shoveled satisfying spoon after spoon of garlic mashed potatoes and Southern-style green beans into our mouths.
Shoal Creek Saloon has a full bar, but we opted for the cheap and wonderfully cold cans of Pearl for $2 a pop. It was a hot night for February, even by Texas standards and I welcomed the perfectly chilled Pearl sliding down my throat. There's something about cheap American beer that really hits the spot sometimes.
I would like to go back when there isn't such a huge crowd. SCS is a laid-back kinda place that caters to all kinds of folk. There are multiple TVs so no matter your favorite team, they're probably on one of them. The waitstaff, although slow when we went, were really nice guys. I give this place a thumbs-up.
2 comments:
Oh, my! That sounds like my kind of place.
I adore the Shoal Creek Saloon! My favorite thing to do is sit on a table outside by the creek, get a catfish po-boy, and enjoy it with more Shiners than I can count! I used to know a few of the waitstaff...you're right, they're not the quickest bunch but they sure as hell are fun to have a beer with!
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