re: Best Place in Metairie for Seafood

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Never eaten their yet, but I have great things about Bozo's Restaurant.

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The friend seafood and raw oysters here are amazing. I went for lunch the Friday before Mardi Gras and was impressed with the food as always. I split a dozen raw and had half shrimp/half oyster plate.
They may have the best fried shrimp out of anywhere.

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Acme, Dragos

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I don't think either of these do boiled seafood (Dragos does do lobster), but if it's fried seafood you're after I would avoid these two like the plague. Acme is all around terrible in my opinion, it's a mass fried tourist trap. I like Dragos, but there fried seafood frankly isn't very good. If I go there I generally stick with the charbroiled oysters, and for an entree I either get the Stuffed Lobster or Stuffed Softshell Crab.



Now the caveat, the service has really gone down in recent years. They hand fry everything which accounts for some of that(for quality I'm willing to wait), but at times it seems like the staff doesn't care and they lolly gag around.