Bayou Bill's Crab House

Love this spot! First off they have Gary outside making amazing glass art and bankrupting me family! He really makes amazing art and we always support him to where we will have to get more shelves installed at home. Bayou Bill's is awesome! They have great servers and the prices are reasonable. It is way better than the chaos of most of the 30A restaurants. The restaurant is clean and well maintained. It's by no means the best food, but some of the dishes are really good. The crab legs are always solid and the ponchatrain fish is awesome. They have good kids meals for the little ones as well. It's a staple every time we head down to the area.

Nothing to write home about (but enough for this review). This likely suits the Spring Break-type crowd decently well, as people will get filled up but likely not include this in their list of best meals. We left unimpressed: green beans had obviously been frozen before serving, several of the shrimp in the shrimp crab bowl looked like they'd made it through a few rounds of the kitchen, and the service (though we were feet from our server at the bar was infrequent). The saving grace: the key lime pie was legit (whipped, light, tasty without any dominance of the limes or sour cream). All this is to say that if you're a food lover, try someplace else. If you need a place to feed the family (an...

This place is a nice environment change from all of the beach-style restaurants. It is very elegant and feels high-end inside. The staff were fantastic and the server was very attentive. The blackened alligator bites were delicious. The calamari tasted like standard calamari. The gumbo was different than all the others I've tasted and had a strong tomato flavor instead of Cajun spices. That could be either good or bad based on your palate. I ordered the Alaskan snow crabs as my main dish, and they were okay. It just tasted like salty crab, and while other people swear by them, they weren't my taste. The crab is also placed on a very small plate on top of the sides so when you finally get to...