Best Chesapeake Restaurant Grand Rapids Near Me

Lin Miller: Updated: permanently closed thank goodnessI've been dying to try this place since it opened. I love seafood. It's being a cajun place was just the icing on the cake. I miss the south and the french quarter and all the culture that goes into the lifestyle and food in the region.Tonight, we took the plunge and stopped in. The decor is beachy and bright and cheerful. I would imagine that would go better with a fish and chips place on the boardwalk in Myrtle Beach better than in Grand Rapids or a place portraying Cajun in Grand Rapids. I wasn't drawn into the Cajun/French Quarter jive that i expected. However, it was clean and tidy. That was the best and last good impression about The Saucy Crab.1. I've lived in Baton Rogue, LA and had awesome cajun food. The Saucy Crab is more like an upper crust Long John Silver's without the hushpuppies and paper hats on the cashiers. Every basket and dish is beer battered minus the 5 day old grease pit ooze. If you peeled off the dry battter, it almost passed for fish. You can get this same food in the freezer section at meijer in a box called "fish sticks". For the price, the corny paper lined plastic basket is cheap and tacky.2. This place is so culinarily ambiguous in that Cajun is spicy and sometimes lathered in ethnic and full bodied sauce. The Saucy Crab's dishes are dry and coated in deep-fried breading with no more taste than the bottom of a running shoe 3 years due to be tossed.3. Cajun implies french, southern, and lively with zest and gusto on the menu. The Saucy Crab is staffed by the farthest from Creoles than I can imagine.The service was piss-poor. We saw our server once and I couldn't understand a word he said. After paying the $60 bill for 2 breaded fish baskets and 2 shrimp/crab starters, we werushered out in total silence. The host at the front door gave us the cold shoulder without as much as a "thanks for coming" or "have a good night".I was disappointed to say the least.