This Friday, starting at 4 p.m., look for crawfish-boil fare at Palm Beach’s Nick & Johnnie’s, 207 Royal Poinciana Way.
Call them crayfish, crawfish, crawdads or mudbugs, but you won’t find them listed on any restaurant menus on the island and nor would you expect to, especially if you’re picturing a traditional messy-fingers-eatin’ southern-style boil-up of the little crustaceans.
But that’s about to change—at least for a night.
Nick & Johnnie’s (207 Royal Poinciana Way; www.nickandjohnniespb.com), no stranger to themed dining nights, is rolling out a “Born on the Bayou” binge this Friday, Aug. 8, and among the featured daily specials—hailing largely from New Orleans’ bayou country—is an all-in-the-pot crawfish boil with andouille sausage, corn and potatoes.
There’ll be okra, too—another otherwise Palm Beach menu absentee—because what’s a shrimp gumbo without it?
According to Nick & Johnnie’s’ executive chef, Kent Thurston, other “Born on the Bayou” specials this Friday at the restaurant will include Cajun-style fried catfish served with potato wedges and coleslaw, and a Creole-style jambalaya with tasso ham, sausage, chicken, shrimp, peppers and scallions all cooked with rice.
The fare will be offered from 4 p.m. through dinner hours.
