This new Fresno seafood restaurant lets you eat off the tabletop and write on the walls
How does throwing a bucket of Cajun seafood on a table and eating with your hands sound? How about writing on the chairs and walls?
You can do both now that new restaurant Cajun Crack’n is open. It took over the former Hooters on Blackstone Avenue after that restaurant was evicted last year.
Cajun Crack’n is the first Fresno location for owners who run several restaurants in the Bay Area, including two Cajun seafood restaurants.
This eatery specializes in seafood, but also has food for people who don’t like seafood, including burgers, chicken sliders and chicken tenders.
But the seafood is definitely the star of the show: There are mussels, clams, crawfish, shrimp, lobster and several types of crab on the menu.
It’s served by the pound, usually starting at $12.95 and up.
Diners pick their seafood steamed or boiled, pick one of four sauces (including New Orleans Cajun and garlic butter) and then pick their level of spice (from mild to “tongue on fire”).
Combo deals include seafood with corn, potatoes and sausages.
The seafood is served in bags and comes with plastic gloves – but they’re optional.
Customers can eat from their own bags or empty them all over the tables and share. Each table gets a clean sheet of paper before each meal.
Sharing the various types of seafood is a popular option here, said general manager Chris Cravens.
“They just throw it on the table and everyone just has fun,” he said.
He recommends the lobster and the mussels.
“I’m used to those tiny little mussels and this thing was like half of my hand,” he said.
Write on the walls
Another thing that sets this restaurant apart?
You can write on the walls. Really.
There are Sharpies everywhere and the restaurant encourages customers to write on the pillars, the brick walls, even the chairs.
“People can come and have fun and dig in with their hands and write stuff on the walls,” Cravens said.
The restaurant is still working on its liquor license and hopes to eventually serve beer.
It’s not the first Cajun seafood restaurant in town. There are also The Crawfish Guy and the hybrid Chinese food and Cajun seafood restaurant Jade Garden Chinese Cuisine. FOB Fried or Boiled Seafood also has some Cajun dishes.
Details: 7735 N. Blackstone Ave., Fresno. Hours: 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and noon to 10 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
