pacent wrote:Just saw the price for this year, 9.95 for 1.25 lbs vs 3.95 for the same amount last year. Talk about a ridiculous price increase!

I look forward to this each year, but for 10 bucks a lb, I'd rather ship some crawfish to my door and do a crawfish boil myself.

Thanks for sharing the price ... quite a jump. Where else is serving crawfish right now?

As for Pappadeaux, I have not visited the Westmont location, but I will miss Arlington Heights, where I always enjoyed their lobster, crawfish and oyster specials.

TooHot wrote:Jer, I realize that when you live in a town where the delicacy is a wet burrito you may appreciate a place like Pappadeaux. My post was honest, from a person with 35 years in the restaurant business.

I've always enjoyed a good wet burrito - especially after midnight!! You also might want to swing over to Summit and the surrounding areas for some good, authentic Mexican Taquerias as well as some Polish and Lithuanian stores and restaurants (Dukes comes to mind). If you went, you would soon notice that Summit is hardly a culinary wasteland.

On this forum, we usually give people the benefit of the doubt when they describe their dining experiences and don't use ad hominem attacks to question their "qualifications" to post.

My date and I are going here tonight. Can anyone reccomend something? I don't do talapia or catfish at restaurants. I adore shellfish.

OK. I read all of the responses on this restaurant and thought it would work well. It didn't.
Started off with two draft Stella's-7.95 a piece, kind of steep as we are in Westmont. The beers were near flat and warm as our server took forever to get them to us I watched as he took orders from other tables with our beers sitting on his tray. It made no sense.
I was excited to know they had fresh PEI mussels on the menu. They arrived and the waiter put a huge silver bowl-cover in front of my date and the bowl of mussels in front of me. No spoons, no sideplates, no app forks. No clearing the table so we didn't have these huge bowls in front of us. By the time we got the utensils and took it upon ourselves to clear and wipe down the table (my date went to the restroom for paper towels), the server appeared with utensils. The sauce was good even at room temp, but reminded me of a pre-made base type. The mussels were 100% tasteless. I asked if they were frozen, but our waiter, who had reminded me about ten times that he had worked there for 5 years, didn't know. In ten minutes research I knew Pappadeaux claims everything is fresh. I saw him ask a few other servers and they shook their heads as if they didn't know. Honestly, it took a total of fifteen minutes to come back with an answer, again the server reminding me he "worked there for 5 years and should have known that". If that's the case, he should have known we were done.
Went down the street and had dinner in Oakbrook. A draft Stella was 5 dollars and the food and service was great.
Pappadeaux is not the place to go for good prices or good service. There are much better locally owned places in that area. I felt like I was at a very bad Red Lobster.











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