{"id":3946,"date":"2018-01-14T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2018-01-14T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T15:54:25","slug":"mad-seafood-boiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Mad Seafood Boiler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20171215_115557\"If you’re heading to\u00a0Mad Seafood Boiler<\/a>, which features delicious seafood soaking in a pan of seasonings and sauces, then heed my recommendations: wear the bib and the gloves that come with your table! You’ll need them as you’re cracking, peeling and slurping. Also, don’t come here on a first date.<\/p>\n

To get started, you can either choose a combo platter of seafood, or you can mix-and-match items such as blue crab ($12.99\/lb.) and clams ($12.99\/lb.). From there, you choose either lemon pepper, cajun or garlic butter flavor, followed by heat level and then a side.<\/p>\n

All the seafood was fresh and served in a big metal pan (previously, it was in a big plastic bag). Their taste was enhanced by the sauce; in my platter, it was the cajun, which was buttery, oily and so delicious that I wanted to dip bread into it.<\/p>\n

I got Combo A ($20.99), which includes a half-pound of shrimp (with or without the heads), a half-pound of snow crab legs and either a half-pound of mussels or crawfish (I picked the latter).\u00a0I chose to keep the heads on the shrimp for the extra flavor, and I smeared that perfectly cooked shrimp into that aforementioned sauce–yum! The crawfish did pick up the cajun flavor, and the snow crab legs were meaty and tender.<\/p>\n

There are five combo platters, and all come with corn, red potatoes (which was perfectly soft) and sausage (which was mild and tender).<\/p>\n

\"20180103_120838\"For those not looking for a messy meal, Mad Seafood Boiler has an extensive selection of sushi rolls (regular and special), sushi appetizers, sushi entrees and even poke bowls that weren’t part of its initial menu.<\/p>\n

The Forbidden roll ($12.95) is unique for its use of black rice. The cream cheese is a bit overwhelming, but the other components, from the creamy avocado to the crispy softshell crab, make it worth ordering.<\/p>\n

Other rolls include the Tiger roll ($10.95 with spicy shrimp), the Madison roll ($11.95 with snow crab) and the Fancy lobster roll ($14.95 with lobster salad).<\/p>\n

Gyoza ($5.95) and shumai ($4.95) are among the appetizers. I loved the tuna pizza ($8.95), which is like an open face sushi roll. The finely diced tuna, roe and slightly sweet sauce sit atop a crunchy scallion pancake, which had enough thickness to it not to fall apart.<\/p>\n

Mad Seafood Boiler is open every day for lunch, dinner, carryout and delivery.<\/p>\n

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If you’re heading to\u00a0Mad Seafood Boiler, which features delicious seafood soaking in a pan of seasonings and sauces, then heed my recommendations: wear the bib and the gloves that come with your table! You’ll need them as you’re cracking, peeling and slurping. Also, don’t come here on a first date. To get started, you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,126],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-reviews","tag-downtown","tag-seafood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}