663479 Fri Oct 30 06:26:18 -0700 2009 6 9 New Orleans 0 5142444 Are there restaurants in New Orleans where you can have crab/shrimp/crawfish with corn and potatoes dumped out in front of you on newspaper like an authentic seafood boil? Fri Oct 30 06:26:18 -0700 2009 112238 neblanc 1 5142512 Why is the newspaper important? It's not like it adds to the taste. Fri Oct 30 07:01:07 -0700 2009 5142444 12023 Hungry Celeste 2 5142562 Newspaper - not important - I was just speaking to the casualness of the experience, that's all. Fri Oct 30 07:18:39 -0700 2009 5142512 112238 neblanc 2 5142564 Doesn't it get ink on you food?? Or are those "Essential inks" as Principal Skinner suggests?? DT Fri Oct 30 07:19:28 -0700 2009 5142512 11291 Davwud 1 5142552 Galley and R&O have boiled seafood and the sides. No newspaper though. Can't remember if Franky and Johnny's does any paper. I only use newspaper at home, if at all. Agree the newspaper adds nothing to the boil. Fri Oct 30 07:15:25 -0700 2009 5142444 195694 edible complex 2 5142575 Frank & Johnny;s does not use paper. Typically the seafood is brought in one of those round plastic beer trays. Denaie's does the same as well. Most places when they do a crawfish boil where they charge an all you can eat price, will serve the crawfish to you. The old brew pub on carrollton next to Wit's Inn would pour them out on one central table or put them in a pirogue and you could serve yourself . I know during crawfish season, Carrollton station will dump them out on tables in the backyard and you stand and eat. Fri Oct 30 07:25:02 -0700 2009 5142552 154901 roro1831 3 5142773 yes there is! head to sal's seafood on barataria blvd on the west bank. they dump seafood out on newspapers, it is casual and it is great. good oysters, crab, shrimp, crawfish (when in season), crab dip (goes great on boiled potato's) go to westbank, drive all the way over big bridge, go all the way down, get off on barataria, keep driving (it's not first exit eventhough it says barataria) take left on barataria, big building that clearly says sal's seafood on right hand side. it is a real experience. Fri Oct 30 08:25:21 -0700 2009 5142575 155305 mcegielski