Captain's Boil - Vancouver

We ordered 1lb shrimp and 1 lb mussels and scallops fried rice. Each seafood comes with a big plastic bag. The best flavor of the seafood is captian's spice (as i remembered). Lots garlic and butter taste great. We poured the juice in the seafood bag to the fried rice. It makes the rice awesome! The seafood is very fresh, textures is soft chowy, all the shrimps has the head. I love it!

Recently, Vancouver has seen a rise in the number of seafood boils in town. It’s not hard to understand why… Vancouver has access to a lot of great seafood and we’re always on the lookout for new food trends.The Captain’s Boil, a chain from back east, set up shop in Richmond last year and has now opened up a location in Vancouver at Kingsway and Joyce. Given this location being much more accessible for us, we dropped by at the end of December to try them out and see what the whole hype was about.The menu, and concept, is pretty simple… you pick your protein, your flavour, spice level, and add any sides that you like.Each diner gets a plastic bib and gloves and they bring out your seafood in baggies… meant to keep things a little cleaner. The table is covered with a brown paper sheet so you could, if you wanted to, dump all of your seafood out on the table and enjoy a more traditional seafood boil.It would make for a better picture than leaving the seafood in their little baggies but it would also be so much messier.Since this restaurant had just opened, they had a big sign saying they were still training and working out the kinks (in so many words). I’d have to agree that they have a lot to work on here.We wound up ordering a pound each of Crawfish ($15.95/lb), Shrimp ($12.95/lb), Clams ($12.95/lb), and Mussels ($10.95/lb). We also ordered two pieces of corn ($1 per piece), lotus root slices ($6.95), sausages ($6.95), steamed rice ($2), and pop ($2).If you’ve never been to a seafood boil before, it can be a little daunting to try and figure out how much you need to order. We found that we ordered the perfect amount to be completely full at the end of our meal. However, I feel like they need more options for the uninitiated (something like a combo which had a little bit of different seafood).As it was, they wound up getting our order wrong, even after confirming it. When we told them of their mistake, they didn’t now what to do. To fix our order, they wound up giving us the bag of crawfish that they previously given to another table by mistake (we could tell because the crawfish were colder than rest of our seafood and we had overheard the other table complaining that their order was wrong too).In terms of the food itself, it comes out very quick. The menu prices looked like they had already been changed since they opened and I felt the prices were a bit expensive given the limited amount of work they need to do here. The crawfish really wasn’t worth it as there was almost no meat inside and they were difficult to pry open. I preferred the shrimp, clams, and sausages of the bunch and thought that the lotus root slices were cut too thick.We stuck with a medium heat which wasn’t overly spicy at first but we found that the heat builds in your mouth over time. Despite the gloves and bib, eating at a seafood boil is really messy and I found that the gloves developed holes from the sharp points of the crawfish.At the end of our meal, they wound up overcharging us as well. While some of the seafood here was okay, I probably wouldn’t bother coming back as it seems overpriced for what you get… definitely nothing glamorous about eating here and getting covered in seafood sauce.

I went to this restaurant with my husband for a lunch. Easy menu, not too many options. We ordered King Crab (seasonal price which is $41/one leg) , shrimps and clams (price based on weight) with captain source/ no spicy (taste good). We also ordered seafood fired rice (very delicious). Each boiled seafood was filed with sources in several plastic bags. At the end, we got a bill about $100. All I can say is that the food is very fresh and tasty, price is a little bit high, still reasonable. It's a good place to hangout with friends to experience something different once a while. Comparing with Crab pot in Seattle, I would still choose Crab pot. Lol!

If you want to be completely blindsided with a $100 bill without any communication or consideration from the staff, this is your place! Be warned of the "seasonal" pricing and of the very rude serving staff that works there. My husband and I went for lunch there yesterday, and the server (who barely spoke English or knew any of the items on the menu) messed up our order twice than gave us a $100 bill. I am not a cheap person by any means, but to receive a lunch bill that high when all we ordered were 4 items, two of them being $4 sides with waters.. it was very shocking. There was never any mention of pricing from the server, or any communication at all.. how can you communicate with costumers when you barely speak the language of the country you live/work in.. there are bound to be issues. The real kicker for me was after my shock of the bill, how the staff very poorly handled it. After my request to speak to a manager, which wasn't there, I was told that it was MY fault. I was ganged up on by 5 members of the serving staff, who all still could barely form a sentence in English, and all they could do was to tell me that it was again MY fault for not asking the right questions. I asked them if the servers informed costumers of their pricing, the server told me "some do and some don't", which just shows the lack of consistency throughout the serving team and the restaurant. Since no one offered to do anything to our bill, let alone apologize.. we paid the full bill and left. Overall, food was good, but the entire experience was horrible due to the staff. I will never go back to Captain's Boil and will let everyone know of my experience. Thanks for almost ruining a good Sunday.

First time here and was very impressed, the shrimp in captains sauce, seafood rice and calamari is to die for, a little congested and of course messy as you don't get cutlery but lots of paper towels. Not good for someone who is picky or squeamish about eating off of the brown paper