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FRIED Platter. My husband & I are not the FRIED food junkies like most people our age, but Hymel's seafood platter for 2 was decent (minus the colesla…
Jible234
Hymel’s Seafood Restaurant
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Seafood gumbo to spicy,seafood potato to much cheese and black pepper only a few shrimp!!…
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Lunch prices pretty good but dinner prices are for a classy 5 star restraunt. This is an old greasy spoon with pretty good food. The big drawback for …
M Blair
Hymel’s Seafood Restaurant
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6 Reviews on “Hymel’s Seafood Restaurant”
FRIED Platter. My husband & I are not the FRIED food junkies like most people our age, but Hymel’s seafood platter for 2 was decent (minus the coleslaw and stuffed items). It was SEAFOOD, so in a nutshell we got our helping of Gulf coast cajun seafood and an XL glass of water.
Seafood gumbo to spicy,seafood potato to much cheese and black pepper only a few shrimp!!
Lunch prices pretty good but dinner prices are for a classy 5 star restraunt. This is an old greasy spoon with pretty good food. The big drawback for lunch is everything comes with coleslaw and bread pudding regardless of whether or not you want it – it even come if you specifically say you don’t want it and there is absolutely no substituting it even for an extra French Fry.
It’s alright…. My wife used to love going here for the boiled crabs. However, the past couple times we went the crabs were cold and not worth getting. I do like their broiled chicken livers with onions, and their house dressing. I do think it’s kinda pathetic that they ship pangus fish over from Asia to use… there’s no excuse for them to be using that crap when you live in Louisiana where there’s an endless supply of Louisiana catfish. In case you don’t know, pangus fish is a very cheap Asian catfish that is sold because it’s so cheap and low-quality. Because of that I haven’t been there in a couple years and probably won’t go back anytime soon.
Down-home Cajun. I have a couple of colleagues from Houston who, whenever they’re in Baton Rouge, invariably ask me to drive them down the River Road to Hymel’s, just below the Sunshine Bridge, so they can pig out on gumbo, fried shrimp, piles of boiled crawfish, and (of course) lots of beer. (The menu includes many other kinds of seafood, all of it good, but that’s the farthest I usually get.) This place is the farthest thing from fancy — just a hay-barn-looking kind of joint opposite the levee with a stretch of gravel to park on. Wooden floor, formica tables covered with butcher paper (that should warn you of what you’re getting into), naugahyde-backed armless chairs, dishes courtesy of Melmac, bottles of ketchup on the tables. And the sounds of happy munching. They’ve been around at least since the ’60s and while they don’t get much publicity, everyone who loves down-home Cajun cooking knows about Hymel’s. They open at 11:00 and close late in the evening — except on Tuesday and Wednesday, when they shut down mid-afternoon, for some reason — so you can settle in and chow down until they have to carry you out to your car.
Be very Hungry. Seafood anyway you like it and lots of it. Boiled everything is great here. Worth the drive under the Sunshine Bridge.