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Flying Fish has them, although I've never ordered them. I love crawfish, but I don't like dealing with a huge pile of death for so little edible parts. I guess the process is more important than the result. When cooking I used to buy frozen tail meat at Kroger. I figured that mudbugs from China might be suspect. This was before all of the horror stories that appeared in the last couple of years concerning food from China. After some searching, I found frozen crawfish tail meat from Louisianna at Floyd's Meat Market on Keil in Sherwood. Surely an arthropod sifting through the muck in Louisianna can't be polluted, right? Anyway, Floyd's also has several varieties of frozen fish, HUGE shrimp, and really good boudin (frozen from Lafayette).

Not a restaurant but fresh
from La. every thur, fri,
sat....sold by the pound.
RENDI'S, phone 501-617-4735.
A small kitchen on wheels
behind Service Liquor on
Central in Hot Springs.
They boil them while you
wait so they are piping hot.

Red Swamp Crawfish restaurant in England gets them from Louisiana until they are in season locally, then buys them from a farm on the Pulaski/Lonoke/Jefferson Co. line.
They raise them in (water) well-fed ponds without chemicals of any kind. If you're interested in cooking them yourself, call the farm directly for live fresh crawfish: B&T Crawfish Co., (501) 285-0315.

Wow...are you in luck or what!

Mickie's Bluefish Grill in Conway has fresh Crawfish straight from Louisiana every weekend (well, until the season runs out the end part of May).

Get your fix with either a 2 OR 3 pound Bucket of Bugs for a very reasonable price. Comes straight out of the pot steaming hot with plenty of Cajun seasoning, Potatoes and Corn on the Cob thrown in the mix just like it should be.

You won't want to miss their first Anuual BUG-OFF festival THIS Saturday (5/17). All you can eat Mud Bugs with some live Blues Music (featuring Cat Head Bisquit) from 2 until close. Tickets just $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Tickets get you entry to the event along with $1 Draft Beer and $3 Hurricanes.

A celebrity eating contest will be a part of the excitement with prizes being awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers.

Commemorative T-Shirts will alos be available.

Mickei's Bluefish Grill is located on Salem Road between Prince & College in Conway.

Phone - (501) 329-1122.

A proud independent in a Chain Restaurant World.

Here ya go....
Bon appetite

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Well...now that the shells have been swept up.

Mickie's Bluefish Grill had a great event. OVer 1,100 pounds of Crawfish were served up to an eager crowd of well over 200 Saturday from 2 until 8:30 PM. It might have lasted longer - but they ran out of Crawfish.

The winner of the first annual BUG-OFF consumed 107 crawfish in 10 minutes & 7 seconds.

A great time was had by all.

Well, I see that Pollen has already found Floyd's, so I can second the great selection of seafood and availability of live LA crawfish they have. They also sell cooked mudbugs in 2-pound (snack-size!) bags, but you have to get there early to get 'em, because they sell quick. They also have anadoulle, boudin, and live oysters.

Oh, and they supplied the extra crawfish for Mickey's 'bug-off' last weekend. I help my sister at her store on weekends, so I see how much crawfish she sells- she's up to about 25 tons so far this season.

Yeah, tons. Must be a lot of homesick Cajuns round here...