The Captain's Boil

689 Oxford St W #2, London - N6H 1V1
148 reviews
Seafood Cajun/Creole Asian Fusion
(519) 601-0899

This place is super laid back and a very unique experience. They bring you plastic gloves to eat your seafood with and your seafood dish comes in a plastic bag! Captains boil flavour was delish…. not too spicy but just enough to give some flavouring.

First time eating here. Food was served fairly quickly. Ordered the pirate feast which came with Lobster as the main dish, along with Mussels, Clams & Shrimp, corn, sausages & okra. We added additional order of crawfish, potatoes and a Lobster Poutine. Our party was comprised of mainly east coasters who unanimously agreed most of the food was overboiled, resulting in tough meat that was extremely difficult to remove from the shell. Our side dish of okra was never served. Based on the market prices and quality of preparation, we will not be returning.

The outside of the building didn't do any justice. The food was pretty good, mind you we only had fish & chips. The service was average, but friendly. Portion size okay for the price. Establishment was clean, which is most important to me.

Would only rate a three or four out of ten and won’t be returning. Pretty disappointing. Menu was hard to navigate and food was expensive and mediocre at the same time, which is never a combo. Sauces were all good but that was probably the highlight out of everything I ordered and we got a fair amount of food. Went in knowing that everything would be served in a bag but didn’t realize how annoying this would actually be in practice. I would recommend spending your money elsewhere. Also, tried to call for a reservation but just got this guy’s voicemail which was weird.

Avoid, and will not return. Big fan of seafood, went Sunday afternoon. Been there multiple times before. When we got or order half of it was cold. Which was bizarre as it usually it extremely hot. Only one person serving so we didn’t really get anytime to talk to him. Left half of it untouched and when he asked if we wanted to take it to go I said it was awful and cold. His response was oh really. Dropped the bill and left.

We came for a late dinner, arrived at 8:40pm on Victoria Day! We had serious apprehensions due to the reviews. The place was empty, we were the only table dining. The server was not very attentive, however, nearing the end he seemed to warm up to us. Reviews are pretty misleading in my opinion, the food‘s not bad at all there’s a lot of flavour in their sauces, the seafood tasted fresh, and it’s a clean restaurant. The potatoes tasted burnt and that’s my only complaint in the chef dept. I can see why people would have an issue with the server as he’s not very friendly at the jump; aside from that it’s not a bad place to dine for crawfish and mussels.

My husband made reservations for tonight for me my mom my daughters and him, we waited at the door for 5 min giving us lots of time to view the market prices know this meal would cost approx 400$ one table in the place had people that already had their food but the waiter was at that table . , lady stood at the bar on the phone hung up and came to the door and said sit where you want we sat at the only table that wasn’t a booth that would fit 5 . Sat down waited 5 minutes I stood up and grabbed menus off the booths tables. We have never ate here had questions about the menu, nobody came over , after another ten minutes we all figured if we were going to spend over $400 we would like to do it at a restaurant that at least acknowledge us. We got up and left and still nobody said a word to us!!! What the heck no wonder the place was empty! Went and had an amazing dinner at red lobster!! Had excellent service spent $350 and a $50 tip don’t bother here goto red lobster!!!!

My husband made reservations for tonight for me my mom my daughters and him, we waited at the door for 5 min giving us lots of time to view the market prices know this meal would cost approx 400$ one table in the place had people that already had their food but the waiter was at that table . , lady stood at the bar on the phone hung up and came to the door and said sit where you want we sat at the only table that wasn’t a booth that would fit 5 . Sat down waited 5 minutes I stood up and grabbed menus off the booths tables. We have never ate here had questions about the menu, nobody came over , after another ten minutes we all figured if we were going to spend over $400 we would like to do it at a restaurant that at least acknowledge us. We got up and left and still nobody said a word to us!!! What the heck no wonder the place was empty! Went and had an amazing dinner at red lobster!! Had excellent service spent $350 and a $50 tip don’t bother here goto red lobster!!!!

We decided to go somewhere nice, walk in the restaurant, no one bashed an eye at us! we were standing there for a good five minutes, just for a server to come up to us and say sit where ever. we were waiting for a good 20 minutes, no one came up to us, and offered us water or anything! We just decided to leave and go to Red Lobster! (would not recommend!)

Tasty food, menu a little confusing, didn’t get a bib this visit (food is messy) but all in all recommend!