Soft Shelled Crabs Show Up On A Midtown Pay By the Pound Buffet!!!
Uh… yeah. You heard me right. Soft shelled mother f’ing crabs on a Midtown by the lb. buffet. That is what I discovered at the Cafe Duke on 51st btw. 6+7th yesterday. I’ve already written a bunch about how much I love their by the lb. buffet, but this just put it over the top. Soft shelled crab! I’m still giddy thinking about it. This could be the biggest money item to ever show up on one of these generic Midtown deli buffets (the ones that cost under $10 a pound anyway). And, they don’t even weigh that much (especially compared to other stuff like fruit and bone in chicken). It really is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen at a by the pound buffet.
At $7.79 a pound, Cafe Duke by the lb. is on the high end of these kind of crappy Midtown options… but for the quality it is definitely worth it. The food always looks fresh, every choice looks damn tasty, and the sauce they put on their fake jumbo shrimp makes me not mind that they are trying to fake you into thinking you’re actually getting shrimp.
How they were, a shot of my lunch, and the one big downside- after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:50 am, October 16th, 2008 under 51st btw. 6+7th, Buffet by lb., Cafe Duke, Seafood.