Our Story
Birmingham's first seafood boil.
Born in Louisiana.
Opened in the Arcadian, June 2024. The first place in Birmingham where you eat with your hands and end the night with sauce on your sleeve.
It's all about diving right in, putting your bib aprons on and getting your hands messy so that you can enjoy seafood in an unpretentious way. The idea is to bring friends, families and seafood lovers together to enjoy the riches of the sea in the simplest way possible.
- Oliver Ngo, Founder
How we got here
The short versionIt started with a missing meal. Birmingham had cocktail bars, smokehouses, sushi counters - but no seafood boil. No big silver pots, no gloves, no bibs, no sauce-on-your-sleeves dinners where the table is the entertainment. So we built one.
The format is Louisiana, the room is Birmingham. We took the New Orleans communal boil ritual — the Cajun and Creole way, bibs on, no forks, choose your sauce, choose your heat — and dropped it on the Arcadian's upper level in Birmingham. Amazing cocktails, neon, and the Hippodrome around the corner. No silverware on the tables.
Two years in, we kept tweaking. Every comment guests left — "your Cajun was too thick", "needs more kick" — went back to the kitchen. The result is our new OG Louisiana sauce: adjusted consistency, authentic Cajun heat, a sharp citrus finish. As close to the Deep South as you'll get in Birmingham. No one else does it like this.