It’s a modest restaurant in a strip mall at the corner of Texas Street and Benton Road, and one that has steadily acquired a substantial reputation. The owners of Kim’s appear to be Vietnamese who came from New Orleans as a product of the Katrina disaster. The culinary basis of this restaurant is founded on two solid traditions.
You want napkins? Kim's has napkins.
Kim’s is a classic strip mall hole in the wall. You order at a countertop before you sit. The menu is a whiteboard above the cash register. Napkins are a roll of paper, that you can tear off at will. Chairs are made of hollow metal.
The po boy featured good bread, and small dry spicy crawfish. The gumbo was disappointing. Too much rice and not enough meat and broth.
I honestly made a mistake when I came here. I ordered the crawfish po’ boy, which while good, just didn’t wow me. A lot more happy, almost buried in their food, were the folks who had ordered boiled crawfish. People were ordering and eating those by the buckets. To note, there are also boiled crawfish places in Atlanta (Crawfish Shack and New Orleans Seafood) run by Vietnamese who learned Cajun cooking along the coast, and the crawdads at Kim’s seemed a little pricey to me. I can get them for about $3.00 a dozen cheaper in the ATL. Note: The owner Duc thinks my pricing is the product of a mistaken memory, and he notes that as of March 2012, his crawfish price is 4.49 a pound.
That said, I don’t know Kim’s costs, the volume they serve, the quality of the fish. I didn’t get to those. The po boy had plenty of tasty crawfish (though small) and was a fair serving of food. The gumbo was almost pure rice, wasn’t particularly impressive, and I wouldn’t order it again if I ever went back.
Boiled crawfish are the king here. The po boys are just decent.
Kim’s Seafood
901 Benton Road, Suite E
Bossier City, LA 71111
(318) 752-2425
April 1, 2012 at 11:48 am
We were thinking about going to Crawfish Seafood Shack today and you may have just tipped me over the edge. Right now they have fresh crawfish (formerly live, not frozen) and, while expensive at $7.50/lb, are phenomenal. When we went there last week we ate so much it was hard to sit down. We were full for about 10 hours.
:) Crawfish. YUMMY!
April 1, 2012 at 11:53 am
Kim’s was running $6.99/lb when I went. New Orleans Seafood sells theirs at $3.99 – and for them, that represents a price increase.
FnS.
April 1, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Hi there my names is Duc owner of Kims Seafood i thankyou for dinning with usi must have to correct you sir every since i open since hurricane katrina i have never sell Crawfish for $6.99 you must have make a mistake it is $4.49 since march and our crawfish is the biggest in town and if you need proof of that i can take a picture for you to see we still keep recipt for 5 year again thanks for dinning with us HAVE A GREAT DAY SIR
April 1, 2012 at 11:44 pm
Duc,
I may not remember the exact price of your crawfish, but I didn’t dine in your establishment this March. It was late December of 2011 and I’ll stand on the price being within a dollar of what I quoted above.
I discussed your crawfish prices with my father at the time, and he was a little surprised as well.
FnS.
April 2, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Like i say i have never sell boiled crawfish for $6.99 since i open in 2006 $ 5.99 was the highest i ever sell it for. and is alway a little high when the season just open everyone who eat crawfish understand this and please dont compare price from New Orlean to Shreveport, bossier area because is 5 hour drive up the supplier have to drive 5 hour here so they charge a bit more you compare apple to orange is not fair please understand this New Orlean get there crawfish in 30 minute to 45 minute travel time so compare that have a nice day
April 1, 2012 at 12:10 pm
NOSeafood……is that in the ATL area? I would love to have some crawfish today. I know that I can get them fresh at BHFM or Super H for about $4/lb live, but I don’t spice them as well as CSS. I know that they use lemon grasss and some chilis, but beyond that I’m clueless.
April 1, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Sure is. In Duluth, on Pleasant Hill, in the same strip mall as “What the Pho?”, just before Super H if you’re heading west from 85. Expect a 15-20 minute wait, as New Orleans expats know the place well.
They have added staff and cook a lot more food these days.
Their seafood is spicy, comparable to “Crawfish Shack” in that regard. You might ask for a taste test before settling on what you want.
FnS
February 16, 2013 at 10:50 pm
I think Kim’s is the greatest seafood restaurant around the Bossier City area and I love everything they serve!