The result is uniquely enjoyable, even when the food falls a little short of your dreams. The West End Cafe is full of surprises, though. Their occasional forays in to the world of ambitious cooking are more successful than you might imagine. These show up mostly among the daily specials, which are always the best food in the house. The homemade soups are also first-class.
Boiled seafood is often available still steaming hot.
If you have kids, hand them a roll of quarters and point them toward the claw machine, and you'll be able to have a conversation for a change. Boiled shrimp, crabs, or crawfish in season. Crabmeat au gratin. Fried seafood platters. Volume Eight, Number Sixty-Three. . .