“Eat Like a Local” host Chris Shepherd sat down with friends from three of his favorite Houston restaurants serving crawfish to talk about the season and crawfish styles.

On a busy day, Crawfish Shack can go through 180 sacks of crawfish a day -- boiling 6,000 pounds of the mudbugs for dine-in, to-go, and drive-thru customers. That doesn’t include their catering gigs or the bags of live crawfish they sell to businesses or residents looking to do their own boils.

In this episode of “Eat Like a Local with Chris Shepherd”, Shepherd heads east to meet Billy Link of Link Rice and Crawfish Farms who explains what it takes to supply Houston with the best crawfish. Shepherd then visits Crawfish Shack in Crosby where they boil up more crawfish each year than just about anybody.

On New Year’s Eve, owners announced online “The Shack is BACK!” In January, the restaurant will operate drive-thru only beginning on Friday, Jan. 3. The shack is not selling live sacks; hot boiled crawfish will go for $7.95 per pound. Hot Boiled... Posted by Crawfish Shack on Friday, January 3, 2020In January, the Crawfish Shack drive-thru will be open Wednesday throught Friday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., on Saturday from noon to 9 p.m. and Sunday until 8 p.m. The shack will not be open for dine-in until Wednesday, Feb. 5. Crawfish Shack is located at 5822 FM 2100 in Crosby.