For Mother’s Day, my sister and brother-in-law took us to the Undertow in Orange Beach, Alabama for their $10 all you can eat Crawfish and Royal Red buffet. Sure, there were also potatoes, corn and sausage but we were there for the seafood.
Royal Reds are a variety of shrimp that live the deeper waters off the Alabama Gulf Coast and are large and sweet. The meat is comparable to lobster and that’s why we had ours with drawn butter.
The Undertow is a casual, local hangout and the staff are friendly, even as they worked their tails off keeping up with refilling the buffet and slinging drinks. They run the buffet on weekends during the shrimping season but get there early – it runs from 2pm to 7pm or until they run out! Smoking is allowed at the bar and there is outside seating as well.
25025 Canal Rd
Mouth Brothels 
Keep those crawdad things, but I’d be all over the shrimp! LOL Yum.
I’m with you – not a mudbug fan but I loves shrimps!
Wait. Is there a difference between crawdads and crawfish? 🙂
Yes, they are just different names for these particular fresh water crustaceans. Other names include crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, crawldads and mudbugs.