Restaurant Review – Summer Shack in Richmond, Virginia
January 18, 2010 by Elizabeth
Filed under Featured, Restaurants, Totally Richmond
Drive out Broad Street a ways (a long ways) and you will find The Summer Shack positioned jauntily on the lot. A small boat decorates the front. You walk in, and the decor is decidedly beach-themed. Volleyball nets and flip flops decorate the walls. The tables and chairs are mismatched in a charming, not messy way. The lady working greeted us with a smile. We were, as they say, so far so good.
The place is located at 12859 Broad Street Rd. This place has been Granpa Eddie’s, Crazy Eddie’s, and about 3 other things in the last 5 years. Hopefully The Summer Shack will make it, because I liked it a lot. It’s a seafood place, and it’s reasonably priced and tasty.
The menu offers Appetizers (in the “Get Your Feet Wet” section of the menu), steamed crab legs, shrimp, clams, or oysters (“Steamers”), sandwiches and baskets of fried things (“I’m Kinda Hungry”), and entrees (“I’m So Hungry”). They also have a menu section for “Menehunes,” which is technically a term for a folklorish creature like a leprechaun. It’s probably a Hawaiian term for “little folks,” or “children,” in this case. It’s got standard kid fare, and is reasonably priced.
My luncheon companion dined on tuna tacos – not blackened like he’d had them previously. I sampled a hunk of tuna, as it looked delicious, and it was. He enjoyed the meal, but not as much as he had when he’d gotten them served blackened.
I got the fried shrimp basket, because I obviously have a death wish. Just kidding. I just really like friend shrimp and hadn’t had any in about 12 years, so I went for it. The shrimp were plump and juicy, lightly breaded and tasty. The fries at this place are killer – I mean REALLY good. Maybe the best fries I’ve had since the lovely Boardwalk Fries was a staple at every American mall on the East Coast. Here is a pic of my yummy lunch:
and me posing like the fool I am with my lunch:
Overall, I really liked this place. I would like to go back for dinner and try out the “Oysters Goochland,” which the menu tells me comes with applewood smoked bacon and crab for a cool $12.00. That sounds worth it to me.
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I took Elizabeth to eat there and had the tuna tacos. Summer Shack did not pay for the review. I asked Elizabeth to review it because it’s near where I live and I enjoyed it the times I’ve been.
They have been slow to serve on occasion and the last time I went, my wife’s steamed shrimp were a bit overdone. But more often than not, the food has been excellent and you can’t beat the price if you stick to the under $10 “I’m Kinda Hungry” baskets. I highly recommend the crab cakes (mostly crab meat) and the tuna tacos (much better blackened) and the hush puppies.