They existed like 4 years ago, just had to go about 5-6 blocks off the strip - if they were ever part of the strip I'd never seen it - but they definitely are there off the strip unless things have changed a ton recently.
Seriously. I like a good hush puppy but bro regular ass seafood restaurants will give you unlimited hush puppies for free with your meal. If I'm paying $40 for a seafood buffet I'm going to eat at least 10 crabs and 6 different kinds of shellfish. That's like going to a chinese buffet and filling up on fortune cookies.
This reminds me, I had some onion rings from Chilis the other day. They were fucking delicious, dunno if they changed the batter or what but they were fire.
Was just there the other night, and had their buffalo boneless wings. Pretty good. Not enough buffalo sauce though IMO. Then had their spicy shrimp tacos, and those were pretty good as well.
One thing I've noticed as a Onion Ring aficionado is the best onion rings tend to come from places that cook everything in the same oil - not sure if it makes the oil dirtier or just the onion rings pick up extra flavor from the other items in the fryer, but usually the best onion rings otherwise have terrible fried stuff. It's like Onion Rings are the opposite of other fried foods where you don't want anything else polluting their oil.
Yea, I was just talking about deep frying - usually you want clean oil as a rule of thumb for deep fry. But yea, cast iron (although I barely use mine) you do want that slight residue.
As a PSA to all the tubbies here Texas de Brazil is a chain all you can eat Brazilian steakhouse that's about $45 a head. If you register with their online thing they give you a free dinner on your birthday. I just put a random birthday with a couple email addresses and eat there on the cheap.
