SOME CRAWDAD'S HISTORY
In 1984, Eddie & I opened Crawdad's here in Merigold. In the beginning, we started with a building 22' x 14' built by Bill Johnson Jr., served only crawfish and could seat a total of six people. Cooking crawfish occurred on the front porch due to the lack of room elsewhere. Frankly, Crawdad's came about because it was impossible then to get a sure fire supply of hot crawfish in the Mississippi Delta and Eddie needed a project.

As more people came, rooms were added here and there. Eventually a kitchen was built. Although I had promised on several different occasions not to add anymore, Albert and I could not help ourselves and started framing new additions whenever we had enough old cypress to work with, so seating has increased somewhat. Currently, there have been fourteen renovations and one complete building move, which occurred during a winter storm in 1989.

No one at Crawdad's has yet to have any real restaurant training(this has probably shown from time to time) but we have always tried our best to provide you good food and the kind of place to have a good time with friends. I have been blessed to work with some great young people over the years that accepted a lot of responsibility at young ages. We would not be where we are now without them. A special thanks goes to Warren from me. All of us at Crawdad's owe you our sincere thanks for coming and we promise to do our best every night to serve you.

SOME MORE CRAWDAD'S HISTORY
CRAWDAD'S BURNED TO THE GROUND ON JANUARY 2, 2002.
Wow! Talk about the mother of all renovations…how about this one. It's really hard to describe the emotions of losing Crawdad's or the experience of rebuilding it in 139 days. It could not have been done without Albert(The Man), Warren, Clay, Bill Johnson Jr., Floyd, "all the lost boys"(Crawdad's staff), Richard, Crazy Cajun, Keith, Kevin, T-Bone, Odis & crew, Guy, and friends who just came by and helped.

We have been faithful to Crawdad's original design with a few changes which we believe the old place would have approved of. We hope you like them and we are glad and relieved to be back and to have you back. Our goal remains the same - to be the place where the food, service, and feel is where you want to be with your friends.

EVEN MORE CRAWDAD'S HISTORY
Well, for the first time, we have a "real chef". David Crews came to Crawdad's in November, 2006 as our manager. David graduated from culinary school, worked in some of the best restaurants in Mississippi and Alabama and has become in sports terms an "impact player" at Crawdad's. All you have to do in mention, "David,what do you think about a new shrimp dish?' Bam! The next day there is a special on with a new shrimp dish which is incredible. We are now poised to take Crawdad's to levels we had envisioned that we could. Our goal remains the same as above and David's addition is another part of our commitment to you.

Thanks,
Andrew M. W. Westerfield
Crawdad's crews past and present


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