In season, the crawfish boil is a cornerstone of life in Acadiana, and Lafayettes restaurants and seafood houses serve heaping trays of spicy boiled crawfish with corn, potatoes and sausage. Eating crawfish, peeling them by hand at communal tables, is a joyful social ritual and a quintessential Cajun-country experience. A visit to a boil house during the spring season is one of the tastiest and most authentic ways to enjoy the food culture of Lafayette.