The Crawchicks prove that boiling isn’t just for the boys
It’s hard to ignore a dancing crawfish holding a sign encouraging fans to honk in appreciation.
Since opening their boiled crawfish trailer in the parking lot of 18340 Highland Rd. in 2023, business partners Maka Provost and Lily Sims, aka the Crawchicks, have built a loyal following with a family recipe and a touch of roadside silliness.
“We take turns wearing the costume,” Sims says, bedecked in the red foam outfit—complete with antennae—on a recent sunny day. “We get a lot of honks.”
Sims’ mother owns and operates C&M Crawfish in Vidalia and shared her techniques and recipe with Sims and Provost. “Some of our customers even recognize the ‘C&M’ in our name and get excited because they’ve been to the store in Vidalia,” Sims says.
Their first year in business was rough for crawfish due to an unusually cold winter and a drought the summer before. But the Crawchicks’ luck turned the following year. Since then, they’ve also earned local accolades, winning both People’s Choice and Judges’ Choice awards for boiled crawfish at the 2025 Crawfête.
Customers order from a window. Inside the trailer, there’s a cooler holding fresh sacks and a large boiling apparatus that can hold nine sacks of crawfish at a time. The trailer is open six days a week during the season.
Provost, a native of Hawaii, says Louisiana’s crawfish culture has been mesmerizing. “I just think it’s so much fun,” she says. “I love the climate and the people.”
As for being among the few women-owned crawfish operations, Provost admits it turns some heads.
“Some people are like, ‘Yeah, that’s awesome.’And others look at us and are like, ‘Who does the boiling?’ We do.”
This article was originally published in the March 2026 issue of 225 Magazine.
