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It's almost crawfish season. What's your go-to spot for crawfish?

I don't love crawfish, but I love crawfish season.

Crawfish season for non-crawfish fans is a lot like watching someone celebrate a holiday outside your religion. It's not my thing personally, but I love how excited everyone around me is, and I love being invited to the festivities, even if I'm not really partaking in them.

As you all know, crawfish season in the southern coastal region is a whole experience. There are crawfish boils everywhere, and every friend group is coordinating plans based on where they can find the best spot to stuff their faces with our local crustacean.

As for me, I'm the awkward outsider wandering around the table with a plate of corn and potatoes, but I'm still having the best time. When the group chat is nothing but discussion on where we're going for mudbugs, I just "heart" everything and wait for someone to tell me the plan.

And I love it. Crawfish season is an absolute riot, even if you're not keen on cracking into a crawdad.

If you are into crawfish — and I estimate about 99% of you are — I can assume the experience is even more enjoyable. So let's dedicate this reader poll to helping out your fellow crawfish aficionados in Katy.

I want to know: where can Katy Insiders find the best crawfish in the city?

Once you've voted, I'll put together a list of your favorites so we can pass the information on to your neighbors.

And even though I won't be dining on the crawfish myself, I'll be tagging along with my mudbug-loving friends, stuffing myself with dinner rolls and spicy potatoes and watching everyone else plow through crawfish by the pound.

Claire Goodman, Katy reporter

claire.goodman@houstonchronicle.com

Need to Know

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Photo by: Melissa Phillip, Staff / Houston Chronicle

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Openings and Closings

The highly anticipated Lululemon, coming soon to LaCenterra, has an official opening date.

The "altheisure" brand will have its grand opening Jan. 26, according to a LaCenterra press release.

Shout out

A round of applause goes out to the cardiologists at Houston Methodist Hospital for successfully performing a heart valve transplant on a pregant woman.

Thanks to their incredible knowledge and talent, two lives were saved.

One last thing ...

If I won the lottery, I imagine that I would break the land speed record in my rush to claim it.

That's not always the case.

The Texas Lottery has a plan in place for unclaimed tickets, my co-reporter Octavia Johnson writes, and they've actually had to utilize this contingency.

Just FYI, if any of you have a winning ticket you don't feel like claiming, I'll happily take it off your hands.