Usually when choosing to dine at a restaurant, we have a particular dish or range of cooking in mind. While we’re sometimes surprised with a restaurant’s seemingly out of place fare, for the most part, the best choice on the menu is what the restaurant is known for. Such is the case at the Galley Seafood, a Metairie Road seafood shack whose patrons should stick to the mantra of “keep it simple.”

The most popular item at the Galley is the soft-shell crab po-bo...