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City Crab & Seafood Company Restaurant Review

235 Park Ave. S. (E. 19th St.) Send to Phone
New YorkNY 10003
212-529-3800 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
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Manhattan’s own Maryland crab shack.

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Open

Lunch & Dinner daily, Brunch Sat.-Sun.

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  • Reservations suggested
  • Casual

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Dining room at City Crab & Seafood Company, New York, NYNo serious seafood aficionado would choose City Crab as the place to go for seafood delicacies (if they could, they'd probably head to some out-of-the-way fish shack in Maryland or Maine), but this huge, bi-level seafood restaurant manages to attract boisterous crowds night after night. The décor is vaguely nautical and timeless with checkerboard linoleum floors, diner-style bar stools, and tongue-and-groove wood walls. The menu features crabs (of course), including Pacific Northwest Dungeness and Florida stone crabs. There are also market fish selections that are best prepared simply grilled.

User Ratings & Reviews for City Crab & Seafood Company
Average rating    1.67
Reviews 1 - 3 of 31
If you don't serve the food, I cannot enjoy it...
by ScottK on 01/31/2012
 
Happy hour. Quite empty. 2 bartenders, not really doing anything. 15 minutes, no service, not even a Hi. Walked out with my wife. Most likely will not be back, too many places with good food AND good service.
 
to be fair
by timroberts on 03/03/2009
 
After discussing the matter with the Manager - I feel this may have just been a bad day for the restaurant
 
God Awful
by timroberts on 03/01/2009
 
My lunch at City Crab today reminded me of the Woody Allen joke “Such terrible food! ... and such small portions!” I would add such lousy service.

The first thing our waiter informs us is that the restaurant is out of Crab Legs, Broccoli and Spinach. You would think Crab Legs would be a staple at “City Crab” and a walk done the block to the supermarket would have taken care of the broccoli & spinach.

When someone in our party inquired about a lobster the waiter didn’t know if they had that either and then informed that the only lobsters they had were over 2 pounds!

We ordered the Maryland Crab Soup which had frozen-tasting vegetables floating around in it and a VERY greasy crab artichoke dip.

With a lack of options most of us ordered fried food, which arrived tasting like the fryer oil at City Crab hadn’t been changed since the Carter administration.

I ordered a $14 Crab Cake Sandwich which consisted of ONE crab cake about an inch and a half in diameter.

My partner got a “Grilled Shrimp Salad” except the shrimp tasted boiled and had been placed on the grill for about 30 seconds.

After eating what we could of this meal we then spent about 20 minutes staring at it because our waiter had disappeared.

This was honestly the worst meal I have had in recent memory - worse then eating at rest stops along the NYS thruway.

DO NOT GO there - EVER!
 
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