Crofton’s new and only restaurant featuring Hot Steamed Crabs and Cajun Seafood Boils. Formerly The Big Fish Grille, The Crab Shack serves year round seafood from oysters to live crabs. Our steam kitchen is the most powerful in the area, promising fast steamed seafood. Our Cajun Boils served in a bag are innovative, fresh, and stay hot for hours. If you haven’t tried a Cajun Seafood Boil come and customize yours today. We have indoor and outdoor seating. We are also able to handle all of you catering needs. Come check us out today!
Based on 430 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 3.9 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Curbside pickup ✔️ No-contact delivery
Address:
1260 MD-3, Crofton, MD 21114
Phone: (443) 302-2680
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Hours
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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11 AM–9 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–9 PM |
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Reviews
Derrick Graham
This place is different and has a great vibe. We didn’t get much just wings and a fish sandwich. I highly recommend the grilled honey buffalo wings. The location has an AMI music jukebox so you can play the music you enjoy to hear. The staff was very help and made sure all our needs were met.
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Corinne Kumar
Great food & drinks! We love that they have happy hour everyday. They never disappoint. Highly recommended.
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Alex Hennis
The atmosphere is perfect for a night out with your friends. The food comes fairly quickly. You are surrounded by flat screen TVs. You’ll take care of most of your needs yourself. However, a server will clean up your area when asked. The seafood tasted good. No complaints.
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Sheena Berry
This place is not like the previous restaurant Big Fish. My family and I took our aunt here for her birthday. The menu for okay except the section with the Crab Boil. The way this restaurant charges for their crab boil is a la carte. Ridiculous right. You’re playing separate marked up prices per item and extra 3$-5$ for sausage, eggs, rice or corn. My dad ordered the whitting dinner. The seasoning was salt and pepper and you could tell they cooked it in old grease. My brother had two orders of shrimp. One fried and one broiled, the fried shrimp was okay but the steam shrimp had an ammonia like taste. He took the broiled basket back and told the manager. The manager would not give him a refund and stated “he never had any complains before”, there was nothing wrong with the shrimp and he was not going to give him a refund. My mother, aunt and daughter crab boils were okay. I got the Cajun mild boil, my daughter got the lemon pepper mild and my mother and aunt got the Cajun medium bags. I did not have any complaints until about an hour later… my stomach began to turn. We all ended up having loose bowels later on that evening. I will not be returning to this restaurant and I see why they have so many complaints. From the poor customer service to complaints about the food. We spent over 200$ in this place and it was not worth it. This place will be on my never again list. The photos are of the broiled ammonia shrimp and the manager.
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Reflexionesreal07 Glz
HAIR IN SEAFOOD BOIL!! We are frequent visitors since the place originally opened. We have noticed since the beginning this place lacks customer service and management. We no longer dine in. However, we believed the take out process would be much better. NO! It isn’t. We found a hair in our seafood boil bag and immediately threw it out. Who wants that unsanitary food in their home ? The restaurant was closed because we ordered take out late. The next morning we call and asked for manager. We explained the HAIR IN OUR SEAFOOD BAG- the management did nothing to make it right and refused to refund because they would need the seafood bag back? I will be calling the health department because why would the restaurant want a UNSANITARY DIRTY food bag back ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS COVID-19! Not even Amazon requests the item back if it’s their fault. We believe these unsafe and unsanitary practices is why there is tainted food being processed. PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR SEAFOOD BAG!! Here is the actual photo taken of what we found in our seafood bag even the hair is red like the seafood seasoning!! GO SOMEWHERE ELSE DONT CHANCE IT
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Jeff P
Crabs were good and reasonably priced. The other food ordered was excellent as well. Very attentive waitstaff. Will definitely return.
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Kishma Kelly
My newest guilty pleasure! The food was so good, I came back the next day. Everything that I’ve had this far has not disappointed: crabs (not pictured), raw clams and oysters, boardwalk fries, hush puppies, sliders.
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L. Charisse Davis
Ordering is kind of weird. Signs instruct you to seat yourself, and then there are menus on the table with a scannable code. But then a waitress comes over and asks if you are ready to order. If you are not, you are instructed to go to the counter and order when you are ready. This cavernous place was almost empty when I went, and it was clean, including the restroom. The crab cake, slaw, and sweet potato fries that I ordered were tasty, well prepared, and cost almost $40 with tax and tip. Inflation I guess. I might go again. This place will not assist me in becoming overweight lol.
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S Seymour
They only had XL crabs when we went on a Sunday afternoon. But they were meaty and cooked to perfection. The crab pretzel, fried oysters and steamed shrimp was delicious but the mussels were only simply steamed without much flavor. TIP: I recommend going during happy hour (everyday 3-7) .
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Adrian Wilcox
One of my favorite local spots to grab a bite and a nice drink. The staff is always amazing and the kitchen rocks. I love them because the the entire team is consistent with both service and food.
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