The Drunken Crab Santa Barbara

Get the $1 oysters during happy hour.

Owner is a cheapo for putting a 15% gratuity already on the bill. Pay your workers a decent wage!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 5

Service: 5

The lobster tail was very delicious and the seasoning they use top tier.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Corn 2 Potatoes and 1 Louisiana Sausage to Your Bag of Seafood and Sauce, Seafood

Enjoy my dinner here! Also, quick service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Corn 2 Potatoes and 1 Louisiana Sausage to Your Bag of Seafood and Sauce, Raw Oysters, Seafood, Sauce, Drunken Special, Cajun, Chicken Wings

They close at 9:30 we drove AN HOUR to come for a special occasion and they had a closed sign at 8:15pm! There was still people inside eating and they shut early for no reason.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Team was kind of not service oriented, but nice though. Like beginners.
Atmosphere not great, and flavor just alright.
Not excited by the experience

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 2

Recommended dishes: Corn 2 Potatoes and 1 Louisiana Sausage to Your Bag of Seafood and Sauce, Chicken Wings

First, the food was excellent. The service was great and for one reason only. Our server actually provided quality service. He was patient and tried to accommodate us, even though it was a large group. I would definitely go back!!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

I food was alright the service was not good. A table next to us was being checked on and we never once were checked on and didn't get our order right. Felt discriminating.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

Drunken crab, first time in for local. There's a 17% gratuity auto added to all checks. Menu is haphazard with no real logic, no hard alcohol for drinks. Food was overcooked and didn't taste fresh. Service was nice but slow and forgot to bring stuff twice. Not the worst place but better bang for your buck elsewhere.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

In all honesty, I was a bit let down here.

For someone like me who grew up in both LA County and Orange County, and being used to seafood boil spots like Boiling Crab & The Kicking Crab for instance, I assumed this spot would be just as good or atleast close. Now for those who have tried Cajun Asian spots (as some folks would call it) you could definitely taste the difference. Don't get me wrong, I've been craving seafood boil for awhile. This place did take the itch off but it just wasn't it. And besides I'm always looking to try new spots no matter where I'm at. Glad I did chose to come here. Because the service was great, the shrimp was OK, the crayfish not so much, the atmosphere was cozy and portions were good.

Also on a side note, would be nice to let customers know that the "CAJUN" seasoning is additional charge PER bag of whatever you order.

I didn't see it on the menu, maybe because it felt like we were rushed a little bit, but mentioning it would have been nice. Had I known it would've been 6.95 I probably would've backed out and just get the stupid spicy instead.

CRAWFISH DOESNT TASTE FRESH
NOT MUCH FLAVOR
TRY AN ASIAN CAJUN SEAFOOD BOIL SPOT INSTEAD, YOULL SEE WHAT I MEAN

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Raw Oysters, Fish & Chips, Fish, Sauce, Calamari, Drunken Special, Cajun

A very quiet place to spend with family and excellent service

Kid-friendliness: There are dishes for children and it is a safe and quiet place for them

Nice and familiar atmosphere, good service and good food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I don’t know where to star. We had dinner on a Friday night. They weren’t pretty busy for a Friday night. We order drinks, I ordered a soda. My friends got their drinks and I waited and waited for my soda. Food arrived and I asked our waiter if i could please finally get my drink that I ordered since we got there. He responded with “hmm sure I guess I can bring that out for you now” our waiter only checked on us about 2 times, I noticed that he kept skipping our table. When we got our check I noticed that he charged me for 2 sodas… when I only ordered one. I hated that they added gratuity to our check, because he for sure didn’t earned the amount that was added on there. Terrible service. Be advised.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 4

Service: 1

Really cool place really nice service, and really nice food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Probably the worst clam chowder I’ve ever had. The fish and chips were not bad.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3