The Crab Pad

2529 N Milwaukee Ave #1, Chicago
(773) 360-8332

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Thao Tran

We came for the happy hour deals and had a great time. You gotta pay right after you order and things come as they’re ready. We love the cajun fries. The seafood boils are delicious and my favorite selection would be snow crab + clams + house cajun spicy sauce + corn (add-on). The mini $1 fish tacos are fun bites and the passion fruit lemonade was refreshing. The garlic noodle was outshined by the other dishes and can be skipped.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Brenda Martinez

Great experience, awesome place to celebrate any occasion. The food was tasty and full of flavor.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

ANTONIO WOODS

Does the restaurant have a new policy with paying the bill before u eat ?

Erik Solis

Lex was great and gave us awesome service ,her attitude was positive and very sweet !

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Tyler Hatter

Just got this delivered. I've had crab pad multiple times in the past 6 years, and its been awhile since ive had it the last time. It was fantastic and a step up from the last time I had it. Also their menu now is much larger with more options than in the past

Food: 5

Shan Loclow

This was the best service ever! The waiters were so accommodating and nice we loved them just as much as we did the food. The flavors were so good best crab broil I've ever had. We went to celebrate my husbands birthday and they even sang to him! Loved it and we will def visit again.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Hanna Pence

We ordered head-on shrimp for takeout and it was terrible. The shrimp was too mushy that we can’t even peel the shell off. Even the corn was bad.

Food: 1

Angel Castrejon

Food was delicious fire 🔥🔥
Our host Yari was very nice to me and my family ,
and made us feel welcomed, she kept checking on us, excellent service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ellen Otero

The Crab Pad was amazing! The food was excellent and the atmosphere was great. The staff was wonderful and very helpful — I especially enjoyed chatting with the young lady (I wish I could remember her name Nayra?!). I will definitely be coming back. The food and prices are well worth it. Highly recommended! Come and enjoy some really good food.”

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

kikusturu

I saw this place on TikTok and my friends and I were excited to go. We were all super disappointed. We ordered Boil bags, and for well over $60 each it was the saddest boil bag I’ve had in my 30 years. I ordered lemon pepper and garlic butter and it was extremely bland and had nearly no sauce. A whisper of salt or flavor wasn’t available. I ordered a side of noodles, which was just plain spaghetti noodles and the whole bottom of the cup was pasta water, which I noticed after I threw them in, watering down the two drops of sauce more. Our crab legs were near empty and the 3 pieces of sausage I paid extra for were 3 slivers of a sausage, and one wasn’t even inside the main bag. We all left disappointed after a long wait for the bags. They ran out of gloves and gave us cloth aprons that were missing tie back strings. The staff and servers were nice personality wise but the entire experience felt SO disorganized. We wanted to do a build your own popsicle originally but were so fed up that we just paid and left.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

Ellie Bell

spent over $110 for 2 people, food was mid, no refills on the drinks… I’ve gone to better seafood places with better attentive servers n free refills.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 1

Tianrui Dong

I was here couple of weeks ago and had a great experience. The seafood was not as fresh as expected but I enjoyed the service and flavor very much. This time I came for the crawfish AYCE on Sunday, but the overall experience left all of us very uncomfortable.

We weren’t given gloves or utensils after the crawfish and rice came, so we grabbed them ourselves from a nearby station since the servers were busy. We were waiting 10+ minutes for each round of crawfish to arrive, so we cleaned up shells (something the staff did not have time to help us with but it was not an issue) and changed gloves while waiting — no one wants to sit with dirty gloves for that long.

At the end, a staff member held an empty glove box in front of our table told us it was “unacceptable” that we used an entire box of gloves (the box was already open and gloves were pulled out when we first took gloves, so it was clearly not a full box) and that we should’ve asked instead of helping ourselves (but it was almost impossible to call anyone to our table). It felt confrontational and unfair, especially since glove policy was not explained. It really took away from what should’ve been a fun meal.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

Alejandra Sotelo

The food was okiish the service was horrible took 1 hour to get food and wanted sauce on the side took 30minutes to get sauce .it took the waiter a WHILE to come get our order.He came to ask what appetizers we wanted quickly but as far as food goes it took 30plus minutes to get him to come over.The food tasted just ok.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Charna Harris

The pricing and overall place is great no complaints but the food wasn’t the best ! My girlfriend and I really wanted to love this place but unfortunately it’s a huge NO . The seafood was also very bitter and odd tasting.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 3

Christina V

A Must Visit for Seafood Lovers!! 😋💕
• Server was very friendly and attentive
• The ube latte had the perfect amount of sweetness
• The crawfish sauce was bomb and flavorful
• I also liked how they gave us a bottle of lemon juice just incase we wanted it extra sour!
• Garlic noodles are a must try

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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