What a great experience! Had Calvert Crabs do a catering gig for an event I was hosting- not only was the food FANTASTIC but the service from start to finish was awesome. Highly recommend!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Eric Finkelstein
The okra was the best I've ever had, and the rockfish bites were delightfully soft, perfectly lightly fried, with a nice sauce on the side. Also enjoyed the combo platter and crab cake.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jose Zelaya
Crunchy and tasty.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Sarah B.
Once again, I continue to be impressed with the quality of the food and service. Whenever family or friends come to visit, we always take them here to eat. There is always a steady flow of people, but I have never not been able to get a table (limited seating). Even in the Maryland crab "offseason" everything is fresh and delicious. My family recently placed a large takeout order on Christmas Eve for brunch, and they had everything ready in record speed and all the food was hot and delicious. They even have a loyalty program to earn rewards as you visit. We have recently been going to breakfast on the weekends and the sweet potato pancakes are to die for. My husband gets the grabs Benedict and loves it as well. Haven't had a bad meal here!
Karl Weber
Take out was great. Order was correct and seafood cooked to perfection. Best fried soft crab I have had in many years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Crab Dip, Cream of Crab, Hush Puppies
Monica E.
Love this place. Local place that remembers your name, your preferences and smiles so big when you come back to visit. Fresh seafood, hard shells and cream If crab soup with lump crab! Always consistent and well worth making it in if you're in Calvert County!
Sophia P.
Service was terrible considering we were ignore for about 5 minutes. Then when they took us to our booth, I had to stand there for another 5 before they came to clean all the spilled sauce and crumbs all over the booth. Then they took about 15 minutes to ever take our order for drinks and food. After 40 minutes waiting for our food my partners was brought and mine wasn't for another 12 minutes with not a word said. Something else we observed was that the people seated behind us we ignored then another group came in and were waited on immediately and when the waitress finally took the order from the people behind us she apologized that they wouldn't be able to order crabs because the people at the other table just ordered the last they had. If you had waited on them ahead...the correct group would have been able to have crabs.
Mark T.
Very expensive! Sea food is average. Food attendants are great. Take outplacement exclusively.
Robby Burch
Bought 3/4 of a bushel of light crabs got home and noticed a $ 7.50 charge on credit card seems they gave themselves a15% tip without telling me. The crabs seem to be recooked some of them were like oatmeal inside and smelled like ammonia ate about 6 of them. opened probably a dozen and threw them away. lesson learned 2nd time of buying bad crabs here Taste them before you leave the store.UpdateOwner reached out to me to see if he could make things good. Refund or replacement crabs I took another chance on crabs and this time the crabs were excellent! I will now give them 4 stars for resolving this matter.
Jessy J
Great service every time! Most of the food is good. I’m completely unimpressed with the steamed crabs. Just bought 1/2 a bushel & my box was stuffed with legs & claws. It was supposed to be #1 males & they threw a few on top. The rest was small males! Terrible! Definitely won’t be back for crabs.Parking: Who cares? The food is overpriced
Ordered through Grubhub. The food was really good! I will definitely order again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Cream of Crab
Briggitte L.
The service was so friendly! I enjoyed the fried catfish and the hush puppies. I enjoyed the potato salad after I added salt and pepper. The collard greens were just ok. The rock fish sandwich and onion rings were good. The desserts looked so good. Unfortunately, we didn't have room for dessert. We recommend this restaurant.
S S
Got a half bushel yesterday from Calvert Crabs. Best crabs I’ve had in a long time. Even had some jumbos mixed in. Best price around and crabs were heavy. $130 for a half bushel, not steamed.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andrew P.
What an unexpected adventure in Southern Maryland! When my friend told me he wanted to have dinner at a seafood restaurant, I was expecting a big dine-in establishment. There is a table for 4, a table for 6, and a few high seats in the restaurant... luckily, it was empty, so my party of 6 claimed that bigger table! Obviously, it's mainly for takeout, but cool anyway! I noticed that they have happy hour everyday until 6 (they just have beer), and that the place smells like your standard enticing seafood restaurant. So we settled and started ordering... drinks first. Lots of local beers were featured, so I decided to start with Mully's Blood Orange, which was really good! Deciding food was a little more difficult... did I want a crab cake platter? Did I want the crab & shrimp quesadilla?? My eyes gravitated to an appetizer item that was labeled as new... Honey Butter Biscuit Breaded Shrimp. That's a lot of syllables, I know. That sounded so different and unusual, I was intrigued. I peeped a July special (which had just a few days left) -- 1/3 baby back ribs, jumbo lump crab cake, 2 sides and 3 hush puppies for $30. Yes please! The appetizers came out first -- after the first bite of that shrimp my eyes widened and I just paused for like 10 seconds. It was SOOOOOO delicious! I let the rest of the table taste and their minds were blown. 11/10. And then when the entrees came out... SO MUCH FOOD!!! As I said with the July special, the two sides I got were the Chesapeake macaroni salad, which actually had old bay and crab meat in it (YUM!) and the vegetable of the day, yellow squash! I enjoyed every single element of the meal -- but I will say that the hush puppies were my least favorite. They were extremely dry on the outside -- even though the inside was fine. The honey made them better, too :). I would drive 50 minutes just to return for that shrimp. By the way, they have food trucks and a trailer that they use for catering... so normally, they're not up around my way. But I'll be watching...
Justin Calabrese
Best soft shell crab sandwhich I’ve had in a long time!
What a great experience! Had Calvert Crabs do a catering gig for an event I was hosting- not only was the food FANTASTIC but the service from start to finish was awesome. Highly recommend!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The okra was the best I've ever had, and the rockfish bites were delightfully soft, perfectly lightly fried, with a nice sauce on the side. Also enjoyed the combo platter and crab cake.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Crunchy and tasty.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Once again, I continue to be impressed with the quality of the food and service. Whenever family or friends come to visit, we always take them here to eat. There is always a steady flow of people, but I have never not been able to get a table (limited seating). Even in the Maryland crab "offseason" everything is fresh and delicious. My family recently placed a large takeout order on Christmas Eve for brunch, and they had everything ready in record speed and all the food was hot and delicious. They even have a loyalty program to earn rewards as you visit. We have recently been going to breakfast on the weekends and the sweet potato pancakes are to die for. My husband gets the grabs Benedict and loves it as well. Haven't had a bad meal here!
Take out was great. Order was correct and seafood cooked to perfection. Best fried soft crab I have had in many years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Crab Dip, Cream of Crab, Hush Puppies
Love this place. Local place that remembers your name, your preferences and smiles so big when you come back to visit. Fresh seafood, hard shells and cream If crab soup with lump crab! Always consistent and well worth making it in if you're in Calvert County!
Service was terrible considering we were ignore for about 5 minutes. Then when they took us to our booth, I had to stand there for another 5 before they came to clean all the spilled sauce and crumbs all over the booth. Then they took about 15 minutes to ever take our order for drinks and food. After 40 minutes waiting for our food my partners was brought and mine wasn't for another 12 minutes with not a word said. Something else we observed was that the people seated behind us we ignored then another group came in and were waited on immediately and when the waitress finally took the order from the people behind us she apologized that they wouldn't be able to order crabs because the people at the other table just ordered the last they had. If you had waited on them ahead...the correct group would have been able to have crabs.
Very expensive! Sea food is average. Food attendants are great. Take outplacement exclusively.
Bought 3/4 of a bushel of light crabs got home and noticed a $ 7.50 charge on credit card seems they gave themselves a15% tip without telling me. The crabs seem to be recooked some of them were like oatmeal inside and smelled like ammonia ate about 6 of them. opened probably a dozen and threw them away. lesson learned 2nd time of buying bad crabs here Taste them before you leave the store.UpdateOwner reached out to me to see if he could make things good. Refund or replacement crabs I took another chance on crabs and this time the crabs were excellent! I will now give them 4 stars for resolving this matter.
Great service every time! Most of the food is good. I’m completely unimpressed with the steamed crabs. Just bought 1/2 a bushel & my box was stuffed with legs & claws. It was supposed to be #1 males & they threw a few on top. The rest was small males! Terrible! Definitely won’t be back for crabs.Parking: Who cares? The food is overpriced
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 5
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Ordered through Grubhub. The food was really good! I will definitely order again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Cream of Crab
The service was so friendly! I enjoyed the fried catfish and the hush puppies. I enjoyed the potato salad after I added salt and pepper. The collard greens were just ok. The rock fish sandwich and onion rings were good. The desserts looked so good. Unfortunately, we didn't have room for dessert. We recommend this restaurant.
Got a half bushel yesterday from Calvert Crabs. Best crabs I’ve had in a long time. Even had some jumbos mixed in. Best price around and crabs were heavy. $130 for a half bushel, not steamed.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
What an unexpected adventure in Southern Maryland! When my friend told me he wanted to have dinner at a seafood restaurant, I was expecting a big dine-in establishment. There is a table for 4, a table for 6, and a few high seats in the restaurant... luckily, it was empty, so my party of 6 claimed that bigger table! Obviously, it's mainly for takeout, but cool anyway! I noticed that they have happy hour everyday until 6 (they just have beer), and that the place smells like your standard enticing seafood restaurant. So we settled and started ordering... drinks first. Lots of local beers were featured, so I decided to start with Mully's Blood Orange, which was really good! Deciding food was a little more difficult... did I want a crab cake platter? Did I want the crab & shrimp quesadilla?? My eyes gravitated to an appetizer item that was labeled as new... Honey Butter Biscuit Breaded Shrimp. That's a lot of syllables, I know. That sounded so different and unusual, I was intrigued. I peeped a July special (which had just a few days left) -- 1/3 baby back ribs, jumbo lump crab cake, 2 sides and 3 hush puppies for $30. Yes please! The appetizers came out first -- after the first bite of that shrimp my eyes widened and I just paused for like 10 seconds. It was SOOOOOO delicious! I let the rest of the table taste and their minds were blown. 11/10. And then when the entrees came out... SO MUCH FOOD!!! As I said with the July special, the two sides I got were the Chesapeake macaroni salad, which actually had old bay and crab meat in it (YUM!) and the vegetable of the day, yellow squash! I enjoyed every single element of the meal -- but I will say that the hush puppies were my least favorite. They were extremely dry on the outside -- even though the inside was fine. The honey made them better, too :). I would drive 50 minutes just to return for that shrimp. By the way, they have food trucks and a trailer that they use for catering... so normally, they're not up around my way. But I'll be watching...
Best soft shell crab sandwhich I’ve had in a long time!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5