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| - For just the seafood, Crab Corner is pretty good. I went twice, once for the fried softshell crab and then went back because I just had to try the crabcakes. I also tried the Maryland crab soup and the bacon-wrapped scallops. First, avoid the bacon-wrapped scallops! They were horribly overcooked and therefore dry, tough, and except for the bacon, flavorless. But the other three seafood items were terrific. The crab in the crabcakes and soup tasted fresh, as opposed to frozen or out of a can. If you have a craving for seafood (which tends to be either very bad or very expensive in the middle of the desert), Crab Corner is great. But where this place really disappoints is everything else on the menu. Every side I tried was just awful. The corn on the cob had the taste and consistency of something that had been sitting in a warmer for hours, if not days. The sweet potato tater tots are a great concept with weak execution. And the hush puppies were either left in the fryer or sat in the warmer for so long that they were almost as tough as the scallops. Finally, the dessert selection is almost nonexistent: either snow cones (I tried the root beer - yuck) or Tasty Cakes (sounded very factory, so I didn't bother). For seafood, Crab Corner gets 3 stars (the horrible bacon-wrapped scallops drops it a star). But for everything else on the menu, it gets 1 star. Both servers I had were great, so 4 stars for service. I live pretty close, and as a Boston guy, I certainly love seafood, but I doubt I'll bother going back.
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