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| - Unfortunately underwhelmed by this place. I feel bad leaving 2 stars, but if I compare it to some of the 3 star places, I don't know if this stands on the same level.
I guess where it was kinda my own fault is that I went with a small group that wasn't hungry and didn't all love seafood. Based on my past experiences at these kinds of restaurants in Socal, the ideal situation is a large group of seafood lovers so you can split and try everything.
That being said, I still wasn't impressed. We got the blue crab in mild trifecta sauce with corn and potatoes added. The non seafood lover ordered fried calamari. I likes the corn and potatoes when I dipped it in the sauce, but the crab just wasn't doing much for me and was pretty bland on its own. Fried calamari was also a little over breaded. It tasted good, but just...Wasn't that great.
Where I drop it a star is service. I was really excited that we were seated so quickly after 3 different hosts asked us within two minutes if we'd been helped. That's where I had high expectations. Once we ordered our food, we got it quickly but had nothing to eat our food with. We asked our server for bibs first and once we got those we realized we didn't have seafood crackers. When I asked if we could have our crab cracker things, our server said the restaurant was low but she would check for us. That's....strange to me because how else would we crack into our whole crabs without anything? I guess we could get by using our hands only, but doesn't take away from how bizarre I think it is that a crab restaurant would be low on seafood crackers...I thought maybe I was just being picky, until I saw the table seated next to us that arrived after had all their bibs/crackers BEFORE food arrived. So I don't think I'm being unreasonable...
On top of that, I had to ask separately for hand wipes even though our server came asking if we were ready for dessert. Hand wipes in a hands on crab restaurant also seem pretty standard.
Idk. Didn't sit right with me, and I say that after I really really tried to like this place. Perhaps if a big group of seafood aficionados dragged me here again, I'd enjoy the experience more.
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