SEA Crab House - Seattle

It was the only place that could take our large party in a short time. I should have known then. You have to order the food through the web...and your server takes care of drinks. Our server was super stoned (obvious) and forgot 10 different things at a time. When the food finally came out after a very long time, it was terrible. The chicken tacos were fried chicken tenders in a tortilla. The crab tacos were fishy and generally not good. The clam chowder was edible but that's it.
Other people in our party ordered the crab boil which took a crazy amount of time to come out and they were disappointed in the freshness of the crab.
You have to pay for your drinks separately, but make sure you ask for an itemized receipt. There were a few drinks on ours that weren't supposed to be there. Must be the result of being stoned at work. Ha!

I had a great hope to come here for seafood boil. The staff here seemed to be friendly and polite. But the management is terrible here. The kitchen seemed to be no one in it, the only two server had to walk through all store, and the second round of all you can eat seafood boil took almost 40mins. Although the server sincerely apologized, but it is still very confusing that why seafood boils could take that long time.

The chowder was great, but it didn't come with crackers.

Also about the flavors, cajun garlic is too sweet, Thai chili and house special similar with a sour & spicy taste. The house special is too sweet.

They seem use frozen seafood and the second round of seafood had some smell. The first round had way too much small crab legs.

The floor is a little bit sticky. And it seems that they don't have a drink menu.

I hope they could do better because I really like seafood and hope there are more great seafood restaurants in Seattle. So, I still give a 3 stars rating for encouraging them to do better.

Finally getting around to completing my review.

Hubby and I went before a Seahawks game and were very disappointed in the long wait time for a simple drink more than the wait time for a table. One of the two people behind the bar was brand new to being a bartender. I know it's hard to find employees they days but it was ridiculous to have someone brand new serving on game day. If you're going to do this I suggest a limited drink menu. Bottles & cans of beer and simple mixed drinks that don't take long to make. And for the wait for a table a couple that arrived after us was seated before us. As mentioned before a wait time sign would be a good idea. Also the host kept leaving the host stand and people would simply walk in. A sign saying wait to be seated would be good.

Finally on to the food. The fish of the fish and chips were very small. More like nuggets than filets of fish. I had asked for an extra tartar sauce when placing our order and didn't receive it. Had to flag down a server to get another. Also ordered water we never received. The fried shrimp were tasty and while the bed of greens was a nice touch since we didn't receive silverware and there wasn't dressing it was a complete waste.

I pointed out the trip hazard to a manger and she did cover it with a rug. This was a good temporary solution but watch out as your leaving that you don't trip.

Great selection of seafood with a Cajun/Asian twist. The crabs are huge! I opted for lobster and some mussels. Everything tasted really good with the Cajun/garlic butter sauce! I know it's seafood but it was very pricey and there's not a lot of options except to build your own boil.

The ambiance was okay. It's close to the stadium so I would caution against going on game days.

Lastly, the service was okay. I had a hard time trying to get a group of 7 but the restaurant wasn't even busy AND it wasn't near to closing time.

We stopped in for some drinks and a bite before heading to the Sounders game. We got seated pretty quickly towards the back near the booths. The service was a bit on the slow side but I suppose that's fair since there was a game. But there were plenty of empty tables around.

1/5 Calamari - arrived cold
1/5 Fries - arrived cold
4/5 Clam chowder - pretty good
4/5 Artichoke dip - served in a bread bowl with tortilla chips and tasted nice

As we were finishing up we asked for the bill and one more beer and the wait was so long that I decided to go up and tell the waitress to cancel the beer. The waitress finally came back and we paid the bill but asked for the itemized receipt to confirm the beer was taken off. It was not, and the waitress knew it wasn't because she quickly left the table and never came back. Sure it was only a $6 beer but it really seemed like she did this on purpose. I would not recommend going again.

I was there last year and I think I forgot to leave a review, but Theresa was so amazing and personable that it popped into my head and I'll do it now. The food was great, but the service and personability of the staff was just phenomenal, and special shout out to Theresa. I wonder if you went back to Palm Springs. Anyway my date and I had a lovely time.

Nice find, friendly staff yummy seafood we enjoyed all of it! My husband and I enjoyed the variety of seafood on the Mafia platter.

TLDR: Good service, very spacious, decent food. A pretty expansive seafood menu.

Food
Super Kim Noodles - Flavorful but incredibly salty - I'd pass
Oysters - This is seasonal and who knows what you'll get but the oysters we got were delicious! And they included a unique spicy thai inspired sauce.
Lunch Special - A smattering of shrimp, mussels, and fries this was a decent value and enjoyable.

Would I Return?
The food was fine, the service was very good. I certainly would ask my team to lunch here.

Absolute disappointment in the lackluster quality of food. We had a King crab and shrimp boil, which was dry and rubbery. Shrimp filled avocado- had tiny little frozen flavorless shrimp. So disappointing. Waited for salt and pepper which we never received, but at least it photographed well. We will not bother giving a second try. We should have known by the lack of line while other restaurants had over hour and a half wait. Not worth the money.

Great atmosphere since there's hardly no one here! Ordered an old fashioned with Four Roses bourbon. Not quite sure what all is in this! Ended up getting an additional shot of Four Roses and adding it to the glass. Much better. Ordered the lobster rolls with Cajun fries. Fries are great. The ratio of lobster salad to bun is about 1:4 which is unfortunate for the price. Overall, okay. Has the potential to be great.