Crafty Crab - Jacksonville

We used to love this place, but the food and service has declined so much over the last year. Bye bye!

Service can be interesting at times here. The second time we came here it took almost 5 minutes for someone to greet us at the front desk to be seated. I noticed the waitress this time did not write down our orders, although slightly impressive there were things missed each time.The food itself is good. I usually go for shrimp and green mussels, with the main sauce. No complaints there.

We decided to go to Crusty Crab for a pre Father's Day's celebration for the men in our lives. This Crusty Crab location is right off of 103rd Street in Jacksonville Florida in the Walmart Shopping Mall. I was told that this location is lit as the the young folks would say it. Good food. Great music and tasty seafood. I, myself don't partake in seafood but I joined the club because it was about the men today. We arrived and got seated quickly because my daughter made a reservation. Great Job Jessica!!! They were full all afternoon. Our server is Kayla. Young lady who accommodated our ever so growing party wonderfully. We went from 8 people to 16 before we were done. Kayla was respectful and offered Several choices on the menu. She took both our drink and food orders because a few more parties were about to start. Many of the family chose the Bag Specials.Blue Crab 4 pieces, 1/2 lbs headless shrimp, 2 corn & 2 shrimp. $24.99. They added 2 boiled eggs. Dungeness Crab was 1/2 lbs Aslo. 1/2 lbs whole shrimp & 1/2 lbs black mussel, 2 corn & 2 potatoes $25.99. Side choices...Fries, onion rings, sweet potato fries, hush puppies or broccoli. They even have something for the little people. Chicken tenders or fried catfish with a side.We throughly enjoyed the atmosphere and ambiance of the restaurant. The music was pretty good. I hate there was no live music. For me, the food was bland. I did ask for salt and pepper to taste. I ordered the catfish with seasoned fries. Even my sister who orders the buffalo wings said that they weren't seasoned. Just a little disappointing on the regular menu though. Those who orders seafood bags gobbled it down like no tomorrow . Maybe I need to learn how to eat crawfish, shrimps, crab legs ect.

Very tasty shrimp boil. Combo spicing was just right. Hush puppies were great! Friendly service. Spot on. Give it a try!

It was convenient and edible but for a sealed restaurant I expected better . But it depends on what you are looking for .

Delicious seafood. I had the catfish meal. It was served hot with fries and a side salad. So yummy. Can't wait to go back. Very nice setting for families and watching football at the bar.

They had a Dj on the night I attended and did a free raffle. The food was delicious as always unfortunately they did get my order wrong and forgot to add my lobster tail and boiled eggs to my order. Instead of making a new order they added it to the bag a sent to the back. I definitely didn't like that because the previous order also didn't appear to have 1lb of shrimp like I ordered.

Found another place that serves awesome seafood boils and dishes. This restaurant resides in the west side part of Jacksonville. Inside and outside of this place, the restaurant boast a nicely themed ocean vibe design and style. Nice looking Bar. Place looks clean and the aroma just screams seafood galore. We were greeted and seated promptly.Now on to the food.....Lobster Tail, Shrimps, Snow Crab Boil (5/5): This is one of their weekend Boils Specials. I chose the BOOM seasoning which is a mixture of all 3 of the restaurant's signature seasonings. Spice level, I chose Mild. I would have opted for Fire (very spicy) but I happened to be sharing my order. Taste wise, it was definitely a boom, all of the flavors just married well onto another. What a home run hit of flavor.Shrimp Boil (5/5): Same as previous boil, the flavors and taste of this boil was well rounded.The downside of their Seafood Boil ordering is you don't have the option to pick up to 2 choices, only 1. I was hoping to have that second pick option as I like trying 2 seafood items instead of just having one. Additionally, it's a bit on the pricier side. Not an overall deal breaker because the food was delicious.All in all, we had a great experience at Crafty Crab. Service was great; fast, friendly staff. Great tasting food. What more can you ask for?

great food well seasoned and cooked it was hot when it came out and the server we had she was amazing her name was renea not sure how to spell it but she was nice and made sure our drinks were filled and our trash was out of the way

We'll never been to this place, kept hearing people talk about it and all of the positive things they would say and food they recommend, well I'm not going to hold back by saying we'll never be back, sat there for 15 minutes before our waitress came and got our drink order (which she got wrong) and food order, wasn't even busy, don't know there was a live dj, music was extremely loud that we couldn't even hear each other talking at our table, waitresses couldn't even hear us talking to them, this IS NOT a club, it's a restaurant where we wanted to have a great birthday dinner out and enjoy ourselves. We ended up getting our food to go due to it being so loud in there. Sad when there's security at an establishment due to unforeseen circumstances. The whole front sidewalk is full of activities that shouldn't have been happening out front. All of our food was cold even trying to eat in on our way home (we live less than 5 minutes down the road). Sad that the customers are responsible for paying for the dj when they automatically charge you, so if you don't lol at your receipt good enough you'll skip right past it. Waitresses must be used to people wanting their food to go since they didn't have a problem doing it fast.