Captain Pell's Fairfax Crabhouse

We were back again on the Saturday after Black Friday which seems to be when we visit.Surprisingly, we make the same food and drink order.The drinks are now $3.95 each.The portions are still huge and too much food for two older people to eat.Hummm, I wonder if they have a "kids menu"?

So I tried this place out due to me loving crabs. We ordered the scallops dinner and extra large crabs. The scallops are very tasty and seasoned. The fries nice and hot and tasty. However, the crabs were not to my liking. They were nice sizes but light on the inside and they tasted like sea water. They were not tasty at all. I had to use the vinegar and butter to ignore the sea taste they were giving. Aide, our waiter was very attentive. I probably wouldn't go back for crabs but willing to eat the scallops again.

DMC crew strikes DC again, so 7 adults and 5 kids, so we always running a 1k bill. But crabs legs platters were all on point; Ladies got bushel of crabs, a lot popping there. Fried catfish actually looked good, steak fries, and get the hush puppy basket, they warm and butter. Only negative is, leave the salt out of the butter for the chicken crab.

Everything was amazing! Hot crabs & seasoned fries were just the bomb diggety. Always the best attitude wait staff ever. The atmosphere is so sports oriented with a bunch of T.V.'s. I love everything about this place. I was going to Captain Pells when they were a mere carryout in Merriefield.

What can I say, everything is outstanding--the food quality & the preparation of it, portions could be smaller. It's a real price performer even the wine!!If you live here & love seafood you need to go here. I wish we lived closer!! We will definitely be back.

love, love, loved our experience here! unlimited refills on drinks, and the meal was so good and filling. we got a dozen crabs to share and even though we got the small size, the crabs were huge! we also got the maryland crab dip and snow crab legs - HIGHLY recommend the crab dip. it's one of the best i've ever had

The crab chowder was served with a Styrofoam plate, plastic bowl and plastic spoon. Very salty.Crab cakes had too much filler and very salty too. Not impressed. I ate in the dining room not to go.

I ordered the scallop dinner. When my order arrived which was late you could smell the scallops through the bag. I was like OMG!!! This is awful. You are not supposed to smell seafood like this. Especially if it's cooked. If it smells like this now then the smell must have been twice as awful. This restaurant needs to be reported to the Department of Health immediately!!!

It was my first time trying this restaurant I ordered the crab chowder and it was disappointing! Crab dip was delicious I also enjoyed the steamed shrimp.

We had take out today and spent $150 (after tax) on extra large crabs and they were horrible. They were so light, many of them didn't have any meat and 9! Of them didn't have both claws. And two of them were mushy...I know that can happen but usually see the extra claws in the bottom of the bag and if we are in the restaurant I would have returned them. I've attached pics of the inside of the crab and some of the mush (not sure this will take video) but I'm soooo sad by how horrible these were. And we're wondering if it's because this was a take out order. I surely wasn't going to drive 19 miles to return them.