We went to this place by chance. It looked pretty new to me, but our server said they had been here for quite sometime. I really like that it is spacious (easy to walk around) and it had some funny and cool decor - it had an alligator display on the wall haha. There was also ample parking outside. This was inside a complex with other establishments. We had the following dishes: * Garlic Pasta - The sauce was creamy and the dish was filling and flavorful. It was so yummy. * Peeled Shrimp - This was juicy and delicious! * Calamari - Very crispy and the dipping sauce was good as well. It was a lot of food for us and we had take some home. Our server was nice and friendly! Hope to come back here again. read more

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I used to come here every now and then, but last night I was very disappointed. I ordered 1 lb of mussels, 1 lb of shrimp, and 1 lb of sausage with potatoes. Unfortunately, the food did not come out the way I expected. The seafood had no sauce at all. I also wasn't given lemon, salt, pepper, parchment paper, or even napkins. Everything felt incomplete and poorly prepared. My green mussels were completely dry and overcooked!! The shrimp was overcooked as well and very salty. I ordered the Canyon Bomb flavor, which is usually what I get, but this time everything was overwhelmingly salty and honestly not enjoyable. The fact that the seafood had very little sauce was disappointing! I'm not usually the type to write reviews, but I felt the need to share my honest experience so the restaurant can improve. Sadly, based on this visit, I don't see myself coming back. Nor ordering online again through UBER EATS read more

The food and the service is always spectacular. Absolutely love coming here. The clam chowder is the best in town. The glazed salmon should not be overlooked and I thoroughly enjoy the frog legs and peeled shrimp. Can't miss here. read more

I am pretty sure they mixed in live crawfish with frozen ones thinking we wouldn't noticed. Ordered 3 pounds of crawfish last night and I'm pretty sure 1 pound was frozen. We also went towards the end of the night. Maybe they were running out or needed to get rid of some frozen crawfish Never going back read more

Came back again and it was still good. Their sauce is still on point. Besides the seafood, I recommend their loaded asada fries and grilled oysters read more

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One of my favorites in Garden Grove. The staff are extremely nice and fast. The place is always clean and well decorated. The food and drinks are always good. Will come back often to support them :) read more

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Absolutely love this place for crawfish and seafood. They have great drink specials. The food has great flavor and location has an amazing vibe. The service was great in the staff were sweet. Definitely one of my go to places when I'm in town. read more

Food and ambience feels like you're at an actual seafood broiler with a pirate scene large and spacious great for friends and family. Hang out and even solo if you wanted to the food is excellent great service, friendly smiles. Great drinks come Monday through Friday 3 to 6 for happy hour how do you recommend five stars all the way consistently good service consistently good food consistently good drinkskeep coming and the lychee peach read more

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My parents love coming here because it's inexpensive and flavor is close enough to wild crab. I don't really prefer this place just because their sauce is okay but everything else is delicious. Service is great every time. Although I do highly recommend their Cajun fried rice, Cajun fries, and their wings. read more

Food was good, typical of seafood boil. Servers were very hard to get in touch with for things like refills or asking about the status of food taking long. It was an unusually busy day so it's understandable, but it wasn't great having to wait 10 minutes to ask for salt and pepper. read more

My family and I shared the crawfish with cannonball sauce accompanied by corn, potatoes, and andouille sausage and I added a 1 lb of garlic butter king crab. I also have a toddler niece who got chicken tenders and fries - that serving was large enough to feed an adult. This was my first time trying the cannonball sauce and I prefer the sauces separately instead of mixed together. Everything was tasty and not overcooked. I think next time, we'll just order the peeled shrimp, peeling the crawfish was way too labor intensive. The andouille sausage was really good, but it tasted more like kielbasa to me. Claws is perfect for groups to bond over the food and making a mess. :) The service is a little bit spotty. We had to wave someone down a few times. The sinks and the restrooms were a little bit messy The parking lot is fairly large, but you're competing for spots with Chuze fitness people. read more

Wow! So disappointing and actually pretty sad! One of my favorite restaurants to eat at hung up on me twice! Mid sentence! Her name is Vi and one of the worst managers to talk too. All I wanted is to pick Up food. I called at 8:30pm to pick up food and she refused to make it. Never heard of a restaurant refuse an order from A loyal customer. It's disappointing because this is how places lose customers! read more

Service was a bit slow but other than that the food was amazing! Great experience. Lychee martinis were a huge hit. We got shrimp, crawfish, crab legs, sausage and clams. Sides corn and potatoes. read more

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This is a Cajun seafood place that has a variety of food offerings. It is pretty spacious and can accommodate a good amount of customers. Service is attentive. Their food is not bad, though their seafood sauce is a bit lacking. Peeled Shrimp with Cannon Ball sauce 4/5 - They have peeled shrimp! This is a big selling point for those who don't like to peel shrimp shells. The shrimps are also big and juicy unlike mushy shrimps at other places. However, the sauce isn't as good as places I've been to. The Cannon Ball sauce has a strong lemon flavor, almost like it consists of mostly salt and lemon. They just need to tone the lemon flavor down and make it more garlicky and flavorful. Garlic Fries 5/5 - These fries were da bomb. They were super crispy and delicious with garlic and Parmesan toppings. Definitely a must-get! read more

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Restaurant is nice and clean. The decor is nice was well, plenty of TVs with sports on.. But the 2 times I've been, they place is fairly empty. The 2 orders I've gotten from here were good, but not amazing. I'll be back read more

Service was quick and attentive. The food was good I got medium spice could have gone spicier as it was more mild. The sides were all good wings, fries, corn. The only thing that I didn't like was the rice was stale and dry. read more

Food was great but the only complaint I have is ordering from online. If you're a first time online orderer, they will not make your food until you get there which defeats the purpose of a quick pick up. They are so worried about people ditching. But this isn't the first time I've order online. I asked what the ETA was on the phone and they said about 5-10 minutes. I gave them 10 minutes before I left my house and it takes 15 minutes to get here. Told them I have a pickup. Been waiting here for about 10 minutes and they still don't have my order which means they didn't even make my food yet. Btw, my order was 4 lbs of frozen crawfish with 4 corns. read more

Claws - My food is there and they still didn't give me my food yet. - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

Fantastic restaurant, we were served by angel Megan. she was so nice to us and helped us with figuring out what to order. The clam chowder fries were also fire. Would definitely recommend coming here!! read more

Claws - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

Avoid unless you want to be taken advantage of. Ordered a 1lb of Peeled Shrimp for delivery and was only given 16 Medium Shrimp! A pound of Medium Shrimp is approximately 30-40 Shrimp! Do they think people do not know what a pound of shrimp looks like. You expect places to short you a little, but this is reficulous. This was not a one off it happened before. $18.00 for 16 Medium Shrimp is reficulous and highway robbery. Siously contemplating reporting this to the California Department of Weights and Measure. read more

My friend and I came to visit here for the second time. We got their 3 lb meal deal, sweet potato fries and calamari. Our last server was super nice. He was all smiles and we got the same server. I think his name was John (not quite sure), but service was superb. Idk why it tasted so good but their Shirley temple was amazing! They also offer alcoholic drinks. It's a spacious spot with tons of tables. Surprisingly not as busy for dinner. But it was overall good. read more

Claws - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

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Never thought about orderings a steak at the place it ended up really good. The steak was cooked to the temperature that I wanted. We also got a pound of shrimp y 1/2 pound of sausage. And a side of rice. The meal filling and satisfying read more

Claws - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

Service was good. Sauce was delicious. However, we ordered 3lbs of live crawfish. They mixed it with frozen crawfish. Be aware.

My favorite out of all the seafood boil places. Their wings are so delicious and crunchy. We prefer to do the meal deals and claws has a great one, we usually do lemon pepper fries, baguette, side of rice, shrimp, crawfish and green mussels. King crab legs when we want to splurge. The service is pretty on point, never really had issues. My only issue is that they close too early especially with the bar they have there. Overall 10/10 I enjoy everytime. read more

Claws - Wings - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

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My family and I have been coming for years now. This spot NEVER disappoints me. Food is bomb, the service is amazing and being able to watch the games on the many TV's is great. Such a vibe here! And every worker is kind and friendly. You must try! I will definitely be back. read more

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It's been a minute since we've been back here. The waits got untenable pre-COVID and in the intervening years, other places have opened up. To be fair, Claws taste and quality of their food is really ranked up there and we probably didn't eat as much of this cuisine when we stopped coming. Anyhoo, we were here again recently for a birthday dinner (8 of us). Good news, bad news - there is no longer a wait on Saturday nights. The place was at least half empty the night we came and I was a little concerned. Anyway, we got to ordering and got 4 different bags of seafood plus a bunch of sides. The fried okra was and always will be my favorite side. The seafood came and it was as I remembered. Yum! The spice levels were on point and the garlickyness was guaranteed to linger on our fingertips for at least the next week. Seafood was cooked nicely and tasted fresh. No complaints! Our interaction with the server when we ordered was somewhat awkward, bordering on frustrating. For whatever reason, he was insistent that our potatoes/corns/sausages went into specific bags he designated and after trying correct him, we just let it go and had him do his thing. (Like, why did the king crab leg bag - which had to be separated according to him - have to have the corn and potatoes?). It wasn't as simple as "Bag 1 has 2lbs shrimp, 3 corns, 3 potatoes, 1/2 lb sausages and Bag 2 has blah blah blah. He was sweet but confusing/confused. That being said, we upended not one but two drinks that evening and the team there were ON POINT when they ran over and replaced the butcher paper on our table both times and mopped up the area under us in a fashion that would rival a Nascar pit crew. At the end of the meal, we were all rubbing our bellies with satisfaction. Glad to have revisited and will make it a note to come back again. Cheers! read more

The Food so good the Trio mix sauce in the shrimp so yummy & i love The Garlic cilantro rice & Cajun fries so bomb !! also Love that its Never Packed always Nice and quiet. definitely recommend! read more

Claws - bomb shrimp - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

We came around 1:00pm and it was empty! The frog legs were BOMB! And the shrimp pasta was on point! Service was good as well. If you like a good place with TV, Bar, and Seafood, this is a place to try! read more

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Can't ever say no to seafood... especially cajun seafood. Happened to be in the area for an event & this was close by. Early dinner, we got seated right away. It was crawfish season, so by default... the hubs got their live crawfish cannon ball medium. He usually scoops the sauce & mixes it with his rice. Yummm. On this rare occassion, I was too lazy to peel shrimp & opted for the peeled ones already. Got it cannon ball mild & added some sausages in as well. Can't forget the cajun fries. Good service. Delicious food. Slightly different & less bold flavors than Boiling Crab & Kickin Crab but still good enough. read more

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Eat literally anywhere else besides here. the service is terrible and the food is sub par at best. everything is market price (which is fine) except the market price isnt listed anywhere. when we asked the server what the market prices today were today and he explained to us what market prices are instead. We end up ordering a boil in bag with shrimp and crab. when it comes out, they present us with the food and 1 pair of kitchen shears to share between us as utensils. we ask for forks and crab utensils so we can eat our food and they being back a plastic fork and tell us to use the scissors to crack the crab and that they don't keep crab utensils anymore because "people kept stealing them". insane that a restaurant called CLAWS doesnt have any way for you to ... crack into the crab claws. We finally ask to speak to a manager because the scissors are too big to get into the small pieces of crab legs, and she just told us that they weren't. When we complained about the plastic forks, she said they had real ones "if we just asked". Apparently at a full service, sit down restaurant you have to specify that you want real silverware for your meal instead of disposable plastic ones. Manager was no help, and tried to make it seem like our fault for not asking for metal forks specifically. At the end of the day, i wasn't even able to eat my meal because they don't have the proper utensils and the unfriendly staff made this and overall extremely unpleasant experience. TLDR; go somewhere else. there are plenty of places in the area that do seafood bag boils for much better and much cheaper. read more

Claws - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

Better than boiling Crab , shrimps are fresh. Love their fried okra and fries Recommend this restaurant. Servers are very friendly ,however they need to keep their bathroom clean all the tim read more

This was my first time coming here. It was my birthday yesterday, so I wanted to have seafood boils. This seafood boils is delicious, lots of heat, and flavor. I love their Cajun fries a lot. They were out of clams yesterday. The service is really fast & servers are nice and friendly. The restaurant is nice, clean, and very spacious. I would definitely come back here again. read more

Claws - Shrimp, mussels, crawfish - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

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Came here around 6:45 on a Saturday night...you'd think they'd be packed since it's prime dinner time but the restaurant was only half full. We were seated after 10 minutes. Ordered 2 lbs of head on shrimp with their mild cannon ball sauce (Cajun, lemon pepper, and garlic butter combined), Cajun fries, and garlic noodles. The shrimp were cooked well and were ginormous. Portion of garlic noodles was a little skimpy for $9 but had good flavor. We asked for a side of ranch for the fries and were surprised by a $0.75 charge on the bill...not a huge deal, but I wish they would've mentioned the extra charge. 5 stars for the food, 3 stars for their service. The servers either wouldn't check on us at all, or 3 servers would come check on us within minutes of one another. My boyfriend had to get up and flag a server down multiple times. Have a full bar & tons of TVs up with various games playing so you have entertainment if you're not feeling chatty :) read more

Claws - The aftermath - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

Very disappointed with this spot not much flavor & on top of that our waiter Simon was so sassy and rude

3.5 stars. We tried Claws many years ago, and didn't remember it being too great, so decided to give another try. Was better this time than the last time from what we remember. We scanned the QR code for the menu. For those who like to see the prices of everything and not surprised when the check comes, the online menu does not show the market prices for some of the seafood, and from where we were sitting, I didn't see anything on the walls anywhere with current prices. We started off with the Garlic Fries and Ceviche Oysters. The Garlic Fries were great, and the Ceviche Oysters were okay. We ordered a dozen, and forced ourselves to finish it all. We decided to try the Seafood Pasta, which everyone liked. And for the seafood boil, we decided on crawfish, clams, and snow crab clusters in the Cannon Ball sauce with Fire in the Hole spice level. We had to ask the difference between the snow crab cluster and snow crab segments. Snow crab cluster is the crab legs you'd normally get at restaurants, and the snow crab segments are the leg pieces that broke apart during shipment. Seafood in the boil was good, and the sauce was good, but not great; it was a bit salty. But the spice level for Fire in the Hole was good. We get the spiciest level everywhere we go, and not many places even have it that spicy at their highest level. read more

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Low stars because I definitely put a clam in my mouth that had gone bad- tasted sour and rotten, and unfortunately because it was the same sauce for everything, it was mixed up in the rest of the food. Before that, the food was just okay anyway, I'll probably just go to Boiling Crab next time. The price was pretty similar as well. The only good thing was that there was no wait time, but I suppose there might be a reason for that. read more

Everything about this place was fantastic. The shrimp are off the hook ! Tip: Always ask for the already been peeled shrimp. The price difference is negligible and it just makes everything a lot easier. Next get the half loaf of bread to dip in the delicious shrimp sauces. read more

This place beats boiling crab. We originally wanted to go to BC but the wait was crazy so we decided to venture out and try this place. There was no line and we got seated immediately on a Friday night. I loved how there's combo deals here. We got the garlic fries and it was sooo good. We had to order another one. The jambalaya was ok. Shrimp and crawfish were good and big!!! read more

Fast service, this place has the best fish and chips I have ever had! Recommend! The server was nice and restaurant is clean!

Original was deleted before so let me edit out the swear words some: Alright people, this one gonna sting a little cause I loved CLAWS before it burned down. On my last visit, I ordered some shrimp and corn. They took so long on the corn that our whole table finished eating. I told the waiter that if they had not started cooking then they can just cancel it. He came back several minutes later stating that it was almost out. Okay, no worries... What they bring out was not what we ordered, this was some vomit mess of an elote plate, when we had just ordered corn on the cob. I politely tell the waiter that that's not what we ordered, he walks over and speaks to his manager, who then approaches our table. This chad mofo, built like a roblox character, comes up to our table and asks if our waiter clarified about which corn we ordered. He did not. However, I didn't think it was a big deal, and not wanting to get the waiter in trouble, lied and said he had specified. This manager tried us, stating, "Oh, because he asked you, we cannot take it off the bill." My table was dumbfounded, as these plates were not $1.50 as the cob, but $8 a plate! We ordered 3 of these! This jabroni took a tone and was really saying that there was nothing he do. I had to take a minute and be like "hold on" duck this, your waiter actually didn't clarify, I was just trying to be nice and not get them in trouble. He then started challenging me saying sh*t like, "Why did you lie then??" The balls on this guy. I know the customer is not always right, but damn! All this for a ducking misunderstanding on their part?!? We went back and forth for several minutes, where we continually refused to take it, stating we were full, didn't order it, didn't want it. He kept saying that he could make it "to go" and tried to explain that it's "like an elote, a delicacy" Duck no dude, just stop! I know wtf an elote is. We went back and forth for literally 5 minutes, until he finally gave up and sent the poor waiter to give us the correct check, while he grumbled in the back. Sh*t, the whole thing was embarrassing. His Kronk/Emperors New Groove lookin' ahh needs to be fired. Maybe with the free time he won't skip leg day. Can't even come back here, I loved this place too. Duck. read more

Claws - Bar area - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Garden Grove, California

As a seafood boil enthusiast, this is by far the worst seafood I've ever had. If I could give 0 stars, I would. I got the half dozen oysters in ice, and it tasted absolutely awful. The "under the sea" boil bag had clams that tasted raw and had an odd texture. Never have I ever felt nauseous or sick from seafood boils/food, but I sure did with this restaurant. Do not recommend. Service was great though. read more