Gave this place another go after a few years. Last time I was pregnant and the house sauce was no consistent. I went back the flavor of the house sauce was pretty decent and more butter than seasoning. It wasn't horrible and it hit the spot. Place is not overly busy or crowded. For a $30 dollar bag it wasn't too bad. Will return when craving seafood locally read more

Crab Catcher - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Manchester, Connecticut

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Walked in to the waiting area and was excited because the restaurant was almost completely empty, so things would be quick. Unfortunately, the host said it would be 15 to 20 minutes because the kitchen was "messed up and having problems." We asked if we could be seated so we could order some drinks, but we were told no because there was someone else waiting to be seated before us. They said it would complicate things, so we left and went somewhere else. It really perplexes me how places have no understanding of customer service and customer satisfaction. If I was the host or manager, I would have encouraged a guest to sit so they would hopefully order some drinks while waiting, and then I would give them some free chips and salsa for the delay. That would make a good impression, but instead they lost an order, and probably a customer who won't be back. read more

we walked in, music was super loud to where the cashier couldn't even hear our correct order, we ordered chicken patties and not only it was burnt,it was the driest and worst patty I've ever had in the 23 years read more

I will say I actually have been coming here for a while to dine out with family, friends without any problems whatsoever but recently when I went in one day. I could sense the potents smell of smoke and I will say that I've never smoked in my life since the smell bothers me so much that when I was sitting I couldn't stand the smell so I just up, and left without a thought of going back. I've never had this experience of the stench of smoke from the restaurant. read more

Pleasantly surprised, clam chowder was excellent, my combination of snow, crab, shrimp, lobster, and garlic butter was delicious! Very pleased with this restaurant! My husband and I will return again to try other menu items! 4.5/5 reasonably priced! read more

We've been back every several weeks for consistently delicious seafood. Calamari with peppers is lightly battered and very satisfying. Make your own steam bag combos have a variety of options to please any seafood lover. They even accommodate requests for sauce on the side if you prefer to dunk and keep your fingers relatively clean(they do provided gloves and bibs). Friendly and attentive staff that always make us feel welcomed. If you're adventurous, try the head on shrimp, plump and bursting with flavor (if you choose your seasoning in the bag). Cooked to perfection each and every time. read more

Crab Catcher - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Manchester, Connecticut

The food is very good the crab is inspecable I love it here you should go to try this place out The service is really good and fancy And it is. Very fancy and cool looking read more

Had lunch here on a Wednesday. Huge venue with tons of seating but we were the only ones there between 12:00 and 12:45. My wife had the New England clam chowder and I had the fried oyster basket with sweet potato fries. The chowder was quite good. Fresh and creamy with a decent amount of clams. The fried oysters were heavily breaded. The breading turned them into a bunch of uniform little footballs. Didn't like them enough to even finish them. The sweet potato fries were waffle cut and very good. So we may return and try some other items if we happen to be in the area but it's not a place we would go out of our way for. read more

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Enjoyed the boil bag and calamari! First time customer. Glad I Googled and found it. Food was ready for pick up when I arrived. The young lady at the register was polite. read more

Great pile of delicious seafood, tasty garlicky sauce, and very nice service. Many tables, booths to choose from. Clean and friendly atmosphere. read more

This place is in a complex with other stores. It's huge and has a fun family theme but for a Friday night it was completely dead. I ordered myself a scorpion bowl (don't judge folks), my husband got a sea hag beer and my daughter had a virgin pina colada she said taste like the Caribbean. I had to have a sip after that comment. It was pretty darn tasty. As was my scorpion bowl. The food was pretty delicious quite honestly. From there the service could have been a bit better. I feel we where forgotten about. The whole thing was a couple hours long. It was really a bit too long for us. read more

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Went for the first time for my birthday. The crawfish did not taste or look as they should, they were inedible. The crab lacked meat and t was soft as if it had been frozen for quite sone time. Service was terrible read more

Our waitress of the night was Kamilla, who did an amazing job throughout the night! She was very sweet & very knowledgeable about the menu! She pointed us to the best drinks & even told us about the different sauces! The food was fresh & tasty! Cooked to perfection! I had the "Special Sauce" and a huge plus for me was picking the spice level to my seafood bag! I would definitely return! Thank you Kamilla. read more

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I have visited this establishment twice now and both times I left completely satisfied. Each time, I had a seafood bag with crawfish with either lobster and crablegs or blue crab and shrimp. All seafood is cooked perfectly. My friend let me try her sausage and that was great as well. The drinks are perfect, especially the sangria and I just couldn't be happier! Will be coming here regularly.. if my wallet allows :) read more

Went for a quick lunch at the crab catcher first impression of the restaurant was pretty positive, very spacious restaurant, very clean. They do a temperature check before sitting you down. The servers were very nice and polite. Started with the chicken wings appetizer choosed the Cajun season. I love the wings you have a choice of choosing it breaded or unbreaded, I got the unbreaded and came out crispy and toasty. For the main meal I got the combo B, with Cajun flavor (hot) wasn't that spicy like how I wanted it to be, the only down side is that it's way too salty for my liking. Overall a solid 4 star, I'd say to give it a go if you're into seafood read more

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Location is in the Stop & Shop plaza in Manchester. Next door to Once Upon a Child. Plenty of parking. They take temperature upon arrival. The service is extremely slow.. took 1/2hr for a waiter to come by and take our order and that's only because we went looking for one. read more

Crab Catcher - Menú - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Manchester, Connecticut

The food is awesome. The service is pretty good and the ambience is perfect. It's a large amount of seats. The place is never crowded. The food is well seasoned definitely worth trying and the price is awesome. read more

This food was amazing!!! I got cajun sauce mild and it was perfect for me. (I dont like really spicy food) My boyfriend got cajun hot and he said he wished he got X hot. (He LOVES spicy) The service was not great but there was only 2 people working, the food certainly makes up for it. The restaurant as a whole is very nicely decorated. The murals painted on the walls are beads. I will definitely be returning they have one of the best seafood boils i've tasted!! read more

Crab Catcher - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Manchester, Connecticut

I usually don't like fish but I enjoyed it here. The family tried everything from the lobster boil to the tilapia and fries. The food came out very hot and was tasty. Server was polite and charming. The order did take longer than it should have considering we were a party of six and there was only one other couple there. Prices were very reasonable for what you get. Nice visit. A second visit is on the horizon. Give it a try. Just make sure you plan on spending time there for you food. read more

Terrible food as far as the clams go, I ordered the clams with corn and potatoes. The corn and potatoes were good but the clams were mushy and I could tell they were frozen. I decided to eat the whole lb anyways, thinking that it'd be fine. I spent the whole night with terrible diarrhea and also threw up multiple times. HIGHLY unrecommended. read more

If you're craving seafood in the center of CT I doubt there's many other places to go- but I didn't love their seasoning mix and next time I think I'll just source my seafood from local grocery stores over cc. read more

Shrimp is always made well, tender and easy to peel. Love the house seasoning and staff is friendly. Fried okra has perfect seasoning, really kept popping them and disappeared real quick. Haven't been disappointed with anything we've ordered. read more

Read some other reviews and I don't know what they're talking about. This place is literally so delicious. I've been twice and gotten the seafood combos with the house sauce and their sauce is incredible. Super flavorful and the seafood tastes amazing in it. Cannot recommend their food enough. Gotten takeout twice and both times it was ready in 15 minutes hot and delicious! Please support this local business!!! read more

I had so much fun for my ladies night!!! We had seafood and frozen cocktails, what more could one need?! I had a frozen mangorita and a caribbean frozen drink mmm mmm mmm!! The seafood boil was AMAAAAAZING!!! I had sausage *kielbasa*, corn, shrimp, snow crab legs and potatos. Very good....I will be back. The only downfall was the paper table cover was dirty when we arrived and all our waiter did was recovered table with another paper cover. read more

Good fresh seafood,good valve for what you get. The Cajun is the only seasoning I like, it was a bit salty this time around but once I dumped everything in a bowl and mixed it it was better. read more

We ordered delivery through Door Dash tonight for a New Year's Eve treat. We each had the lobster, shrimp & crab boil and shared a couple sides. We live pretty close so food was still at a great temperature when it arrived. We probably could have shared just one but now have some leftovers. Mine was the garlic butter & hubby had the garlic seasoning/spicy. Both had plenty of flavor & were cooked perfectly. We'll order again for sure! read more

Crab Catcher - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Manchester, Connecticut

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I went the restaurant twice, one was dine in and another one was cellphone order. Both my experiences were good! My husband loves their house special sauce which is spicy, and I can not eat spicy, so I tasted the garlic butter flavor, that is delicious. The restaurant is clean, the space is roomy that is advantageous during this year with pandemic! We will come back. read more

Had one of the best seafood meals in a long time. Started withe calamari,tasty not at all rubbery! Had a shrimp and crab legs bag so much to eat, potatoes and corn also. The service was impressive, not in our face , just the right amount of attention. I recommend Crab Catcher to anyone who loves seafood! read more

Weird place. Located in an old chinese buffet restaurant the place has no ambiance. Seafood arrives in a big plastic bag and covered in butter. You need a garbage bag outfit to protect your clothes from the mess. Service told us after ordering that kitchen was short staffed and could be up to an hour for food. 4 of us in the party and the fried clams came out within 5 min. We had to watch 1 person eat while the rest of us waited. Then the salad that was ordered came last after the 3 steamed meals came out. Next no utensils to crack the crabs and had to find a server to fetch this basic. Not going back. read more

Our first time. We loved the food. We had Cajun crab with house spices and crawfish and shrimp mussels. read more

Crab Catcher - Crab mussels shrimp - Cajun/Creole Near Me - Manchester, Connecticut

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Today was the second time I've been to this restaurant and I must say the food is delicious but their customer service needs a lot of work! The waitress Katie was nice but she made a lot of mistakes, for example she forgot to make our drinks, she messed up with a few of our orders so the food didn't come out on time, and when we were done she forgot to give us our card back. Other than that she was really nice, so it must've just been one of those days. Now my main problem is that my friend had found hair in her food! And it wasn't anyone's at the table. We let the manager know and she got really defensive and told us it wasn't anyone of theirs which I completely understand and things happen but with that being said it wasn't ours. She took the food back and then came back with the hair on a napkin and insured that it was my friends hair Bc it had a similar color. Although similar in color it had a completely different hair texture and curl pattern. Thankfully they gave her new food for the remainder that was left. But when I nicely tried to explain to the manager about how she came across to us she wasn't understanding and she was still very rude and tried to insist it was her hair! Overall food was delicious but they really need to work on how they treat PAYING customers! read more

Ordered the fried shrimp, best I've had since moving to ct very fresh not the frozen rubbery shrimp

It's a converted Chinese buffet. Still has the same owner. The server was very nice and did her best to take care of us. However she wasn't very knowledgeable about the menu. She also came back to the table to ask us what we ordered twice (write it down). They do not offer whole belly clams. Portions are very small. The raw oysters were a little on the WARM side. Pretty sure the fried oysters were frozen. They tasted more like Chinese food than anything creole. It looks like they are trying to launch a seafood restaurant, but falling pretty short. They also cover up outdated information on the menus with stickers and hand write the new information. I've always found that to be super tacky. Being a life long New Englander, I expect much better in a seafood place. There are plenty of better places to go in central CT if you want a proper seafood dinner. Good luck to them but I won't be back. Just want to say again, our server was super sweet. read more

Mushy seafood. No beer. Uncensored strip club music blaring. Don't bother. One other worst seafood dinners I've had.

Tried this place again today , I've order my food to picked up instead of donning in. When I called a lady picked up the phone and said give me a minute waited for 4 mins called back after a continuous ringing the same lady picked up sounding a bit annoyed. I placed my order and was told 20 mins , to which I am ok with . I got there and had to wait over 40 mins for my food. The waitress walked back and Forth until she came back out and I asked how long she said another 20 mins if I hadn't asked no one would've said anything . The customer service sucks here the little Asian man walking up and down here with no acknowledgment. I won't be coming back here it's so ridiculous. I tried to be very understanding because I worked I. Customer service before but atleast say something. I'm glad I didn't tip this fucking place . I am actually extremely pissed off . Everytime I tried to get the attention of the waiter he looks at me and walk away . Fuck this place . read more

Not sure if it's a new place, but it was really good. Nice an clean. I am huge on Cajun boils and this didn't disappoint.

Got delivery tonight, excited bc there's no comparable seafood place in the area. It was awesome. Crab, crawfish, lobster & shrimp were perfectly seasoned. Fried shrimp was crispy & tender. Worth the price, whole family liked it better than Joe's Crab Shack. read more

Service is terrible. Unprofessional staff answering phones and working front desk. Waited for over an hour and still couldn't get a table, another hour of waiting to get the food. When I asked for a manager the staff walked away and tried to ignore me. I would give them 0 stars if I could. Go Chosen One instead read more

Today was the first time I went in and my husband and I typically go to Chosen one. when you first walk in you notice the decor and it is extremely clean. my husband ordered wings and Cajun fries for an appetizer and a lb of hot snow crab legs. Although old bay isn't an option as one of the dry run seasoning, our server accommodated his order to his liking. I got a bowl of clam chowder and the E combo which was a lobster tail, a 1/2 lb of shrimp and a 1/2 lb of snow crab legs which I ordered to be medium hot garlic butter seasoning. The wings were fried perfectly and their dipping sauces are very tasty. The fries were fried to perfection as well and they weren't salty or greasy. The only complaint that I have is the soup. When you go to a seafood redtuarant you expect a hearty homemade soup and my soup was like warm and watered almost like canned soup. It didn't spoil my meal but i would love to see a different recipe Put in place. The food came out at a decent time. The main course was to die for. The crab legs had a lot of meat. The bag was perfectly seasoned. Over all between the food, the service, and the cleanliness of the restaurant I was extremely impressed and didn't expect it. I order tiramisu for dessert and it was so moist and delicious. This is now my husband and I place to go for seafood dining. The best part about it is for everything we got we only spent $100. If you ask me we definitely got a bargain. it is a must to attend! I was so impressed by everything I felt it was necessary to write a good review and now I will be recommending this place to everyone. Thank you! read more