We have been coming here for at least 20+ years. Our 'go to' place when craving crabs. Eugene, Krista & the rest of the staff are truly one of a kind. Always a smiling face & laughter to be had. If you like a good, really tasty crab bisque....look no further. They usually have a special drink flight for holidays/special occasions. I had the Phillies drink flight for opening day. Yummy Ambiance is exactly as you would expect for an establishment that serves crabs/seafood as well as pasta, wings, etc. read more

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Imprompt dinner suggested by the boyfriend by multiple people since we have been here in DE. I'm sad we haven't been here earlier, as Eugene at the bar was a great host taking care of our many needs for food and drinks. We started with a Long Island Flight with four different drinks of varying taste from sour to sweet to waking me up for the delicious food coming out next. We did a half and half snow crab and dungeness crab with fries soaked in garlic butter. Did we take a photo, nope we dove in too fast. The last order was the cream of crab soup which was flavorful, creamy and savory for us while the fish and chips changed up our palate but the winner in my boyfriend's book was the crab pretzel. Regardless we will be back for more!! read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Long island flight on a friday! - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

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The food here is TO DIE FOR. We were between here and another place and I'm so glad we picked this spot. First off, excellent service. Our server, Krista, was so sweet and friendly and wow did the food come out fast. Secondly, everything was TERRIFIC. We started with the crab bisque and it was so tasty and well made. Everything was good but it was maaaaybe my favorite? Idk. Then, we had the crab cakes entree. Holy wow those crab cakes are perfect. They have some spices in them and just a wonderful, delectable flavor. As a side, we got the veggies and the corn on the cob, which made me super happy. They also offer drink flights - cocktail flights, beer flights, etc. I got the cocktail flight and it was fun to try the different kinds. Excellent spot - add it to your list. read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

Had take out, very good food and prices Highly recommend. Will try going inside next time.

the best wings I have ever had.. the crabs and fried shrimp is amazing as well.. customer service everything was perfect

Never tasted their menu.. nor watching staff work or cleanliness. I cannot offered anymore statements to our citizens. Look at other diners postings read more

My husband and I came here on a whim. We didn't reserve crabs, so we ordered from menu. Our server (female waitress with glass), was extremely rude. My husband soup was gritty, she said to get another soup he would be charged for two soups. She sat at one table for 14 minutes talking. She bought our food out, and mine food was cold. She debated that my plate was hot, and my food was. I ask that she heat it up. She stormed off, and another person identifying themselves as the manager bought my plate back. I expressed my experience as unpleasant and wouldn't return. She stood there and expressed the waitress reasoning and talked more. I lost my appetite, but, I walked away with the mindset that I would try this place again. I wouldn't recommend it, until my experience is a positive one. read more

If you want crabs don't walk run to this place! Their options for the different ways you want your crabs is awesome. The special in whole crabs to already sautéed to crab legs etc. Me and my partner always sit at the bar and the bartender is awesome cause he's so personable and friendly! The place is very rustic and old school it's very cool cause of all the Eagles decor which my partner loves! Highly recommend for dine in and take for crabs and other seafood! read more

I love it here! Of course it's a old crab house but don't be discouraged by that the crabs are good! I love the garlic crabs I get them at least 1 a week! The owner is the bomb!!! Always coming around to check on you and if you have any problems she gets it handled!! read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Garlic Crabs - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

We chose to celebrate our soul sister's birthday here and we could not have chosen a better place for a crab lover!! First and foremost...Krista was amazing with food & drink suggestions and great customer service. Definitely cannot forget the boomerang lessons We tried the fried shrimp, wings, fries and the crab bisque all were very good. We also ordered the colossal and jumbo blue crabs and they did not disappoint!! All were nicely seasoned full of delicious sweet crab meat. Definitely returning and spreading the word!! read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Jumbo crabs - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

And here with a party of 8. Was told they only accept reservations for parties of 10 or more. We were immediately greeted and offered beverages. They have a full bar and the drinks were nice and strong. The service was good, with our server frequently checking on us and making sure we had what we needed. Well someone in our party ordered the medium blue crabs which were tasty and a decent size. They dump them in front of you, put a trash can next to you, and let you go to town. The rest of us ordered the land and sea, The 2 Special (double snow crab legs), garlic snow crab legs, crab cake and the pretzel with crabmeat on it. Everything was tasty and had flavor to it. Everyone complimented there meals although a bit apprehensive when they 1st walked in because it's a hole in the wall and we can off of yelp reviews. Our guest who ordered the blue crabs said they were very good and was happy about the size of the medium ones. read more

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Overall service was excellent. The food was subpar at best. Everything was so dry and salty. The service was great the food not so great. read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Crab legs dry and Mussels super dry. - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

I came here to order some crabs to go based on co workers recommendations. I had heard of Lestardos before but this was my first time here. The signs in the vestibule direct you which way to go if you're eating in or taking out. I wound up in the bar area which was small, narrow and completely full It was to be expected because it was about ten minutes til kick off for the Eagles v Bears wildcard game. I made my way down to the end of the bar and I don't know if it was the fact that I was wearing a blue fur coat and not an Eagles jersey but everyone stared at me as I walked through. I found myself at an empty bar stool but could not sit there because it was "reserved" for one of the employees. That was a first for me. My order was quickly taken and paid for but after that I waited in the cramped space for half an hour. I was even scolded at one point by another employee for being in the way. Judging from the yelling and comraderie of the people there, they seem to be a tight knit crew of regulars. Rarely do I feel out of place but here I felt very much so. I texted my co workers during my wait and was told it was a different experience dining in. The dining room is separated from the bar by a large partition but I could see through it and it was filled with people who looked happy. I also saw large platters of shrimp go by that looked fantastic. I would have added that to my order but at that point I couldn't wait to just leave. I had ordered a half dozen number ones in garlic butter. I was surprised to see when I got home way more than that in my container. They were cleaned and split completely in half and tasty. I haven't had garlic crabs like that since Hard Rock Cafe's heyday in downtown Philly in the 90's. I plan to come back with friends and dine in, appropriately dressed of course ( no crab cracking in my blue fur lol ) hopefully I will feel more at home. read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

I'm never disappointed with the food or the drinks. It can get a little loud but it's still a pleasant place to be.

We absolutely love Lestardo's. Family owned local bar/seafood joint. No frills whatsoever. Husband wife and kids make up the staff, who can be seen running around slinging crabs and drinks. Their soups are epic as is their pasta dishes. The chili garlic crab sauce that you'll see all over their menu is so so good. Put it on everything. Down to earth and really awesome overall. read more

Super impressed!! Had colossal crabs which were amazing & super sweet!!! Best crabs I've had all year. Our waitress, Teresa, was sooo nice and helpful. Best customer service we've received in a long time. Plan on telling our friends & coming back with a group of people.!! The bartender was awesome as well. Great staff!! read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Blue crab - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

If you know, you know. If you don't know, go find out. Food, spectacular. Be sure to ask about that days signature crab dip (changes frequently). This place has the best staff. Truly family (and some friends) owned and operated and you get taken care of. Know that the ticket times in the kitchen can sometimes be long on busy nights, but also know you're not getting microwaved food. Made fresh and the taste goes to show. Between the locals and the juke box this place is one of my all time favorites to hang out. Come hungry. read more

Service was excellent! I'd give 5 stars for friendliness and attentive wait staff. We had the mixed medium and large crabs in garlic sauce and the king crab legs in cajun garlic. They are good. But I feel they need to serve the crab with bread so we can dip in the crab juice. Overall it's okay. read more

Lestardo's Crab House - King crab legs in cajun garlic sauce comes with fries on the side - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

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Best garlic crabs I've been coming here since I was 7 years old I'm now 50 food is delicious

This is an average crab house compared to the one we went in Maryland. However they make a great Cajun style flounder! I loved my flounder and I ate it all! They seasoned this good! But I thought the one that Hubby ordered for himself was mediocre, the fried oyster sandwich. I wouldn't recommend this but my flounder is highly recommended! We also ordered the salad as appetizer. The salad had a lot of grated cheese. Hubby liked it but I didn't. Also, I tried the crab soup and that was the best for Hubby! We had a good service and dinner. read more

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I had to give it one star. I got the Pick 2 with little neck clams and crab with garlic sauce that I had to pay extra money for... the food came out hot and the crab cluster seemed to be fine but half of the clams did not pop open when they were boiled. Anyone that eats shellfish KNOWS that is a HUGE NO NO!! All shellfish when boiled/cooked should pop open. Otherwise it's no good. The garlic sauce was genuine garlic but it was wayyyyy too much garlic. There was so much garlic that it looked like hundreds of dots on everything. I had a weird after taste in mouth that I could not get rid of when I left for work. I had to eat stuff to get rid of the after taste. Then later when I mentioned the restaurant to co-workers they told me the issues with the restaurant. It explained a lot of my questions that I had when I visited the restaurant. I can't go back because it wasn't satisfying. read more

Ended up stopping here completely on a whim tonight but will definitely be making another trip soon! While the bar was busy, we were able to secure a table for 2 with no wait. Our waitress was very attentive and stopped by often to check to see if we needed anything. They were out of large steamed crabs but the medium did not disappoint! Cooked to order, the crabs came out absolutely STEAMING hot, perfectly seasoned, felt heavy and not watery and we enjoyed every last bite!! Crab bisque initially seemed to be a little heavy on the sherry but it was a perfect creamy blend with no fillers and lots of crabmeat all the way through. No additional salt, pepper, Old Bay or crackers were necessary to enhance the flavor. Well done French fries were cooked to perfection and surely hit the spot being perfectly cooked and crispy- exactly as we had hoped when we ordered. Overall, the atmosphere gave off a relaxed, family owned and operated "hometown" vibe. There were several tvs showing sports and we were able to enjoy a good variety of music that was playing at a volume where it could be heard without being overbearing or where you felt like you had to shout across the room. read more

Good food, service and atmosphere!!!!! I absolutely loved the crabs here... ALWAYS FRESH!!!!!!

On a road trip and decided to stop and get some blue crabs. We ordered the female blue crabs,shrimp,and mussels and I also got a dozen more to go. The crabs were absolutely delicious and a great price. Service was also excellent. Definitely try this place if your craving steam blue crabs. They were meaty and juicy! read more

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I like this place because it's open late on the weekdays. I was looking for some seafood and most other places close hours earlier. Great place to watch football games or have a drink at the bar. There are a handful of televisions throughout allowing you to see a screen from any seat you pick. Staff was very friendly. Many people had ordered wings and raved about them. Me, I was here for my first authentic crab cracking/eating adventure. I can definitely tell why some people feel this is therapeutic. If you come on Thursdays they clean them for free. Glad I did because I would have failed miserably on the cleaning. The crab chowder was excellent. I didn't care for the fried clams I got because it was more fried breeding than meat. Crabs were a good size for a good price. read more

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Wow! Tag line of this place is "never judge a book by it's cover" So my coworkers and I all travel for work week in and week out...we always are looking for good places to eat and decided to look for a place for seafood tonight. Looking around at places, we found Lestardo's. we pull up in the parking lot and it we were a bit leary...definitely a hole in the wall look. BUT.... We walk in, the place had quite a few full tables of people with beautiful crab stacked high on the tables. Very simple, unassuming dining room. A quick run through the menu revealed a lot of wonderful seafood options but the real star of the show was the crab offerings...you pick the size of crab you want and they give you the market price for a dozen. Very good deal for the money! We got half a dozen with the most delicious roasted garlic butter ever, and the other 6 were Old Bay seasoned. The crab tasted fresh and a chat with our waitress Nicole spoke to how they are flown i fresh daily. Absolutely fantastic food if you are a seafood lover. Some of the best crab I have had ever. Definitely added to my favorites list of a place I want to revisit again! And to top it off, it is a family run business. Hats off, Lestardo's! This is a diamond in the rough out there. read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

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Great food and service. We were in town for a conference and found this restaurant by chance.

Wow... wasn't expecting this when we did a google search of seafood restaurants near New Castle. Glad we did!! Pros: very reasonably priced and super large portions. Let me start by saying i can go here and just eat an extra large bowl of the crab soup and be satisfied but we didn't stop there. Also ordered the sautéed shrimp for the table which were tasty as well. My stuffed lobster tails were good but i didn't really like the crab stuffing. Tasted a little stale to me but my guests extra large king crabs were perfectly seasoned. Beer was super cold and the staff was extremely nice. Cons: not fancy at all so don't expect pretty glasses and nice utensils. Lol But you're not going to please your eyes anyway... but your belly will be happy!! read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

Great place. We are new to the area and we're looking for a good Crab place....FOUND IT !! read more

I enjoy this place a great deal. Always friendly wait staff. I always get the sautéed garlic crabs. This past time I got the sautéed garlic Cajun crabs however, I decided I prefer just garlic. Next time I'm going to order some spicy garlic wings. I love garlic the more the better and this place doesn't skimp with the garlic in their dishes. Place is rustic/outdated and could use some updating and a decent deep cleaning. But it is a crab house so it's to be expected....but that's why I took away a star. Bathrooms needed attention. Dirty bathrooms in a restaurant always wig me out. Seems to have a family vibe as each time I went the servers/workers seems to have their family or close friends in there too. Which is nice. Hey, can I be apart of the family and come eat crabs year around too? Discounted of course hahaha read more

Lestardo's Crab House - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

Very good crabs. The environment is great after work. I will definately make this one of my go to places. Next time I will order more crabs cause I was craving them an hour after I got home. read more

I love this place. Great good fun and ambiance. Customer service is amazing and the environment is fun

The restaurant can not measure the size of the crab based on a consistent standard, as these two pieces showed above are all 'Jumbo' size crab while the size difference is so obvious. The upper one is from the old bay flavor dozen I ordered, which I believe is a normal jumbo size one, while the bottom one from the Cajun flavor dozen I believe is not (as shown in the photo, the difference is obvious). My friend and I visited the restaurant together, and she ordered half a dozen medium size crab, and I order have a dozen jumbo size crab. The crab price based on the size (Jumbo $70 a dozen, large $60 a dozen, medium $50 a dozen). When the crabs arrived to our table, I noticed all of my 6 jumbo crabs are even smaller than my friend's medium crabs, so I asked my waitress to check with the kitchen whether she gave us the wrong size, but she denied immediately without checking with the kitchen and pointed me to the manager( a college age young girl). She came to our table after about 10mins, then started with the speech that they would never make any mistake with the size, the ones I got is for sure jumbo size ones. Then, I asked if that's the case why my friend's medium ones are all larger than my jumbo ones, she said occasionally jumbos are smaller than medium. WHAT? I responded that firstly I couldn't agree this is an occasional thing as all my 6 jumbo crabs are smaller than medium. Secondly, while I paid $20 more for the jumbo compared to the medium, I should rely on luck to get the crabs actually larger than medium ones? Don't they have a standard measurement for the size? SUDDENLY, the manager started to find excuse by saying maybe the kitchen gave my friend the Large size instead of Medium by mistake, so you feel your Jumbo crabs are smaller than the Large size. WHAT? While I complained that they served me the wrong smaller size, she said they would never made a mistake, but then she said my friend was given large size instead of medium by mistake? The only compensation she offered finally is to give me 20% for the crabs, ($70*0.8=$56) still more expensive than the medium ones $50 while I got the ones even smaller than medium and accused me as a unreasonable customer... I then ordered another 3 jumbo old bay crabs as I wanted to see this time what size they would actually give me, then I got the right size this time, as shown in the first photo, the upper larger one. Then I showed the obvious difference to the manager, she still insisted they are all jumbo size ones.... CAN'T Believe it! I have been a loyal customer to this restaurant for more than 5 years, really disappointed when I was treated like this. Ruined my whole night and the argument we had scared my friend's little baby causing him cried. Feel so sorry for the baby... read more

Lestardo's Crab House - These two pieces showed above are all 'Jumbo' size crab while the bottom one does not qualify as a Jumbo. - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

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pretty good handling of pandemic. Amazing crab legs... you don't even need to get them seasoned and they're still soooooo good. We'll definitely be eating here more often. read more

Wonderful & Welcoming service! You feel like family! Great food! Great hang out spot, go watch the game with friends, meet new friends, or a family get together! Cant help but be happy here! read more

We were very optimistic going in but left disappointed. As first time customers we did not know reservations were needed but were told we could be seated. We were sat at a table and nobody even bothered to bring water or take a drink order for probably 45 minutes. When someone finally took our order we waited probably another 30 minutes for the appetizers then 15 minutes more for our entrees. In all we spent just under two hours at the restaurant. Regarding the food... the queso dip and chips were pretty good, the crab bisque was outstanding. Unfortunately, our entrees were terrible. My daughter's shrimp platter had five very small shrimp and we just stared at it in disbelief. My crab cakes looked liked the kind of packaged crab cakes you find in the grocery store but darker and drier and tasted/looked like they were made only from claw meat. Honestly, they were probably the worst crab cakes I have ever had. I felt like I had just been ripped off for the price of the platters after I paid the $60+ bill (inc. tip). The only thing I will say is that most customers were ordering whole crabs and seemed to be enjoying them, so perhaps that is what they do best. But we don't eat crabs like that so probably will not be going back. read more

I so wanted to give this restaurant a 5 . The staff is very friendly and accommodating. BUT , the whole idea of a crab house is good crabs right? Well, they are pricey but I don't mind if I'm going to get heavy meaty crabs. What I got was blue crabs with very little meat. I got them to go so I was too far away to return them. If I'm ever in that area again I'll give them another try but I won't order the blue crabs. read more

Lestardo's Crab House - a hand holding a crab - Seafood Near Me - New Castle, Delaware

Lestardo's Crab House never disappoints! Some of the best crabs on the east coast and great food. Love the small town feel, but don't let that the size fool you; this crab house packs a wallop of flavor, deliciousness and excitement. Whether you are seeking crabs, fried seafood or great mix drinks---or an atmosphere that makes you feel like "we have been friends forever," Lestardo's is your spot. If you are passing through Delaware you must stop in and indulge yourself. We visited on April 1st and our server, Christi was "on it!" She greeted us with a smile, served our food hot and kept our glasses filled with beverages. The place was extremely busy and she made us feel like we were her only customer. Stop in and watch Christi work the room! read more

Good food. Good service. Good prices. We ordered the crab pretzel for appetizer, 3 crab sandwich meals, and steamed shrimp. Yum, yum, yum!! Kind of a dive bar but I will be coming back! read more

Decided to try this place based on Yelp review. Result : awesome !!! It's a hidden place, without any big sign or direction. The food is great and They have daily special. Sunday is the shrimps day. 30 shrimps For $14.99 and can be cooked with different options: deep fry, scampi, buffalo or steamed. Please please try the buffalo sauce shrimps, let me know if you are not hooked immediately. The taste is so rich and flavorful. I ordered the large size crabs and it's great. I will definitely come again and only 1.5 hour from NJ. read more

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