It's October 5th and most of the local fresh seafood shops are closed. We spied Ocean View still open. Not a HUGE selection, but again, it's off season. Two pounds of 16-20 shrimp, steamed and highly seasoned, with some house made cocktail sauce for $40? Yes, please. Thank you for being open!! read more

Ocean View Seafood - Seafood Markets Near Me - Ocean View, Delaware

This place is terrible. Ordered a dozen XL crabs for $75 and I'd say most were smaller than 5 inches. Several were completely empty, several didn't have claws and they included several female crabs (which is illegal). read more

Ocean View Seafood - Their "XL" crabs, what a joke - Seafood Markets Near Me - Ocean View, Delaware

Worst crab cake ever. Couldn't even eat it. Seriously like a pound of salt. Owners should be forced to eat their own food. When I called to tell them, she hung up on me. Don't waste your money here. Lots of great crab cakes around. Go to Matt's Fish Camp. Will never go there again. read more

Got crabs here for the first time Tuesday. BEST crabs ever! The customer service was outstanding as well. Had a minor issue with order and they couldn't do enough for us. Did I mention they are actually closed Tuesday and came in just to fill our order. I will certainly be a regular now. Many many thanks read more

Decent crabs, good price but very squirlly operation. Very unorganized, never answer the phone, never on time etc....

Jennifer is awesome! Support this local fish market. It's 17 degrees. 13 inches of snow in bethany! And she delivered my fish order to my house. She takes great pride in her fish. And don't forget to try the broiled crab cakes. They are to die for!!!!! read more

Stopped by Oceanview seafood today! Best fish place in town Jennifer and Mary Lou we're putting out some beautiful oysters shrimp and of course tuna and salmon looked delicious. Decided to pick salmon up and make my famous salmon cakes. They rock with the best ingredients in town! read more

Ocean View Seafood - Seafood Markets Near Me - Ocean View, Delaware

Went there July 3rd and got a half bushel of L-XL crabs. They were one of the few places that had any crabs that day. The crabs were not ready on time, but they were excellent flavor and good and heavy. I also got some fried oysters which were excellent. The place needs to get more organized with record keeping and planning but the people were nice and food was great. read more

We have gone here for three years and it has progressively declined in service. You don't expect much in a basic goods exchange, I ask for a fish you have it or you don't. We have waited in previous attempts to purchase for the owner to come in to unlock a freezer so we could get snow crab legs, we have waited and been patient. I like to support small business, and especially one in a community like Oceanview. What is unacceptable is to keep people waiting for over 45 mins telling us you have crab legs or lobster tails in the back, going back, coming up front telling us they are working on it, but are doing inventory on Memorial Day weekend. Then taking other orders, forgetting about us, then having to ask status, going to the back room again only to come back and indicate a quantity change or you no longer have this amount. This happened three times while we waited to finally be told you have no lobster tails only live lobsters, and no crab legs. We said we were out and we wasted 45 mins. We were lucky we hadn't prepaid, other customers who had gotten there before us and were just picking up crabs weren't as lucky and were still waiting. read more

We got a bushel of crabs for a family party and overall we were quite satisfied. Some of the crabs were light but overall they were cooked and seasoned to perfection and our order was right on time. We added a pound of steamed shrimp half seasoned with old bay half plain. They added the paper for us which was nice. My family always goes to the very local Ocean View Family restaurant which is next door so I thought to call this place after some other competitors were closed. Service was efficient and friendly. I miss the MD blue crab here in California!! read more

We were told the crabs would be xxl but we're medium at best. Their fresh fish is good though. read more

Wow the best crab cake I've ever tasted! No fill here and huge. The Med/large crabs were outstanding. Well worth the price! Would go back in a heartbeat! read more

Visiting family in Bethany Beach. They ordered crab cakes for takeout. We loved them! Big chunks of crab well seasoned. I would absolutely go to them. read more

3rd time ordering from here and a solid one once again! Ordered a half bushel of a mix of xxl, jumbo, and premium... Total crab snob and typically a half bushel of med/lg typically equals 36 crabs or whatever fits in the half bushel box... Received more like 4/5 a bushel in a bushel box. 39 all heavy crabs and big fat and uglies! They go by weight, but for the 3 different sizes ordered they ranged from (6.75-8.25 inch point to point). Remember I ordered a mix of the 3 largest. All had both claws attached which is rare to unheard of. Even when even ordering at a restaurant, let alone 39 of these tasty uglies So now to quality... Well... Fricking AWESOME!!!! Steamed to perfection!!! Not a single watered cracked claw, not a one mushy crab. Each leg could be detached and pull meat from the body. Most people toss the crawling legs, but snap these guys at the knuckle and you get easy extra meat! Very rare! Up next... employees... So incredibly friendly, professional, and humble. So humble you will miss all the awards on the right hand wall of her deep sea fishing. She'll school you. I wish I remember everyone whom I've dealt with, but the owner is especially humble and awesome. Thank you Jennifer for hooking up the crabs. You most definitely know your seafood!!! read more

We ordered a pound of shrimp an a dozen little neck clams. They offered to steam them for us at no charge, and included condiments such as melted butter and lemon wedges. Both items were great. The shrimp was a bit over-seasoned, but everything was perfectly steamed. read more

Small business, that uses lots of local people,very clean and very reasonable priced,they also have lunch menu carry out,very busyyyy

We prepaid for a 6:30 pickup of three dozen crabs. Our order wasn't ready until nearly 8:45! While I was initially annoyed, I was actually comped for the whole order. We were also given several pounds of shrimp. In fact, many, many customers were comped for similar reasons. The food was good. Being given easily $280+ in free food AND paper made up for the extensive delay so far as my family was concern read more

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Ultimate fail. Called to get crab prices. Then stopped in in person to place order. The woman working took down our credit card number in order to place the order. After writing it incorrectly several times she told us she needed additional time to prepare the order. This was at 430; they said 6 pm would be the next available time. We left and showed back up at 615 pm...the shop was shut down with doors locked, and all signs inside. After knocking on the door the same woman reappeared stating "we're closed!" She had never placed our order or started it. NEVER AGAIN. read more

Food was meh. Expensive. Took an ungodly amount of time to be ready. We ordered it ahead of time to be ready by 730pm and it wasn't until 830. Won't be going back most likely unless it is sold or under new management again. read more

Large meaty crabs nicely seasoned with excellent flavor. Reminds me of when I had creme brulee at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia; after that there was no point in trying anyone else's. Same situation with these crabs .... no need to go elsewhere to compare. As good as it gets. Looking forward to trying their crab cakes. read more

Got a dozen medium/large crabs last night. Flavor was ok but the majority of our crabs seemed very wet inside which made meat soggy, too bad Steamers was closed with boiler problems. read more

We ordered crab and clams, they were very tasty and were not dried out. Although staff were nice, I still had to wait about 30 minutes even with it a pre-order- maybe hire another person so there is less wait. There is a 3.5% charge for credit cards. read more

The seafood is very good and fresh. Flounder is to die for. Little necks at 50 for 20 dollars is a deal. It does take sometime to have your order filled so patience is necessary read more

Ordered seafood platters and jumbo softshells to go which were delicious. The owner takes tremendous pride in her fresh fish and shellfish. And, the staff is friendly and cooks up some really great food. I too miss the MD blue crab here in California and how shops like this represent so well what the eastern shore is all about. read more

tried this place on 2 occasions, First time we got 1/2 bushels of crabs, they were awesome. Recently we just got 2 sandwiches to go, 1 crabcake and 1 grouper sandwich....They were both very good, but the quality of the lettuce on it was poor read more

My family and I bought a half bushel of med/lg crabs from here. This was one of, if not the worst, order of crabs we have ever had after 20+ years of coming to the area. We were very upset with how little meat there was. We will not back here again. Future buyers beware that your $140 will be paying for pure shells! read more

They were the only place in and around Bethany that had crabs on a Monday. $100 for 1/2 bushel special and they were good. Some crabs were better than others as I find in many cases. Steamed shrimp were really good. read more

Been coming to this area for 30 plus years always went to restaurants for crabs never again ocean view seafood steamed them to perfection and the amount of meat in the crabs where unbelievable!!! See you soon read more

Disappointed. Saw an article in the local Coastal Point paper about the new ownership, and their attention to hand picking every crab sold to make sure of it's quality, so I thought I'd try them and support a local business. Mistake. XXL crabs were $85 a dozen and just under 6" to 6" point to point. They had too much seasoning, about 4 were paper shells, and they gave us exactly 12 (other places throw in an extra). When you're spending $85 for XXL's you're expecting large crabs...not the case. My God, if these 6"& under crabs were XXL, how small were mediums and larges?! Ed's Chicken and Crabs in Dewey was our favorite, but since the recent tragic fire destroyed it, we'll go back to Steamers in Millville, a definite runner up!! read more

Shrimp very good and mediums were big. Soft shell crab platter was skimpy, the side consisted of a teaspoon of fries. Crab cakes not filling. Mussels were abysmal- smaller than a thumbtack and dry and flavorless. Below average. read more