Spadafora's was everything I expected and more. We are huge seafood lovers and we were not disappointed. The crab cake was good, not great to much old bay and filler for my taste but good non the less. The mussels were good, I do prefer the red sauce. The baked potato was perfect. We enjoyed the meal and would recommend to everyone in Ocean City Nj to order from them I highly recommend this seafood restaurant to family and friends read more

A steady constant 5-Star experience every year we visit! I'm not with the haters as the service and the food here has always been exceptional. This is our go-to place for our annual seafood boils. Fresh live blue claw crabs, incredible imperial and Maryland crab cakes and fresh clams make our boils a success. You'll continue to be our go-to for years to come. Thanks for your consistent quality and reliability. read more

Spadafora's Seafood Market - Crab cakes, blue claw crabs and steamed clams.., - Seafood Markets Near Me - Ocean City, New Jersey

Wonderful seafood at a great price! My wife and I both ordered the seafood plate and it was great. My daughters loved their food as well.

Best nest food ever defiantly recommend please go to this lovely seafood market that's the best of the best People are also so nice read more

Picked up a Crab Imperial, MahiMahi, and Lobster tails for dinner. The person taking our order was helpful and polite and was willing to answer some of the questions I had about what dishes are most popular and the options for preparation. After a short wait, one of the staff brought our food out to our outdoor table where we ate. The lobster was well cooked (not over or under cooked) but I would have enjoyed more butter either as a post prep topping or on the side (drawn butter). The mahi mahi was fantastic. Will definitely come back here again to try some of the other fresh seafood options (I have my eye on the tuna). read more

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Not a lot to say. My son and I visited the nearby Ocean City Welcome Center to view the rookery. After having our fill, we headed over here, fried seafood on our mind. We sat outside and enjoyed big orders of fried shrimp and oysters. The oysters could have used a bit more time innthe fryer but everything was greaseless and tasty. What more could you ask for? So happy to add this spot to our summer rotation. read more

Very good food, places is very clean and sanitized. Food is fresh and well stored. Owner is one of the best guys and very hardworking. Cleanest establishment and best seafood in south jersey. 10/10 read more

Awful! Did a takeout order and got home to wrong soup, overfried clam strips, and cold, tasteless broiled scallops. Asked for extra tartar sauce and had nothing but cocktail sauce. Will never be back! don't waste your time or money. read more

Portions were small for how expensive it is. I got only 3 shrimp and 4 scallops in my combo meal. My scallop and shrimp combo was just bathing in a tub of butter and made eating it pretty unappetizing. The sides were nothing special either. All around was disappointed by the quality of the meal. Workers are nice though. I suggest getting their fish and cooking it yourself. read more

Good food is far and few between in Ocean City (unless you like the junk food on the boardwalk), so it was a real surprise to find this little seafood market. Probably the best broiled scallops I have had in years. Perfectly cooked and so tender it must have come off the boat that morning. And the sides? Absolutely delicious- baked potato (I know, how hard is it to bake a potato- but so many restaurants find new and interesting ways to screw it up), and corn on the cob perfectly done. These people know how to cook! read more

Food and service always excellent! Big shout out to Riley who took my request for crabs, called back when he said and they were awesome! Always a happy customer read more

Picked up a dozen crabs, already cooked, they had the best price for the area at the time $36 for a dozen. A bit confused from the sizes as every place said they had #1s whatever that means, I'm used to saying large, medium, but their #1 seemed more akin to mediums. The quality was okay, not very solid in terms of meat but still had a good time of it. read more

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This is a review for the market only- We got take out on a weekday and the place was bustling. We called ahead and picked up the order. The employees were off putting and not friendly. The prices were pretty high but the quality of the food was good. LOVED the simply grilled scallops! The buttery and fresh flavor was perfect. The sides were alright. Overall a decent and somewhat pricey dinner selection. 4 stars food 3 stars service 3 stars prices read more

We ordered the flounder stuffed with crab imperial it was quite a disappointment at $28. There was no imperial just dry flavorless crabmeat inside two very small pieces of flounder. It was overcooked and pretty much inedible. I got the fried combo which was better but the pieces needed to be cooked at different times. The flounder was thin so it was overcooked and dry. The shrimp were perfect as were the scallops, the oyster was undercooked and not edible. The deviled clam was tasty. This was $27 and had everything been cooked properly, it would have been worth the price. Live and Learn. read more

Very disappointed in the take out seafood meals that we got from this seafood market. We ordered medium rare tuna, a Mahi Mahi and flounder. All were to be broiled and cooked in butter except for one of the tunas which was teriyaki. All 4 dishes were terrible and no one finished. The flounder and Mahi Mahi was dripping in oil. They forgot the teriyaki on the one tuna. Both tunas were cooked well with no pink in the center. Both tunas were not fresh as they tasted very fishy. Each meal came with 7-8 French fries and the smallest dinner roll I've ever seen. For $22.99 for each meal they were not worth the price. I could have bought seafood from ShopRite and saved a ton of money and it would have tasted better. Stay away from their prepared meals. I'm giving it a one star because we called to complain and they would only refund two of the four meals. I should have read the Yelp reviews before ordering. read more

Shrimp & Scallop Combo boiled. You get a good amount of scallops but I literally only got 2 pieces of shrimp. That's all ya get folks. If I'm paying $23.99 ... I expect at least 1-2 more pieces of shrimp! There's so much space left in that box! You also get 2 sides.... fries were good. But you get a tiny sample sauce cup of Macaroni Salad. If the cost of seafood is too high.... at least give a customer more of the macaroni salad ughhhh 2 stars cause the packaging is good & the food was okay. But how can you really mess up on it taste wise? read more

Spadafora's Seafood Market - Shrimp & Scallop combo boiled $23.99. 2 pieces of shrimp & 6 scallops. - Seafood Markets Near Me - Ocean City, New Jersey

Decided on this place after reading some reviews and some on the boardwalk, we really wanted seafood!! Jodie our server was great, new the menu very well, she was also very attentive. The tuna was grilled perfectly. The flounder and some of the food needed a bit more flavoring, but all in all. It was a very nice dinner. read more

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The fish is typically good, but nothing really special. The prices are high at the existing location. Many times we've been there and they are out of something; like corn on the cob or baked potatoes?? Just send someone to a grocery store! It's frustrating. We want to support local businesses, but they're making it difficult. But, for basic meals, they're pretty consistent, and I trust that the fish is fresh. read more

We ordered take out from here and it was very good! Each dinner is somewhat pricey (which is why i gave it four stars) and includes two side choices. We tried the Coconut Shrimp dinner, fried shrimp dinner, steamed snow crabs (doesn't include two sides) crab cakes and the broiled shrimp dinner with scallops. The last dinner only came with three broiled shrimp and five scallops. All tasted delicious, but a bit pricey compared to other seafood restaurants in OC. read more

Terrible service. They cancelled my order after I waited outside for 1.5hrs. Ruined Father's Day. Will never go back for the overpriced food again. OCNJ has waaaaay better options. read more

It seems that only Matthew reviewed the right place. The others were thinking of Spadafora's down East restaurant. This is for the fish market which does supply the fish for the restaurant. It is the only one I know of in Ocean City so it is good, fresh Jersey sea food. They also have cooking instructions to go with the fish at the market. 4 stars for being the only one that I know of in Ocean City. read more

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2009 update. 4 2lb+ massive lobsters. 1 bucket of clams (sweet, no grit) and 1.5lbs of shrimp. Lobsters cooked perfectly. $10.95 lb (great), but $6 each to steam is a bit steep, as was the $25 for 50 clams. The shrimp were served cold - not my preference , but already shelled ( a plus). A bit expensive, but a real treat in terms of quality. read more

good local selection, fresh seafood. Some of the best cole slaw around. Depending on the day service can be great or ok, but even the ok days the kids are doing their best and I appreciate that! read more

Love the restaurant! While the food at the take out is just as yummy at the take out the packaging is horrible. We are take out experts it was the car ride home that spoiled the meal. Looking at a box of smashed food is disappointing. read more

Note: the seafood salad is seafood SALAD - not seafood "salad"...see pic ...still beautiful and delicious, though not exactly what I was hoping for in my quest to please a friends palate. Apparently, I did not buy the 24k gold, rolls royce, mother of all (mayo based) seafood salads that I had sought to acquire...but this was a worthy contender, no doubt. Just would have been nice if the menu said somewhere "on a bed of greens" ... that would have clued me in to the fact that I should look elsewhere for my backyard BBQ style seafood salad...but again, a happy mistake. Oh, and you can feel free to laugh at the fact that I was willing to drop some serious coin on what I thought was seafood "salad"...ridiculous:) This yelp review is feeling more and more like a script from Seinfeld...let me quit while I'm ahead!! read more

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Burnt crab cakes... maybe reheated from yesterday? Not a fan. Noticed that they don't seem to reply to any reviews... obviously don't care? Try Mikes at 55th Street... long drive, but decent food. read more

During a recent trip, our family ordered to-go dinners from here. The food took a long time - even longer when they forgot to make one of them (luckily I noticed before I left the store!). The food quality itself is just meh. The broiled shrimp, in particular, was borderline inedible. It feels inexplicable that this place is so popular. read more

Does this look like $47 worth of seafood? What a rip off! I'm so disappointed. Anchorage give you 3x the food for less $. Drive the extra mile over the bridge. So disappointed. read more

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Ordered two lobsters and three sides to be picked up on 8/12/20. The food was fine--the sides were good, and the lobster was a little overdone, but nothing criminal. However, a pound of shrimp that we didn't order was tacked onto our bill (!). Mind you, this part of the order wasn't sent to the kitchen--it's not as though there was a surprise pound of shrimp in the bag that we picked up--and someone from the kitchen confirmed this when he brought out the order. This "extra" was only added onto the final bill, and this situation wasn't caught until *after* I had paid with my credit card. The young man who was handling the payments at the table just outside the building apologized profusely and said that the extra $13.25 would be taken off my bill that evening. He kept the receipt, but let me take a picture of it and took down my phone number. However, checking my credit card online today, I've noticed that the extra amount was never refunded, nearly a week later. I don't blame the young man--he was very nice, and I got the impression from him that he couldn't fix this situation himself--but something is not quite right with a business that makes this sort of error and doesn't fix it ASAP, if not the moment that it is caught. I feel taken advantage of, and won't be back. read more

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Market has a decent selection compared to wawa but the prepared food was of very low quality. On addition, I had to wait 30 additional minutes beyond the time they told me for pickup. read more

Had steamer pot. Was good. But lacked some flavor. We added the spice as directed. But could use more Flavors. Was bland. Like the seafood market and their selection. Pot needs some help. read more

The raw shellfish is delicious here and they carry a wide variety of hard-to-find items like large, juicy snow crab claws, pre-cut and delicious for $28/LB. I do suspect they water down the claws to weigh more as I bought 1/2 LB order in June and got around 15 large claws; bought the same thing this week and got 8 or 9 and smaller. When I cracked the claws to eat they dripped water all over the place this time, not the first time. Counter service is fast. Would not buy cooked food here. The lobster bisque was very bland. Their shrimp are the same imported product I can get back home at Costco. Prices are 3X higher than any other seafood market in OCNJ. I paid $4.59 for a jar of cocktail sauce I should have brought from home for $2.99 out of necessity. The chilled seafood platter that I got last summer for $17.99 is now $30. Be warned. read more

The customer service at this restaurant is unacceptable. We were treated very rudely by a teenage boy that took our order on the phone. When we went to pick up our order,they had the nerve to ask for a tip. When we got home with our food we were missing the two sides that went with our dinners. I imediately called them to let them know that our baked potatoes and coleslaw was missing from our order, and again was treated rudely on the phone. I was told that they were out of baked potatoes. I asked them why we weren't informed that when we called to place the order. I then asked to speak to a manager and I was hung up on. I do not recommend this restaurant. The food was overpriced, and the customer service was horrible. As a resident of Ocean City New Jersey, I will never patronize this business again. read more

My family ordered from here today and called in at noon for a 6PM pickup. When ordering, the person on the phone told us the total would be $109. At 6PM we arrived and were given a total of just under $150, significantly and unacceptably higher than the original $109 total we were given. The excuse was that the seafood had not yet been weighed out at the time of ordering and there is always fluctuation in the total. We weren't told this when we ordered. Even if we were told about it, a $40 difference is extremely questionable! Also, when we were waiting for our food we asked for cocktail and tarter sauce. The kid at the register said all the platters come with it. When we got back to our house there was neither cocktail nor tarter sauce. As for the food, we were pretty impressed overall. The broasted chicken (not even sure what broasted is) was amazing! The crab legs and mussels were delicious as well. We ordered two pounds of u-peel old bay shrimp. The shrimp was overcooked and tasted like what you would expect from a Chinese buffet. It also had no old bay on it. So, based on our experience in its entirety, we won't ever be ordering from here again. I'll go the extra 40 blocks south and get Mike's! That's what we get for wanting to try somewhere closer to the house. read more

Total joke!!! Don't go!! Nightmare!! My wife called in order on Saturday 11:30am, pickup 6pm. Arrived at 5:50pm, ok not bad so far. Waited 45 minutes, paid and gave them a tip, $120+. My family is home waiting for food. I was asked to go in side, then CJ told me they lost the order, can't fix it and can't refund my money for at least an hour. You can't give me my food, you accepted my Amex money and now you don't have food for me?? . I was like "are you kidding me?" You took my money, I even tipped you and you and give can't give me my food, all this while I watch food orders rolling in and being service, WHAT!!!I. I asked for another solution so I can leave with food..nope, CJ said "sorry". CJ even said, "yeah, this is really bad but we can t get you food and I can't refund money". Making this worse, we have family and extended family at home waiting for dinner, NO Plan B!! So disorganized, I showed him what I ordered and he said sorry, we can't fill your order? WHAT!!!!!!! You are filling orders that were just called and you can't fill my order from this morning. Is this for real? No other offers to satisfy, totally disorganized. JOKE !!! Don't ever go, no service, no customer service and could have cared less. Even when they take your money, they still have no clue if they can service. I don't mind waiting at the Clam Bar in SP, at least they have quality food, yeah you have to wait but but at least they give you food. read more

I got raw seafood at Spadafora's Seafood Market to make a huge fish dinner for my whole family. I got scallops, crabs, lobster tail, shrimps, and flounder. It came out SO good. Dude the scallops were so fresh one of them was wearing a "SUPREME" fedora lol. My whole family loved it except for Harry who said the crabs reminded him of his exwife and stormed out. This meal in a restaurant would have cost like a billion dollars but with me making it at home it was so much more affordable. The people working there were super nice and made great recommendations. Thanks guys! read more

Really an unfortunate experience. While the food is decent, the service was awful. The guy behind the counter felt the need to yell at my grandmother for taking too long to pay. Then announced to the whole line that her card was declined, also not necessary. I gave him my card as she was too flustered to even respond. We were buying $100 worth of food and have been loyal customers for over 10 years. Unfortunately, some things aren't OK with me and someone over 18 should probably be in charge. Yes, they were busy, but that doesn't excuse this. There are too many good seafood options in town for our family to come back here. read more

Food was pretty good but little pricey for the small portions. If portions were a little better they would've gotten another star or a half star if that was an option. read more

Ordered 2 6/7 ounce portions of halibut, one of the 7 kids standing around doing nothing took my order, came back and said it's a little over, no problem I replied and went to pay. He cut me 2 12oz portions so I said I'll only take one b/c it was over by so much. He repackaged threw it down on the counter and told the younger boy ringing me up to get these seagulls outta here, referring to my wife and I. Won't be back, and will go out of my way to prevent others from shopping there. read more

we ordered almost $200 worth of various foods for take out, so there is plenty to comment on!! The clams were a great value at $25 for 50 healthy size steamers. Mostly clean, there was a few dead loss and some with full bellies.. The fried shrimp were of your average type. Not large, not small...but lacked flavor. The crab cakes have a spicy flavor so be careful!! But they were good! Clam Fritters were a great addition to the meal, I've never had them before and would love to find them local to where I live. Fishermans Feast was a decent value, and the food was a hodgepodge of the traditional ocean dwellers... Then comes the Scallop and Shrimp combo.....STAY AWAY.. If only for value, as the food itself is good. for $25 you get 7 scallops and 2....thats right...2 large (cough) shrimp. These are not giant shrimp, or huge scallops. They are of your normal size and looked sad in such a large tin...especially for 25 bucks. read more