The Drunken Crab Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara (CA)

5 /5 Jocelyn Brooks: Came here while vacationing with the Mrs. Ordered a seafood boil with crabs, mussels and shrimp. Food came out hot. I enjoyed a cider while I was there. I dont think that they have any hard liquor. My server was amazing!! I enjoyed my boil, although I wish the sauce was a little bit thicker like in used to. However, the flavor and mild spice level was good. My wife ate her share the next day and liked it. She also enjoyed the spice level.

3 /5 Omar Navarro: Right on State street, parking is best to go to a parking lot nearby. Not too busy, recommended getting all three sauce, spicy, mild didnt really do it for me. Wings were cooked perfectly, cajun fries didnt really impress me. All in all, okay place.

5 /5 EvA: Incredibly great food. Super friendly service and great atmosphere.

3 /5 Richard Strawson: Food was fun, eating food from a bag counts as fun surely? Its a tourist trap, zero frills but thats fine for a one off. Food was ok, shrimp heads-on were good, shrimp heads-off and mostly shell-off were chewy. Dubious charging scheme employed here (youll read it in most other reviews) 2% charge for eating in the restaurant (as opposed to a 2% discount for take out?) and an automatic 15% gratuity. Then when the check arrives you are asked for extra gratuity on top of that. Rent must be high here but that kind of thing puts people off tipping and word spreads.

1 /5 Boe Jennings: Ate here expecting a decent meal. The food was honestly terrible for the price. Boiling crab is so much better the sauce here just lacks any flavor. On top of that our waitress never offered a refill, she charged us for peeled shrimp when we wanted head on. There’s also an automatic 17% service charge on every check. This just means the establishment clearly doesn’t pay their staff enough. I wouldn’t even have an issue paying it if the service was half decent.