Best Seafood Restaurant in Brooklyn

We invest in quality ingredients to ensure our customers get the great taste we’re famous for. Because we believe that you deserve the best.

“The Home of The Clobster Roll” and a business owned by Proud Black women. Your destination for all things crab! Come join us for our delicious Crab, Clobster and Lobster Rolls, Crab Legs, and much more. Our crabs are steamed daily in our kitchen and include our famous Crabby Shack Beer Sauce, which is often imitated but never matched.

“A Shrine to The Crustacean” – The New York Times

Growing up in Philadelphia, celebrity stylist Fifi Bell-Clanton had no shortage of options when it came to getting her crab fix. But after moving to Brooklyn, she was dismayed to discover that if she wanted freshly steamed Blue crab, Dungeness crab, or Alaskan Snow crab she had to go to a fish market and cook it herself. She found a kindred spirit in record label exec Gwen Woods, whose father is from the Chesapeake Bay area, so even though neither had run a restaurant before, they teamed up and opened The Crabby Shack in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in 2014.

The bright and friendly Crabby Shack has since become a cornerstone of the community, serving up super-fresh crab and lobster rolls, spicy steamed shrimp, crab mac & cheese, and a variety of fresh crabs steamed in beer and dunked in their famous seasoned garlic butter. Brooklyn’s best crabs are now shipping nationwide!

We are very pleased to announce a limited-edition collaboration with Royal Jelly Harlem.

Royal Jelly Harlem is an African-inspired clothing and home decorating line founded in February 2011 by mother-daughter duo Teta and Maya Gorgoni. Inspired by the artistry of the printed fabrics Royal Jelly Harlem calls attention to the diversity of the African continent and its culture, traditions, and art.

Some recent news articles shouting out the Crabby Shack