My wife and I are expecting a baby, and we have classes to attend Tuesday evenings at the Northgate Group Health, so we dropped by the Seattle Crab Co for a bite to eat beforehand. We were underwhelmed. First of all, it's an awkward hybrid of fast-food style and real restaurant style. One stands in line to order one's food, takes a number, snags silverware, napkin and tray, and heads down the cafeteria line for salad, drinks, and so forth. A bit later, a waitperson brings your food out. The food we had was not adventurous - a caesar salad, chowder, an order of cod & chips - and was not done badly, nor particularly well. Your basic fast food seafood, really, although the caesar was perhaps a bit fancier than one might expect. I had a beer. Total tab, a bit over eighteen bucks. I have to think that this food is considerably overpriced for the quality (workmanlike at best) and the ambience (totally absent). The staff tries hard to be cheerful, but it's obvious that they don't much like being there - although the place was doing great business when we went, I must admit. So, if you want seafood, spend the extra couple of bucks and go someplace that does it well where you don't have to stand in line to order. Or, save a few bucks and go to any of the local fish and chip places. Either way, the Seattle Crab Co seems to be poised awkwardly between the two niches, filling a niche that doesn't exist. I don't expect it to last long.
Seattle, WA