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The Holy Crab

The Holy Crab Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato Where once there was a 7-11 on Robson is now The Holy Crab, a seafood boil sort of place.
The basics is this: You order seafood. They boil it. You extract the meat (and there's a TV televising the various way to efficiently get meat out of crustaceans), dip it in sauce, and eat it.
If you're not sure what sauce to get, they can bring out a flight of samplers. Get this!

To me, crab is crab. So I looked at the menu and ordered other stuff instead. Yeah, I even got the chicken. Really.

Seafood Chowder ($4.50)
  • Miscellaneous bits of stuff in it. Still came across as slightly on the watery side of a chowder, and definitely not chunky with stuff.
  • A bit bland. If you have the flight of sauce samplers, you can try putting a bit of your favourite sauce into it and stirring it up.
2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - seafood chowder and deep fried wings

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - chowder

Seafood Bisque ($6.50)
  • There's actually stuff in this! Looks like similar stuff as the chowder.
  • Tastes ok.
2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - seafood bisque

Fried Bread ($2)
  • Two small buns. Price is atrocious unless you are somehow wow'ed by the novelty of it.
  • Came hot. Too hot to handle, really.
  • You can get something similar in some dim sum places (like Dinesty).
2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - bisque and fried bread

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - fried bread

Sweet Potato Fries ($6)

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - yam fries

Deep Fried Chicken Wings ($6.50) comes coated in a sweet BBQ sauce
  • Probably by the pound but we got 5 wings, a mix of wings and drumsticks.
  • Came fresh, meat was moist. Nicely fried chicken but don't expect crispy skin, especially not after they've been tossed in BBQ sauce.
  • At over $1 per wing... You want wings by the pound, go to a wing place.
2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - fried chicken wings (comes with BBQ sauce)

Calamari ($7.50)
  • Thick rings, thin batter. Came piping hot.
  • Definitely use the sauce as it's bland otherwise. If you got the flight of sauce samplers for the seafood boil, maybe experiment with those.
2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - calamari

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - calamari

Overall, for Snacks and Sides, expect somewhat pricey portions and passable taste.

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - flight of sauce samples


2017-May-10 The Holy Crab

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - dungeness crab

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - prawns

2017-May-10 The Holy Crab - crawfish

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