Walsh Bay Crabhouse — Restaurant in Sydney

This is the new venue for Harry’s Singapore Chilli Crab, who are a Sydney dining institution, well known in Surry Hills and worth checking out over the Australia Day long weekend to enjoy the mud crab and other Singaporean Cuisine.
Along with a bunch of fellow foodies, we were treated to a banquet feast showcasing their new menu and venue in Walsh Bay. With over 40 in attendance, this is a great venue to hold an event or function, also well suited to smaller intimate dining. Walsh Bay Crab House operates out of a new and modern space, in contrast to the Surry Hills Venue, and it's in a great location too. The new restaurant still has that friendly and welcoming feel of the famous Surry Hills location and, as always, the food is spectacular!
As part of this feast, much of the menu was sampled and all of it thoroughly enjoyed by all. The highlight was always going to be the Singapore Chilli Mud Crab, with well over 30 years specialising, the restaurant group has access to the best produce and suppliers. We have already established that they have the best produce and this is enhanced by the family recipes and their experience in preparing the crab and the amazingly flavorsome sauce combinations; Mud Crab Singapore chilli, Mud Crab black pepper and Mud Crab garlic butter.
Another highlight is mantou buns served along side, these fried sweet doughy buns are perfect for mopping up all of the deliciousness.
The menu contains a plethora of seafood dishes, all cooked to perfection by their team of chefs. For entrees, the steamed scallops with XO sauce are hard to go past, a beautifully cooked scallop topped with glass noodles and sauced their special XO. The steamed oysters were a interesting, as we are so used to consuming them straight cold from the shell. The oysters are plump and there is good hit of flavour provided by the ginger and shallot. The hand m caught sea urchin with a savoury steamed egg custard was a real treat for the seafood lovers. The texture silky and flavour decadently rich, with a distinct taste of the ocean.
If you are visiting as a couple the Seafood platter is an ideal dish to share, with all the top plate a mix of fresh crab, oysters mussels and prawns, the lower plate hot food including fish, chips and a mornay style lobster.
There is also a range of other great Singaporean cuisine on offer. The deep fried king prawns with salted egg yolk are a revelation, the salted egg yolk sauce was incredible, sweet and salty. We loved the whole deep fried Lemon Sole with chilli butter sauce, the batter nice and crisp and the fish nicely cooked within. Their Nasi Goreng Singaporean fried rice is a great accompaniment.
For a non seafood option the Wagyu cubes in garlic sauce are a...

From Harry’s Chilli Crab to Crab House at the pier, Walsh Bay Crab House is the newest restaurant at Miller’s Point, with the same great taste of Harry’s Chilli Crab with a finer twist.

Harry’s Chill Crab have been the spot for Singaporean food and Chilli Mud Crab for nearly 40 years, and finally this Sydney institution have expanded to Miller’s Point/Barangaroo, keeping all the same authentic crab cooking styles but with the fine dining atmosphere. From cityscape to seaside, so have evolved too the menu and style. Walsh Bay Crab House is crisp white from the table tops, to the walls and ceilings, offsets the vibrancy of the crabs, spicy sauces, and freshly caught uni.

Tonight’s dinner was hosted by Walsh Bay Crab House and Hungry Diner. With thanks to these wonderful people I was able to try a 13-course meal with the restaurant’s best dishes, to find out what 40 years experience in the industry really tastes like, which as it turns out is amazing!

Steamed oyster with ginger and shallot - definitely one of my favourites of the night, the oysters were extremely juicy and creamy.

Steam scallop with XO sauce - another one of my favourites of the night, and XO sauce is very inline with the Lunar New Year activities.

Hand caught sea urchin steam with egg - this is my ultimate favourite! The steamed egg is very soft and silky, and the sea urchin was so fresh it was like tasting the ocean.

Seafood platter - a great way to try everything, this platter had prawns, bugs, oysters and fresh crab. Perfect for a big group!

Chilli, Black Pepper and Garlic Butter Mud Crab - all three were amazing, but my favourite was the Black Pepper, it was the most rich in flavour, and the meat was so tender.

Deep-fried buns and Rotti was served alongside the crab, great to soak up the sauce.

Our mains were Prawns with salted egg yolk, Pipis, Wagyu cubes in garlic sauce, Nasi Goreng, and Lemon Sole fish with chilli butter sauce. To be honest I had tap out after the Wagyu because of all the food we had, but I did try a bit of everything and I approve!

Walsh Bay Crab House is perfect for a delicious seafood experience with a bit of fancy flair. Being by the water it’s a great opportunity to take a walk with a view, and with such a spacious restaurant it’s a great place for a date, or a family get together.

Pros: spacious, central location, premium seafood and produce, beautiful atmosphere.

Cons: close to the water but no water view, those who prefer a more casual atmosphere might...

Service was great but the price is shocking 😳 spent over $700 for 4 people… and still had to pay for sparkling water. Only 3 of us had 1 alcoholic beverage each so this can give you a idea on how over priced they are (1 beer, 1 sparkling wine and 1 cocktail). There are coffee shops that offer sparkling water for free. For the exorbitant price they charged the least they could do is offer free sparkling water. We walked out and felt very underwhelmed. I understand that this is premium location but it’s not like you have a great water view or the food is spectacular. Even the decor wasn’t amazing. There is Michelin star restaurants that offer better food and experience less then this price. In fact Cafe Sydney would be even better and you get the views and ambience and better food. We suggest go to China town and have the most amazing crab feast (the crab was average and you can have same or better quality there) Then go to a nice bar afterwards. I have lived in Singapore and had crabs regularly so I have very high standards when it comes to my crabs. I hope the restaurant take this on board and revises their prices or at least make customers feel like it was money well spent. Very disappointed. I was far too embarrassed to tell our guest on the cost of the bill as we suggested this place for our catch up. They would...