Bag O' Crab — Restaurant in Federal Way

We didn’t get a chance to try the seafood boil yet, but we sampled a few other menu items during our visit. The gumbo didn’t taste bad, but it wasn’t gumbo—it was more like a chowder in flavor and texture, not what we expected. The garlic fries were just okay; they looked completely different from the menu photo and definitely needed more garlic.

We also ordered the garlic noodles, and honestly, they were disappointing. The flavor was very bland with no seasoning or punch of garlic, and again, they didn’t look like the picture on the menu.

That said, our waitress was super kind and patient. When I shared my concerns about the garlic, she offered to remake the noodles and even brought them back with more added—but unfortunately, the flavor still didn’t improve. Still, her attitude and professionalism were appreciated.

Overall, we didn’t really enjoy the food this time, but we’re willing to give it one more shot—next time, we’ll try the seafood boil and hope for a better experience!

🔄 Update: Against better judgment, we went for the “free tiramisu” promo. Should’ve known better. The first bite was frozen like it was auditioning for a spot in Elsa’s castle. ❄️ Between the chowder-style gumbo, flavorless fries, bland noodles, and now this ice-brick dessert… it’s giving false advertising meets culinary letdown.

We will still give another chance and be back for that seafood boil after all. I’m a strong believer not all days are the same, so even though my expectations are EXTREMELY low—I hope 🤞🏽 they deliver...

Fairly bare bones and this is the type of place I was looking for when I wanted some seafood recently. We took our first order to go and they packed it up in this cute travel bag that I had hoped to keep -- but everything leaked into the bag but nothing spilled otherwise.

We ordered combo #1 with crawfish and head-on shrimp. I forgot what a pain crawfish are to undo. But we ordered non-spicy with atomic flavor.

Fast forward a few days, we return with another companion and first start with a similar order (crawfish and muscles), just level two spicy. But we order the garlic bread this time. Yummy. Muscles were really tasty.

And then my companions are still hungry so we order combo #2 with snow crab legs and head-on shrimp. And that was what we should have ordered to start. Everyone enjoyed the crab meat, the potatoes, sausage, and corn that came with. We got too full to order more bread but if only.

They do make you pay from the start (honestly understandable given the cost of the product) and there are signs that say that. You are supplied with gloves, wipes, and a tray for everything you discard. The servers were nice and helpful and since it's still grand-opening, you get 15% off.

I have a feeling we'll be back for...

Came as a party of 5 plus a high chair, service gratuity included for parties of 5 or more. Saturday around 1230, pretty empty and we sat right away. Service was quick and attentive, stopping by to refill waters a few times.

Ordered the combo 4 with dungeoness crab medium spice, atomic sauce. 6 BBQ wings. Garlic noodles. Maine lobster roll with fries. Root beer. Total was $177.23. Combo was ok but not the best of the spots we've tried. Major loss of points because they cleaned the crab and took out the good stuff in the head just to give us an empty head back. It was also small. Overall the combo was not satisfying, smaller than what we normally would get at other places for the max combo option. There was lots of garlic but they weren't cooked so when you grab some sauce its just biting into raw huge pieces of garlic. Maybe that's why it didn't have a good garlic flavor. Some shrimp pieces were overcooked so it was hard to peel.

Maine lobster roll and garlic noodles were better than the seafood boil. Overall I would not come back here over the other two seafood boils...