Grabbes - WESTVILLE

A handful of times a year I get carry out steamed blue crabs here. The quality of the crabs is usually good and they don't have an upcharge for doing the cooking that also-excellent John's Seafood in Paulsboro applies. I'm disappointed with the price/value of my recent purchase. I was charged more than I've ever before paid for crabs, $72 for the dozen or $6 a crab, and they were no larger than $4 or $5 crabs I've previously purchased here. iI's also never cheerful encountering touchy sullen and surly sales associate Jody, a fixture here since time immemorial.

I 've have written that I always loved Grabbe 's. I said I wouldn 't write every time we ate or got takeout from them but I would update you when I have something I 'm excited about, whether blown away or let down. In this case, I write because my son I got sick on our last takeout order of Garlic Crabs Grabbe 's Crab Soup. Before the holidays) So sad. Been LOYAL customers for over 20+ years. Sad review that I didn 't want to write but again, I 'm HONEST about my experiences. My hubby literally contacted them via phone text after I couldn 't eat 2 crabs out of the 1 1/2 dozen order) bc of the nausea hit, got sick and then causing me to lay down sleep for 2 hours. Seriously, that 's how my body to react Hubby texted Jody directly as she takes our order all the time and asked if they Changed their recipes/ingredients BC of our relationship with her and the owner as to be regulars. She didn 't answer her phone or text back until the following day with a business like response, not a personal concern. It was not worded as something she would write, with thh e exception of onne statement wherein she Re e ferried to herself as simply the serving wench that 's her humor to lighTen the rest of what she was obviously told to write). This was extremely upsetting to both my hubby and myself as not only LOYAL customers, but on personal levels over all these years. Anyway, crabs weren 't bad bc it was bad seafood, it was the Garlic Crabs seasoning. The garlIc wasn 't fresh. It had a funky smell taste which caused all this. The soup, was definitely completely different. Both quarts were not the Grabbe 's Crab Soup we have been eating for years. No crab flavor, no vegetables, it was red tomato tasting with chunks of red skin potatoes and tasted like pure salt. Again, So sad and disappointed to even write this, especially bc all we expected AL or Jody to do is call us, say bring it back we 'll gladly remake it, I 'm so sorry guys Never happened and never heard from them again. :

Food was wonderful fish was fresh and cooked perfectly best coleslaw ever I highly recommend service was fast and pleasant

I live in philadelphia and eat crabs on the weekends. I travel all the way to grabbies to get my crabs. I have never been disappointed. They don't try to rip you off at Grabbies! My #1 crab spot!

The story only continues to degrade for this place. They 've recently announced that they are open again for dine-in service. With no notification on their website, they 're actually only open Thursday thru Saturday for dine-in, and on Thursday and Friday, they 're only open for dining until 6:00pm. Yes, you read that right, 6:00pm! What numb-nuts open for dinner only through 6:00pm? Only these numb-nuts who know nothing about being customer centric. Pathetic! Maybe they couldn 't find another ill-tempered hag to rudely serve people after the pandemic! Forget this place! It 's irreparably broken.