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    The Crab Barrack Southside

    3.1 (19 reviews)
    Closed 12:00 pm - 10:00 PM

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    Jalexus H.

    Crab barrack will always be our go to. We love the variety of the menu. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood for a seafood boil but there are plenty of other options for me to choose from if Crab Barrack is chosen by my family.

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    Greg B.

    Friday 12/8/23 1:30 pm Customer: "May I have a sushi menu?" Server: "No. We're not serving sushi today." Customer: "But you have a 4 x 8 foot banner out front that says 'All You Can Eat Sushi!'?" Server: "Yes. We're not serving sushi today." Ex-customer: "So I guess I paid for parking and walked two blocks for nothing?" Server: "Yes. We're not serving sushi today." Screw this joint and their attitude! They're having two servers and NO customers should have told me all I needed to know. How much longer until this place joins the list of failed 5 Points South restaurants? $20 bucks says it'll be less than 90 days! Good riddance....

    Dungeonus Crab, shrimp, potatoes, corn. Added eggs, coleslaw and hush puppies.
    Tammy L.

    Beautiful place,very very clean. It's all you can eat sushi for $16 at lunch and $25 at dinner. We are at The Crab Barrick at 2 o'clock and they've got everything like the crab place everywhere and you'll just love it. The place is clean, y the service is great and you'll just have to come here at some southside and and try everything that you can. It's like the crab shack or the crab you know where you get the potatoes and the corn and the seafood prices are great and coming to southside something different. I will try to get some pictures and show you how wonderful this is.

    bland as hell. not a pound so we paid more than we were supposed to. bad decision.
    Tony S.

    The service was good. Not great because the girl didn't know anything about the menu and had no comments as pertaining to our food because she never had it. First red flag. She had no suggestions and seemed extremely unenthused about helping us order. It was our first time and we wanted to try and divulge into something assumed was awesome. the quantity they told us was a pound- complete lie. might've been half a pound but that pissed me off most. EVERYTHING WAS HORRIBLE. from the bland seafood to the flat soda- worst seafood restaurant ever. don't go spend you money there. it's a waste. we had two bites of our food, mutually, and were pissed. do not go waste your money. i literally brought my food home to try and add flavor... dumb decision, should've gone in the trash.

    1/2 lb shrimp and 1/2 lb snow crab
    Lucy T.

    I've been wanting to try Crab Barrack for a while so when they opened a location near me I knew I had to try it! It was pretty good! I came here with my boyfriend, his brother and his girlfriend this past weekend to watch the Alabama/Tennessee game and it was a ton of fun! We were able to sit at the bar and eat and drink for hours. Demi was the bartender, and he was super nice and attentive to us and all the other patrons. I had a hpnotiq and sprite to drink. It was so delicious. Like a blue gatorade. As for food, Austin and I shared a combo of 1/2 lb of snow crab legs and 1/2 lb of shrimp with mild heat and lemon pepper seasoning. It was super good. I really liked the sausage and potatoes it came with the most probably. I think I will branch out to their fried shrimp and chicken tender basket next time. There were so many tasty options here! They also have lots of drink specials for UAB students so I'm sure we will be back!

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    Food is amazing. Definitely stop by an and check them out. The ambiance is and service is amazing as well.

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    Under staffed, poor customer service, and the food isn't that good. Try another location maybe there will be better

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    Food was good. Facility was clean. Only drawback is that it's fairly small inside so not good for large groups.

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    I got sick off of some tainted mussels, and they use entirely too much garlic.......definitely not going back!!!

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