The Roasted Crab

3151 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara - 95054
67 reviews
Seafood Cajun/Creole
(408) 666-0008

My friend and I are visiting from Canada and my nephew suggested the roasted crab for dinner. We had several dishes and all were wonderful. A big thank you goes to our server Ryan. Also thank you to Alison for allowing us to take care of the bill while my nephew tried to wrestle us for it. I would recommend this place to any seafood lover.

We had a group of five come here before going to the movies. It was such a great experience and I can’t wait to come back.The restaurant was busy but the staff was attentive to get us seated. Nice atmosphere, clean and spacious.All of our entrées were delicious, including our appetizers. Are party enjoyed the following items, which we all recommend and would get again:Catfish appetizer, Crab cake appetizer, fried rice, Shaking Beef with red rice, garlic noodles with shrimp, and the roasted crab. Oh and can’t forget the Shark Tank!The roasted crab was absolutely amazing and the brown butter with seasoning kept me wanting more. If it was accepted I think we all would have drunken the butter. ?Our server was very friendly, attentive, and super helpful. He was able to give us recommendations and also helped to answer some dietary restriction questions. He even made it a point to go ask the chef to confirm his answers to us.Would definitely recommend coming here and can’t wait to come back again.

Premium crab, garlic noodles, clams, corn, and sweet potatoes. Everything is so great.Expect I don’t like the drinks, tasting weird.If they can improve the water quality, it would be perfect.

We got the King’s combo and Garlic Noodles. It was amazing. We were stuffed and the seasonings/flavor ?. The total was almost $150, a tad expensive but worth it once in a while.

Good food, staff, and atmosphere.

The food was amazing. The service was also great (Tyler served us)

In the last few years, there are many restaurants specializing in seafood in the SJ area. The crawfish and crabs seem to be the favorites because these restaurants have their specialty sauce dialed in perfectly for the taste of customers.We happened to be in a new restaurant in Mercado shopping center. It’s close to HomeGoods and Movie theaters, one stop shopping and dinning. The parking lot is huge easy to find a parking spot on a busy Friday night.The place is new and clean, full bar but not too many tables, therefore reservations is recommended. The prices are on the mid level $$ but the food is excellent.The sweet potato fries were amazingly crispy and mouth watering for appetizer.The shrimps on skewers were so tender and well marinated.Deep fried calamari was crispy and can’t stop eating.Cajun squid was just right amount of spice and tender.The crab we had was big and full of meat, the sauce was extremely tasty, I’m a good cook but I can’t imagine how they roasted this crab with full flavored like that. Some crabs have less meat inside the shells, but the one I had was full to the shells, they do know how to select their crabs. It’s all in the sauce, flavorful and the salt was just right.We had crawfish also, they came in a bag with the special sauce again, quite excellent, we asked to take the sauce home to eat with baguette or steamed rice. I normally don’t like to eat crawfish because there’s not much meat and lot of work to eat them, but they’re actually satisfying when tasting them with the sauce of course.The fried rice was specifically fried, a little burnt to have some crispy, crunch taste, quite unique and good IMO. The salt was just right also.The oysters were so fresh and sweet, they’re supposed to be a special hand picked from some famous source, I couldn’t have enough of them although they’re not inexpensive LOL.The clams were amazing, haven’t seen any of the full bodied clams before, so juicy and tender and their sauce was delicious.We were insisted on trying their signature drink, shark, it’s a huge glass with some blue mix with shark gummy beat type in it that you can actually eat. It’s big enough for both of me and my wife and quite unique.We will take our children back here for dinner, they will love this place although they’re not crazy about seafood, but my daughter likes crawfish and my son love fried rice.

This place is AMAZING. We had King's combo with their signature sauce, no spicy. Every ingredient tastes so fresh and delicious. The King Crab legs are big and rich in meat, the mussels are huge and soft, the prawns' texture tastes very fresh. Even the fries are very well made. The price might look a bit high, but it's 100% worth it.Hope they can keep it up!Highly recommended!

Best seafood in town. Highly recommended roasted crab and garlic noodle

We ordered the queen's combo and garlic noodles for 5 people - it was a perfect amount of food. All the food was delicious! Shrimp was juicy and the crawfish was actually a good size. The sauce had a lot of flavor and wasn't too greasy (we got the garlic butter fuego). I enjoyed eating here and would definitely come back!