Chesapeake Crab Company

Food and service is spectacular. Try the Drunken Muscles or the Boom Boom Shrimp! Not a single person in the restaurant wasn’t friendly. Amazing experience. Thank you!

Behind the counter this place is just dirty. Look up Berkley County Health Inspection online. Rat Droppings, and tons of other violations! This place is to small to have this many violations. One person could clean the whole building in a few hours. I was told the owner has her family working here, which is a big mistake. To many Captains! Clean the place up and get the family to scrubbing!

I hate to give Chesapeake the reviews it deserves… Just to avoid masses of people going! It is the best seafood in West Virginia! If you love steamers, be sure to call to see if the have the dozens you will consume! Their soups and bisques are the perfect consistently and always fresh.

Had a fabulous meal tonight at the Chesapeake Crab! This place is a diamond in the rough! Service was fantastic! A family owned place, the son of the owners waited on me. Great kid who obviously knows his seafood! We started off with the Oysters Rockefeller. You could not have better Rockefeller at a fine dining place! We got a half dozen Jumbo crabs. They were so full and sweet! My husband had a cup of the Crab Bisque soup: which he should have got for dessert. It was fantastic! We shared the Captains Sampler which is a generous portion of everything fried on the menu. We told the waiter how great it was and he replied that everything is hand breaded here, nothing frozen. I asked if we could have a standing reservation every friday night at 7 o’clock! A friendly casual atmosphere and we will be back next friday!!!

This is my first visit. I can’t say I’m disappointed. The prices are great for the portion you are served and the food was tasty. I played it safe and had the fried shrimp and oyster platter. I like that the seafood was not over seasoned or battered. My son had the lunch special, shrimp taco. He really didn’t care for the sauce. I actually gave it a try; it was a bit spicy for my taste but would have been satisfied with it. Nothing a cold beer could settle.
Overall, I had a good first visit. Our server Jolea was very friendly and responsive. Again, the food was right on point. I plan to come back and will try a different menu item.

If I could give this place less than 1 star I would. The place was dirty– from the restroom to the walls to the filmy, sticky condiments on the table. The food was very bland, I got the Chesapeake sampler with steamed shrimp, clams and mussels. The shrimp was the only thing that had any seasoning (Old Bay), and the clams and mussels were tasteless and dry. It stinks because this place is really cute and looks to have potential to have great food, but that could not be farther from the truth. I won’t be going back.

Chesapeake Seafood=Bring back the Shrimp Burger
I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad meal here. The blackened grouper is excellent. My goto order is the Shrimp Burger. Sadly they took it off the menu. Another causality of Martinsburgs low-​brow food tastes. I bet if it was a chicken nugget burger people would beat the door down. Maybe they should rename it a «shrimp cake» to slip it by the city hicks/​hood rats that populate «the burg». Martinsburg people, please try harder (at anything good).
Service is good/​casual. People are nice. I think the people that own the joint are from close to Baltimore so it’s more legit than most.
They have steamed blue crabs all the usual sides that come with Crabs. They have beer as well.

This is my fourth visit and i order something different every time. Have yet to be disappointed. Wait staff is always nice. Food is always fresh and good. Place is very low key but the food isn’t. You won’t be disappointed.

Loved it. Very clean, great staff and awesome menu. The food was great!

After hearing some great things, a friend and I finally stopped in. Small but neat and clean, we placed our orders and for starters we had the lobster bisque. It was very good and we enjoyed it immensely. Too bad it’s not always on the menu.
She had crab cakes. They were fried way too long, they looked like dark brown hockey pucks, and they had too much filler. I had stuffed shrimp. They were tiny (only two shrimp) and the imperial crab had a lot of shells… i pulled a lot out of my mouth.
It was also VERY overpriced. I could not believe my meal was $ 21.00 and that wasn’t even including the soup. At that price it should have been some of the best I ever had but in all seriousness, Red Lobster is better.
I was so disappointed and will not be going back. Well, maybe I’ll try one more time. I really had high hopes for this restaurant. I wanted so badly for it to become my favorite seafood place.

Had dinner here last night. The service is very fast and very polite also.
The Crab soup was very good. I also had the shrimp and scallop platter. My only complaint is they need to go with a lighter breading. Other than that the food and portions where a good value.
We will definitely put this place on our list.

The boiled shrimp platter is tops! The fried shrimp po-​boy needs some help though. Very underrated place.

I LOVED the Lobster tail suffed with lump crab meat. The all you can eat crabs is one of the best deals in the area. The oysters are Amazing. And the service is top rate. Owned by a husband and wife team that really appear to care about their customers.

We won’t be back. I had perhaps expected much more than the folks here were able to deliver.
First, the wife wanted a dozen oysters for an appetizer. At $ 12.95, this seemed steep to me for a plate that were mostly small oysters (size of a gumball), a few medium ones, and two «large» ones. Wife said they tasted «average» and thought they could have been fresher. By comparison, we know of several Chinese AYCE buffets in NoVA that have fresh oysters on the weekends and the total meal is $ 11.95 or less.
She had the crab imperial $ 15.95 which was a small «boat» of lump crab meat and it included two sides. Admittedly, it was tasty. She also had a side salad that was average iceburg lettuce and tomatoes, not much else. The onion and cucumber side was also VERY small.
I had the fried scallops at $ 10.95 which included one side. There were seven, about the size of a Jefferson Nickel (which I consider, small) and they were heavily battered and fried too long. I had the «chesapeake» fries, which were french fries with Old Bay seasoning, and they were just OK.
Total bill with modest tip was $ 50.00. We had no leftovers. We were disappointed feeling the entire experience was below average for food that was pricey (only one soft drink in that total, no beer or wine), atmosphere that was below ordinary (like a pizza parlor), and small portions.
Next time I want to spend $ 50 on seafood, I would rather go to a place I can rely on, even if it is a «chain» like Bonefish Grill.