Fulton’s Crab House June 16th, 2006
Dinner – a bowl of crab and lobster bisque; crab cake entree with vegetables; grilled opah with pineapple glaze and butternut squash; half order of steamed snow crab legs Approximate Price of Entrees: An arm and a Leg ($112.00, with no alcoholic beverages)
Rate the following (1-5, five being the best!)
Food: 4
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Okay for Children: My kids enjoyed it, and the waitstaff was extremely attentive to them. I could see if they were busy that this might be too long of a meal for kids to sit through
Okay for Couples: This could absolutely be a romantic meal
Be Sure to Try: the Opah was VERY good
General Tips: We made a fairly early ADR, and it worked out great. There were very few tables filled when we arrived, so we were seated and served immediately. We left shortly after 6, and it was becoming quite crowded.
MouseForLess Tip: WHATEVER you can do to save money here, do it. Some of the prices are really outrageous. You might want to order a couple of appetizers and share an entree. A lot of the sides are a la carte, so if
you want to skip an appetizer, but add a potato, maybe you can share that. I also try to avoid the children’s menu for Eilis lately so she isn’t limited to fried or greasy food. She wanted the snow crab (which she loves
at home), so I ordered it, and the waitress told me since it was for a child, they could split the portion AND the price – so she got half the amount of snow crab for half of the price. Note – she was still hungry
afterwards, as half the portion was 1/2 of a whole crab, and she can easily eat a whole crab herself.
Extra Comments: My aunt and uncle owned a seafood restaurant for YEARS on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and we are huge seafood eaters at our
house. If I walked into a restaurant at home or in the Outer Banks and was charged $30 for a crabcake platter, I would expect it to come with a salad, a vegetable, and a potato or rice or another side. If I was paying $30 for snow crab, I would expect at least two clusters with salad and sides. I thought my crabcakes were “okay” – definitely NOT worth the amount of money I spent for them and little else. Brighid’s fish was delicious, but for what it cost, I could have sent her deep sea diving for a day to catch it herself, then flown her to Hawaii to pick a fresh pineapple for the glaze (okay, it wasn’t that much, but for $30, she could have at least gotten a salad).
They did give us a commemorative souvenir of the dining experience – the recipe for Fulton’s Crab Boursin. We may never use it, but for what it cost us to eat there, I’m having it bronzed 🙂