Crab Catcher Restaurant Reviews

Loved the calamari and octopus starters. The beet salad was absolutely delicious. Loved the atmosphere such a lovely place...wonderful view

I spected more, the service was average but the view is really nicd

This was the worst seafood I ve ever tried to eat. Fishy, dirty dish water cioppino and no salt used in anything. Glass of champagne was served in a glass with ice and a straw? Weird decor, horrible, odd 70 s music blasting. Save your money.

This place was fairly empty on a wednesday night. Service was good. The menu stated water and bread were available upon request, but they were offered without us requesting. We ordered the new york steak, citrus & garlic shrimp pasta, and jalepeno bacon cheddar polenta. The steak came out a perfect medium pink on a bed of brussel sprouts, chopped bacon and fingerlings. Pasta was in a creamy, tangy sauce base with about 4 or 5 tiger shrimps. Both dishes were delicious! The polenta was okay, nothing remarkable. The Groupon made this dinner truly worthwhile.

Great staff...made sure all 7 of us were seated in the window. Wonderful food! We stopped in for lunch midweek.

Omg so delicious...it was perfect!!... the service super good too...the place is beautiful.. I would like to go again

We got there right when it opened. So we were able to get a great spot, a table of our choice. Went with my friends and we shared plates to sample various dishes. The service was ab fab! The food was fire! It was certainly a wonderful memorable time.

It has an excellent view of the ocean. Their service is superb as well.

First of all, their oysters are fantastic(oven cooking). If you have any chance to visit Lajolla beach just go there.

Everything was so delicious, I ate everything before getting pixs.. Excellent service. Don't forget to validate your parking.

Very pricey but yummy and great portion size. Amazing view and service

Its very touristy, sobe prepared. Good views, but the drinks are only so so

Delicious seafood and really nice atmosphere with great views!

Whenever we come here it's with a groupon. Very expensive for okay food. However their martinis on happy hour are amazing!

Perfect place for Valentine's Day. Or even date night. Service ambience and cuisine are all excellent.

Great food, good portion size fir a more upscale restaurant.

Very expressive
Good service

We dined here on a beautiful day and the window table was awesome. The food was also great. But...our waiter Patrick got our order wrong. My wife ordered the Puerto Nuevo Lobster and received the full Main lobster ( a full $30 more). I ordered the grilled fish and received the stuffed fish ($4 more). I understand one dish miscommunication, but not both. The experience made a nice day out feel like we were cheated.

Love this place. Food and service are always superb.

The food was way over priced for what it was. Spent over 600 on our meal and it was so not worth it. Waited over an hour for food and it was cold. Would not recommend it unless you want to spend a ton of money on something that is very mediocre

My family and I vacationed in La Jolla from Massachusetts and I have to say this place served us the best dinner of our week stay. We very much enjoyed our dinner and the service was great. I would recommend this restaurant.

I would have rated it higher if the service we received wasn t so confusing. We arrived at about 6pm without reservation, so had to have the dinner at their oyster bar. The view, decoration and the food were perfect and we liked them all. Except, we didn t have a plate for food, water wasn t refilled until we asked for, and had a dinner fork for dessert which was very inconvenient. I would call this confusing coz I m not sure if it s the regular service one should expect from an oyster bar . But it s not that enjoyable.

Service was amazing! Food came fast and was great. I will definitely come back!

We dined here on a beautiful day and the window table was awesome. The food was also great. But...our waiter Patrick got our order wrong. My wife ordered the Puerto Nuevo Lobster and received the full Main lobster ( a full $30 more). I ordered the grilled fish and received the stuffed fish ($4 more). I understand one dish miscommunication, but not both. The experience made a nice day out feel like we were cheated.

The crab cake sandwich was very rich and delicious.

The food and service were both superb. My 92 year old mother was especially treated like a queen. What a lovely Mother's Day meal.!

Pretty good food and nice atmosphere bit very expensive

My go to place in la Jolla. Got to try the baked oysters

We came here for Sunday brunch. I have the Poached Eggs La Jolla and we shared the baked oysters. So so delicious! I would order both again and again!

I really wanted to be more impressed with this place. I'm gonna say that they have GOOD food....not great just good. Their prices are some of the highest I have ever seen for seafood not to mention sub par sea food. The bread they bring is good sourdough, crispy and sour and totally good. I could tell the view would be nice if it were day time and the ambiance was very relaxing with all the wood outside on the patio and a very classy dining room on the inside. Other reviews warned that the fish was overcooked consistently and I did find the Halibut dish slightly overcooked but, not as bad as I would have expected. We also tried the Ahi Wonton Taco's which were great! Possibly the best dish we tried. The mussels were ok, the broth was amazing and we couldn't get enough of that but the mussels themselves were a little chewy and not very many tender in the bunch. Very dissapointing for sure. We also tried the calamari and again it wasn't horrible it was good but, I've had better for sure! We ended the night with a creme brulee and a tirimisu. The creme brulee was great, the strawberries were the perfect topping. The tirimisu I've had better but, it was decent. We used a Groupon and they said that to get the full 100$ amount we would have to spend 108$. Never heard that before with Groupon and it was not specified in the details which was really weird but, whatever. The service was great and our waiter was perfect in his approach and if the prices were cheaper I would consider coming here more I mean the crab legs are 72$!!! So, as it is I probably won't ever be back because I'm pretty sure there is better seafood for a much cheaper price around here.

Good but pricey food with gorgeous views of the coast.

Excellent food, view over Pacific Ocean and cozy atmosphere. Nice service

Beautiful views and attentive service almost distracted from the lovely food and drink

I absolutely LOVE this place! When I am in La Jolla this is where we eat! Great food, good service and a bus boy who is always so welcoming! He smiles and takes care of you almost as much as your waiter! Great atmosphere!

Excellent food with a beautiful view. Good service. A bit pricey.

This is a very cute restaurant right on the water. The entrance is a bit hidden and down two levels from the street, but the views from the table were breathtaking. We were in a little nook next to a window that looked out on the ocean and a rock that had a bunch of birds on it.

The food was excellent but expensive. The tiramisu was the best I've ever had.

Went to happy hour at bar. Great crab nachos!! Local beer was also good.

Awesome food, great selection, wonderful view of La Jolla Cove, highly recommended!!

Very polite server. Meal took very long and was cold. Too expensive!

Delicious food, beautiful atmosphere and excellent service! Thanks guys for all you do!

Great food with beautiful views! Staff was amazing! Made for a great visit to La Jolla!

the oyster shooters were okay, nothing great. There's a place called Fizz oyster bar in Escondido which had better oyster shooters. The half dozen oysters at Crabcatchers weren't bad, they were fairly small and there were shell fragments all over the oysters, so instead of just slurping it up, I had to clean it, and then carefully chew to insure a cut free throat. Oh and I had a shot of Kettle One vodka.. I was expecting 5-10 dollars for one shot, but to my surprise it was 15. Next time I'll sneak in my own flask.... anyway, I'll come back to try one of there signature dishes(heard the crab sandwich was a favorite among visitors), but I'll definitely try to stay away from the oysters and next time I'll hope for a better than average experience.

Always love the food, the wine and the view. Best place to celebrate anything and everything.

Server forgot my wife's Wine order and my drink order twice right from the beginning. $250 dollar meal, which I used gift cards from costco for $200 of and rest on credit card, and then our server crossed out the recommended tip amount. Kinda of annoying, like I dont know what 20% of the $250 is, I settled for 10% after the fact. I feel like that was generous as I would rate the service one star, but the meal was delicious and I hope the cooks get some recognition, albeit an hour+ after ordering because the server came to me 30 minutes after order after saying she forgot my order and apologized for the wait.. She also got called out by the table next to us wrong as well as she over charged them by a lot! Maybe she was having a bad day, but I probably wont be back.

The service is always the best! The lobster tail was a delight, the potatoes and veggies served with it were so yummy. My husband ALWAYS get the ciappino and raves that it is his favorite! Only disappointment was there was not a shrimp dish option without pasta or getting the combo for two. Prices seemed to have gone done quite a bit, much more reasonable options. Great date night always!

My boyfriend and I had amazing time. The food was superb. The staff was pleasant. The location is clean and chic. It's a cozy atmosphere and we definitely will be back again. P.S order the shrimp and grits with the house made icecream cake it's amazing

Make a reservation here. We had a table facing a view of the ocean. I had the Lobster Pappardelle pasta. It has a heavy cream. it tasted okay. I had the calamari for appetizer not so special. I think the service was great though.

Window tables have majestic views.
Crab Mary, a bit messy to crack lobster for a drink!

Excellent food, friendly staff, very friendly to those with mobility issues and you just can't beat the view!

It was nice, good atmosphere, food was good, employees were friendly.

Cioppino is the best I've ever had, and I've had a lot. Seafood is presented, cooked and treated perfectly, service is awesome! We will be back soon!

To begin with our food took over an hour to arrive; well after other tables who ordered after we did had already received their food. This wouldn't have been an issue except we had our six month old daughter with us and not a word in apology was said by the wait staff; however, I must note that there was one busboy who was clearly in no way responsible, but visibly sorry for our predicament. Once the food did arrive it was as uninspiring as our waiter was indifferent. The $12 tomato soup was no better than what you would expect from a can, my $36 tuna steak was bland and tasteless, and my wife's $28 shrimp pasta contained only 4 very small pieces of shrimp that were overcooked to the point of being inedible. The one good thing that can be said about this establishment is the view from the window is very nice, and if we had been seated anywhere near it our excruciating wait time might have been less torturous.

Its very touristy, sobe prepared. Good views, but the drinks are only so so

For the price. It is terrible. Service is fine. Location is great. Food is small and not very good. $35 for a tiny piece of farm raised salmon. $30 for a pasta dish with a simple cream base and little thought. Flavor was not complex in the least and certainly
Was lacking.

Beautiful views, good food, great service. I took one of my sons here for his birthday. We loved it.

Great view. Fresh and delicious oysters. Will be back. Yum

This restaurant is in the beautiful town of La Jolla.This is my favorite restaurant on the west coast...Period! The food and drinks are great. The view is beautiful. Price is expensive $$$. Reservation is recommended for view seating. The hostess and waiters/waitresses are courteous professional and accommodating.The restaurant has a parking lot in back, but can be a challenge to find. Meter street parking and another lot in area. I will definitely return!

Great views and food what's not to love. Go during happy hour to save money and have a great time it's like your own private balcony.

Great atmosphere and views! Had Brunch with free mimosa's. The wait staff wanted to be sure our visit and bday lunch was the best possible and went out of their way to ensure that it was! Food was very good!

We came on December, 31st 2017 and asked to be sat outside with that beautiful ocean view. We ask 2 bottles of Cabernet with our food. About 5 PM the waitress and manager told us we need to move to inside or reseal our wine and take it with us because we were part of the happy hours and they have a lot reservation for 5:30 PM. We are leaving now around 6:32 PM and only 2 tables out of 12 were taking, the rest including our table were totally empty. Very disappointed about the very unpreffesional way they treat customers. Not coming back for sure.

View is nice, but hostess wouldn't seat us at a smaller table as we requested. Overall this place feels pretentious to the point that it was a turnoff. Overall the food was so so, but we didn't find it to be a good value.

Food was bland, short rib steak was dry and the whole meal was barely warm.

This was the worst seafood I ve ever tried to eat. Fishy, dirty dish water cioppino and no salt used in anything. Glass of champagne was served in a glass with ice and a straw? Weird decor, horrible, odd 70 s music blasting. Save your money.

The menu is extensive. The food is divine. Service was superb.

Very expensive. A lunch for 2 costed $90+ The "catch of the day" previously frozen!

Lovely place to eat with gorgeous view of the water ... The windows/doors were open and I was chilly ... But I'm always cold... Food was excellent, would eat here time and time again