The Crab Shop

Fish and chip shops are few and far between on the North Shore, so this is a nice find. A bit off the beaten track in a commercial complex is a fresh fish shop with an abundance of live crabs. We got take out fish and chips, breaded prawns and calamari. It was reasonably priced and while waiting I picked up a number of hefty fresh shrimp and halibut cakes for another day. 3 at $3.50/each or $4 individually. Being a Saturday an hr before close the shop for busy and we ended up waiting around 45mins after calling it in with a 25 min wait. 30 mins before close they closed the kitchen for new orders.
We got 3 pieces of halibut and chips for $35 which seemed like a good deal. The fish was meaty and hearty and the chips were fresh. A little on the greasy side but a few mins in the air fryer added a bit of crisp to them. The place itself is more of a grab and go shop with a bar style table along the window for waiting or a quick meal. It felt a little tired, has seen better days, but that's not to discount the quality of the seafood. Pretty darn good for take out. The Wall has numerous people's choice type awards and a handful of celeb visitors. If you're passing through and looking for a seafood take out, this is worth a try!

Edit: after having had the shrimp and fish cakes bought to cook at home, it's worth noting we found them to be about 90% potato... There were crumbs of shrimp and fish but certainly not what I would expect from it.

I come here for the hot food rather than for the raw seafood.

I like the crabmeat sandwich here as it has real pieces of crabmeat, it is not all chopped up. You can taste the sweetness of the crabmeat as it is not smothered in Mayo or dressing.

The deep fried oysters are coated panko style. It is not oily though it does get to you after a while. Maybe I'm just not big on fried stuff. The combo has 4 pieces of the fried oysters and clam chowder. Not too bad.

The clam chowder is disappointing as it is very starchy tasting. I will not get this.

Fish and chips is their specialty and they have other seafood burgers too.

Besides the hot food, you can get live crabs, oysters and clams here. There are also cooked shrimps and crabmeat which you can buy by the pound.

Frozen and fresh seafood is also a available here. A good place to get that for those living in this area.

Parking is available out front.

No dine in now.

Good spot for fish n chips, and fresh/frozen seafood to go.

The hot food menu has your usual cod/halibut/salmon fish n chips, plus fish burgers, calimari, clam chowder, tacos, etc.

The salmon patties or sausages make for an easy meal at home. Candied salmon or cod is always a great snack.

A little on the pricey side overall, but good quality and selection, and convenient location if you're around Deep Cove.

Currently not allowing dine-in (Dec 2022).

Tasty seafood place in the Maplewood area.

The location is a bit tricky to find. The shop is part of a giant faceless business park. I made the mistake of trying to enter from Forester. This is the most inefficient way, as the shop is literally on the opposite corner of the entire complex. If heading E on Dollarton, go straight past Forester and turn R at the 3rd long building. In other words, Crab Shack is located at the very NE corner of the entire complex, right before Maplewood Flats. Seriously wish someone had told me this, as I spent 10 minutes driving around like an idiot.

After parking and waiting for my blood pressure to go down, it was time to check out the shop. The place is set up like something one might find at a marina. The place is pretty busy, and my understanding is that a lot of things sell out regularly. This happened with the clam chowder on the day I went, so I settled with a crab sandwich. The product is quite fresh and tasty, and the price definitely reflected it.

Staff were friendly, though they were pretty swamped.

Guess I'll come back at some point to try their clam chowder.

Recommended.

Absolutely fantastic. Very fair prices prices for the freshness and size of their portions. We ordered the shrimp sandwich and the oyster burger. I will definitely return to this gem of a place.

Just had a crab sandwich that was amazing. Lots of crab a little bit of coleslaw and the bun was perfection. Well done Crab Shop!!

This place has gone downhill since 2019. Covid is over and they've not allowed people to dine in. The old woman behind the counter hates customers and the young staff have no idea what they are doing. There this week and the halibut and chips were terrible. It was like they microwaved it.

I came over to taste their famous Crab Sandwich with a most delicious bun.
It was incredible and it was the best crab sandwich I've ever had in my life.
Tempted by this house I bought to take away frozen crab cakes to make them another time. I just made them and horror it was not crab cakes but 80% potato with only 20% crab...!!!

If you go to their house to buy their fish products and especially their crab sandwich but don't buy their crab potatoes call crab cake!!!

Rating based of food quality only(4.5*)

Halibut fish and chips 3pc $24, fair price but the fish was amazing juicy and hot and tender The batter was done just right not over cooked, not over powering, just perfect to support the fish. Props to the chef for finding perfect size to batter to cook ratio- super hard to achieve.
The onions rings also the best I had out of all the fish and chips in lower mainland. Fries were fresh too.

They don't cater with welcoming open arms and they don't customize your order such as upgrade to poutine or mix and match your fish but that's not their specialty, they are a fresh fish and crab store to begin with.

We ordered fish and chips from here. Total two two pieces fish and chips and calamari, one was Cod and other was salmon. We were excited to taste and taste was fine. Services was good and friendly. We had to wait for our order but just only 10-15 minutes.
When we started eating, we noticed that we didn't get our order right which was two pieces of cod and two pieces salmon. Instead, we received three pieces cod and one salmon.

We understand they look very similar from outside....but still this was nice thing to happen.