Hooper's Crab House

Hoopers is really great!! The atmosphere is so fun and comfy, the service is usually always great! The food is super yummy and fresh just definitely on the pricey side. Definitely more of a tourist spot, but the drinks are always awesome! Try and sit out at sneaky petes if you can!!

I would like to be honest and give this establishment 3.5 stars, but alas. Anyways, my fiancée and I went here on our most recent visit to Ocean City. The interior had its own unique identity with several items from different time periods.

As for the food, what can I say. It was good for seafood. We got a combo of crab legs, blue crabs, and a lobster. It included corn that was un-shucked. I was shocked that it was still in its husk, but the corn was cooked beautifully. The crabs of course were good. I prefer crab legs to blue crabs since they are easier to eat. Now for the lobster, it could have been done better. It gave me a problem just trying to get the meat out of the tail. What my problem was was that we were not given the proper tools to eat our shellfish. We only had a nutcracker, but that can only go so far. We had to ask multiple times for a crab knife and mallet. The lobster tail was a pain to get out; the claw meat had the texture of ricotta cheese, and the knuckle gave me a gnarly cut on my thumb.

Now the service. I will give some leeway since it was the 4th of July weekend and they were busy, but it could not have been that hard to give us butter for the bread, seasoning for the shellfish meat, and especially a BANDAGE for a customer who is bleeding. I asked our server 3 or 4 times for a bandage and still nothing. I had to go to the gift shop just to get one. As least have some sympathy for an injury.

Now if you are a tourist who wants good seafood, I recommend this place. Just do not go on a holiday weekend.

Food was great, it wasnt too packed when we went. We sat right on the water in a boat. Tables could of been bigger but we ordered so much food. It is pricy. Between 3 of us we spent $247.00 and we only got 2 drinks 🍹 . Are waiter wasnt as attentive as i would of liked him to be. We had to go get our own bar. And our friends had to sit at a separate table because there wasnt a table big enough for us all and they had to go get their own bill. Nobody was in the gift shop working.