OC Uptown Eats

This is a great little local spot with some of the best crab cakes I’ve had in a long time. They’re full of real crab meat, nicely seasoned, and cooked just right — crispy on the outside and tender inside. You can tell they care about the quality of the food.

The staff is friendly and welcoming, which really adds to the experience. It’s a small place with a comfortable, relaxed vibe. If you’re in the area and enjoy crab cakes, this place is definitely worth a try.

Chubby Alert…this place is absolutely a gem in OC. Highly recommend the food. Everything we got was amazing.

Husband got a bacon ribeye wrap with grill onions, mushrooms and provolone cheese. It was thick and meaty and a sexy wrap like it suppose to be.

My kid got a large chicken Parm house special sandwich. The chicken parm was massive with soft and crunchy bread, homemade marina sauce and chucks of perfectly cut chicken and gooey yummy mozzarella cheese on top fitted in small size pizza box.

Mother in law got a small ribeye steak and with America cheese and it was massive. It was meaty and juicy. They packed the beef in that sandwich.

I had the mermaid with a crab cake broiled and fried flounder. The fried flounder was so crispy on the outside and soft and flakey in the middle. I love the homemade tartar sauce which was so good with chunks of horse radish. The coleslaw was crunchy and not overly drowning in dressing. The crab cake was broiled and it had very little filler. It was so meaty with crab every bite.

Now we ordered 8oz cream of crab, however, the owner personally told me that he did not like the consistency of his soup and was not going to charge us for the soup. He gave us cream crab soup with extra crab in the cup. The soup was so delicious without the thickness. I love the honesty and his integrity for his food. The owner is down to earth, takes pride, big heart and love into his food. The mans art is his food and you can tell by the way he cares. This is WIN for me!! This will be our new place in OC for now on.

I wish I took some more pictures but we ate everything before I got the pictures!

We came and ordered takeout -- jumbo lump crab cake, softshell crab sandwich, and cream of crab soup. Everything was prepared and packed promptly and we liked all the dishes. The cream of crab soup had a lot of lump crab meat and the crab cakes were similarly just about only crab meat. It's a small restaurant, primarily for takeout, but there are a few tables outside.