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Cram Crabs For A Good Cause This Weekend

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NYC's first "All U Can Eat Crab Feast," Hammer & Claws Blue Crab Feast, is coming this weekend, and it will be authentic, goshdarnit! Prepare for as much Maryland Blue Crab (duh) steamed on-site, Jalapeño Olive Oil Cole Slaw, Southern Style Cornbread, and Old-Fashioned Banana Pudding as you can handle. Naturally, Abita will be providing three varieties of their craft beer: light, amber, and Purple Haze to wash it all down.

It's a three day jam at the The Tunnel via the Terminal Stores at 269 11th Avenue from September 23rd to the 25st. The $118 tickets will entitle you unlimited beer, crab meat, and sides. A portion of the proceeds from the fiesta will be donated to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to help them restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay, which provides the crustaceans you so heartily enjoy.

Not convinced? Here's how Hammer & Claws puts it: "What makes a crab feast so fun? Eating with your hands? Rubbing shoulders with friends and strangers? Hammering to get to the biggest piece of jumbo lump? It's primitive all right. It's what the Chesapeake is all about."

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  • Guest

    As I previously said, these things are so often a fucking shit show.  As someone who lived in Maryland for many years and Charm City, I know my crabs, and I can eat about two dozen myself.  I'm not even going to subject myself to paying such a high price for six or seven goddamn crabs.  Even if they are blue. 

    Who has shell fragrments in their crab?????

  • NewtonCreek

    Blue Crab meat comes out  in a fine mist mixed with shell frags...

  • Shell frags are for amateurs 

  • yamon

    I've given up on "all you can eat" events after going to the truly horrible Studio Square seafood fest - 1+ hour waits in line to get food defeats the purpose of the whole thing.  Though I'm sure this place will be better staffed and have less meatheads from LI - I'd still be nervous about the amount of crab I could lay my greedy grubby hands on without waiting behind loads of people.  Now...a crab feast at a friends house?  That's a no brainer

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