The new Cajun-style seafood spot Hot Crab celebrated its grand opening in late February, with deals like 15% off your entire order.
Although this discount is no longer applicable, you can still visit the new fast-casual restaurant, with its stacked menu and fair prices, at 1390 34th St. N in St. Petersburg.
Slightly hidden at the end of a busy plaza that also houses Japanese restaurant Mr. Sushi, Hot Crab dishes out various types of po'boys, Cajun fried rice, and almost every type of seafood you imagine. Its menu offers oysters (fried, steamed or raw), octopus, calamari, catfish, shrimp, crawfish, crab cakes, lobster tails, mussels, scallops and Dungeness, snow, soft-shell and blue crab.
You can even build your own Cajun-seasoned seafood boil by the pound or half-pound. Each boil also comes with corn, potatoes and either a piece of bread or a boiled egg; check out its full menu at hotcrabinc.com.
Hot Crab, which operates out of the space formerly occupied Yaya’s Flame Broiled Chicken, is now open from 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Mon.-Sat., and 11:30 p.m.-10 p.m. on Sun.
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This article appears in Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2020.