The Bucket Crab & Crawfish

When we visit Corona this is our favorite spot to come with family! Love the all shrimp with bucket medley seasoning! Service is good! Can’t wait to go back!

We’ve been here twice now, and we enjoy it very much! This is my hubby’s favorite seafood boil place in the area, and we’ve tried several! We are very picky about our seafood, and always want to be sure its not overcooked, and they did a nice job.
Things we’ve tried:
Garlic fries… ok
Cajun Fries… good
Dungeness crab with all sauces mixed… FANTASTIC
Shrimp… FANTASTIC
sausage…FANTASTIC
Potato and corn… Good
The service has ALWAYS been very friendly and prompt, and the manager is a great host, he genuinely cares about the guest experience and being helpful.

The places is pretty small hole in the wall. The food wasn’t too salty and the sauce was great.

This place was surprisingly really good. We got the 2lbs of shrimp, great flavor. Service was just ok but that wouldn’t detour me from not going back.

Excellent service. Good tasting food. I would suggest that if you’re not sure, that you ask. Ordered the meal for 2 for $ 30 with 2 pounds shrimp. We were delivered a bag with 2 pounds of whole shrimp. Had I realized I would have to decapitate and peel them myself I would have probably ordered something different, but that’s part of the experience and overall the experience was good.

The service here is amazing. The good is even better. Been here 2 times now and I’m amazed at the quality of the food and service. Will definitely be coming back here again.

This place is a hidden gem. Being from Orange County, we don’t get to come here as much as we would like. However last night after a little road trip, my boyfriend and I decided that The Bucket is where we will eat. We got there a little late 8:30. There wasn’t a lot of people and we were sat right away. Our server was great and very helpful. Food came out quick and yummy as ever!!!
Then that’s when a huge party of like 25 people came in, i know that the servers wanted to start closing and go home, but they had a huge smile on their face and just got to work.
I would recommend this place to anybody, and will definitely be returning!!!

We just had to try this place, we enjoyed it, friendly service and waiter was patient and helped us order us first time here … Great food and fun atmosphere, the crab is delicious well everything was good.

Ooh, it’s something magical
It’s in the air, it’s in my blood, it’s rushing on
Don’t need no reason, don’t need control
I fly so high, no ceiling, when I’m in my zone at… THE BUCKET! — JT (can’t stop the feeling)
I love places like this where you eat with your hands and get right in there. We’ve tried the shrimp (excellent), the crawfish (pretty good), the lobster (average — would not recommend), and the snow crab (also pretty good). They even give you gloves to eat with which I’ve never seen before until eating here. Service is persistent and there’s no wait unlike other popular seafood places with the same business model.

Bad service and bad management. sMh never going back there. I posted something on the photo so please read.

The food is decent. We come for the shrimp (spicy) and the sweet potato fries. The quality of the shrimp is decent; occasionally there will be a mushy one. The flavor of the spice blend is very good.

It was my first time here. This place is pretty decent and staff members were very nice and attentive. Sauce is kind of sweet but food was pretty good.

Celebrated my daughter’s 4^th birthday here. it was such an amazing experience. the food was very good. We’ve been to a couple of cajun restaurants and I thought it would be difficult to find a place in the IE (coming from the OC). this experience released this worry. I am so glad I found a cajun place near me. The food was very good, and not to mention customer service was wonderful!

Definitely won’t be going back here. We came late night on a Saturday and I guess since they were about to close, we got the lazy preparation on our food. We ordered the garlic butter no spice shrimp and mussels. When it came we noticed the sauce was a thickish tomato tasting sauce. It was really overwhelming and we didn’t taste any garlic butter. Maybe it’s better other times but seeing as how we were only in that area for that day and we don’t live close, I think we’ll stick to the Drunken Crab.
Positive though was the service was great and the waitress was nice besides one waiter who thought for some reason it would be cool to question us on if we really needed bibs for everybody. Oh, and you get free cajun fries for checking in on Unilocal.That’s wsup.

— Free cajun fries when you check in! Valued at $ 3.99
(Waiter asked us how we found out about the deal, I was flabbergasted. Didn’t know how to respond, obviously I found out about the cajun fries using Unilocal,because I had to check into Unilocal???)
— Cajun fries were not bad, skinny cut, just the way I like my fries. Only thing I would comment is that I wish it had a kick of spice to it. These got super salty at the end.
— Fresh crawfish at $ 11.99 a pound, it’s more costly than their competitors. When we asked the waiter if they were fresh, for some reason I didn’t believe him. But yes, I can confirm that they were fresh crawfish.
— Limes are juicy
— Small restaurant, only 7 tables inside and some on their outside patio
— Only 1 worker on the floor and the manager
— Medium spice is weak, order hot
— Sauce has a brownish color and has hints of curry
— Lots and lots of sauce so the crawfish looks like it’s swimming in mud
— No free corn/​potato when you order 2 pounds (like usual places)
— Water refill game is not on point; water comes in styrofoam cup and straw, sanitary, I like that
— Although there were only 2 other parties besides mine, I felt that they catered more to the others
— Overall, not bad. Would I come back? Maaaaaybe.

We’ve stopped here once to eat in and once to pick up and take home. I wasn’t very please over all with the taste and their seasoning. I’ve been to a few other places that have way bolder flavors.
They also don’t put in corn, potatoes and sausage with the choice of adding extra like some places do when you purchase a certain amount of food in weight. I know of some places that will add corn potatoes and sausage for free (just a few of each) when you purchase a pound or more. Here at this restaurant if you want corn sausage or potatoes you have to purchase it separately from the seafood. Their corn tasted like it was frozen out of the bag but their sausage was really good.
The second time we went here when I placed my order over the phone for pick up when I got home I realized that they did not place my Cajun fries in the bag and I was very upset because their fries are super super good.
They also don’t serve micheladas like some places but do have the ones in the can you can buy other are $ 7.00 a freakin tall can! Ridiculous.
Probably won’t be back as we will be checking out other spots around our area so we don’t have to drive 20 minutes to this place just to be disappointed. It was nice while it lasted.

Almost like the beach cities but not as classy !! the over all experience was ok. This place is in dire need of a good manager. The waitress was really nice and the food is good, hence my two stars. The bathrooms were disgusting !! No soap in the men’s bathroom. No paper towels with a Black ring around the toilet area. There was Green mold around the urinal and The trash can was over flowing. The bathroom sink was old and painted over and reminded me of some dive bar !!
At the end of using your hands for dinner. They bring you a tiny little wipe like the kind you get at Wild wings. But they give you ONE each.
My first and last time to eat here.

I really wanted some crab and shrimp but didn’t feel like driving to my usual place in Rancho, so I decided to try this place based on the Unilocal reviews. Boy, was I disappointed.
I should have known when I walked in and there were only 2 people sitting in the place that this was a bad idea but because I had ordered over the phone, I didn’t want to be a jerk and walk out. I wish I did.
The seasoning was nothing like the Boiling Crab or the varies other places that I have been to with the same concept. As a matter of fact, even my son’s garlic butter was terrible and how do you mess that up?
I think they should go back to the drawing board and work on their flavor.
I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone.

The high praise on Unilocal really makes me wonder… we had two appetizers that did not taste all that good and weren’t worth the price. Then one crab cake sandwich, that looked like a crab cake you would buy from the freezer section. Sorry, sushi just walking distance away will get our business and if we want really great seafood we will go to Kings or Taps, both 5 minutes from here.
I assume the 20 somethings running this place just have a lot of friends and the $ 2 beer on the weekdays will be keeping them open a little while longer, but we came on a Saturday at lunchtime and it was dead. Once we had some food we knew why.
Just bland with a sponge bob decorating theme. The patio looked really pretty. The waiter tried, but was still awkward.
Sorry, this old couple won’t return.
Hubby can cook all that better at home for way less.

The service was awesome! We made it kind of late (like an hr before close) and they welcomed us very kindly! We had the combo with the whole crab, shrimp, clams, the works! It was great. All the seafood was juicy and tasty. We had the mild cajon spice. It was definitely mild, but my husband was almost overwhelmed. Ha! Everyone’s different I guess.
We will definitely be going back for more!