Chic’s Seafood

ordered cream of crab. Cold, lacked crab and was custard like. I specifically asked for tartar sauce, received none. Ordered a shrimp sandwich, received it cold and came on white bread because I didn’t want sesame bread. the fried shrimp in the sandwich was clearly breaded. Extremely disappointed with this place and the money spent. Wont’ be eating here again.

Loved our dinner here! A quaint restaurant attached to a fresh seafood market store. We split the #3 combo as described in another review & the 2 soft shell crabs platter between 2 of us. We were pleasantly full from this seafood feast so will have to go back to try the delicious-​looking desserts.

Friendly service, great cream of crab! Oysters were good too! Crabs were yummy! Will be back!

My family and I stopped here today around 1:00 pm. We were the only ones in the restaurant. We have been here numerous times in the past, but nothing to recent. We always get the cream of crab soup and a fish sandwich. The soup which came out first (as we asked) looked delicious as normal. but when we took a spoonful it was barely warm. So I had to go ring the door bell so that our waitress came out from the back of the kitchen. We asked for the soups to be reheated. She came out a few minutes later and he soup was definitely warmer but not hot at all. The taste of the soup would have been a 10 but it was way to salty. This was a first. Our fish sandwiches came out a few minutes later. The fish was good but seems if the fish portion was cut in half since last time. I will give Chic’s another shot, but if it is the same as this time then I think i will have to cross them off my list. By no means do i want to bad mouth this establishment, i just want them to realize our opinion, and hope they can correct it.

Great little hometown restaurant. Not far off the interstate, we stopped for dinner on our way to D.C. Seafood was delicious, they even have a fresh market

We came here because I wanted good seafood while we were in Maryland. I read the reviews on Unilocal and people seemed to love it or hate it. So we decided to give it a chance.
It’s a quaint little place with tables made from old singer sewing machines and sturdy solid wood tops. The server was nice and attentive without hovering. She was also very sweet to my 6 year old.
I started with cream of crab soup. It had big juicy lumps of crab in it. Then I had the combo #3 with the lobster tail (I added crab imperial), crab legs, steamed shrimp, steamed clams and oysters. I would have traded the clams and oysters for more crab or shrimp but overall I was completely happy with my dinner. The boyfriend had the clam chowder and then the crab leg and shrimp dinner. He seemed pretty happy with his two.
I’d definitely come back. If I ever do, maybe I’ll go for the whole crabs that they throw out on the table and give you a hammer to eat. Lol, I’ve never tried that before so I chickened out.

Great. Alaskan crab! Home made cheese cake. Light yet filling. Friendly staff. Interesting décor. Table legs are old singer sewing machine bases!

Family owned and run, Chic’s is one of my favorite places to get crabs. This is your best bet if you want crabs to eat-​in. The waitresses are so sweet and attentive. The Crab Man is friendly. The crabs are always fresh and as affordable as you’ll get in Hagerstown.

You have to have the cream of crab soup. Seasoning on the crab very good a little spicy for me but my husband loved it.

Driving through Maryland on a recent Boston-​to-​Atlanta trip, the gf wants what else, crabs. I’m thinking she means Red Lobster or something, but she says since we’re in Maryland, we should have crabs from a local spot.
She puts something into her GeniusPhone, and it directs us to some place that was closed, next up was this place.
We head over, pull up and notice there are no other cars in the lot. A sign we wonder? We enter and a nice lady greets us. She tells us her name is Heidi. It’s a fresh seafood shop in th front, and
We look at the menu, and there are PLENTY of crab options. We order and wait. After what seemed like 6 months, food comes. First thing I noticed was that my flounder entrée was previously frozen. It was Flounder Imperial. Frozen dish, with fresh, HOMEMADE crabmeat imperial. The crabmeat imperial was HEAVENLY! I mean, like REALLY good. I’d go back JUST for this– the homeade crabmeat imperial. Oh, goodness!
The gf ordered crab legs, a fried crabcake (get the NOT FRIED option if you try one), and she got plenty for the price. NOW– the sides. Oh boy. Baked potatoes were microwaved. Corn had some weird seasoning.
I’d come back here and JUST order the crabmeat imperial. Heidi was great, she was cooking AND serving, talk about multi-​tasking.

I am a lifelong Marylander and I know crabs. I got steamed crabs from here last summer (2012) and they were cooked so poorly that you couldn’t even pull meat out because it had turned to soggy white mush. It made me cry. Their homemade seafood seasoning is not great either.

These are the best crabs I’ve eaten in at least three years.
Sadly, I haven’t had crabs in the last three years, and likely longer. But, even had I had crabs monthly for the last 36, I’m pretty sure the crabs from Chic’s would rank in the top of the class.
By the time I arrived at 7:30, my friend had already ordered a dozen crabs. They were steaming on the tray and I dug right in. They were nicely sized. A couple of them were near jumbo size; none of them didn’t look at least healthy. The meat was moist and tasty, and the spices just hot enough to send a strong message.
Jill’s husband arrived and we ate our way through two dozen hard shell, Maryland-​style crabs. Jill ate a dozen herself; Brad treated himself to a fried soft-​shell crab sandwich. Were I not gluten intolerant, I would have scarfed up on some of it; it looked delicious. Brad kept trying to sell me on trying a salad or soup or something other than crabs. But, as I told him, with good crabs, nothing is needed and we seek to focus on the crab and the quest for meat.
While the dining room was boisterous when I arrived (there was a table of twenty enjoying some sort of celebration), the sound was lost on me; I was enamored with the crabs and digging my way through the meat, enjoying the juice and the rind. Service was attentive by young Nicole. It was her first night serving as a waitress; she kept my soda full and the metal bucket, for scraps, empty
In the mood for crabs and you’re in western Maryland, this is certainly your place.

This place is pretty yummy. I ordered crabs and shrimps and they taste prudy darn good. They are open until 9:30 PM on Sundays too!

Service sucked, presentation was pretty sad.
Crab Cakes were good, but it took over an hour to get served our meal and there was ONE other table in there.
Not recommended.