Where can I go for down and dirty steamed crabs?

[binkis]

Ideally I'm looking for a place with newspaper on the tables where you take a big hammer and go nuts on a pile of crabs with a cold beer and maybe some corn bread. Does this exist in NYC?

[soopling]

someone recommended this place recently, but i've never been there. considering it, though.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/ow_2FOPRwkhFs...

[egit]

Just yesterday someone mentioned that Georgia's on the LES has an all you can eat special on blue crabs on sundays for $25.

I plan to make them regret that offer.

[americanafan]

If you're a fan of Maryland steamed crabs, it's more likely that you'll regret it than the restaurant will. All of the local attempts I've sampled are caricatures of the real thing, with puny crabs that would be sneered at in Baltimore.

[davisready]

I'll be sure to hit that up this Sunday!

[CalJack]

Along the same vein, I believe a place called SB3 at 33 Ave B (just northeast of Georgia's) offers an all-you-can-eat crabs special on Mondays. I'll admit I haven't tried it, but last I heard it was going to be offered all summer long ($10 more got you all-you-can-drink drafts of whatever keg they shipped in for the night - Harpoon UFO when I asked back in early July).

I stopped in for brunch randomly one afternoon - the place had an airy, industrial polish to it, and was definitely shooting for a Southern rustic feel while sneaking in a dose of old-world elegance. The service was spotty at best, the kitchen slow, the brunch serviceable (a 3-cheese omelet with gruyere dominating the scenery, accompanied by a salad of questionable freshness with some interesting whipped garlic potatoes thrown in there somewhere); in spite of the inconsistencies, I had a knockout bloody mary - spicy, citrus-y, strong, expensive - and the Monday night special seemed dangerously intriguing...

Anyone out there care to confirm or explode my suspicions?

[ChefBoyAreMe]

It used to, years ago, on the UWS, across from the Dakota, if memory serves. The place was called Sidewalkers" and was set up to look like a classic Balto carb house...paper on tables, hammers, waste baskets for the scraps, and steamed blue claws coated with Old Bay. Sadly, it's long gone. I don't thinks we've had anything like it since.

[harrison]

Yup - that's the place - in the space that has been Sambuca for years. Funniest thing is it was featured on some talk show in Japan and they used to bus in the Japanese tourists.

You can get them at City Crab. I think the place is awful. Take the ride to Baltimore instead.