USA's Cajun-Style Seafood Sensation The Boiling Crab Is Opening Its First Sydney Restaurant

Having earned cult status (and TikTok stardom) among the seafood lovers of the USA and Melbourne, Cajun-style restaurant The Boiling Crab is coming to Sydney, bringing its famed signature crab boil offering to Haymarket. Monday, August 13 will see the chain open an expansive restaurant on Harbour Street, a couple of years on from making its first Australian splash in Victoria.

Just like its siblings in the south, the new Sydney outpost invites you to don a bib and gloves, turf your inhibitions, and get messy digging into saucy piles of seafood and accompaniments.

The menu delivers a sumptuous choose-your-own-adventure scenario. First, select your hero seafood — perhaps some Aussie lobster, Moreton Bay bugs, king crab legs, clams or baby octopus — which is priced by weight, then steamed or boiled in your choice of seasonings, sauces and spices.

The latter ranges from 'non-spicy' up to 'XXX (I Can't Feel My Mouth!)', and you can round it all out with extras like gumbo, corn on the cob, whole baby potatoes and cajun-spiced fries. It's delivered to you in the bag, ready to be spilled onto your paper-topped table and devoured with abandon.

Fans of the fried stuff can supplement their feast with a hefty lineup of crispy things served by the basket. You'll find hot wings in a variety of coatings, soft shell crab served atop a pile of chips, fried calamari and the crunchy Sha-Bang Bang Shrimp, available in three levels of heat.

You'll be quenching your thirst throughout with a crisp imported brew, margarita or michelada — or you can BYO drinks for $3 per person.

The Boiling Crab will open at the Ground Floor, 68 Harbour Street, Haymarket on Monday, August 13 — open 12–10pm Monday–Sunday.