The Phillips family has made the difficult decision to sell our Phillips Crab House property in Ocean City, Maryland, and the location has now permanently closed. Over our 66 seasons in business, we’ve served millions of families, vacationers and OC locals, and our family feels so fortunate to have earned the loyalty of our guests, who came back year after year to build their vacation memories with us. Thank you for being such a wonderful part of our story.
Not many restaurants live to see their 50th season, let alone celebrate over 65 years, and our family credits the amazing Crab House team for giving the business such longevity. From the crab department to the prep room, through the upstairs and downstairs kitchen staff, to the servers, bussers and bartenders, our employees returned season after season and became part of the extended Phillips family. Led by a strong management team, our staff worked together to deliver delicious dishes, all served up with a warm smile and welcoming Eastern Shore hospitality. None of our success over the years would have been possible without their hard work and dedication, and we are so grateful for their loyalty.
While it is extremely difficult for our family to say goodbye to the Crab House, we will take with us all the memories from the days and nights with our coworkers and guests, the lessons we have all learned from working together as a strong team, and the friendships we have grown over the years. As we move forward, we will continue to build on the strong foundation that our original Crab House location gave us. We remain firmly planted in Maryland and will dedicate our resources in support of our Baltimore restaurant location, Baltimore culinary center and the growth of our retail, club, foodservice, and international business.
Glad they are closed! Nasty food!
They got Rich along time ago & don’t need the $$$$ !!!!!!!
The building is essentially worthless, except for the memories.
Property, including good sized parking lot(s) worth mid to upper 8 figures?
Yeppers
This homegrown Eastern Shore business will be sorely missed even though they rejected us during the off season. They begun to reject us, Eastern Shore, when they moved to Baltimore.
I knew one of the original Families that were partners, investors, with the Phillips family
Sorry to see this the one truly Salisbury area original eastern shore style food place on the shore. I wish it weren’t so loved the food and that it represented us wish they would reconsider.
The fam has an international business that is very lucrative. Plus selling a huge plot of real estate on a 10 mile island…..CHAAAA CHING. Memories galore, good bad indifferent change happens.
Now with margaritaville tabled, recent yearly sellings of Dunes, Carousel, other major properties, Big Named chains building 2nd and 3rd tiered hotels…the town Heavies like the mcfauls, fagers, moores, trimpers, jenkins…….who or what conglomerate will buy the phillips land. Rickie and Co will be involved.
Change sucks but us inevitable. Offseason is SO fun.
Best cream of crab soup and crab imperial ever.
In the beginning, you could bring your own beer to enjoy their REALY REASONABLE priced crabs. Their business model was to be able to seat as many customers as you could because turning them away meant loss of business in a period when there were not enough businesses to feed those that wanted to eat out. The pizza industry rode the same wave but eventually the market (Grotto and Ponzettis) became pretty thin and Phillips could not fill all the 2 floor venues they built. They eventually became another SYSCO outlet. Ocean City Government permitted a saturation simply for more revenue and less survivable business opportunities. That is what has happened to a lot of Carribian Joes.
Family made their $$$$ along time ago !!!!!
They will now spend the rest of their days counting their money. You know they are going to take it with them, don’t you?