Dancing Crab (VivoCity)

Food is hearty and great for sharing! My dad loves the rustic feeling of eating crab and seafood while enjoying the view of Sentosa. The Mee Goreng was a very tasty surprise delight! We tried Cajun sauce previously and decided to try the zesty garlic butter instead and it was really good. Seafood was very fresh! Love the sweet potato fries as well. (Just a little side note to choose better music to accompany the setting. Perhaps country music or pop music instead of songs with vulgar lyrics or techno house music. There were many families with children around as well)

Was okay. Late night crab. We were the last ones to order. Staff were great but kitchen had run out of some food. Like there was no vegetables. We had the pepper crab which was an excellent. We wanted fresh chili which the kitchen could not provide. Felt like they couldn’t be bothered.

Good price when there’s promotion if not it’s on the pricey side but it’s seafood so I guess prices are higher than regular restaurants. The food taste is not bad and seafood is fresh. The mains are more of single portion and not so big but I guess for one person it’s enough. The sides like fresh mushroom and chicken wings are not bad. Good that they have some limited menu for those who don’t eat seafood. I think it would be better if there’s some non-seafood main course like chicken pasta or vegetarian pasta so that people who don’t eat seafood can dine there together with family or friends. The food tastes are all not bad and seafood is fresh. The service staff were helpful and friendly too. But I’m not a fan of the paper plates and plastic cutlery. I guess it’s the atmosphere they want to create like an American style seafood casual joint but save the planet - cut out disposables. Probably I’ll be back there sometime if there’s another promotion, otherwise it’s kinda expensive.

came here to have my birthday dinner. the food was really delicious, especially the crabs as they were very fresh! to top it off, the staff arranged a birthday surprise for me with complimentary brownies and ice cream :) i really enjoyed my visit and would highly recommend this place!!

Went for their mini bag lunch combo and it was truly delightful. Delicious fresh seafood and wonderful service from staff. Went back 2 days later to try the Live Dungeness Crab Combo in zesty garlic butter sauce. It was absolutely delicious!!!

We came to celebrate our mother’s birthday and were pleasantly surprised by the incredibly friendly and enthusiastic staff. They were also very patient and helpful in assisting us with signing up for the membership. The surprise birthday celebration was also such a lovely touch — definitely somewhere you should go for your own birthday too! (wont give too much info hehe) The limited-time Squid Game activity was a fun highlight! It helped us pass the time while waiting for the food, and even managed to get a complimentary drink. As for the food — the Crab in a Bag exceeded our expectations! The portion of mushrooms was also impressively generous. we’re definitely looking forward to coming back! 🦀 still the best part was the super good staff!!

Great place for celebrating special occasions, and even more worthwhile if there’s dinning promo such as using Kris+ voucher. The food meets expectations, and the service crew is warm and friendly. Crab is on a smaller side but they do give generous portion of prawns and other seafood.

Food is amazing! Loved the zesty garlic butter sauce. You can customize your own combo (choose whichever seafood you want, and as much as you want). For our appetizer, we got the beer battered maitake mushrooms. They were good and serving is big. Then for our other mains: we ordered the lobster roll, shrimp & clam combo, crab fried rice. The lobster roll was good too, but a bit pricey for what it is. The crab fried rice was so good, went so well with the sauce of our seafood! Service is good. Staff are very friendly and attentive.

This place is located on the top floor of Vivocity. Its a crab place where they serve your food on a plastic table cloth and you eat right off it. Not my favorite style but oh well. We came in late so got the lobster roll and crab cake. The lobster roll was tasty, but had far too less lobster to the amount of bread. The crab cakes were too oily. The truffle fries though were pretty good. Overall not the best value for money.

Dancing Crab is a good option for weekday lunch with specials on many Cajun seafood staples. Bright and airy restaurant located at the top of Vivocity. My hands down favorite is the crab garden salad. Generous serving of crab with fresh greens and hazelnuts + almonds for textural contrast. All brought together with a sweet and creamy dressing that brings the whole salad together. Not sure if it's still on the menu but the shrimp etoufee is really tasty with rich shrimp flavor. We got the last serving of the jambalaya which meant it was dry since it was the bottom of the pot. However, that was something that the staff proactively pointed out and offered a cup of gumbo on the house to compensate. Love the proactive service! I would say that service here is better than most places and testament to quality associatediiii with the Tung Lok group.

Dancing Crab, a Cajun Seafood restaurant, is brought to us by the Tung Lok Group, which at first might be a bit surprising. Yet, Cajun food is spicy and Cajun seafood can be (or rather is best) eaten with one's hands. That is a great description of Chili Crab and other Singaporean seafood favourites. So in retrospect it makes perfect sense that they're started this concept here. The lunch menu here is great value, but seafood by weight seems very expensive. So bear that in mind before coming here. We had a Vivocity-only lunch set with coleslaw, crab noodles, fizzy lemonade and prawns. The star of the show was 5 prawns in mild signature style. Although it was "mild" it turned out to be a pretty spicy tomato sauce with corn, carrot, potato and sausage inside. The prawns were super fresh (possibly live) and great. The crab noodles were very tasty. That said they seemed more Chinese style (slippery thin yellow noodles coated with flavourful oil and some crab meat on top). The coleslaw was very good: tangy, crispy and milky. It was most refreshing and cut the heat of the food. The fizzy lemonade was normal. It wasn't sweet and I couldn't tell it was fizzy. The lavender lemonade was interesting and sweeter too. Oddly it was pink even though lavender is blue. The jambalaya (lunch menu item) was not bad. It was a touch less wet than it was supposed to be but was tasty enough and had a fair bit of ingredients inside. Dessert was beignets aka county fair style fried dough. The crumb was not quite light enough and was a bit inconsistent with some beignets fluffier than others. Other than that they were pretty good and they tasted like they were supposed to, and were dusted with light icing sugar. Thoughtfully, the branches have sinks in them, so you don't need to go all that far to clean up after massacring a bag of seafood.

This location seem hard to find, is at Tue corner that u have to try very hard to locate. Tue food was great, maybe the location is hard to find, the business was very slow, lucky they can still keep the seafood fresh. One star deducted because only one non spicy sauce you can choose from n the rest are all spicy which may not be suitable if you have children dine in.

Fresh hot spicy seafood in a bag, eaten off the table with clean hands hopefully. Somehow everything taste better when eating with hands, and more so if it's eaten off tables. Naturally, they will charge you arm and leg for that privilege. Fresh. A sri lankan crab, 300gram prawns, 250g clams, corn, potatoes, sausages all precooked and soaked in cajun sauce spicy Louisiana style. Just the way I like it. Black pepper rice is pretty decent and it tastes like something all kids will love.

Note: to be fair, I didn't eat any of crabs, prawn, mussels or any from their seafood bags. I went to the boiler -louisiana food and beer the night before and forswore not to eat another seafood in a bag till my stomach digested whatever was thrown in. I was still burping clams when I entered dancing crabs.. So this review is based on their lobster rolls, fries, and uhm.. Other surprises ........................... What greets you before you head into dancing crabs? Live crabs of course!! Oh dearie me. Don't look at them and walk on. Lobster rolls for 29.90! Gasps.. So expensive but is it worth it? The bread was fried like a mantou but not as silky as one would preferred.. Lobster amount was okkkkkaaaay and we tasted more of the mayo rather than the lobster.. Cajun fries was a leeeeetle spicy but shoe string.... But the atmosphere is great.. You get to eat with all the messiness.. No one will judge you once you don the apron. And that's what counts. Ask for the table downstairs so you can see sentosa and the sea as you eat your prawns, though I reckon your eyes will be on the food rather than the view. Service for food is fast but chaotic.. Not bad. And nice service.. They make mistakes but they try to rectify it as much as they can so win for them!!

A decent and not-that-expensive lobster roll! Well you know how expensive lobster rolls can be so at 29.90 this one is fair. It doesn't have that much lobster but it tastes very good and the little bit of coleslaw at the bottom was a surprising nice touch. The bread is CORRECT. Buttery and fluffy the way it should be. Fries not too bad- shoestring and they come in normal, truffle oil or spicy cajun (no extra charge!).

I recently ate at the VivoCity outlet for the first time. My meal was fine (fried rice with crab), the service about average. However, we were surprised to be issued plastic tableware in a sit-down restaurant that is not overpriced but certainly not cheap. Perhaps the restaurant is going for a picnic-like vibe, or it is due to Covid measures, but eating decent food with plastic utensils affects the taste and is a definite setback to the environment. They should rethink their usage of plastic utensils in 2020 and customers should call them out on their unnecessary reliance on plastic.

I like the crabs, and that's all. Limited dining time just enough for finish the food. Eating everything on disposable tablecloth with really hard-to-use plastic spoon and fork. Not sure if there's any other restaurant at the same price level would do so.

We had a birthday celebration here unexpectedly when our car broke down at Vivocity, and the food was surprisingly good (get the Dungeness crab!). Better yet, the atmosphere was great! The staff brought out the cake in this super cute crab platter and sang for my dad. Would come back again!