Bret H.
Yelp
I have lived on Kent Island for 16 years now and I know how very competitive it is for selling top notch crabs and over the years Hunters has been one of the most reasonable priced and honest people,.their reputation has always been fairly outstanding.,thats why it is rather painful to leave this bad review,.what happened?? I ordered a dizen and a half of "so-called" #1's (6-1/2 inch or bigger).
On the phone when i was ordering I made sure with the guy that there were not any #2's (mediums 5-1/2-6 inch) mixed in, which some places will do, usually just a couple which are near the bottom of the bag,.believe me,.I know all the sneaky things some places will do,.but anyway,.he assured me they were all 6-1/2 inch crabs. Well to our disappointment my guest and I right away after sitting down and opening the bag thought the order was wrong,.they must have given us somebody else's medium order,.well we were all set up to eat and I wasnt gonna drive the half hour back there,.so not to be anal, we measured each one before we ate it,.the results were very disapointing,.only 3 of the 18 were true #1's,.in which one was complete mush and was discarded immediately,.5 of the 18 were 6 to 6-1/2. 8 of them were true #2's at 5-1/2 to 6 and 2 of them were even under 5-1/2 !! There is nothing that bothers me more than dishonesty when purchasing crabs because you are paying good money to get what you expect. By the way there was another mushy unedible crab in there also. Hunters was NEVER like this before!,. In talking to people in the know in the island, I was told that it is new ownership & management and they had taken a nose dive,.i did notice that the place looked a little different and it was a young man and women serving me that i dont remember seeing,.you would think that being new owners of a long respected establishment would want to make a positive mark in a very competitive area for crabs,.I just hope this review is seen by them and they make the changes asap,.but just be aware they have changed and they evudently are just eyeballing their crabs and not achieving the standard size and expectation,.also,.mushy crabs are totally unacceptable!,.from now on I am going just another 2 miles east on route 18 to The Cranky Crab,.they may be $10 more per dozen,.but they are ALWAYS honest and ALWAYS good