Stage two of development became known as being a crab house and sports bar.

The cops get together to talk shop at a crab house.

In the summer she works at the crab house on Route 40.

It also plans to underwrite the opening of new oyster and crab houses.

In back of these restaurants and crab houses are long shallow tables called floats.

Shops, marinas, crab houses and other restaurants are within short walks.

"He's having a business dinner with the Senator and he'll join us later at the Crab House."

I worked a deserted crab house on Second Avenue.

Gone, too, are almost all the oyster and crab houses - this in a place once nicknamed "Crabtown."

There are occasional staff get-togethers at a local crab house, the kind where you attack the crabs with a mallet.