Crab Cakes

[magicmato]

So my brother has been craving crab cakes and since his trip to DC has been canceled, I was wondering if there was someplace we could easily get him some good crabcakes? We are only three weeks out from arrival, so PSs are probably slim, and half of us detest seafood, so I was hoping there would be a good crab cake available for takeout or counter service...

Thanks for any help you can provide!

 

[jkmmah]

The only place I ordered crab cakes the last time we went to WDW was at RFC and I thought they were amazing! I still dream of them one year later! Because RFC has such a diverse menu surely there will be something for everyone in your party there.

 

[CoolDisneyCat]

They have wonderful crab cakes at Flying Fish. For the non seafood lovers, order the steak .. it is one of the best at WDW.

 

[Aimeedyan]

Brown Derby had great ones!

 

[maggs]

The crab cakes that my son had at the Yacht Club Galley were to die for. He had them for lunch and they were very inexpensive.

Maggs

 

[Forever42]

I thought the ones at Rainforest were pretty bland and full of filler :/ My fiance's mom loved the ones at Kona, and that has a lot of choices beyond seafood and is one of our favorite restaurants to boot.

 

[molly213]

I have only had crab cakes twice in my life - both times during our trip a few weeks ago. The cakes at Kona were pretty dry. I wouldn't get them again. The cakes at the american booth at the food and wine festival were better than Konas.

 

[Micca]

I had the crab and potato cakes appetizer at Raglan Road at DTD and it was the highlight of the meal.

 

[MAGICinMYHEART]

I enjoy the Appetizer- Maryland Crab Cake - pan-seared blue crab cake on fire-roasted corn succotash with bay tartar, from Liberty Tree Taverns lunch menu.

 

[Forever42]

I've been trying to think of where the best on property I've had was, and I finally remembered - Coral Reef. We haven't done any of the other seafood restaurants yet. I know you said that half of your party detests seafood, but you can go for lunch and it's cheaper and I believe there are a few more non seafood choices at lunch over dinner.

I just haven't had a lot of crab cakes I'm impressed with on property. The best I've had recently were at a beachside restaurant down in Fort Pierce, but that doesn't help.

 

[magicmato]

Thanks all. I will talk it over and see what he thinks he wants to do. If the best ones are CR, he and mom may have to go and we will take the kids to the restaurant we intended to go to instead.

 

[skiwee1]

Just wanted to pipe in that any crabcake you get in Florida will not come close to the crabcakes you can get in DC and farther north. No offense to the south but they do not know a crabcake if it bit them.

 

[mitros]

Fulton's Crab House does a decent crab cake as well as Captain Jack's, also in downtown Disney. Captain Jack's has a crab cake melt, which is a crab cake with smoked mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and cajun horseradish sauce on foccacia bread with napa cabbage slaw, very good. They also have non fish dishes for the landlubber.

skiwee1: I seem to recall a post about crab cakes some time ago, and someone, perhaps you? made the same statement about crab cakes in Florida as opposed to ones north of DC. And my comment at the time was, one of the best crab cakes in Florida is available in Levy county at a place called Isaac Waltons lodge. Just wondering if that was you.

 

[Uncleromulus]

I'm in agreement with skiwee1--if you've ever had the genuine Md. Crabcake, you MIGHT be disappointed with what you'll find in WDW. Personally, I've never orderd a crabcake at WDW as an entree--but several times as appetizers. They are almost always tasty-sweet, but lack the genuine lump crabmeat and Old Bay type seasonings.

 

[Mackey Mouse]

OK.. now since I live on Cape Cod....having fish at WDW just does not do it for me.....and having lived in Boston my whole life as well, I am pretty fussy about ordering fish elsewhere. I will have to bow out on the crab cake discussion for WDW as I have not had them at WDW for the reasons stated above.

 

[skiwee1]

skiwee1: I seem to recall a post about crab cakes some time ago, and someone, perhaps you? made the same statement about crab cakes in Florida as opposed to ones north of DC. And my comment at the time was, one of the best crab cakes in Florida is available in Levy county at a place called Isaac Waltons lodge. Just wondering if that was you.

I don't think it was me. It would have been my opinion though! I am sure Isaac Walton has a decent crabcake but in all my years of living in MD, Florida cakes just don't have that touch. Anything south are generally sweetish tasting with too many ingredients that don't belong in a crabcake. I am amazed at the stuff some chefs toss in there and thereby ruin the cake. I prefer to save my crab cravings for MD.

 

[KIANGA]

Since I'm Older I Don't Eat Quite As Much As I Used To. I Love To Go To The Kona Cafe At The Polynesian And Order As An Appetizer The Crab Cakes Or The Pot Stickers.