The Boiling Crab
The Boiling Crab Harvard Square is at 96 Winthrop Street in Cambridge. Phone (617) 300-0299. Official hours are Monday through Friday 3 to 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 12 to 10 p.m. You pick a catch (Dungeness, king or snow crab, shrimp, lobster, clams, mussels, crawfish) and a sauce: Rajun Cajun, lemon pepper, garlic butter, or Whole Sha-Bang. There are fried baskets, Cajun fries, gumbo, corn, potatoes, and sausage. Eat with your hands; bibs are part of it. This is the Cambridge chain shop, not a New England clam shack. 96 Winthrop Street, Cambridge. Come for a shrimp or crab boil.

