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The Barking Crab

88 Sleeper St.
South Boston, MA 02210
Phone: 617-426-2722
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Fax: 617-350-5062
Email: gm@barkingcrab.com
Price Range: : $$ — Moderately Priced
Cuisine(s): Seafood
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With its crab-trap-and-buoy décor, this waterside shanty feels like an old-time fisherman's haunt but is filled mostly with tourists and a young happy-hour crowd. In warm weather, the tented back patio offers rows of wooden picnic tables, at which diners can dive into buckets of crab legs and steamed lobster. The clams and the chowder are exceptional, and diners get an unobstructed view of the downtown skyline.

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