Last Menu of 2025 – November 28th – 8th January.

 Please be aware some dishes may sell out due to popularity and we may not always have Crab and Lobster available if the Fisherman are unable to go to Sea due to bad weather or we sell out due to their popularity. We may be called the Crab House, but this is just a name, and we are ultimately a Seafood and Fish Restaurant

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In December look at our Chef’s Choice Winter Warmer, 2nd – 19th available Tuesday to Friday – £65 for 2 Link here – December Winter Warmer Lunches

To bait your appetite……………….

Symbols applied to suit Allergens and dishes will be adapted accordingly ….. G = No Gluten, D = No Dairy can be adapted accordingly, and all other allergies can be catered/adapted for also, just let us know on booking.

(Our Kitchen contains all the above and with severe allergies to nuts, shellfish or gluten we may not be able to offer products fried or oven baked due to cross contamination)

Try a Wild Coastal Gin with Seaweed or a Bloody Mary Vodka Shot – Both £4 or a Glass of Champagne, Burn Valley Pink Fizz, Flint Charmant or Winbirri Fizz

Smoked Eel: £5, (G, D)/ Roll Mop Herrings: £5 (G,D) / Chilli Oil Infused Manchego: £5 (G), Homemade Mini Loaves with Cold Pressed Norfolk Rapeseed Oil or our Flavoured Oil  & Balsamic: £5 (G,D) , Lime and Chilli Dressed Crayfish Tails: £5 (G,D)  /Shell on Crevettes: £5 (G, D), Smoked Trout: £5 (G, D), Green & Black Olives: £5 (G, D) Smoked Mackerel : £5 (G, D), Cockles with Cider Vinegar (G, D)

Order a Selection from above and choose 4 for £17.50- All Cold from the fridge

Southerland Norfolk Brancaster Oysters from Scolt Head- £3.25 each or 6 for: £16.50

Natural with Lemon & Shallot Vinegar or Baked with Garlic & Parmesan Butter – Or Mix it Up!

Casting Off

Local Wild Grown Mussels are back for the season on our Specials and as a Supplement to the set price.

Basket of Whitebait with Tartare Sauce: £7.50 (D)

Basket of Crispy Panko Crumbed Fried Prawns with Sweet Chilli Sauce: £7.50 (D)

Mussel Fritters with Provencal Herbed Ketchup: £13 (D, G)

Seared Scallops with Black Pudding and Sweet Potato Puree: £14 (D, G)

Shorske Chingn Bhapa: £12 (G, D)

Braised Octopus with Saffron Potatoes and Aioli: £13 (G, D)

Yakatori Corn Pops with Toasted Sesame Seeds: £10 (G) (V)

Thai Pork Meatballs with Ginger, Chilli, Garlic, Lemongrass and Shallot Glass Noodle Salad: £13 (G, D)

Salads (D, G) 

Our Salads are served cold except for the Lobster which is served warm with the butter melted.

Frary’s Wells Dressed Crab: £22

Andy Frary’s Dressed Crab & Billy Ward’s Warm Garlic Buttered ½ Lobster: £43

Billy Ward’s Warm Garlic Buttered Norfolk Lobster: Half £28 – Whole: £49

All served with a choice of Potato Side, Citrus Dressed Leaves, Homemade Pickles, Beetroot, Tomato and Bloomer Bread – (G, D)

Main Catch

Seabass Fillet with Crushed New Potatoes, Fine Beans and Hollandaise: £24 (G, D adaptable)

Beer Battered Haddock with Handcut Chips, Tartare Sauce, Dressed Leaf and Garden Peas: £22 (G if baked unbattered, D)

Crab Khekla Masala with Fragrant Rice, Garlic Naan and Spiced Mango Chutney: £25 (G, D)

Halibut Loin with Fondant Potato, Cavalo Nero and Lobster & Orange Sauce: £30 (G, D)

Chicken Breast wrapped in Parma Ham with Parmentier Potatoes, Honey Roasted Carrots and Mustard Cream Sauce: £24 (G, D)

Mushroom & Chestnut Wellington with Maple Roasted Root Vegetables and Port & Cranberry Gravy: £25 (V) (GF & DF on prior notice only)

Vegan Option available on prior notice

Main Specials are available…

Seafood Platters 

Crab Platter 

Wells Dressed Frary’s Crab, Shell on Crevettes, Cockles, Crayfish Tails, Oak Smoked Salmon, Rollmops: For 2: £44, For 1: £28 Add ½ Lobster: £21 Or an Extra Dressed Crab: £13

Lobster Platter

Billy Ward’s Garlic Lobster ½’s, Shell on Crevettes, Cockles, Crayfish Tails, Oak Smoked Salmon, Rollmops: For 2: £72, For 1: £36 Add a Dressed Crab: £13

 The Big One

Andy Frary Dressed Crabs, Billy Ward’s Garlic ½’s Lobster, Shell on Crevettes, Cockles, Crayfish Tails, Oak Smoked Salmon, Smoked Trout, Smoked Eel, Smoked Mackerel, Rollmops:

For 2 with Lobster: £114 With No Lobster: For 2 £72

For 1: £37 (Add ½ a Lobster: £21)

Add 6 Oysters: £16.50

Our Cold Seafood Platters are designed to share with maybe an extra side but do come with Shallot, Horseradish & Dill Potato Salad and Citrus Dressed Leaves…. All can be adapted for Non Gluten and Non Dairy.

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Sides
Bucket of Handcut Chips :£5 (G -Traces)/Bucket of Bacon Dusted Fries :£5 /Side Salad :£5 /New Potatoes :£4 /Bucket of Plain Fries: £4.50, Bucket of Sweet Potato Fries :£4.50, Shallot, Horseradish & Dill Potato Salad : £5

To Reel It In – All £10 

Norfolk Cheeseboard – Norfolk Dapple, Binham Blue and Norfolk Mardler with Crackers, Chutney, Fruit and Celery: £14 (G)

Or just want a taster then choose one cheese with crackers and a little chutney: £5 (G)

Try with a Port – Ruby, Tawny or Colheita or a Whin Hill Ice Cider

Selection of Norfolk Ice Creams & Sorbets from Ronaldo’s and Dann’s and many Homemade- £2.50 a Scoop (G, D)

Affogato :£4.75 (G, D)

Snappagato: £7.50 – Salted Caramel Ice Cream, Espresso Coffee and a Shot of  Black Shuck Banana & Toffee Schnapps (G)

Biscotti Biscuits to dip into a 50ml Tuscan Dessert Wine – Bonacchi, Vin Santo del Chianti 2010 – Amber in colour with intense, heady aromas of candied fruit and toffee. The palate is sweet, with balancing freshness and shows lovely complexity from the ageing, which delivers caramel notes with sweet, citrus fruits through to a deliciously long finish – £8.50

Passionfruit Posset with Coconut Macaroons, Pineapple & Lime Salsa (G)

Lavender Pannacotta with Cardamon Fruit Compote and Shortbread  (G)

Apple & Blackberry Crumble with Custard (G, D Nuts)

Sticky Ginger & Pear Pudding with Ginger Brandy Sauce and Custard (G Available, VG)

Creake Mud Cake with Coffee Ice Cream (G)

Please note – Our desserts change throughout the month and we have a Vegan Pudding available.

Wells Crab House Children’s Menu

Garlic Buttered Toast – £2 (G)

Crispy Fried King Prawns – £4.50 (D)

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Cold Oak Smoked Salmon with New Potatoes & Peas :£8 ( G & D)

Cheese & Tomato topped Flatbread with Fries & Salad: £7.50

Breaded Chicken Goujon with Fries and Peas : £8 (G (Traces) & D)

Battered Fish ‘n’ Fries and Peas :£8 (Can be baked without Batter – (G, D)

Seafood Platter – Crevettes, Crayfish, Rollmop, Cockles, Trout, Fries and Bread: £11 (G & D available)

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Chocolate Fudge Sundae – £4 (G, D) adaptable

Smarties Ice Cream Sundae with Chocolate Sauce – £4 (G)

Fish Jelly Sweets with Vanilla Ice Cream – £3 (G & D with Sorbet)

Fresh Fruit with Whipped Cream or Ice Cream – £4 (D, G) (Vegan Pouring Cream Available)