ST. MICHAELS, MARYLAND — The Crab Claw Restaurant has posted, on its own homepage, that it is now open for the 2026 season, and that it is open for its final season. Both lines are on the same page. Final here means the season, not last week.

Sunday it opens at 11 a.m. It is closed Tuesdays. The address is 304 Burns Street, St. Michaels, MD 21663. Reservations by phone only: 410-745-2900. Parties of 20 or more, the site says ask for Valerie. Email reservations are not accepted.

The homepage does not publish a closing hour. It also does not publish the last day of the season.

Bill and Sylvia Jones opened the restaurant in 1965, the site says, after years as the Eastern Shore Clam Company. The family still runs it. In an April 27, 2023 release, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum said it intended to acquire two properties next to its campus, including the restaurant’s current home, and that the kitchen would remain open through the 2023 season under then-current ownership. CBMM named owner Tracey Jones Wass. The restaurant is still serving. It is still calling 2026 the last season, and it is still calling that season open.

This is not a review. They still post that they serve crab cakes.

Hours / address: The Crab Claw Restaurant, 304 Burns St., St. Michaels, MD 21663. Open Wed.–Mon. at 11 a.m. Closed Tuesdays. Closing hour not posted on the homepage. 410-745-2900.