East Coast She Crab Soup Classic

The 3rd Annual East Coast She-Crab Soup Classic will be held from Noon to 3:00 p.m., Saturday, April 30, at the 24th Street Park along the oceanfront.  The event will feature up to 20 of the region's leading seafood restaurants serving their unique recipes and vying for bragging rights in both Critics’ Choice and Peoples’ Choice categories.

Guests sample She Crab Soup from competing restaurants.  Based on tastings, there are two categories for best recipe winners, with three places in each.  One category is decided by a panel of Hampton Roads food critics and the other – “The Peoples’ Choice” – by the general public. 

The East Coast She-Crab Soup Classic is limited to 1,500 people. 

Tickets are on sale Now through Ticketmaster.

Prices:

$10 in advance (plus services charges) and $12 at the gate (if available).  Children 12 and under free with a guardian (and not sampling).

Click here to purchase tickets

Tickets are also on sale at the Virginia Beach Visitor Information Center (2100 Parks Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA 23451) while they last.

Each restaurant will be serving one-ounce tastings of their recipe.  Attendees will receive a ballot to vote on their top three soups, which will determine the First, Second, and Third Place Peoples’ Choice Awards.  Leading regional food reviewers will determine the First, Second, and Third Place Critics’ Awards.

Participating restaurants:

• Cavalier Hotel
• Lucky Oyster Seafood Grill
• Mahi Mah's Seafood
• McCormick & Schmick's
• Passion The Restaurant
• Rockafeller's
• Salty C's
• Tradewinds
• Waterman's Surfside Grille
• Beach Delly
• Blue Turtle
• C.P. Shuckers
• Freemason Abbey
• Hot Tuna
• Lyynhaven Fish House
• Riverview Coffee Parlor
• 11th Street Taphouse Bar & Grille
• Montgomery Grille
• Surf Club Ocean Grill
• Black Angus Restaurant

All awards will be announced at the conclusion of the event.

BeachEvents will provide free live music during the event and sell non-alcoholic beverages.