4 editor picks in Baltimore.
Chesapeake cooking is Baltimore's signature regional cuisine, built on blue crab, oysters and the bounty of the bay just beyond the city. Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen downtown, set at the Baltimore Museum of Art, is a longtime standard-bearer, while True Chesapeake Oyster Co. in Hampden brings the raw bar front and center.
4 chesapeake places in Baltimore we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Baltimore · Chesapeake across every city.
Order The crab cake, plus a cup of the Maryland crab soup loaded with vegetables.
Gertrude's sits inside the Baltimore Museum of Art, where founder John Shields cooks the Chesapeake canon of crab cake and Maryland crab soup.
Order A dozen Jerome Creek oysters and the jumbo lump crab cake.
True Chesapeake Oyster Co.
True Chesapeake Oyster Co.
Try Crab cake, lake trout, market stalls
Lexington Market gathers cheap counters under one roof, from Faidley's crab cake to lake trout and chicken boxes, the city's oldest market and its best value.
