Maryland crab cake is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Baltimore. The Baltimore crab cake is jumbo lump blue crab held together with almost no filler and broiled, not fried, so the sweet meat does the talking. Start with where to eat Maryland crab cake in Baltimore.
Maryland crab cake · Baltimore
The Baltimore crab cake is jumbo lump blue crab held together with almost no filler and broiled, not fried, so the sweet meat does the talking. The no-filler version is the local point of pride.
Crab cakes grew out of the Chesapeake's 19th-century oyster-and-crab economy, when Baltimore was the world's leading seafood-packing port. The Maryland style, jumbo lump bound with just egg, mustard and a little binder, then broiled, became fixed as the gold standard. Faidley's at Lexington Market, selling crab cakes since 1886, is often credited with setting the no-filler benchmark that locals still defend against fried, filler-heavy versions elsewhere.
Where to eat in Baltimore:
- Faidley's Seafood
- Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen
- Thames Street Oyster House
- True Chesapeake Oyster Co.
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