Old Bay Fries appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Old Bay fries · Baltimore
Hand-cut fries showered with Old Bay seasoning, the celery-salt-paprika-mustard spice mix that defines Baltimore palates. Served at every crab house and bar in the city.
Old Bay seasoning was invented in 1939 in Baltimore by Gustav Brunn, a German Jewish refugee, who developed the blend for the Chesapeake crab boil trade. The mix of celery salt, paprika, mustard, bay leaf, cloves and red pepper became inseparable from Baltimore cooking. Old Bay fries are a Baltimore bar-snack staple, the cheap-and-essential side at every crab house and corner pub in the city.
Where to eat in Baltimore:
- Chaps Pit Beef
- Mama's on the Half Shell
- LP Steamers
- Faidley's Seafood