27 crab cakes at 16 kitchens, and 10 of the kitchens broil

Of the 40 menus we read, 16 list a crab cake, and between them they list 27. Only the burger is on as many menus, and no other plate has the kitchens disagreeing so plainly about how it should arrive.

we read 40 kitchensread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

27 dishes are filed under crab cakeread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

16 kitchens serve crab cakeread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

Crab cakeEvery version, one row per plate, on the concept page.

Most kitchens put it on a bun: BLU Crabhouse & Raw Bar, Barn 34, Harborside Bar & Grill, Ocean 13, Seacrets (Jamaica USA), Sneaky Pete's, Sunset Grille, The Crab Bag, The Shark on the Harbor and Waterman's Seafood Co. each list a crab cake sandwich. As a dinner or a platter it comes from Marlin Moon, Ocean 13, Sneaky Pete's, Sunset Grille and The Crab Bag. Coconuts Beach Bar sells its crab cake by the ounce, and Coins Pub prints two, a single and Coin's Famous Crab Cake. Our reading of the menus supplied some of these plates; the hollow dot on the concept page says which.

Jumbo Lump (The two whole swimming-leg muscles of a blue crab. The largest pieces, and the dearest.) Crab CakesIs this right?Blacksmith Bar & Restaurant

BROILED DOUBLE CRAB CAKE DINNERIs this right?BLU Crabhouse & Raw Bar

FRIED CRAB CAKE SANDWICHIs this right?BLU Crabhouse & Raw Bar

Coin's Famous Crab CakeIs this right?Coins Pub & Restaurant

Our reading of the menus finds 10 of the 16 kitchens broil their crab cake, and 6 fry: BLU Crabhouse & Raw Bar, Barn 34, Harborside Bar & Grill, Ocean 13, Sneaky Pete's and Waterman's Seafood Co. BLU Crabhouse & Raw Bar, Harborside Bar & Grill, Sneaky Pete's and Waterman's Seafood Co. list it both ways on the same menu. Jumbo lump is printed in the plate's own name at Blacksmith Bar & Restaurant, The Crab Bag and The Shark on the Harbor; the other menus say crab cake and leave the grade to the kitchen.

10 kitchens serve crab cakeread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

6 kitchens serve crab cakeread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

Jumbo Lump (The two whole swimming-leg muscles of a blue crab. The largest pieces, and the dearest.) Crab Cake DinnerIs this right?The Crab Bag

Jumbo Lump (The two whole swimming-leg muscles of a blue crab. The largest pieces, and the dearest.) Crab Cake SandwichIs this right?The Crab Bag

Crab Cake PlatterIs this right?Ocean 13

Jumbo Lump (The two whole swimming-leg muscles of a blue crab. The largest pieces, and the dearest.) Crab CakeIs this right?The Shark on the Harbor

Widen from the crab cake to crab in any form and the split holds, with broiling ahead. 30 kitchens serve crab; 18 broil it and 16 fry it, with simmered, grilled and baked behind them. The crab cake is where the town's habit shows most clearly because it is one of the two plates the most kitchens share.

30 kitchens serve crabread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

18 kitchens broil their crabread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

16 kitchens fry their crabread by scriptas of 2026-09-10

This is the count, not a ranking. Nothing here says whose crab cake to order; it says how many kitchens make one, how each says it is cooked, and what comes beside it. The concept page lays the 27 out as a table, one row per plate, with only the columns that differ between them.