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Read from the menus of 40 of the town’s 66 kitchens, every one that publishes a menu we could read · 1226 dishes · 15 kitchens read by eye, 25 by script · menus read 2026-09-10 How we read them

Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →

Showing dishes read by a person and by a script; the script-read ones carry a hollow dot. Hand-read only.

You asked for

  • Old Bay (The celery-salt-and-paprika spice blend, made in Baltimore since 1939. On crabs, fries, and rims.)remove
  • uptownremove

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Ingredient

  • Crab2
  • Bbq Sauce1
  • Cheese1
  • Chicken1
  • Hickory1
  • Horseradish1
  • Juice1
  • Ranch1
  • Rub1
  • Sherry1
  • Spice1

How it's cooked

  • simmered1
  • smoked1

Course

  • appetizer2
  • breakfast1

Form

  • soup1
  • wings1

Drink

  • bloody mary1

Spirit

  • vodka1

Where

  • bayside4

4 dishes at 3 kitchens

The Bayside Skillet2

  • Lump (Broken pieces of the crab's large body muscles — smaller than jumbo lump, still whole pieces.) Crab and Cheesebreakfastread by scriptIs this right?

Behind the bar

  • Bloody MaryIs this right?

Ropewalk1

  • Ropewalk WingsappetizerIs this right?

The Hobbit1

  • CREAM OF CRAB (The cream-based crab soup, thick and pale. The other Maryland crab soup is the tomato one.) SOUPappetizerread by scriptIs this right?
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OCMD Explorer — an independent guide to Ocean City, Maryland. Every claim is sourced; see the colophon.