How it's cooked
Baked
Something baked is on the menu at 25 of the kitchens we read, 56 plates in all. The three ingredients that turn up baked most often are crab, pork and potato.
From 40 menus · baked is on 56 plates · How we read them
Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →
Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
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Dishes
Our reading of the menu lists broiled, crumbled and crab.
Known for: filet, Lemon Vinaigrette, raw.
Boiled, baby back rib and baked chicken come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Show all 25 kitchens
The menu leans on broth, baguette and succotash.
Our reading of the menu turns up roll, pickle and butter.
Our reading of the menu turns up braised, linguine and evoo.
Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.
Our reading of the menu lists: turkey, oyster, chicken filet.
Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
Known for: charred, grana, raw.
Known for: tempura, corn, crema.
Brisket, Ipa Steak Sauce and roll come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Known for: pan-fried, crepe, folded.
Cornmeal, corn bread and corn on cob come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
The menu leans on country-fried, kaiser and tartar.
Smoked, cornbread and picked chicken come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Our reading of the menu turns up Our Tartar Sauce, crabmeat and crabcake.
Our reading of the menu turns up cracker, fruit and cod.
Our reading of the menu lists: swiss, pickle, beef fries gravy.
Our reading of the menu turns up steamed, soft crab and crab.
Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.
Egg, omelette and hollandaise come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Our reading of the menu lists: jerk, breast, wrapped.
Our reading of the menu lists burger, bacon jam and boom boom chicken.
Where on the island
The 25 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.
| District | Kitchens | Side of the island |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown / Inlet & Boardwalk | 1 | boardwalk |
| Lower Midtown | 4 | inland |
| Midtown | 3 | bayside · oceanfront |
| Uptown | 3 | bayside · inland |
| North OC | 6 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 6 | harbor |
| Day-trips ring | 2 | harbor · inland |