How it's cooked
Simmered
Eighteen of the kitchens we read have something simmered on the menu, 39 plates in all. The three ingredients that turn up simmered most often are crab, vegetable and clam.
From 40 menus · simmered is on 39 plates · How we read them
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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.
Dishes
Our reading of the menu lists broiled, crumbled and crab.
Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.
Known for: tempura, corn, crema.
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Boiled, baby back rib and baked chicken come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Our reading of the menu turns up meat, birria beef taco and blu crab dip.
Known for: filet, Lemon Vinaigrette, raw.
Our reading of the menu lists: vegetable, brioche, tartar.
Our reading of the menu turns up braised, linguine and evoo.
Our reading of the menu lists: jerk, breast, wrapped.
Known for: jus, Beurre Blanc Sauce, duck.
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 turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
The menu leans on broth, baguette and succotash.
Our reading of the menu lists burger, bacon jam and boom boom chicken.
The menu leans on country-fried, kaiser and tartar.
Where on the island
The 18 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Midtown | 3 | bayside · inland |
| Midtown | 3 | bayside · oceanfront |
| Uptown | 3 | bayside · inland |
| North OC | 2 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 4 | harbor |
| Day-trips ring | 3 | harbor · inland |