Ingredient

Aioli

Aioli turns up on sixteen plates across eleven of the kitchens we read. The appetizer section holds six of them, and it comes as a small-plate more often than anything else, on four.

From 40 menus · aioli is on 16 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 →

Aioli, fried or grilled

Our reading of the menus has it fried at five kitchens and grilled at three, with one on both sides: Bull on the Beach.

On both sides: Bull on the Beach.

How it comes

The forms it turns up in, most first.

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Where on the menu

The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.

How it's cooked

How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.

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The journey of aioli

The same 16 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.

The journey of aioli: 16 plates, 7 ways of cooking them, drawn as three rings — how it is cooked, how it arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. Every wedge is listed with its count in the table below.Aiolifried — 6 plates (35%)friedgrilled — 4 plates (24%)grilledblackened — 3 plates (18%)blackenedbroiled — 1 plate (6%)country-fried — 1 plate (6%)raw — 1 plate (6%)seared — 1 plate (6%)sandwich — 2 plates (12%)sandwichsmall-plate — 2 plates (12%)small-platenot stated — 1 plate (6%)not statedtaco — 1 plate (6%)tacoburger — 2 plates (12%)burgerside — 1 plate (6%)sidetaco — 1 plate (6%)tacoburger — 1 plate (6%)burgerflatbread — 1 plate (6%)flatbreadnot stated — 1 plate (6%)not statedentree-plate — 1 plate (6%)entree-platesandwich — 1 plate (6%)sandwichsmall-plate — 1 plate (6%)small-platesmall-plate — 1 plate (6%)small-plateentree — 1 plate (6%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (6%)not statedappetizer — 2 plates (12%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (6%)appetizerentree — 1 plate (6%)entreenot stated — 2 plates (12%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (6%)not statedentree — 1 plate (6%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (6%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (6%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (6%)appetizerentree — 1 plate (6%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (6%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (6%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (6%)appetizer
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedfried6
How it comessandwich2
Where on the menuappetizer2
Other25 other steps, added up32
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail9
Every wedge, as a table
16 plates carrying Aioli, cooked 7 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 16. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
fried6
friedsandwich2
friedsandwichentree1
friedsandwichnot stated1
friedsmall-plate2
friedsmall-plateappetizer2
friednot stated1
friednot statedappetizer1
friedtaco1
friedtacoentree1
grilled4
grilledburger2
grilledburgernot stated2
grilledside1
grilledsidenot stated1
grilledtaco1
grilledtacoentree1
blackened3
blackenedburger1
blackenedburgernot stated1
blackenedflatbread1
blackenedflatbreadnot stated1
blackenednot stated1
blackenednot statedappetizer1
broiled1
broiledentree-plate1
broiledentree-plateentree1
country-fried1
country-friedsandwich1
country-friedsandwichnot stated1
raw1
rawsmall-plate1
rawsmall-plateappetizer1
seared1
searedsmall-plate1
searedsmall-plateappetizer1

Travels with

What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.

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Dishes

Pepperjack, bison and burger come up more here than elsewhere on our list.

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The menu leans on broth, baguette and succotash.

Our reading of the menu lists: swiss, pickle, beef fries gravy.

Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.

The menu leans on country-fried, kaiser and tartar.

Our reading of the menu turns up roll, pickle and butter.

Correct a plate here

In the family

Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All sauce

Where on the island

The 11 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Aioli at 11 kitchens across 6 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Downtown / Inlet & Boardwalk1boardwalk
Lower Midtown1inland
Midtown3bayside · inland · oceanfront
Uptown1bayside
West Ocean City4harbor
Day-trips ring1inland