Ingredient
Calamari
Calamari turns up on eight plates across eight of the kitchens we read. The appetizer section holds eight of them, and it comes as a side more often than anything else, on one.
From 40 menus · calamari is on 8 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 →
Calamari, fried or breaded
Our reading of the menus has it fried at four kitchens and breaded at three, with one on both sides: Ocean 13.
On both sides: Ocean 13.
How it comes
The forms it turns up in, most first.
Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the appetizer menu
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 calamari
The same 8 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.
| Ring | Commonest | Plates |
|---|---|---|
| How it's cooked | fried | 4 |
| How it comes | side | 1 |
| Where on the menu | appetizer | 2 |
| Other | 11 other steps, added up | 16 |
| Not stated | the menu never printed that detail | 7 |
Every wedge, as a table
| Cooked | Arrives as | Course | Plates |
|---|---|---|---|
| fried | — | — | 4 |
| fried | not stated | — | 2 |
| fried | not stated | appetizer | 2 |
| fried | side | — | 1 |
| fried | side | appetizer | 1 |
| fried | small-plate | — | 1 |
| fried | small-plate | appetizer | 1 |
| breaded | — | — | 3 |
| breaded | not stated | — | 2 |
| breaded | not stated | appetizer | 2 |
| breaded | side | — | 1 |
| breaded | side | appetizer | 1 |
| fresh | — | — | 2 |
| fresh | not stated | — | 2 |
| fresh | not stated | appetizer | 2 |
| steamed | — | — | 1 |
| steamed | not stated | — | 1 |
| steamed | not stated | appetizer | 1 |
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.
- Squid8read by scriptall Squiddistinctive
- Aioli2read by scriptall Aiolidistinctive
- Marinara2read by scriptall Marinaradistinctive
Dishes
Our reading of the menu lists egg, duck and folded.
Our reading of the menu turns up Our Tartar Sauce, crabmeat and crabcake.
Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
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Our reading of the menu turns up steamed, soft crab and crab.
Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.
Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.
Our reading of the menu turns up roll, pickle and butter.
Where on the island
The 8 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 | 2 | inland |
| Midtown | 1 | oceanfront |
| North OC | 1 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 3 | harbor |
| Day-trips ring | 1 | harbor |