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

For the curious: the data views

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.

The journey of calamari: 8 plates, 4 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.Calamarifried — 4 plates (40%)friedbreaded — 3 plates (30%)breadedfresh — 2 plates (20%)freshsteamed — 1 plate (10%)steamednot stated — 2 plates (20%)not statedside — 1 plate (10%)sidesmall-plate — 1 plate (10%)small-platenot stated — 2 plates (20%)not statedside — 1 plate (10%)sidenot stated — 2 plates (20%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedappetizer — 2 plates (20%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (10%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (10%)appetizerappetizer — 2 plates (20%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (10%)appetizerappetizer — 2 plates (20%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (10%)appetizer
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedfried4
How it comesside1
Where on the menuappetizer2
Other11 other steps, added up16
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail7
Every wedge, as a table
8 plates carrying Calamari, cooked 4 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 8. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
fried4
friednot stated2
friednot statedappetizer2
friedside1
friedsideappetizer1
friedsmall-plate1
friedsmall-plateappetizer1
breaded3
breadednot stated2
breadednot statedappetizer2
breadedside1
breadedsideappetizer1
fresh2
freshnot stated2
freshnot statedappetizer2
steamed1
steamednot stated1
steamednot statedappetizer1

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.

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.

The menu leans on broth, baguette and succotash.

Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.

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

Correct a plate here

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.

Calamari at 8 kitchens across 5 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown2inland
Midtown1oceanfront
North OC1inland
West Ocean City3harbor
Day-trips ring1harbor