Ingredient

Rockfish (Striped bass, as Maryland names it. The state fish, and a regulated catch.)

Rockfish is on eleven plates at seven of the kitchens we read. Six of them are printed under entree, and most often it is served as a sandwich, on three.

From 40 menus · rockfish is on 11 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 →

Rockfish, broiled or fried

Our reading of the menus has it broiled at three kitchens and fried at three, with one on both sides: Waterman's Seafood Co..

On both sides: Waterman's Seafood Co..

How it comes

The forms it turns up in, most first.

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 rockfish

The same 11 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 rockfish: 11 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.Rockfishbroiled — 4 plates (40%)broiledfried — 3 plates (30%)friedbattered — 2 plates (20%)batteredstuffed — 1 plate (10%)stuffednot stated — 2 plates (20%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (10%)plattersandwich — 1 plate (10%)sandwichnot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (10%)plattersandwich — 1 plate (10%)sandwichnot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (10%)platternot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedentree — 1 plate (10%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedentree — 1 plate (10%)entreeentree — 1 plate (10%)entreeappetizer — 1 plate (10%)appetizernot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedentree — 1 plate (10%)entreeappetizer — 1 plate (10%)appetizernot stated — 1 plate (10%)not statedentree — 1 plate (10%)entree
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedbroiled4
How it comesplatter1
Where on the menuentree1
Other13 other steps, added up16
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail8
Every wedge, as a table
11 plates carrying Rockfish, cooked 4 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 11. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
broiled4
broilednot stated2
broilednot statedentree1
broilednot statednot stated1
broiledplatter1
broiledplatterentree1
broiledsandwich1
broiledsandwichentree1
fried3
friednot stated1
friednot statedappetizer1
friedplatter1
friedplatternot stated1
friedsandwich1
friedsandwichentree1
battered2
batterednot stated1
batterednot statedappetizer1
batteredplatter1
batteredplatternot stated1
stuffed1
stuffednot stated1
stuffednot statedentree1

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.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. Everything on the entree menu

Dishes

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Correct a plate here

Where on the island

The 7 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Rockfish at 7 kitchens across 5 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown1inland
Midtown1oceanfront
North OC1inland
West Ocean City2harbor
Day-trips ring2harbor · inland