Ingredient

Tender

Eighteen plates at thirteen of the kitchens we read carry tender. Seven of them sit under kids, and most often it is served as a side, on two.

From 40 menus · tender is on 18 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 →

Tender, fried or breaded

Our reading of the menus has it fried at six kitchens and breaded at three, with one on both sides: Bull on the Beach (94th St).

On both sides: Bull on the Beach (94th St).

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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See it on the map

The journey of tender

The same 18 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 tender: 18 plates, 6 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.Tenderfried — 6 plates (43%)friedbreaded — 3 plates (21%)breadedbarbecued — 2 plates (14%)barbecuedbattered — 1 plate (7%)crispy — 1 plate (7%)deep-fried — 1 plate (7%)not stated — 2 plates (14%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (7%)platterside — 1 plate (7%)sidesmall-plate — 1 plate (7%)small-platetenders — 1 plate (7%)tendersnot stated — 3 plates (21%)not statednot stated — 2 plates (14%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (7%)platterside — 1 plate (7%)sidenot stated — 1 plate (7%)not statedentree — 1 plate (7%)entreekids — 1 plate (7%)kidsnot stated — 1 plate (7%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (7%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (7%)appetizernot stated — 1 plate (7%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (7%)appetizerentree — 1 plate (7%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (7%)not statedappetizer — 2 plates (14%)appetizernot stated — 1 plate (7%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (7%)appetizerkids — 1 plate (7%)kids
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedfried6
How it comesplatter1
Where on the menuappetizer2
Other18 other steps, added up21
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail12
Every wedge, as a table
18 plates carrying Tender, cooked 6 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 18. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
fried6
friednot stated2
friednot statedentree1
friednot statedkids1
friedplatter1
friedplatternot stated1
friedside1
friedsideappetizer1
friedsmall-plate1
friedsmall-plateappetizer1
friedtenders1
friedtendersnot stated1
breaded3
breadednot stated3
breadednot statedappetizer1
breadednot statedentree1
breadednot statednot stated1
barbecued2
barbecuednot stated2
barbecuednot statedappetizer2
battered1
batteredplatter1
batteredplatternot stated1
crispy1
crispyside1
crispysideappetizer1
deep-fried1
deep-friednot stated1
deep-friednot statedkids1

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 kids menu

Dishes

Show all 13 kitchens

Smoked, cornbread and picked chicken come up more here than elsewhere on our list.

Our reading of the menu turns up Our Tartar Sauce, crabmeat and crabcake.

Our reading of the menu turns up meat, birria beef taco and blu crab dip.

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

Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.

Our reading of the menu lists: jerk, breast, wrapped.

Our reading of the menu lists burger, bacon jam and boom boom chicken.

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

Correct a plate here

Where on the island

The 13 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Tender at 13 kitchens across 6 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Downtown / Inlet & Boardwalk1boardwalk
Lower Midtown3bayside · inland
Midtown2bayside · oceanfront
North OC2inland
West Ocean City4harbor
Day-trips ring1harbor