The Best Crab Cakes in Baltimore

By the Docks

If you’re looking for the best crab cakes in Baltimore, it makes sense to try them right next to the ocean. By the Docks serves up delicious fresh crab cakes in a modern setting with views of the water. What more could you ask for? As well as their crab cakes, By the Docks serves up other seafood delights including calamari, mussels, clams and shrimps all in a range of tempting sauces. Thursday is their seafood special night when you can enjoy lobster for under $15.

Timbuktu

The massive menu at Timbuktu includes things like juicy steaks, cherrystone clams, stuffed mushrooms, and shrimps in a basket but the real reason this place packs in the diners is, of course, their lump crab cakes. A decent number of locals would say that Timbuktu serves the best crab cakes in Baltimore but with a lack of awards to their name, it’s yet to be proven. I suppose you’ll have to try them and judge for yourself.

G&M Restaurant

According to local press and a fair few foodies, G&M Restaurant is the holy grail of Baltimore restaurants when it comes to crab cakes. This place won the award of best Baltimore crab cakes for five years running, and the trend doesn’t look set to stop. Choose to eat in or carry out but whatever you do, don’t miss their delicious crab dishes. Choose from things like crab chowder and stuffed crab claw.
 
Breezy Point

Choose how you want your seafood cooked and choose the type of run you would like on it. Breezy Point gives diners so much control over the way they want their seafood to be served that it’s a little bit like having your dinner cooked in mamma’s kitchen back home—that is if mamma makes something close to the best crab cakes in Baltimore. As well as eating at Breezy Point, you can take home the catch of the day form their adjoining seafood market.

Olive Grove

This is primarily an Italian restaurant, but like every other place in the city, it claims to make the best crab cakes in Baltimore. This place can be a bit pricey at dinner time so to try out their crab cakes, pop in at lunchtime and sample ‘Og’s Famous Lump Crab Cakes’ with salad for under $14.

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