Eats and Drinks
Best Crab Cake
Buddy's Elliott Street Bar and Grille
3123 Elliott St., (410) 522-0222
The discovery of a new crab cake confers more happiness on humanity than a new star, said Brillat-Savarin. Sort of. For us, a chief consideration is that the place we're getting the crab cake from not be some unholy family seafood restaurant torture chamber. Buddy's is the neighborly little side-street pub, the image of which is burnished onto your dominant temporal lobe. The menu is ambitious and the food generally well wrought. Buddy's crab cake--big, golden, silky, lumpy, luscious, held together with wizardry, salted just enough to coax out sweet crab flavors--will likely occupy a similar niche in your consciousness. It will flash in your mind whenever you think crab cake, or crab, cake, or for that matter pencil case. Buddy's has its cakes available on sandwiches, as part of a two-cake entrée, and--our favorite way--as a single-cake entrée with garlicky mashed potatoes and fresh steamed vegetables. Humanity is happy.
Other Awards for Best Crab Cake:
Pappas, 9/16/2009
Perring Place, 9/17/2008
Duda's Tavern, 9/19/2007
Crab Cake Factory, 9/21/2005
Regi’s American Bistro, 9/22/2004
Patrick's of Pratt Street, 9/17/2003
Faidley Seafood, 9/18/2002
The Backfin, 9/13/2000
Crossroads, 9/15/1999
Gunning's Seafood Restaurant, 9/17/1997
Faidley Seafood, 9/18/1996
