Calling a restaurant cheap when the item we get most often, an all-lump crab cake, costs $12.95 ($16.95 for the platter) is problematic. But consider that a similar-sized cake at a sit-down restaurant would cost you $20-plus, and things make more sense. Faidley’s is one of those local institutions that have been around seemingly forever, and it epitomizes the old blue-collar seafood house. Besides one of the best crab cakes in the world—huge, little filler, you know the rest—the Lexington Market mainstay serves up fried and steamed shrimp, terrific fish sandwiches (we like the steakfish), and fried oysters, clams, and calamari that actually taste of oysters, clams, and calamari. There are few better ways to spend a lunch hour (or a weekend afternoon) than getting a crab cake and a beer, grabbing a spot at the counter, and watching the sundry goings-on at the market. (Faidley’s is also home to a prime raw bar, but that would require a whole ’nother entry.)

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