** NOTE TO READERS: Some people, who have called and emailed me, seem to think the great crab cake search is over. It has only begun. Eric Ruth and I are chasing down your suggestions. We'll have a story about the hunt and our findings, most likely in late July. Stay tuned. I'll let you know well in advance of publication. Thanks. PT.So the Great Crab Cake search is well underway and I promised an update.
Stopped in Jake's Seafood House Restaurant at First Street and Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth Beach last week to give the crab cake there a try. Several readers sent me emails touting these cakes.
I asked for the crab cake sandwich ($11.99) - which my server suggested that I order fried, not broiled - and only ate the cake, not the bun, lettuce and tomato. (But I couldn't resist the fries, especially after topping them with malt vinegar. )
It had lumps of crab meat, some bready filler, but not too much, and hints of mustard, perhaps from the crab itself and maybe from a Dijon condiment bottle. It's a little on the small side. I found myself dabbing on tartar sauce to perk up the flavor, which isn't a great sign.
This is a perfectly fine cake, but not a life changing, oh-my-God-you-gotta-go-there crab cake.
The quest continues.
4 comments:
Being from the eastern shore of Maryland for fifty yeaes and a craber my self and now live in florida. You should try twinies restarunt in Galana Maryland for a great crab cake , have to stop every time I'am up that way.
Valle in Pike Creek has great crab cakes and Planet x In rehoboth used to have great ones. Not sure if they still do
do not know about the crab cakes here but do know the do have have butter-only spreads-so will not return to this restaurant-very disappointed-
Valle's serves the worst food.
I think it is the employees or owners bragging bout them.. It is the same people that bragged about their cheesesteaks and wings. Needless to say they are both unappetizing in so many ways. Horrible. .
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