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Casa Mia's - Forest Hill

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Casa Mia's is a local chain of pizza shops which advertise they are the "home of the best crab cake in the world." While there seem to be a few Casa Mia's in the area, this particular chain has locations in Forest Hill/Bel Air and Nottingham/White Marsh. Claims such as the one they make always intrigue us, so we set out to the Forest Hill location to see if it is true. Read on to see what our experience was like!

 Crab cakes are available as a sandwich, single, or double platter. The sandwich comes with your choice of bread, and the menu doesn't indicate any sides. The platters allow you to choose between a 6 oz and an 8 oz crab cake, broiled or fried, and you have the option of ordering just a crab cake, or a platter with two sides. Crab calls are also available as an appetizer, which come in 4 appetizer size portions of their regular crab cake.

For our review, we settled on a broiled 6 oz crab cake. The cake itself consists of lots of large lumps of crab, with few broken pieces. All of that crab is held together with a Maryland-style binder made predominantly of bread, egg, and spices. 

The crab is really sweet, and you can taste the spices used to steam the crabs, which adds a nice saltiness to the meat that isn't overbearing. The binder is sweet and unobtrusive, with just a hint of spice, but has a stuffing-like consistency to it. While it accentuates the crab meat well, you can sometimes get a big glob of it in your bite. IT seemed a bit weird at first, but it does have a nice flavor so we didn't mind it that much. Aside from that, this is a really good crab cake that you'll have to try if you find yourself near one of their stores!

Additional Info

  • Restaurant Name: Casa Mia's
  • Address: 1433 Rock Spring Rd. Bel Air, MD 21014 Other locations available
  • Neighborhood: Forest Hill / Bel Air
  • Restaurant Type: Local Chain
  • Review Date: 07/27/2014 7:45pm
  • Atmosphere: Not Busy to Moderate
  • Item(s) Ordered: Single Crab Cake
  • Cooking Style: Broiled
  • Other Styles Available: No
  • Available by mail order?: No
  • Price: 15.99
  • Order Type: Single Platter
  • Crab Content: Jumbo Lump
  • Filler: Average
  • Spice: Average
  • Overall Impression: Very Good
  • Rating (out of 5 crabs):

    4h-crab

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