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My Three Sons

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When you hear the name My Three Sons, you don't immediately think of a local pizza chain. If you're anything like us, your mind reminisces of the days gone by of the Douglas family, and start to wonder if they ever rerun that show on Nick At Nite. But instead, we believe the name stems from the fact that the owners have three sons. In any case, they get their inspiration from Mediterranean cuisine, and utilize products from local Harford county farms, stands, and businesses. Along with the many pizzas, sandwiches, and salads, are the crab cakes. Read along to find out how they were!

My Three Sons offers a double crab cake platter that comes with fries and slaw. You can also get a crab cake on a 10" submarine as a crab melt sandwich (crab cake with provolone and tomato). There are three locations, the original location is in Edgewood, Md. This review was at the Churchville location.

The crab cake was extremely saucy, almost like a fried crab imperial. The mayonnaise-based binder was light and fluffy like marshmallow, but had a butter flavor to it, mixed in with other spices and some roasted red peppers. The crab meat was very broken up, almost mostly strings.

Given the stringiness of the crab, and the lack of lumps, it was hard to even find the crab flavor. The binder is very assertive, and all you really taste is the buttery fluff. We detected some crab spice, but it hits lightly on the back end, almost like an afterthought. The overly creamy texture of the binder was very off-putting, and made us question how this was considered a crab cake. If anything, we'd describe it as either crab fluff, or a fried crab salad.

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Additional Info

  • Restaurant Name: My Three Sons
  • Address: 2832 Churchville Rd Churchville, MD 21028 Other locations available
  • Neighborhood: Churchville
  • Restaurant Type: Local Chain
  • Review Date: 04/17/2013 6:35pm
  • Atmosphere: Not Busy
  • Item(s) Ordered: Crab Cake Platter
  • Cooking Style: Fried
  • Other Styles Available: Yes
  • Available by mail order?: No
  • Price: 17.99
  • Order Type: Double Platter
  • Crab Content: Lump
  • Filler: Average
  • Spice: Average
  • Overall Impression: Stay Away
  • Rating (out of 5 crabs):

    1-crab

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