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Bill's Seafood
When it comes to crab season in Baltimore, you have a few choices. You can get a bushel, a few cases of beer, call up a few friends, and have a crab feast in your backyard. Or if that's too much work, then you can always go out to a restaurant, cozy up to a table lined with brown paper, and whack away. Or you can go the more economical route, and bring some crabs home from a carryout joint like Bill's Seafood. For over 35 years, Bill's has been steaming crabs year round. Crabs are sourced from our local watermen, as well as from Louisiana, Texas, and North Carolina to provide steamed crabs year-round. You can carry out (either through online ordering or by stopping by on a whim), or they can cater your party. With so many choices in the area for carryout, we braved the waters, and checked Bill's Seafood out. Are they good enough for your lunch or party? Let's find out!
Lots of choices on the menu to choose from. For this review, we took home an uncooked jumbo lump crab cake. As far as our preparation method goes, we broiled their crab cake for 12 minutes.
Bill's jumbo lump crab cake is a 5oz. cake with about a 60/40 ratio of crab to binder. Maryland style, as some would call it. There were some good sized crab lumps in the mix amongst some broken pieces, bound together with bread, spices, and that distinctive yellow hue that can typically come from mustard (quite possibly some crab mustard thrown in the mix). While moist, it's not saucy, which typically indicates egg is used instead of mayonnaise.
We love finding really good crab cakes, and Bill's Seafood is now one of them! The crab meat is super sweet and has an awesome flavor. We really also liked the binder. There was some sweet from the bread, some salty from the spicing, but not overbearing at all, and really compliments the crab flavor well. The flavor profile is complex yet simple, and you will enjoy every bite just as much as we did.
Additional Info
- Restaurant Name: Bill's Seafood
- Address: 9016 Belair Rd Nottingham, MD 21236
- Neighborhood: Nottingham/Perry Hall
- Restaurant Type: Local
- Website: http://www.billsseafoodandcatering.com/
- Review Date: 05/02/2014 2:31pm
- Atmosphere: Not Busy
- Item(s) Ordered: Jumbo Lump Crab Cake
- Cooking Style: Broiled
- Other Styles Available: No
- Available by mail order?: No
- Price: 8.96
- Order Type: Store Bought
- Crab Content: Jumbo Lump
- Filler: Average
- Spice: Average
- Overall Impression: Outstanding
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