"Seafood purest"? Yikes!

mac-n-cheese with crabcakes? That's a new one for me. Maybe if it had Old Bay on it...

Without a doubt, the crabcakes from Timbuktu are the best. I make it a point to stop there at least twice on my trips back to Columbia—once on the way in from the airport, once on the way back out!

The meatiness, lumpiness and lack of filler make the Timbuktu crabcake more than just a ridiculously delicious gastronomic excursion, but one that is actually filling, too. I've had plenty of "crabpatties" that leave me starving 30 minutes later. That's never happened with the Timbuktu joint.

All this talk is making me want to order some online and have it shipped to Atlanta right now!

Living out in Arizona it always amuses me what restaurants try to pass off as "Maryland Crab Cakes". Almost all of them don't remind me of anything Maryland Crab Cake related.
Finding old bay out here is also more difficult.

I've had some good crabcakes in my life and on the flip side some not so good. The best I ever had would be from the King Fisher Inn in Solomon's Island in Calvert County. Was like a softball size mound of heaven that happened to be broiled. Now closer to 695, I would say GM, Sunset, Oregon Grille, and Eddies are the best choices.

PCB ROb - Maybe that is macaroni salad which looks that color due to the lighting of the picture. Or maybe it is so heavily seasoned with Old Bay it turned that color!

PCB Rob - in my experience, one's choices of sides with crab cakes are usually slaw, and fthen ries or onion rings or other/additional starch starch starch. Makes for a heavy meal, but not unusual.

If one must have starch with crab cakes, you can't go wrong with the mac and cheese at Mamas on the Half Shell in Canton - that stuff is like crack.

As far as fried food goes, the onion rings at Koco's are great too, and often a choice with the crab cakes (which are amazing).

Koco's also always includes with their crab cakes tomatoes sprinkled lightly with old bay. And they're surprisingly never bad tomatoes, no matter what the season. It's a refreshing side to the heavy crab cakes.

I just went to Koco's for the first time 2 weeks ago. I have had a lot of crab cakes in my 30 years, but this one by far takes the um, cake. I have had GM, By the Docks and others that claim to be the best, but this crab cake was it. It was big, and had the most flavor of anything I have had lately. It was mouth watering. I will be going back. Oh and the people there are really nice, it was a great family run place. Ok back to lurkdom....

"Four Faidley's crab cakes in the bag, 24 dutch beers in the box. Mrs. McNulty didn't raise no idiots."

The Wire -- Season 1 (probably butchered)

MD Canon - shouldn't that also say, a bag of Utz and an AK47 to go?

Koco's is very good. And, don't laugh (really), Olive Tree in Pikesville on Reisterstown Road is not bad either. G&M is good but I think they have gone down hill recently (i.e., more filler). Could just be me though.

Bluestone in Timonium has some of the best crabcakes in Baltimore. I'm surprised that more people don’t rave about them. They are a must try.

The true Baltimore crabcake can definitely be found at Faidley's in Lexington' Market.

Truth be told: If you have not tried Faidleys in Lexington market, then you have no standard by which to judge!!!

This is my 4th trip to greater Omaha in the last 2 1/2 years. So far, no sign of a crabcake anywhere. But I will persevere!!!

Greater Omaha, Canon? Is that anything like Better Waverly?

I've been trying not to imagine Lesser Omaha.

MD Canon - here you go. (Read the description.)

Bucky,
I didn't know Omaha Steaks did crabcakes! If they are anything like their top sirloins, they are mighty fine.

There are a couple of other Eastern Shore (MD) locations that I'd like to try first before ordering crab from a place in Nebraska.

Rob - I knew about the Omaha Steaks crab cakes because I can see Nebraska from my front porch.

Friends ... I've never seen an Omaha Steaks shop in Omaha, save at the airport (where you can buy to go --not sure what the TSA thinks about that -- or have stuff sent home). Ditto whatever they're selling as crabcakes. Truth is, the Mexican food in this town is way too good to be messing with steaks anyway.

But last night I had the best Kalbi (Korean barbecued short ribs) I have ever had in my life at Buddha's Belly in considerably less than a strip mall in Gretna, NE. Mind you, Korean is the third most spoken language in Maryland, and if you venture to the west side of the beltway you will find plenty of good competitors. But "Best" in Nebraska?? Who knew? Maybe the beef really does matter -- but I thought Nebraska was about pork. (I do get confused.)

As the hostess and I talked about what I liked and where I was from, she decided to bring me out some kimchee. It wasn't on the menu -- it was the family's kimchee. God Bless Gretna!

Probably faster to go to Nebraska for dinner than to mess with the beltway.

I can see Nebraska from my front porch

I'm quite sure that I've never heard anyone say this before.

I think Bucky was channeling the governor in Alaska.

Alaska has a govenor?

You never know when those Nebraskans might invade; thank goodness we have Bucky on the lookout.

Joyce,
Yes, believe it or not. Its a woman who shoots moose and can see Russia from her house.

Bud's At Silver Run. Never had a cracake with that much crab and that little filler, just enough to hold it together. Outstanding, the tastiest crabcake I've eaten. Number 1 in my book.