It looks to me like Brighton's wasn't mentioned by any of us in the two recent Cream of Crab soup postings. Could that be a reflection of our general socioeconomic status, rather than out sense of taste??

Brightons? Where and what is that? I don't remember hearing it mentioned here.

It's in Harbor Court. EL

Thanks, Elizabeth. Um...what is Harbor Court? Probably a hotel? I don't think it is a neighbourhood.

Lissa, the Harbor Court (currently owned by Intercontinental, I think) is the ritzy hotel on Light St. just north of Lee. You've kayaked dangerously close to it.

Harbor Court is the impressive red brick hotel and condo due west of the Inner Harbor on Light Street.

Canon, I'd think it's more that if a local was going to go eat at an upscale expensive hotel, they'd be more likely to go to the fancy restaurant (which in the case of the Harbor Court was Hampton's, which no longer exists), not the "everyday" restaurant, Brighton's.

Wow, that was a complicated sentence. I hope it's close to understandable.

More than close -- but I like punctuation!

Ah, thanks, Canon and Hal. Yes, I've nearly rammed it with my kayak.

Well, not quite, but ever since the police chased me away from that cruise ship, I've had an oversized sense of my kayakish dangerousness.

Looks like Lissa is talking about her canoe again.

Canoe, canoe, canoe. Always with the canoe.

You know what the great thing about a kayak paddle is, RoCK? More surface area for swacking.

how many restaurants from the D@L top ten participated?

I just looked at Brightons' online lunch and dinner menus. They have Maryland crab soup ($9, lunch only), but they don't have cream of crab soup. I think that alone would have kept Brightons off EL's Top 10 list of places to get cream of crab soup.

hmpstd ... I noticed that as well. It looks like the lobster bisque is their current cream soup offering. My hunch is that they do make cream of crab from time to time, and also that it is in the same $12.00 price range.

I also noted that their menu described their crab cakes as "Maryland Style." That got me wondering if there is are any rules or norms around nomenclature. Should there be a difference between "Maryland Crab Cakes" and "Maryland Style Crab Cakes" that I as a consumer would be well to note?

The Canon wrote: "Should there be a difference between "Maryland Crab Cakes" and "Maryland Style Crab Cakes" that I as a consumer would be well to note?"

Perhaps the distinction reflects whether the crab is from Maryland vs. the way the crab is prepared.

Sugerbee's across from the downtown court house has great cream of crab soup.