I love crabcakes!
 

Alexander's on the Bay

The best crabcakes I've ever had were at Alexander's on the Bay. It is a quaint, fancy, little restaurant in Virginia Beach, VA. All of their seafood dishes are delicious but their crabcakes are broiled and mmm mmm good. Highly recommend them! ^

Yup. G&M is as described.

Softball sized crab cakes, not those dainty little hockey pucks we get here in L.A.

I sit at the bar, order a martini that comes in one of those little 50s red booth kind of glasses, and pig out on crab cakes.

They're probably not as good as they used to be (what is, really, any more), but they're mighty good. The place is a throw back and a unique experience.

Robert Morris Inn
Oxford, MD (Eastern Shore)

Best. Crabcakes. Ever

Mike's Crabhouse in Riva, MD
 

Not just the best blue crab you can get anywhere, but the atmosphere is excellent. Eat out on the deck over the Chesepeake Bay. On Friday & Saturday evenings they have a live musician. Less than an hour drive from Baltimore.

I eat at Timbuktu almost every week and have never had a bad crabcake there. They are huge with very little filler. I think you must have caught a bad night. I have heard Angelina's are better but don't often get up to that area of town.

We go there every Easter with my sister's family. Crabs are good but I have had better. Beautiful location.

As a native of the Baltimore suburbs, clicked on the thread eagerly (despite my fatal seafood allergy- which extends to crabs though we didn't know that in my childhood so I ate them happily w/o trouble).

My great uncle used to say the best crabcakes were on the B&O train from Baltimore to Chicago, and people would ride it just for the crabcakes. . .

I was in Seattle for 6 days and ate crab cakes every day. I have been to Crisfield, Annapolis and Norfolk in search of soft shells and crab cakes, and am traveling to BWI in June and hope to try Faidley's Seafood after seeing a show by Al Roker on Food Network.

Last week I reconfirmed that my favorite crab cakes are served at the Houston's here in Atlanta.

btw, one of the best crab houses in Baltimore will be opening a restaurant in Concourse B at BWI this summer. Here's the press release:

http://www.baa-bwi.com/documents/NewsRelease2-16-05.pdf
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I think Faidley's is in Lexington Market

Ha! He believes Al Roker but not me ;)

Faidleys is definate superb, and yes it is in Lexington Market. If you are really adventurous try their "Maryland Surf and Turf" which includes crab and muskrat. They will also cook your fish that you buy for you. They are essentially a seafood store that also prepares stuff.

Having just nominated St. Louis for the "10 worst foodie towns" thread, you all may laugh at this recommendation, but Bristol Bar & Grill in suburban St. Louis (Creve Coeur) makes some of the very best crabcakes I've ever eaten.

More crab cakes
 

I have been a crab cakes fan for quite a while, and I look forward to trying them at some of the more out-of-the-way places on this thread.

Within my limited experience, in order of preference:

1. Fraidlay's in the Lexington Market in Baltimore. All crab meat, but you eat standing up, and the white wine is in screw top bottles.

2. Legal Seafoods in Boston, especially the Kendall Square branch.

3. Z Tejas in Tempe, Arizona -- a bit spicy, but excellent.

Fox Valley Restaurant :)

Amazingly, some of the best, if not the best, crab cakes I have ever eaten were served at Fox Valley located in a small town outside of Birmingham, AL :)

Aren't the Baltimore markets wonderful! You can do the same at the Cross Street Market.

Northern Virginia suburbs crabcakes
 

Best crabcakes I have had in some time is from Seafoodie http://www.seafoodies.com/ in a small shopping center in Reston, Virginia (near my home). Kevin, the owner/chef, shifted from technology a few years ago. His place makes gourmet take-out food (primarily seafood) that you cook at home. Bake the crabcakes at 450 for 15 minutes, for instance.

Seriously, these crabcakes are unbelievably great. ^ ^