Best crab shack near Baltimore? (Dundalk, Essex: house, newspapers, restaurant)

[FashionD]

I'll be in Baltimore in October and am hoping to eat at a restaurant with good crab and a good, fun atmosphere. I'm looking for a place that serves crab with the whole newspaper on the table and all the tools for eating it deal. Inexpensive is good, also.

Thanks!

[barante]

Somebody please correct me but I haven't seen a crabhouse with newspapers on the tables for decades, not since the old Bud Paolino's in Highlandtown enclosed its open-air beergarden. Those beergardens were quite incredible: all tables filled by big families eating carbs and drinking draft beer under the blue skies.
But crabs, of course, also used to be cheap, plentiful and from the Chesapeake Bay. Now they tend to come from North Carolina and Texas.

[myselfdotcom]

Costa Inn @ North Point Blvd ...not really in the city but towards Sparrows Point/Dundalk....kinda pricy and crowded a lot times...but worth it

[psychofan]

Captain James Crab House "By the Bay" in Fell Points/Canton
http://www.captainjameslanding.com/crabhousemenu.pdf

Nick's Fish House
Nick's Fish House ::: Home :::

Both are pretty good.

Bo Brooks (Canton) is good, but upscale. . . read. . .EXPENSIVE!
Bo Brooks Restaurant & Catering - 410-558-0202 - Voted Baltimore's Best Crab House!

[barante]

Windsor Inn, on Windsor Mill Road, is another possibility for crabs. It's also a consistently cheap lunch spot much favored by bureaucrats from nearby Social Security Administration headquarters.

[gotjenks]

I know what you mean about the paper on the table crab places. When I was younger we use to eat at Jackies Crab Shack somewhere around Edgewood Maryland. The crbs had this good red spicey stuff on them. YUMMY!!!!That is the kind of place I want to take my family and enjoy.

[CaroleM]

Originally Posted by gotjenks

I know what you mean about the paper on the table crab places. When I was younger we use to eat at Jackies Crab Shack somewhere around Edgewood Maryland. The crbs had this good red spicey stuff on them. YUMMY!!!!That is the kind of place I want to take my family and enjoy.

I'm familiar with Jackies. It has changed hands quite a bit through the years and now it's vacant again. We now go down to Baldwins for crabs which is a little further down Rt. 40 from Jackies.

[Be More]

I love LP Steamers. We just had crabs on their deck Sunday night. Can't beat it.

[FashionD]

Thanks so much for the good info. I'll look into all these places! Can't wait! We don't seem to have many good places in So Cal for crab!

[christian k]

old time Bawlmer feel and spot local sports celebrities too - Bill's Terace out Eastern in Essex - great atmosphere !