Obryckie's

This is what dinner looks like at Obrycki's Restaurant, a Maryland institution. You sit at a table which they cover with sheets of brown wrapping paper, and then you order steamed crabs by the dozen. When they arrive, they just dump them in the center of the table like this! Man, are they good! I can still remember the taste of their special crab spice, which you can see covering some of the shells! Getting the meat our of crabs is hard work, by the way. But when you DO get the crabmeat out, it is awesome! I do have to confess that after 4 days in Baltimore, I am about done with crabs for a while!