As one enters the restaurant, there are all sorts of crab icons plastered all over the walls. Huge dolls sit upon wooden rocking chairs with blackboards proclaiming the day's special. There is a smart bar with sports shows always on.
I can't imagine going to Crabby Dicks for anything but crabs. Although they do serve other entrees, including an extensive "senior menu" serving smaller portions.
Granddaughter Kaitlyn does enjoy crabs being from Merryland and everything. This even though she's not quite two years old, she learned early on that summer subsistence in the world into which she was born depends on eating crab meat and plenty of it.
Kaitlyn also enjoys a French fry or two on occasion. At Crabby Dicks she got both and had a grand time. A small bucket of crayons was also provided and myself, Kaitlyn's Mom and Kaitlyn got busy drawing pictures on the butcher block paper required for proper crab eating.
The best things about crabs at Crabby Dicks would be, tada, the price!
Before venturing out that early Fall day, I did some phoning around at local crab eateries. For trash bottom feeders of the Chesapeake Bay, crabs sure are expensive critters.
At Crabby Dicks we got a dozen for $38.00, "mixed". Mixed is a pretty darn good way to sell the things. So many of the crabberies try to sort the colossal, jumbo, massive, etc, etc, until one would think there was no such thing as a small crab, only many BIG crabs all described with deceiving words.
We were also allowed to purchase 1/2 a dozen crabs and for this I was glad. A dozen and a half would be fine for our group of three and a half.
Daughter and I both purchased a bowl of cream of crab soup because in late summer, one simply cannot have enough crabs. I also had a salad.
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