Neighborhood Eats: Crisfield Seafood Restaurant

Reviewed by Cynthia Hacinli , Ann Limpert , Sara Levine

Crisfield Seafood Restaurant

8012 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring/Takoma Park, MD
Phone: 301.589.1306

Cuisines:
Seafood, American

Opening Hours:

Wheelchair Accessible:
Yes

Nearby Metro Stops:
Silver Spring

Price Range:
Expensive

Dress:
Informal

Noise Level:
Chatty

Reservations:
Not Accepted

Special Features:
Kid Friendly

Website:
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Best Dishes
Spiced shrimp; fried oysters; Eastern Shore clam chowder; baked crab-stuffed shrimp; crab imperial; crab Norfolk; cold seafood platter; fried perch; crab-stuffed flounder; Maryland fried chicken.

Price Details:
Dinner for two, about $79


Baked shrimp stuffed with crabmeat keeps regulars coming back to Crisfield. Photograph by Stacy Zarin-Goldberg.

Baked shrimp stuffed with crabmeat keeps regulars coming back to Crisfield. Photograph by Stacy Zarin-Goldberg.

Lined with beer steins, photos of local personalities, and antique oyster plates, this fish house hasn’t changed in more than six decades. You can wait in line for a table in the cramped dining room, but the place to be is amid the regulars enjoying bowls of clam chowder at the horseshoe-shaped bar. As the guys behind the counter crack open oysters and pour icy Millers, they’ll whiz by to take your order. We go for anything crab-centric—lump meat sautéed Norfolk-style in butter, crab imperial, or a cold seafood platter heaped with chilled crabmeat, lobster, and shrimp.

-March, 2008