100 Very Best Restaurants 2025
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Preserve

Photograph by Alex Flynn.
Annapolis
American
Preserving, pickling, and fermenting are a passion at this cozy, brick-walled dining room. Sometimes the approach is sly—a rich crab bake is tempered with preserved lemon, radiatore pasta is kicked up with truffled miso, and fish and chips get a side of malt-vinegar aïoli. A three-course $55 dinner menu zooms in on many of the à la carte hits that are offered to daytime diners and walk-ins at the bar.
Price
Based on dinner for two, including tax and 20-percent tip:
Moderate: $101 to $200
Locations
164 Main St, Annapolis Maryland, 21401