Another day, another crab cake! We all headed north from Lusby for a latish lunch at the Chesapeake Market and Deli. We’d enjoyed lunch there before, despite my foolish choice, as you can read here. They’re located at 7150 Lake Shore Drive, North Beach, or, more specifically Rose Haven, an unincorporated area just over the Anne Arundel County line. Rose Haven boasts the Herrington Harbor South resort, which includes a hotel/inn, a beach, a pool, a sprawling marina, and a restaurant, Ketch 22, with very good crab cakes.
Chesapeake Market and Deli caters to people from the boats, and it offers basic supplies and a wide range of adult beverages. And they’re a restaurant. They have an indoor dining room, a few tables in the market area, and outside tables with umbrellas. We went up to the counter and ordered, then received a number and returned to our outside table. Lily got us off to a bang with an order of chicken fingers from the Kids’ Menu.
Really, the kids’ menu. $9.99. That’s a full size plate, and enough chicken for lunches for both kids for a week!
Ella has moved from chicken fingers to burgers with fries.
These days, the fries play the leading role in her meal. Ella does like a burger, and she has a rating system for food. The burger was “good” and the fries were “10 out of 10.” It turns out that she always gives fries 10 out of 10, unless they’re spicy.
Michael chose a Rachel — a pastrami Reuben.
That photo, like that of Ella’s burger, was taken across the table. Let’s get another slant on it.
Michael thoroughly enjoyed the Rachel, and reported that the pastrami was good. I don’t know who supplies it — I assume it wasn’t made in-house, or they would have said so. The rye bread was nicely grilled.
Liza ordered a turkey wrap, which I ignored completely, it seems. I think I was mesmerized by Lily’s experimental efforts to pour apple juice onto her plate through a straw.
Nancy had turkey on rye,
or tried to have it with her junior fan club on her lap. Nancy found both the bread and the turkey merely okay. Specifically, the bread was less dense than she likes, and the turkey lacked flavor. I should note that Nancy eats Dave’s Killer Bread, which is thin and very dense indeed, and she eats smoked turkey. Nancy said that the slaw was very good.
I ordered a crab cake sandwich.
It was $26.99, a light touch on the low end for Chesapeake Bay crab cakes, and it had a reasonable amount of filler — not nearly as much as at Sandgates. The crab cake was well seasoned (including that little “Bam!” shake of Old Bay), and well prepared, and the filler didn’t interfere with the flavor. I truly enjoyed it.
The plate looks a little bare, doesn’t it? The sandwiches come with potato chips, but they don’t come on the plate. Instead, you select a bag from the abundant choices under the counter, which I’d neglected to do. HEre’s another tilted photo as I had to reach around someone to take it.
You get choice, which is nice, and you can nibble on your chips while you wait for your sandwich. I went back and grabbed a bag of Lay’s plain potato chips, although the Cheetos were calling my name.
Chesapeake Market is a good place to have lunch. It’s a very casual setting, with people coming from the boats in bathing gear, and the mood is relaxed. The view of many-masted Road Haven is impaired by the intervening road, but just being within sight of water soothes the soul. There’s plenty of parking, so stop by when you’re in the area and have a pleasant meal.
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