Crab Boil???

[lepony]

Looking for a crab boil for this weekend. Any suggestions?

[Motosport]

I am pretty sure Mara's Homemade makes steamed crabs any day of the week during the crab season. I've had a dozen at City Crab too. Both excellent Maryland style "steamed" crabs.

Call ahead to make sure they have them.

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Mara's Homemade
342 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003

[Silverjay]

If you're looking for Maryland style, they should be steamed, never boiled.

[bombadilio]

Bleeker street has a few Fish "http://gonyc.about.com/cs/toursbr/a/bleecker_fish.htm", Back fourty(42$), The Hideaway(everyday @ $62), City crab(1/2 lobster/crab) has a few from time to time. There was a place in queens called pearl that had an you can eat snow/dungeness crab boil for $29.

Choptank also has one but I have never been there.

Check my old thread http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/550420

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Choptank
310 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10014

[Turtlejay]

Thanks Silverjay! I am a frequent NYC visitor but read the Chowhound Manhattan board from my
lil ole home in Maryland. I looked at the title of this thread and thought, what the hay is a boiled crab? ;-)

[kathryn]

Mara's, Hideaway, City Crab, Clemente's Maryland Crabhouse in Sheepshead Bay (Brooklyn). Mermaid Inn used to, I'd call to ask if they're bringing it back. Choptank has a crab special too, dunno if it's Maryland style or not, their menu doesn't say.

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/628902
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/624771
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/533304
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/550418
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/511114
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/497270
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/511114
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/707984

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Mermaid Inn
96 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003

Choptank
310 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10014

[samanthainthecity]

I had a great experience a few weeks ago, but it required a trip to Brooklyn. Clemente's Maryland Crab house. The crabs were how I remembered them during all my summers spent on the Maryland shore growing up.

[bookhound]

The only crab boils I know of are at Back Forty and Mara's Homemade but I don't think either take place on weekends. Back Forty does theirs on Tuesdays and I think Mara's does theirs on Mondays. You might want to call to confirm.

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Back Forty
190 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009

Mara's Homemade
342 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003