BOATYARD BAR & GRILL 400 Fourth Street, Annapolis 410-216-6206 boatyardbarandgrill.com
DINING REVIEW
The Boatyard “Is on It”
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By Rita Calvert Photography by Stephen Buchanan
n a late-winter evening, and during COVID precautions, we decided to share a to-go order from the Eastport community’s popular Boatyard Bar & Grill, which would be a new experience for us. The Boatyard has always offered takeout and does rip roaring business during the cold weather holidays with their chef ensuring overnight fresh crab cake and crab soup deliveries—“Boatyard crab cakes shipped all over the U.S.” Then there are “Lifestyle-on-the-go Platters.” Well…you get the picture, they know how to cook and deliver good food, off-premise as well as on!
stance: “Boatyard rocks out as No. 2 in Best Bars for Sailors in the U.S.” Or, take a look at their sandwich video award: The Travel Channel’s Food Paradise features the Boatyard on the Super Sandwiches segment of the eight best sandwiches in the country! Boatyard takes great strides to help our local community and surrounding environment, so I was thrilled to note this on their website that their “house oyster” named Patty’s Fatty’s are harvested “just a stone’s throw away by Eastport’s last remaining watermen, The Mahoney Family. [These] super-fresh, plump, mild oysters take you back to the Chesapeake Bay of days gone by!”
The menu is written with humor à la Chef George Betz…and right about now we need a good laugh! There is lots to read and chuckle about on their website, as well with interjections from owner Dick Franyo on the restaurant’s blog. For in-
While perusing the menu, we considered options. I know Antoine’s Stuffed Oysters (five prime Chesapeake Bay oysters fitted with a Florentine Pernod stuffing and gratinéed with Parmesan, cheddar, and provolone) are outstanding, but for
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