Obsessed. That's all I can say about this place. Yes - it's in a totally hipster, bougie market called Union Market and I can see why people are kind of annoyed at all the expensive artisanal stuff in the market, but this restaurant was a big winner in my book. It's a pretty casual place with some bar seating and a few table tops. The menu is classic seafood as its best: full on raw bar, seafood chowders and then a few select fresh seafood dishes. I also loved the fact that they had tons of local beers on tap, including one of my favorite local beers: Flying Dog. Now, since I am in Maryland, I know the crab cake ($16) will be amazing there, so there was no question in my mind what I was going to order. But first, my mom and I split a raw dish of 6 oysters and 2 clams and they were all fabulous - they ranged from salty and briny to sweet and creamy. They give you cocktail sauce, vinegar and horseradish and they were all great additives to the oysters. I would have ordered more but since we knew the crab cake was coming and that we were considering snacking/nibbling on more food from other stalls, we refrained.
On to the crab cake. Now THIS is how you do a crab cake and this is why I will only eat crab cakes when I'm in Maryland or in the Metropolitan area. It's pure delicious sweet crab meat with NO filler - which is exactly the way it should be. There's no heavy breading or fried crap on the outside, it's just heavenly crab meat topped with a fantastic celery remoulade (it had a little spicy heat to it) and it's sitting on a bed celery root slaw. I was a bit nervous about the celery slaw since I really hate celery, but even here was a wonderful and didn't really taste too strong of celery. It was a nice side dish that added some crunchy texture to the crab cake. It was simply fabulous. I totally wished that I had ordered some of things off the menu like the chowder and steamers because I'm sure they would have been awesome too.
If I lived near here, I would definitely be here every weekend - especially since they have $1 oyster happy hour. Union Market itself does have a very hipster Brooklyn feel - so I did feel at home to a certain extent and I am such a totally sucker for these kinds of fancy food markets. It's great places like this that make me think that maybe DC isn't such a bad place to! Sorry I don't know what the total bill was since it was mom's treat. :)
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