http://www.portsideseafood.com
201 Trenton Street
Cambridge, MD 21613-2406
(410) 228-9007
Starving Auctioneers Rating: 3 1/2 Gavels out of 5
A recent pottery pick up took us to the Maryland. We have never been to Maryland as a destination. Everyone has driven through Maryland just like everyone has driven through Indiana or ran from gate to gate at the Atlanta airport. This was our first real chance to enjoy the state of Maryland. We drove from the most western point, across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Cambridge, MD. Cambridge seems like a nice enough place, no different than any other. Our pick up was at a typical slice of Americana ranch style home. It seems many of our pottery pick-ups are at normal homes. Pottery folks appear to spend their money on pottery and not real estate and we are thankful for it. We picked nearly 300 pieces of Roseville, Weller, Hull, McCoy and Gonder.With the Chesapeake Bay within sight of the front door was asked about a local eating establishment to sample the fruits of the bay…or at least the fruits of some body of water. Our host directed us to Portside Restaurant.
Portside Restaurant is a local joint with vinyl table covers, booths and chairs that are all reaching ‘the end of their useful lives.” There is a well worn bar and outside patio and a view of the bay. You can eat on the water at Portside which we always avoid because of the ever present danger of attacking sea creatures. It was ‘Please Seat Yourself’ hour and we did.
Greg ordered the Broiled Platter with a side of Crab Imperial. Crab Imperial was new to us both, we are live in Ohio and eat at Wendy’s so cut us some slack. Peter ordered the crab cakes. We both ordered “Crazy Potatoes” and a salad as sides. We shared an appetizer of scallops wrapped in bacon swimming in BBQ sauce. Meat on meat in BBQ sauce – always a winner. The service was satisfactory if not a bit slow. Food was good and the place was a mixture of a girl’s soft ball team and old locals drinking wine and wishing their kids would call. In homage to our local radio show host and armature restaurant critic, John Corby, we checkouted the facilities; no good news on that front but at least it had running water.
The price was at the high end of our budget but unlike crab dishes in the Buckeye state these dishes contained actual crab which was a welcome change. The place had Keno and big screen TVs for watching the nearby Ravens beat up on Ohio’s perpetual man made disasters Browns and Bangles.
We entertained ourselves on the way back to Ohio though the dark, fog and rain by watching the recent crack in our windshield spread. We used a magic marker to track the progress as we hit potholes and rumble strips. Like mom marking your height on a door jamb we marked the crack through Annapolis and Hagerstown, Morgantown and Zanesville.
