Everything You Need to Know About Outer Banks Crab Cakes
Crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and always flavorful! Each Outer Banks Restaurant has its own personal take on its crab cake recipe.
Crab cakes can also be served as an open-faced sandwich. The usual sides that come with a crabcake sandwich are French fries, coleslaw, or potato salad.
Crab cakes consisting almost entirely of lump crab meat are virtually prepared with no filler. Equally important, you may have the choice of the crab cakes being either fried or broiled. They can be served as a main dish or part of a surf and turf. In either case, likely garnishes are lemon wedges and a choice of a remoulade, tartar sauce, or cocktail sauce.
The Best Restaurants with Crab Cakes on the Outer Banks
What is a Crab Cake?
A crab cake is a combination of lump crab meat, panko bread crumbs, eggs, mayonnaise, and delicious seasonings that make for a hearty and flavorful patty.
Can the Crabs be found locally?
Crab cakes are popular along the coast of the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states, where crabbing industries thrive. While meat from any species of crab can be used to make local crab cakes, it is said that the best-tasting and traditional choice is the blue crab, whose native habitat is the Chesapeake Bay. The Blue crab population thrives in brackish estuaries and salt marshes. Blue crabs can also be found locally here on the Outer Banks in the Currituck, Pamlico, and Albemarle Sounds.
Crab cakes consisting almost entirely of lump crab meat are virtually prepared with no filler. Equally important, you may have the choice of the crab cakes being either fried or broiled. They can be served as a main dish or part of a surf and turf. In either case, likely garnishes are lemon wedges and a choice of a remoulade, tartar sauce, or cocktail sauce.