Edgewater Restaurant

Restaurant Vacation

2012-01-02T11:57:00.000-05:00

Hello all, just wanted to inform you that our Restaurant is taking a vacation for right now, we will be back and up and running on the 18th starting at 4pm. I hope you all enjoy the break and will come to see us when we re-open. Thank you!

Poll results/coding error fix

2011-11-08T01:26:00.000-05:00

Hello again, for some reason the weather gadget on here slowly turned into some video...as soon as I realized that I removed it so you won't have to worry about your bandwidth being drained as much and muting your speakers

Beyond that, the poll has ended and here are the results:

Question:

How often do you go to the Edgewater Restaurant?

Very often: 4 votes (8%)
1-2 times a week: 4 votes (8%)
3-4 times a week: 1 votes (2%)
Once a month: 20 votes (40%)
Once a year: 17 votes (34%)
Less than once a year: 3 votes (6%)

49 votes in all! Thank you all for voting! I've posted a new poll for you as well :)

New review from The Capital about us

2011-09-30T13:36:00.001-04:00

Hey, there's a new review listed on The Capital's site (http://www.hometownannapolis.com) about us. I got permission to post it on our site. Enjoy!

Dining Out: Edgewater's magic? Good service, food, valueBy TERRA WALTERS, For The CapitalPublished 09/29/11

WHEN YOU GO

WHAT: Edgewater Restaurant.
WHERE: 148 Mayo Road, Edgewater.
PHONE: 410-956-3202.
WEBSITE: www.edgewater restaurant.blogspot.com
HOURS: 4 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, noon to 9 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
EXECUTIVE CHEF: Donald Davis Jr.
APPETIZERS: $3 to $13.
ENTRÉES: $17 to $52.
RESERVATIONS: Not accepted (except for major holidays).
CREDIT CARDS: All major cards accepted.
ACCESSIBILITY: The restaurant is not independently accessible to those using wheelchairs, but call ahead and they will make every effort to help.

"Get the crab cakes. You have to have their crab cakes," came the conspiratorially uttered instruction from the next table, as my dining companion and I studied our menus.

One would wonder just how many times during the past 63 years that same advice has been given. When the popularity - and even the survival - of so many restaurants is transitory, the fact that Edgewater Restaurant opened its doors more than six decades ago is a testament to a family's dedication to quality and customer service.

The history of Edgewater Restaurant began in 1948 when the Sandvik family first opened its doors to south county diners. Now the third generation of the family continues to serve much-heralded food to fans from all over our region and beyond.

They still use many of Grandma Sandvik's original recipes, too.

It was with temerity that, in an earlier review, I made a suggestion for improvement to a restaurant with such impressive longevity. Having ordered an appetizer from the list of specials on a visit, I advised that they add it to the regular menu.

Happily, they took the advice and now visitors to Edgewater Restaurant can enjoy the Onion Toasted Fried Green Beans ($7) at every meal. And enjoy them we did, every single delicious, crisply encased bean.

Additionally, this is a dish that is enhanced by the use of the dipping sauce that accompanies. Dipping the green beans in the ranch dressing that comes with them provides not just a flavor accent, but adds a nice contrast of creamy with crunchy as well.

Our wine choice that evening gave a nod to the rapidly diminishing days of summer with a Bonterra Sauvignon Blanc ($7 per glass, $26 per bottle) that was light and refreshing.

Considering that many regulars eschew the seafood portion of the menu entirely in order to enjoy tasty dishes such as veal Parmesan, steak or pork chops, a red wine recommendation would be the Jekel Pinot Noir ($8 per glass, $30 per bottle).

There is a full bar at Edgewater Restaurant and a full-page listing of beers and spirits (no prices are given, though - an unfathomable practice embraced by many other restaurants as well.)

Considering the array of appealing starters on the menu at Edgewater, one appetizer would never be enough. Our other selection was Fried Calamari ($8), and its crisp savory batter resulted in positive reactions from both of the squid lovers at our table. We both ascribe to the belief that you can never get enough good calamari, so we order it where we know it's well-prepared.

Next up was a trip to the Edgewater salad bar, a sentimental journey that prompted both of us to hark back to countless similar trips to that same salad bar over the course of many years. You won't find exotica nesting there beneath the sneeze guard, just fresh ingredients with delicious dressings. Be sure to try the potato salad, too - it's memorable.

Now to those crab cakes.

The menu offers two types of crab cakes, the fried ones made with backfin crabmeat and the legendary ones made with jumbo lump crab (and little else).

It was the latter (though the fried ones are quite good, too) that prompted our neighbor's exhortation, and it was that one that was the choice of one member of our party.

It is the Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes ($19 for one, $32 for two) at Edgewater that have been solely responsible for many first-time visitors turning into regulars over the years. People just keep coming back for them and they keep on recommending them to their friends as well.

The diner who made that selection opted for only one crab cake, but still had enough to take half of the cake home for the next day. Unfortunately, the green beans (the veggie du jour that had been ordered in lieu of potatoes) were lacking in flavor and would have benefitted from a bit more cooking time.

The other member of our party chose another entree for which Edgewater Restaurant is famous, the stuffed shrimp.

The Specialty Stuffed Shrimp ($23) offers three jumbo gulf shrimp, but after that the menu description is misleading. Stuffed just does not seem to be the operative word here. These shrimp were inundated with Grandma Sandvik's celebrated "crabmeat mixture" (a mixture that would put most crab imperial to shame). They were buried in it. There was enough crabmeat in this dish to make at least three good-sized (and delectable) crab cakes. Again, the green beans were disappointing.

Earthquake plus hurricane equals instant rationalization for having dessert, and our choice was the scrumptious Sweet Potato Bread Pudding a la Mode. Our server, Theresa (sister of the talented chef and granddaughter of the original Sandviks), told us that they get it from Wegmans, but it tasted more like it came from heaven.

Many would-be restaurateurs hire expensive consultants to help them develop a successful business plan, but there really isn't a magic formula. If you give the dining-out public good quality, good value, good food and good service, they will find you and keep coming back.

That's Edgewater Restaurant's secret. Don't tell.

---Terra Walters is a freelance writer and editor based in Annapolis.Copyright © Capital Gazette Communications LLC, 2011.

Poll results

2010-11-01T15:56:00.001-04:00

For the poll: Appetizers; which do you prefer? It seems that Cream of Crab Soup won at 20 votes, Crab Dip in a near second with 18, Beer-Battered Zucchini for third, Buffalo Style Chicken Wings for fourth, Cheese sticks for fifth place, and finally Butter Breaded Fried Mushrooms and the something else took it for last

Lunch Menu

2010-07-03T14:01:00.001-04:00

We received a request to add the lunch menu to our website so now it's up there for all to see. I hope that it's helpful for those that come around for lunch over here. As per usual if you see anything on the website that seems wrong or out of line please just comment and I'll have a look.

Also, remember to send in those pictures and videos if you want to share. Thanks everyone!

Website Confusion

2010-02-28T00:34:00.000-05:00

I heard today that there's been some confusion with our website as people are getting different Edgewater Restaurant websites while looking for ours. Be assured that our website is the Maryland based one at 148 Mayo Road, Edgewater, MD. Sorry for the confusion.

If you put in Edgewater Restaurant Maryland as keywords into Google ours is the first result. You can also bookmark us too

Spicing up the site! Pictures and videos!

2010-01-11T14:52:00.003-05:00

Hello there again!

I've been getting a lot of requests so it seems to be important to people. People want pictures and videos on the site of crab cakes and all the different food from the restaurant.

Yet, to personalize this a little more I'm going to allow anyone, anyone at all to send in there pictures or even videos (keep them reasonably sized; no 1 hour vids and such please). You can send them through file sharing services, sending them as attachments to my e-mail address purcell.evan@verizon.net (maximum attachment size 25MBs) or just send a link to your youtube video and I'll embed it as a few ideas. However you want to send it to me go for it

I probably can't put every picture or video I receive up on the site, but send yours in and I'll definitely consider it. If you want your name put with the picture or other personal info. as well I'll add it for you (if I choose to use it of course).

I'm interested to see what you guys and gals come up with!

Short guide to our website

2009-12-20T02:32:00.003-05:00

For this website we made it nearly as simple as possible. Just scroll down and you should see everything. But there are a few interesting things to tell you while you scroll around.

On the top left side there is a search box, this box (unfortunately) just searches the posts that we have on here and not the rest of the site. But if you want to use it go ahead, better an option than not one.

Under the search box there are some subscription links. These links let you see the changes made to the site with you RSS Readers and a few popular ones are on there. You can also subscribe to the comments if you really want to. If your reader is not on the list you can copy down the hyperlink or use the atom feed and add it to your own reader.

Under this there are some links containing our menu as well as a page only showing our wine menu. There is another page with the calendar for the month as well as the map gadget on there. These were put on separate pages as well as the main page so that you will have an easy time printing them. Making it much easier than copying and pasting to word or whatever you would have done without the links

The about our restaurant post is self-explanatory. Under that is a poll, I'll try to update it whenever it expires, but put in your feedback; we want to see what you think of us!

Going down the page a little more is a Google Calendar embedded in our site. This is a cool little gadget that will show when we are open and when we are closed. You can also view this in a week view as well as an agenda view. You can add this entire calendar (yes add the entire thing) to your own Google Calendar (it will show up as a separate calendar from your personal Google Calendar) by clicking the +Google Calendar picture on the bottom right.

Under the wine menu we have a neat little map to us gadget. This gadget lets you find us very easily. It has a to and from link on the bubble coming from our location. Put in your address and click go! This will take you from our page to Google Maps where it will give you a direct path to our restaurant which you can customize with Google Maps if say you want to go along a certain road and still go to our restaurant. Or, if you know where we are and want to go somewhere after eating there is a from our Restaurant which will lead you to your next location.

At the very bottom (just to mention it) I just added which credit cards we accept. I will list them off: Diners Club International, Carte Blanche, Visa, MasterCard, American Express cards, and Discover Novus. Pictures of the cards are near the bottom.

Thank you all for visiting our site and we hope you find what you want to eat here. :)

Bacon

2009-12-07T14:29:00.004-05:00

Well it seems we have a winner for the poll on which salad topping people prefer. For those that care about such things we had:

23 votes for tomatoes
19 votes for cucumbers
23 votes for pasta
24 votes for bacon
16 votes for croûtons
10 votes for applesauce
20 votes for salad (salad bowl itself)
9 votes for other
5 votes for people that didn't like the salad

Article in The Capital

2009-10-24T17:28:00.000-04:00

In case you missed it on 9/10/09 there was an article in The Capital about us. They were telling about how much they like our restaurant and how we've been in business for 60 years.

They focused on all the different food we offer including our prize-winning signature Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes, Crab skins, clam strips, Maryland fried chicken, Veal Parmesan, as well as our salad bar; and the list goes on. If you want to see the full article click this link: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/ent/2009/09/10-05/form_weddings.html (I'm working on getting the article embedded, but the ShareThis service doesn't seem to be working for me)

Small mispost now fixed

2009-04-19T17:11:00.002-04:00

As some of you might have noticed there were three prices on the menu that weren't right. As soon as I got word of this I changed it. Now the prices are:

A la Carte Salad Bar.....................................................$5.95

Crab Dip.........................................................................$11.95

Crab Skins......................................................................$9.95

I hope this didn't cause confusion for anyone and please let me know if there's any other errors you think you've found. Thanks!

Our new color!

2008-08-06T12:58:00.004-04:00

So what do you think of our new color? We are done making our restaurant a nice colored blue which makes it much different in appearance from the previous red. At one point our restaurant had blue on the side, red on the front, and the roof of our restaurant is white, so at one point we were red, white, and blue; very patriotic :) But tell us what you think! Go to our poll on the left side of the page (scroll down a little) and give your opinion!

We are back!

2008-07-09T13:15:00.000-04:00

Yup, after our week-long vacation we are back and open today. So please check us out if you want some crabcake or some steak or anything else on the menu. Take-outs are available so you can call ahead and come in say hi and get your meal :)

Changes to the Restaurant

2008-06-28T22:42:00.003-04:00

Hello good people of the Internet, our Restaurant is going on a vacation for a week (meaning it will not be open) and will reopen on the 9th of July. You might have noticed that the doors on the restaurant have changed. This is part of the change we're making to the restaurant. In the near future we will no longer be the little red restaurant, we'll be the little blue restaurant! We hope you like the new color. Also a quick friendly reminder to you, we do no accept reservations except on major holidays. Thank you!

First Post

2008-06-01T21:29:00.003-04:00

Hello, this is my first attempt at making a website for our Restaurant, I hope that it turns out ok. If anyone wants to suggest something to add to the site (within reason) please e-mail me the suggestion at purcell.evan@verizon.net. Some of what I'd like to add are separate sites for some areas of the site and more interactive things, but I want to check with what you want.