2025 Centurion Award winner

Awarded against five published criteria, checked on public evidence.

Faidley's Seafood

Best Crab Cake in Baltimore · MD

Restaurant · Baltimore, MD · Since 1886

The overview

Lexington Market's jumbo lump legend

Faidley's Seafood has held down a corner of Baltimore's historic Lexington Market since 1886, making it one of the oldest continuously operated family businesses in the country. Its jumbo-lump crab cake — nearly all backfin, barely bound, broiled or fried — is the benchmark every Maryland crab cake is measured against.

Ordered at a marble raw-bar counter and eaten standing up, the Faidley's crab cake draws locals and pilgrims by the thousand each week — a fifth-generation seafood institution at the heart of Baltimore's oldest market.

The award record

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Each Centurion Award is its own dated annual record, and staying current means clearing the bar again each new year. Open a year for the full citation and verification details.

2025 Centurion Award

Best Crab Cake in Baltimore Baltimore, MD · Awarded under the 2025 evaluation View the 2025 award →

Awards run one calendar year and renew only if the business clears the bar again. Selection is by published criteria, never for sale.

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Location203 N Paca St, Baltimore, MD 21201
In business since1886
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