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Thames Street Oyster House

Classic Fells Point oyster house serving Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, and New England seafood.

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Thames Street Oyster House

What to know

Official site describes a raw bar plus traditional and modern Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, and New England seafood.

Current menu

Menu highlights at Thames Street Oyster House

Full menu →

Entrees

Eastern Shore Crab Cake$39

Maryland blue crab deluxe with grilled zucchini, potato salad, and cocktail sauce.

New Bedford Swordfish$39

Summer vegetable ragout, lobster tomato sauce, and poached egg.

14oz Black Angus New York Strip$49

Served with Maryland crab potato croquettes and TSOH steak sauce.

Sides

Grilled Local Zucchini & Tzatziki$12

Grilled local zucchini with tzatziki.

Eastern Shore Cucumber Salad$7

Eastern Shore cucumber salad.

Specialty

The Paris Brown$350

Five pound Maine lobster stuffed with blue crab, shrimp, and scallops, side of local vegetables.

Friday Bouillabaisse$31

Marseillais seafood stew, saffron tomato broth, house-made pappardelle pasta

Raw Bar

À la carte Raw BarMarket Price

Classic raw bar with oysters and shellfish.

Seafood

Eastern Shore Crab CakeMarket Price

Crab cake from the official Thames Street Oyster House menu PDF.

Maryland Crab Soup with Short Rib$14

Maryland blue crab, tomato, corn, green beans, potato

Fried Chesapeake Oysters$16

Hand-breaded select oysters, dent corn hominy, rémoulade

Braised PEI Mussels with Local Tomatoes$18

Fall River linguiça, grilled corn, local tomatoes, charred onions, basil

Produce

Local Tomatoes & Whipped Ricotta$14

Red wine vinaigrette, green onions, basil

See all 23 menu items →

Source: Official menu ↗

Source-backed recommendations

What critics & diners recommend

Eastern Shore Crab Cake

Baltimore Magazine ranks Thames Street's crab cake among Baltimore's standouts and praises its lump crab and Eastern Shore cocktail sauce.

New England Lobster Roll

Baltimore Magazine describes Thames Street's lobster roll as a legend; the dish remains on the current official menu.

Raw Bar Oysters

Baltimore Magazine advises always getting something from Thames Street's raw bar.

Ingredient provenance

Sourcing & house-made

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