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Apr 11, 2017 - Food and Drink

Top crab cake in Charlotte is a $13 DIY project shaped like a baseball

Ted Williams

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Clean Catch, a dead simple yet upscale fish market located near Mellow Mushroom in Myers Park, serves up a freaking delightful crab cake.

clean-catch-myers-park-seafood-fish — The exact address is 2820 Selwyn Ave. Suite 150 Charlotte, NC 28209

Crab cakes cost $13 and Clean Catch sells about 200 each week on average.

inside-clean-catch-in-myers-park — It’s so clean inside Clean Catch and I always want to take a big bite out of the tuna on display. I love tuna.

The crab cake comes with a generous helping of their homemade dipping sauce. Yum.

Pro Tip: Ask for a sample of their fancy oil because you’re not supposed to cook this in typical olive oil.

raw-crab-cake-from-clean-catch-charlotte — Crab cake is a little smaller than a baseball

Don’t forget to grab the note-card-sized instructions so that you can impress others with your crab cake cooking skills even though you don’t know what you’re doing.

instructions-on-crab-cake-from-clean-catch-charlotte — Don’t forget, you only sear it on one side – then you flip it and put it in the oven.

Go home, bring it out of the to-go box and marvel at your crab cake.

raw-crab-cake-holding — What’s inside? Pasteurized wild blue crab meat, mayonnaise, onion, panko bread crumbs, eggs, whole grain dijon mustard, seafood poultry salad & meat seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, ground chili paste, hot pepper sauce and mustard seeds.

Sear it for 2 minutes.

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Just look at those large lumps of crab. Nom Nom Nom.

crab-clean-catch-myers-park — Cooking this sucker is so easy and a guaranteed way to impress your lover or a dinner party.

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