Do you have a favorite spot to grab a bite to eat at Dulles International and Reagan National airports when you’re traveling? If you trust the folks at Frommer’s Travel Guides, the food landscapes at those airports are not very noteworthy. DCA and IAD did not make Frommer’s list of top 10 airport restaurants. However, at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport, one restaurant did make the cut: Obrycki’s, adjacent to Gate B-11.

Not familiar with Obrycki’s? It’s a 67-year-old Baltimore crabhouse that opened up its airport location in 2006.

According to its website, “[t]his location is a scaled down version of our Pratt Street location, with only 80 seats and a limited menu. Sorry, steamed crabs are not available but our famous crab cakes, crab soup, hot crab dip and many of your other favorite items are.”

Not serving steamed crabs is probably a good thing—just imagine some passenger asking for a carry-out order and munching down on a messy crab on board. Can’t you just smell the Old Bay circulating in the recycled air? Also, could a crab-shell fragment be considered a security threat?

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