Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The only difficulty in eating at this very good restaurant is having to choose between lunch and dinner, which have separate but equally appealing menus. A couple of appetizers grace both menus. The French onion soup is traditional and excellent, with an intense broth that any bistro in Paris would be pleased to serve. Mussels, steamed in spicy wine and garlic broth with a hint of tomato, were some of the plumpest recently encountered.
Desserts are almost all house-made.
The banana cream pie, made with caramelized bananas and a chocolate crust, and the chocolate profiteroles with vanilla ice cream were excellent. Open daily except Wednesday for lunch and dinner. Dorsen Crab Claw Inexpensive to Moderate Location, location. Nestled on a happening stretch of St. Michaels harbor, this popular seafood house packs them in like sardines all season. When the weather's fine, try to sit out on the deck, where you can get an appetizing whiff of the Claw's spicy crab rub.