Ocean City, MD: Brass Balls

I have ad-hoc’d my way through a good amount of restaurants on the boardwalk of Ocean City, Maryland and my experience has taught me that it is very unlikely to find bad food in Ocean City, MD. It is important to keep in mind that most of the food here is more or less the same genre; American-boardwalk type food. Think, funnel cakes, cotton candy, hot dogs, and crab cakes.

Ocean City is well known for its boardwalk. The Travel Channel noted it as a top ten boardwalk in America. Upon entering Ocean City, a sign boosts its title as 2001’s best family vacation spot. I have learned the hard way that this sign forewarns visitors that most of Ocean City is kid-friendly. The adult scenes are few and far between.

Recently, a co-worker recommended Brass Balls, one of the older restaurants on Ocean City’s boardwalk. Brass Balls is one of three restaurants in the same building. All three restaurants host the same atmosphere; a fun, young ambiance, with a clever, raunchy menu. If you plan on taking a child here beware, the menu has inserted the word “ball” in every applicable situation where it could be turned into a joke about oral sex. I was tempted to try the “Brass Ball BJ,” a shooter with no real description, but I decided to stick to the crab cake sandwich.

The crab cakes came with an order of waffle fries, and since they wouldn’t let me substitute fries for a salad I ordered a salad on the side, which came down to $10.00. Truthfully, it wasn’t the best crab cake I ever had.

I have higher standards when I’m eating Maryland crab cakes in Maryland.

But it was the best crab cake I ever had for ten dollars. There was a good amount of filling in the crab cake but not too much. The salad could have used a little more imagination, but for $10.00 I’m just glad they had a spring mix, I don’t eat iceberg lettuce, even in Ocean City, Maryland.

Brass balls, along with most restaurants in Ocean City serve malt vinegar with their fries, an English tradition that inexplicably made its way to Ocean City.

The really outstanding thing about Brass Balls isn’t solely its food but its adult territory. This is only the third adult-friendly place I’ve found on the boardwalk, I’m determined to find more.

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