Taste of Cambridge People's Choice Winners Announced

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The event showcases Dorchester County restaurants engaged in a competition to see who makes the best crab dishes in five different categories: cream of crab soup, other crab soup, crab dip, crab cake, and crab specialty dish. A panel of out-of-town food experts gets blind tastings of all the dishes and decides the “Judge's Choice” winners.

The general ticket-buying public casts ballots to decide the “People's Choice” after tasting all 14 entries. This year's “People's Choice” winners are:

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• Cream of Crab Soup

    First Place: Jimmie & Sook's Raw Bar & Grill

    Second Place: University Restaurant

• Other Crab Soup:

    First Place: Leakey Pete's Oyster & Wine Bar

    Second Place: High Spot

• Crab Dip:

    First Place: Bistro Poplar

• Crab Cake:

    First Place: Water's Edge Grill at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort

    Second Place: High Spot

• Crab Specialty:

    First Place: Blue Point Provision Company at the Hyatt

    Second Place: Ocean Odyssey

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The 2012 “Best in Show” category, awarded to the single best dish across all the categories, goes to Water's Edge at the Hyatt for their crab cake.

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“Judges Choice” winners were announced at the event on Saturday night. This year's panel of experts included Captain RL, The Big Daddy, Proprietor of "Fat Tuesdays" Fairfax, VA; Thomas Edwards, the proprietor of the award-winning Capt. Thom's Chili Pepper Company, in Baltimore; and Katie Moose, author of cookbooks & travel books, from Easton, MD

   

Only first-place prizes are awarded in the judge's competition, and the 2012 winners are:

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• Cream of Crab Soup: Jimmie & Sook's Raw Bar and Grill

• Other Crab Soup: Leakey Pete's Oyster & Wine Bar

• Crab Cake: Water's Edge Grill at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort

• Crab Dip: Bistro Poplar

• Crab Specialty: Jimmie & Sook's Raw Bar and Grill

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The Taste of Cam idge is organized by Cam idge Main Street, a nonprofit group working to support the revitalization of the downtown area. For more detailed information on events in downtown Cam idge, please visit cam idgemainstreet.com or facebook.com/Cam idgeMainStreet.