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• Baltimore Seafood Restaurant: Turkey Day Dish – Dungeness Crabs

  • November 21st, 2012
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  While east coasters are stuffing themselves this Thursday with stuffing-filled turkeys, west coasters will be bringing another tradition to the Thanksgiving Day table: crabs. This time of year marks the start of the Dungeness crab season, named for the port… Read More

• Giving Thanks for Crabs with a Few Fun Facts!

  • November 15th, 2012
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  We love crabs. We’ll gladly bang our mallets loudly on their claws just to get out every last morsel of steamed meat, scrape away the Devils Fingers to get to the heavenly parts at the core, and sit for hours… Read More

• Holiday Gift Giving Ideas: Stuff Stockings and Stomachs with Food

  • November 9th, 2012
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  The holiday season is supposed to leave us brimming with good cheer, but the daunting task of selecting gifts for friends, family, and colleagues has a way of quickly turning even the most generous shoppers into the likes of Ebenezer… Read More

• A Sweet Celebration with Georgetown Cupcake Owners!

  • November 1st, 2012
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  On Monday, October 22nd, Costas Inn Restaurant was graced with a sweet celebration: a visit from the cupcake gurus of Georgetown Cupcakes, Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne. From prime time television to the dining room at Costas, the… Read More

• A History of Crabs from Costas Inn

  • October 22nd, 2012
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  From the prehistoric period to the present, people near the water have been consuming crustaceans like crabs as a food source. In America, the tradition of eating crabs was instituted by the early colonists, and because extracting the meat from… Read More

• Costas, Cupcakes, and Customs: Celebrating Greek Heritage with Georgetown Cupcakes and The Greek America Foundation

  • October 15th, 2012
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  On Monday, October 22nd, Costas Inn – named after first-generation Greek immigrant Costas N. Triantafilos, who came to the States in the early 1800s with his soon-to-be bride Tsambika Kefalas – is joining forces with two modern-day Greek goddesses: Katherine… Read More