For a diner, the Silver Moon Diner establishment (continue reading for Double T) serves up excellent jumbo lumb crab cakes and some unexpectedly delicious french fries. A friend and I visited for dinner and ordered the above along with a crab salad (both the salad and crab entree came with a soup and side) and baklava for dessert. The soups available were manhattan clam chowder, maryland blue crabs, and corn chowder. The bill came out to about $40. We loved nearly every part of dinner, including the service, and our palettes were more than satisfied. (One hiccup was that some of the leaves in the salad were dead and rotting. We were so in love and preoccupied with the rest of our dinner that we didn't even bother complaining, but I'm sure they would have given us a new salad if we asked for it).
Because of our pleasant surprise with silver moon, we decided to drive 5 min further down Pulaski Hwy (Rt 40) to Double T Diner and try their fare. Unfortunately, that was a huge mistake. As NYC visitors to Baltimore, of course we ordered the jumbo lumb craP cake which came with a choice of potatoes and soup. The cake tasked like crab meat mushed with bisquik batter and quickly broiled. There was no texture except the mushy batter inside the cake and little taste. Also while $3 more than the silver moon price tag, these were significantly smaller in portion size. We got french fries to compare with Silver Moon; they were slighty soggy and resembled defrosted fries that were stuck into the oven. We also got broccoli which arrived overcooked and mushy. The soups offered were lentil, corn, and chicken nodle; nowhere near the same quality of offerings from Silver Moon. We got the lentil which tasted like lentils with sugar and ketchup. My friend also ordered a breakfast combo which is served 24/7. His sausages were terribly oily, homefries were simply mashed up potatoes that were fried (no onions or peppers or seasoning). They tasted like of the same poor quality as the french fries. Finally, the bread basket came with a used butter cup thrown inside and the soda cup came cracked and leaking. The waiter was also a little awkward and unkind. Our bill was still $40, but we didn't get dessert here; so slightly more expensive and a lot less appetizing. Needless to say, we will never return and will stick to Silver Moon from now on. read more