Southern Maryland Oyster Guide

The Prime Street Grille

The Prime Street Grille is an award-winning veteran and locally owned restaurant, specializing in fr...

Blue Wind Gourmet

We are a local, woman-owned business that specializes in fresh and wholesome sandwiches, wraps, and ...

Morris Point Restaurant

In 1885, Stewart Morris opened a general store and oyster packing house on this point. As generation...

Reluctant Navigator Restaurant

A family owned restaurant and marina along the Potomac River that supports the local community, farm...

W.J. Dent & Sons

A quant country market, the store began operations in 1927 as Bailey’s Store and has been owne...

Snellman’s General Merchandise – ‘Shuck Shack’

Local, family owned business. Join us every Friday for the Hollywood ‘Shuck Shack’ at 5 p.m. fea...

Crystal’s Seafood

We work year-round to offer wild harvest crabs, oysters, and fish when in season. Mostly selling to ...

Thompson’s Seafood Corner Market Inc.

A wide variety of fresh seafood available daily; we clean the fish ourselves. Oysters: local wild ha...

Thursday’s Bar and Grill

Your neighborhood restaurant. Celebrating over 20 years of serving Calvert County. Seafood a special...

Kellam’s Store & Catering

Family retail and wholesale seafood market, carryout and catering service, providing fresh local sea...

Dockside Restaurant

Fresh seafood offered daily. Restaurant and Sports Bar offer picturesque views of the river, casual ...

Captain Billy’s Crab House

Serving fresh Maryland seafood, located in Popes Creek, on the Potomac River. Back in the Days of ma...

Galesville Heritage Society & Museum

The mission of the Galesville Heritage Society is to promote an understanding of and an appreciation...

Captain Salem Avery Museum

Captain Avery Museum, a nonprofit organization founded in 1984, owns and operates a museum complex o...

Annapolis Maritime Museum

Our FREE Museum is situated on a small campus at the mouth of Back Creek, overlooking the Chesapeake...

Chesapeake Beach Oyster Cultivation Society (CBOCS)

CBOCS is a member of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Maryland Growing Oysters (MGO) progra...

UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory – Visitor Center

The CBL Visitor Center, located on the first floor of the historic Solomons House, offers guests the...

LochJaw Charters

We specialize in watermen heritage tours around the Solomons area aboard a 44 ft fishing charter boa...

The Pier

Offering fresh seafood, libations and panoramic views of the Patuxent River. ...

Rod ‘N’ Reel Resort

We serve locally sourced oysters on our restaurant menus as appetizers and entrees. We also particip...

Jerry’s Place

Jerry’s Place offers a variety of fresh fish delivered daily, tender shrimp, locally raised oyster...

Chesapeake’s Bounty

A year-round local food market and farm that sources exclusively from the Chesapeake Bay region, rig...

Calvert Crabs and Seafood

Locally owned and operated family restaurant and carry out serving regionally harvested oysters and ...

Abner’s Crab House

Located in beautiful Chesapeake Beach, we are a family owned and operated Crab House and Marina spec...

Chesapeake Sea Fruit

St. Mary’s River is one of the highest oyster producing tributaries in Maryland, if not the hi...

Captain Phil Langley Oysters

We started raising oysters in St. Jerome’s Creek about three years ago on a small bottom lease. Th...

Wild Willy’s Seafood

Family owned and operated seafood business. Waterman, all locally sourced, wild harvest oysters (in ...

38 North Oysters

Aquaculture farmed, market ready oysters.  Our oysters are cultivated to capture the best flavors o...

The Ruddy Duck Seafood and Alehouse

Beautiful waterfront restaurant with a variety of seafood, shellfish and non-seafood items.”Ou...

Patuxent River Oysters

Farm-raised sweet natural oysters (when inventory is available) for consumers and restaurants. ...

Captain John’s Crab House

A true Southern Maryland Style Crabhouse established by Capt John Shymansky in 1963. Family owned an...

Maryland Seafood Company

Locally owned and operated by the Scrivener family since 1976. We offer a wide variety of wild harve...

Dream Weaver Catering & Cafe

Come in and enjoy REAL food, prepared by our fabulous staff in our cozy, comfortable cafe setting. O...

Elements Eatery and Mixology

Farms + Fish + Fire + Grapes + Hops + Steel + People = Elements! A casual seasonal restaurant and co...

The Front Porch Restaurant

Intimate restaurant featuring creative Southern Coastal Cuisine located on the square in historic do...

Kellam’s Seafood

Kellam’s is family retail and wholesale seafood market providing fresh local seafood caught daily ...

Jon Lore Oyster Farming

Bottom raised oysters with a traditional Chesapeake Bay taste and market oysters by the bushel. ...

Hollywood Oyster Company

The deep waters of the Patuxent river and the clay/sand bottom lined with fossilized rock give our o...

Circle C Oyster Ranchers Association, Inc.

After 30 years, Circle C’s operation is still keenly focused on improving water quality and cl...

The Lighthouse Restaurant and Dock Bar

Casual harbor-side locale featuring classic seafood and  steaks, plus cocktails and local craft bee...

Patuxent River Seafood

We harvest and sell wild oysters and have just started our own aquaculture operation to farm-raise o...

Bay Abner

We are a new and upcoming oyster aquaculture business. Our first harvest of fresh Chesapeake Bay oys...

VanAlstine Seafood and Farm Heritage Tours

We are a veteran-owned and operated family business, farming 35-acres of private oyster beds offerin...

VanAlstine Seafood and Farm

We are a veteran-owned and operated family business, waterman and oyster aquaculture producer. We ha...

Ryan Moulds Fresh Crabs & Seafood

Fresh “from our dock to your door”, we provide wild harvest oysters harvested daily in season fr...

Bob Evans Seafood

We are a family owned and operated seafood business. Local waterman, processor, local retail, inters...

Solomons Island Heritage Tours

Come along with us as we chase the Bay’s bounty. We offer Heritage Tours to demonstrate commer...

Fish The Bay Charters

We specialize in waterman’s heritage tours, sunset cruises and fishing trips. We love to teach peo...

St. Clement’s Island Museum

The St. Clement’s Island Museum bears homage to the Southern Maryland tradition of oyster fishing ...

Piney Point Lighthouse Museum and Historic Park

The Piney Point Lighthouse Museum & Historic Park’s Potomac River Maritime Exhibit focuses on ...

The Lore Oyster House

The J. C. Lore Oyster & Sons oyster house is a National Historic Landmark that is also a museum ...

True Chesapeake Oyster Company

St. Jerome Creek, where fresh waters from the north meet the salty Atlantic from the south, is the h...

Patuxent Seafood Company, LLC

Working the water has been a part of the Buck family heritage for generations. Today Andy Buck and h...

Moonstruck Oyster Company

Located on St. Thomas Creek off the Patuxent River, Moonstruck began its oyster operation in 2007. T...

Watermen Heritage Tours

A project of a partnership formed by the Chesapeake Conservancy, Coastal Heritage Alliance, Maryland...

Calvert Marine Museum

At the Calvert Marine Museum (CMM) pre-history, natural history, and maritime heritage come together...

Double T Oyster Ranch

We are a family oyster aquaculture operation founded in 2009 by a father and son team. Today we prov...

Shore Thing Shellfish

We are a small, member-owned and operated oyster farm dedicated to producing quality oysters using t...