On the 16th day of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour in 2021, we took a break from the travelogue to catch up with an old friend. Some days are about tourism and boat rides and beach and mountains and some are just old-fashioned work and conversation and politics. Nestor has long called Michael Steele “his favorite Republican” but this was the first time they’d dined together while discussing the state of the world in the summer of 2021.

Who says that folks who disagree can’t have fun? The Maryland Crab Cake Tour brings folks together. One flag. One mission. One crab bomb at a time in Bowie.

Follow along all of July for last year’s glorious and delicious 30 crab cakes in 30 days (#CrabCakeTour on Twitter and Facebook) and let Nestor re-tell you where to go this summer for a tasty ‘cake.

This year’s tour is sponsored by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill Industries and Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland and begins at Rocky Gap State Park on August 1st and will stretch for 31 thirsty days and nights as Nestor celebrates his 31st Anniversary as Baltimore’s longest-running and most celebrated radio voice and media traveling crab cake taster all month for a second run at great Maryland businesses and local breweries all over The Free State. From Oakland to Ocean City, from Cumberland to Cambridge – The Maryland Crab Cake Tour retrospective from 2020 is here and the 2021 edition is coming your way.

If you have a nominee for a delicious Maryland crab cake somewhere on the local roads, now is the time to toss Nestor a note: nes@baltimorepositive.com. We’re always looking for a new place to bring our sponsors: The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill Industries and Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland in support of Restaurant Week from September 16-25, 2022.

(Sorry the videos were reversed but just ignore all logos. It’s Nestor’s fault! User error…)

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour joins Michael Steele in Bowie for a Crab Bomb at Jerry’s Seafood

We ask Michael Steele if he’s running for Governor of Maryland

Michael Steele discusses local elections and parties and purple Maryland