1.   Guests began with crab cakes, caviar, creme fraiche, smoked salmon and mini beef wellingtons.

2.   I am having a blast, as I crunch on crab cakes with jicama slaw and lemon chive aioli.

3.   Pan-fried Louisiana crab cakes with remoulade sauce and Cobb salad with creamy tarragon sauce are perennial lunchtime favorites.

4.   The happy hour food menu includes hot wings, chicken quesadillas, onion rings and crab cakes, among others.

5.   Among recommended starters are two small crab cakes, browned and brittle on the outside, and stoked with poblano chiles, corn and sweet peppers.

6.   Among the best main courses were grilled salmon with mustard-seed sauce and brittle grilled leeks, and chunky crab cakes with sweet corn and zippy Sichuan slaw.

7.   An overly eggy crab cake on the same plate was not rescued by tasty chicken-stock sauce.

8.   And diners love crab meat so much that they are abandoning regional loyalties and want crab cakes, soft-shell crabs and Dungeness crabs wherever they go.

9.   An appetizer of tiny crab cakes with a potato pancake would have been fine if served properly hot.

10.   And that means crab cakes themselves should be anything but the dense, heavy hockey pucks seen in so many restaurants.