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Lowry's Crab Shack lives
At 11 a.m. Sept. 22, Leslie Lowry served a heaping platter of steamed Maryland blue crabs to the first diner at Lowry's Crab Shack in Hamilton. It took nearly a year, but the Lowrys, Donald, Leslie and Marshall, are back in business.Donald and Leslie closed their farm market, at the east end of town, on Dec. 31, 2006. They expected to reopen on the site of the old Planet Wayside at the west end of town by March 2007.
Zoning problems intervened. Plans shifted from a farm market (not allowed by zoning) to a restaurant (grandfathered in because the Planet had been there).
The reborn family enterprise seats 15 inside, and 16 outside. Customers can dine at the Crab Shack, order to carry out or pick up fresh fish, crabs, oysters and shrimp to take home.
By Tuesday noon, business was so good that Leslie had hired more help and put in for a permit to continue to farm market on the patio next to the Crab Shack.
The dine-in menu includes jumbo lump crab cakes, all beef hot dogs, pulled pork barbecue sandwiches, chicken or albacore tuna or seafood salad on pita bread. Lowry's offers peanut butter and jelly for the younger set. For the adults, beer on and off.
The menu will grow -- fried oysters, soft shell crabs, fried chicken, frog legs, scalloped and butterflied shrimp. Back on the shelves are the South Mountain Creamery butter and milk, and locally grown hormone-free beef steaks.
"I couldn't have imagined anything better," Leslie said Sept. 25. "People have supported us, have been waiting for us, and they're all here. It has been really heartwarming."
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