Box Hill Pizzaria Carryout - Abingdon

Excellent service from Kelly. The house salad dressing is awesome and you can get a bottle to take home. I ordered the crab cake which was good but I believe I would have to give an edge to the crab cake from Fortunato Bros. in Edgewood (haven't tried the one in Abingdon). The place was packed on a Thursday evening which tells me the rest of the menu must be pretty good too.

Great Food. Most people come here for the crab cakes, but I like the Pasta. Service is typically very good, but it can get busy if you are eating at a peak time.

...according to Box Hill Pizzaria, the best crab cake anywhere. That's right, anywhere. Pretty amazing, huh? Yes, of course, I mean the crab cake

Best Crab Cakes in Maryland. Box Hill Pizzeria looks like a typical pizzeria, but while walking in you see that it is packed with customers. On the one hand there is a takeout counter and a separate dining room on the other. Like many pizzerias if you want a beverage refill, take the cup on the machine and fill it. What's not typical of this pizzeria is that I don't think someone goes there for pizza. Her speciality is crab cake. In eastern Maryland a crab cake place is not particularly unusual, but I have found one that has crab cake as good as Box Hill. They give you a good portion served either baked or fried with almost no filler and huge pieces of lump crab meat. They also have uncooked crab cakes for take-out along with instructions to cook them at home and even ship frozen. To put in perspective how good their crab cakes are, I live 90 minutes away and I made the 3 hours round trip to get them. I'm sure their other menu items that are typical for a pizza place are good, but I never tried them. I heard about the crabcakes, tried them and did not see the rest of the menu since!

Good pizza, disappointing crab cakes. Update Sep 21, 2014 Grade: B-/C+ On our last visit we had the pizza and enjoyed it. After reading about their legendary crab cakes, we wanted to try them this time. Sadly, we were very disappointed with them. The waitress said that the broiled crab cakes were better than the fried so we tried those. Large, at 8 oz. and full of jumbo lump meat, that was the best part of them. The peak of mine had gotten charred while the inside was only just warm. The mix of the crab and mayo was a little too runny and it was lacking in flavor, with little or no Old Bay or other spice mixture. For that matter, the tartar sauce was pretty runny and the cole slaw was plain, too. Next time, we're going for the pizza. Grade: B Box Hill is an odd marriage of pizza, Italian standards, gyros and Greek specialties, and crab cakes that locals eagerly endorse. The overwhelming aroma of crab meat greets you as you come through the door, entering on a path that is separated from the kitchen by partial glass. The dining rooms lay beyond, one featuring two booths flanked by the restrooms (which provides the aroma of air freshener with that of your food). Box Hill's menu is involved, but we'd heard that they had good pizza so we went in that direction. I'm pretty glad that we did. We ordered a small with pepperoni and onions...and several minutes later, our waitress returned to see if we were ready to order. Fortunately, she quickly reoriented and remembered that she'd taken and submitted our choice. Keeping in mind our frequent encounters with substandard pizza in Northern Virginia, this was pretty good. Its crust had interest, crispy without being overly dry or chewy and with good flavor. There was a hint of sweetness in the sauce that worked well, and the strings of raw onion were sweet and flavorful. The pepperoni was lackluster, however, almost flavorless against the other ingredients. In all, this is much better than any pizzeria that delivers to us. Maybe we'll try the crab cakes next time.