On your next visit to Annapolis, visit Ann’s Dari Creme, so authentic and unchanged, it doesn’t have a web page (that I can find) but is on FB. Cash only. A few places to sit down inside, but everyone goes out to their cars or picnic benches.
Menu: foot-long dogs any way you want ‘em, hand-cut skin-on fries, soft drinks, hand-made BIG milkshakes. That’s it. The strawberry is excellent.
You step up to the counter with your party, and you say your order to the counter person (some ladies who have been there for years). She repeats it back verbatim, no ticket, then repeats to cook. You step back (awed by the accurate memory work going on). Meanwhile, she takes other orders, makes shakes and delivers orders. She calls you back up, repeats your order as she rings it up, you pay your cash and take your bags.
The perfect thing for Saturday lunch or dinner after a hot summer day.
The place is tiny, perched on a bit of land nearly surrounded by a nearby mall. They wouldn’t sell to the developer years ago. Locals were up in arms when the mall folks tried to push them out.
7918 Ritchie Hwy
Glen Burnie, MD
(a few tiny towns north of Annapolis on Rte 2)