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Now is the time. Early abatement is aback the pleasures aiguille in Talbot and Dorchester counties. That's aback these Eastern Bank towns stop actuality detours forth the way to the bank and about-face into full-fledged destinations.

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There are applied advantages to visiting St. Michaels, Easton and Cambridge afterwards Labor Day. Hotel ante plunge, bank cartage is a nonissue and the kids are, as they say, aback in school. There are alike a few affidavit to put off an Eastern Bank cruise as backward into abatement as you can. Brief wildfowl activate to access actuality in backward October. and by mid-November, they're usually authoritative a comedy out of themselves.

Located aloof a few afar from city Cambridge, the Blackwater National Wildlife Ambush is one of Maryland's abundant accustomed resources. Home to one-third of state's wetlands, the "Everglades of the North" in abatement is a prime acquisition atom for ducks, geese and arctic swans from northwestern Canada.

You'll lose annihilation by cat-and-mouse until abatement for an Eastern Bank getaway. Boating is still a pleasure, and clashing bank towns, there's actual little in the way of melancholia shutdown.

Resort hotels like the Inn at Perry Cabin, the Oxford Inn and, added recently, the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay, accept fabricated Dorchester and Talbot counties into destinations for austere dining. What's almost new to the Eastern Bank dining arena are the moderately priced abreast restaurants in Easton, Cambridge and St. Michaels that are as accepted with the home army as they are with visitors.

There are additionally those hard-to-find locals-only joints area watermen still gather. Alike those are sprucing up. You'll acquisition one of the best ability beer selections east of the Bay Bridge appropriate on Route 50 in Cambridge. You've apparently apprenticed by it a hundred times.

Here are several days' account of Choptank-centric alehouse and drinking.

Mason's

Mason's serves cafeteria and dinner, but it has durably accustomed itself as the cafeteria atom in town. Ask anyone you see in Easton how to acquisition Mason's and they'll acquaint you: "Just attending for the craven building." Actually, Mason's is two buildings.

Not continued afterwards aperture the aboriginal Mason's in a Victorian abode on Harrison Street, Mary Mason added bootleg chocolates to her allowance store's inventory. Then came a all-encompassing cafeteria operation, which became an Easton favorite. And by 2000, Mason and her son, Matthew, adapted the aboriginal architecture and annexed the one abutting door. Now, Mason's is a all-encompassing chocolatier, caterer and restaurant.

Mason's reminded me of Baltimore's ancient Washington Place Grill, area bodies had time to amble over bloom adolescent nicoise, quiche and algid tea. And Mason's has article extra: a dining balustrade that wraps about two abandon of the architecture and an abutting dining courtyard. Aback the acclimate turns rough, Easton association arch central for one of Mason's six amply appointed dining rooms. The alone downside to that — their dogs can't appear along.

Mason's cafeteria card includes 20 hot and algid sandwiches, salads, bootleg soups and circadian specials. Beginning and abundantly portioned shrimp bloom is served on a buttery croissant. (Remember croissants?) The agitating quiche is not the airy chaw of yesteryear but a awe-inspiring deep-dish meal, served with a bloom of alloyed greens, marinated mushrooms and balsamic vinaigrette. For absolutely big appetites, there ability be a steak frites, served with either blooming beans or chips with maitre d'hotel butter.

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22 S. Harrison St., Easton, 410-822-3204, masonsgourmet.com

Brasserie Brightwell

Brasserie Brightwell is from Brian Fox and Brendan Keegan, the aboriginal aggregation abaft 208 Talbot and its offshoot, 208 Burger in adjacent St. Michaels.

When it opened in backward 2010 in the Easton Bazaar Square, Brasserie Brightwell agitated a added absolutely loaded French alehouse card than the one it has now. Though you'll still acquisition things like beef-brisket onion soup, escargots and open-faced sandwiches alleged tartines, you'll see all-American things like Delmonico steak, Duroc pork chops and Maine lobster rolls.

Fashioned out of a adapted garage, Brightwell has the acceptable looks of a archetypal French brasserie, including the capital zinc bar. You could sit there with an bargain bottle of the acceptable abode red, a ability beer or, if you're activity reckless, an expertly caked absinthe.

At the table, it's account accepting annihilation from the wood-fire grill, which turns out adorable steak, accomplished fish, oysters and a must-have: broiled clams served with fennel-Parmesan cream.

206 N. Washington St., Easton, 410-819-3838, brasseriebrightwell.com

Ava's Pizzeria and Wine Bar

The dining arena in the appealing beach boondocks of St. Michaels was continued associated with the four-star cuisine at the Inn at Perry Cabin. Then came aggressive restaurants like 208 Talbot, afresh reopened beneath new ownership, and added recently, the leash of restaurants that compose the 400 Block Restaurant Group. These accommodate Akai Sushi & Cafe, Theo's Steaks and the group's flagship, Ava's Pizzeria & Wine Bar.

Ava's was opened in a adequate acrimonious abode by St. Michaels restaurant adept Chris Agharabi in 2008. Sophisticated abundant to address to a high-end adventurer but above abundant for bounded residents, Ava's has accustomed itself as a boondocks favorite, cutting up prizes and Zagat rankings.

The menu, too, has ample appeal. One end is wine-bar book like pan-seared New Bedford scallops, panko-encrusted wasabi oysters and steak frite. On the added are meatball subs, burgers and the abode specialty, wood-fired pizzas. The basal pizza is a baroque adaptation of the archetypal margherita with formed tomatoes, beginning mozzarella and accomplished basil leaves. Toppings accommodate bootleg meatballs, kalamata olives, broiled red peppers and arugula. Though don't canyon up the pepperoni, which gets hardly broiled in the acute calefaction of the wood-fire oven..

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The admirable aback patio, appointed with alive fireplaces, charcoal a admired St. Michaels' acquisition atom able-bodied into the fall.

409 S. Talbot St., St. Michaels, avaspizzeria.com

The High Atom Gastropub

Opened alone aftermost summer, this 90-seat Cambridge charmer is a affiliation amid Jamie and Brett Summers and chef Patrick Fanning. The approved card includes backtalk cakes, banger and mash, shrimp and grits, and build-your-own burgers, while specials ability be things like jerk pork salad, Cajun ham and breach pea soup, and oysters Rockefeller. The High Atom has an discreet atmosphere; some association dress up for it, but others appear as they are.

Open for cafeteria and banquet circadian and for breakfast Friday through Sunday, the High Atom has become a admired with visitors and a active accumulation of audience too, who are blessed to accommodate chat and dining tips at the bar. The bar is an ideal atom for communicable up on the bounded account while sampling abode specialties like deviled eggs with arena chorizo and blooming chiles, craven bonbon nachos and the aces bounded backtalk dip, fabricated with cheddar, mascarpone and backtalk meat from the world-famous J.M. Clayton Seafood Co. aloof about two blocks away.

305 High St., Cambridge, 410-228-7420, thehighspotgastropub.com

Ocean Odyssey

The Todd ancestors opened their aboriginal backtalk branch in adjacent Crocheron aback in 1947. Some 40 years later, the Todds congenital the Ocean Odyssey on Sunburst Highway.

Although Ocean Odyssey is now a full-service restaurant, there are still reminders of the canicule aback the Todd ancestors operated it as a counter-service sandwich boutique — and alike beforehand times, aback it was a broad seafood bazaar and a crab-picking house. Ocean Odyssey has confused its cuisine forward, but the old audience still appear actuality for their account backtalk cakes and feel appropriate at home.

The Todds still aftermath their own cast of backtalk meat, too, which they put into the restaurant's colossal and backfin backtalk cakes, backtalk soups and backtalk tots, aperitive potato pancakes with scallions and the house's appropriate sauce. The card offers old favorites like absurd mollusk strips, broiled tomatoes and pickled beets. A chef's appropriate ability be curry-seared beginning angle with Thai absurd rice, Cajun absurd calamari and, bone-in-pork chops over a bounded candied potato and academician mash. Beginning angle is in connected supply.

Led by Travis Todd, Ocean Odyssey has developed an admirably aggressive ability beer affairs that includes a alternating calendar of visiting beers on taps, as able-bodied as a abiding agenda of adroit beer dinners.

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316 Sunburst Highway (U.S. 50), Cambridge, 410-228-8633, toddseafood.com

If you go Accepting there

Easton, St. Michaels and Cambridge are all beneath than a two-hour drive from Baltimore.

Attractions

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, 2145 Key Wallace Drive, Cambridge, 410-228-2677. Time anniversary alleged it "nature on the head of her glory." Accustomed in 1933 as a altar for brief waterfowl forth the "Atlantic Flyway," the ambush is over 25,000 acres, including freshwater impoundments, abhorrent flat wetlands, attainable fields, and alloyed beloved and deciduous forests. Camping is not accustomed at the refuge, and although there are bristles abbreviate trails for hiking, the best way to see the ambush in one day is the Wildlife Drive, which is attainable from aurora to dark all year. Circadian permits for clandestine cartage for $3.

Choptank River Lighthouse, 1 High St., Cambridge, 410-228-7977, choptankriverlighthouse.org. Designed to account Dorchester County's amphibian heritage, the Chesapeake Bay's newest alarm is a replica of one that already guided mariners forth the Choptank River. The Choptank River Alarm is amid on Cambridge's Continued Wharf Park, about 12 afar abroad from the original, which was abreast the aperture of the Tred Avon River. Opened this month, the Choptank River Alarm is accepted to draw as abounding as 20,000 visitors annually. It will additionally serve as the dockmaster's appointment for the abutting Cambridge Marina, as able-bodied as a mini-museum.

Events

Good Beer and Autumn Wine festivals. With Cambridge, St. Michaels or Easton as your base, two accepted abatement festivals are calmly accessible. First up is the Acceptable Beer Festival (Oct.13-14, goodbeerfestival.com) featuring 75 American ability beers, alive music, a chili cook-off and a home-brew competition. The abutting weekend, the anniversary Autumn Wine Festival (Oct. 20-21, autumnwinefestival.org) gives connoisseurs and first-time samplers a admirable accomplishments for exploring Maryland wine. Both festivals are at the 207-acre Pemberton Historical Park (5561 Plantation Lane, Salisbury), whose meadows in the abatement are lined with copse of active orange, red and yellow.

Information

Talbot County Appointment of Tourism, 11 S. Harrison St., Easton, 410-770-8000, tourtalbot.org

Dorchester County Tourism, 2 Rose Hill Place, Cambridge, 410-228-1000,tourdorchester.org

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