Mark Pappas, the founder of Pappas Restaurant, has died at the age of 93. According to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page, he was surrounded by his family when he died over the weekend.
When you hear Pappas in Maryland and beyond, you think crab cakes. Mark bought his first restaurant in 1972, taking over Wargo’s Western Streak House and Stag Bar in Parkville.
He named it Pappas Restaurant and Sports Bar, developed a menu that included a seven-ounce crab cake, and that recipe has remained for 53 years. It is now shipped all over the world, even making Oprah’s favorite things list…