Reserve The Kitchen Menu The Wine Room The Bar The People Occasions Gallery The Chef

Special occasions live here.

Prime cuts  ·  Local seafood  ·  Chesapeake City, MD

Reserve a table The menu
01 · The kitchen

The steak is the star.Everything else knows it.

Every cut is hand selected. Prime grade beef, chosen carefully, cooked the way a good steak deserves. No shortcuts between the kitchen and your table.

The water is right down the street, and the menu knows it. Jumbo lump crab cakes, oysters off the half shell, she-crab soup. Local seafood sits beside the beef, not behind it.

Salt, heat, patience. None of it is fast. That's the point.

PrimeHand selected cuts
LocalChesapeake seafood
225Bohemia Avenue
A tomahawk cut resting on the plate at Prime 225
Fig. 01 · Off the heat, resting.
03 · The wine room

"The wine room runs along the back wall. Ask your server to walk it with you. It's part of the night."

Premium wines and spirits · Temperature controlled

04 · The bar

Stirred slow,poured proud.

The bourbon lineup on the bar at Prime 225
Fig. 02 · One drink at a time.

Craft cocktails, made the long way. Fresh citrus, real ingredients, and a bartender who would rather make it right than make it fast. Start with Aine's Espresso Martini. It's the one the bar is known for.

The bourbon shelf is the pride of the bar. Tell the bartender what you usually drink and let them walk you up the shelf from there.

Wine by the glass comes off the back wall. Beer for the beer people. And the bar itself is a fine place to land while your table finishes dessert.

Knob Creek Maker's 46 Elijah Craig Booker's Buffalo Trace 1792 Ask what's open
05 · The people

You'll seethe same faces.

At Prime 225, hospitality isn't a department. It's our identity, and it's led from the front. The standard here is that every guest experience feels intentional, elevated, and unmistakably personal from the moment you arrive.

Guests at the bar at Prime 225 in warm evening light

Guest first

Before anything else

You came out for a night, not a transaction. Every seat in the room gets treated that way.

The Prime 225 kitchen line during service

One crew

The kitchen

The kind of staff that stays. Long enough to know the regulars, the orders, and the difference a good table makes.

An espresso martini on the bar with the bourbon shelf behind

Your night

Behind the bar

A birthday, an anniversary, or just a Tuesday that deserved better. Tell us what the night is for.

The Prime 225 bartenders

Bartenders

The Prime 225 servers

Servers

The Prime 225 bussers

Bussers

The Prime 225 hosts

Hosts

The Prime 225 culinary team

Culinary

The Prime 225 team outside the restaurant on Bohemia Avenue
The team · 225 Bohemia Avenue
Frank Monturano, General Manager of Prime 225
"I'm Frank Monturano, General Manager, and I'm proud to lead a team that understands a simple truth: excellence in hospitality is never accidental. It's built by people who care, who take ownership, and who show up every day committed to making every guest feel like they matter because they do."

Frank Monturano · General Manager

06 · Special occasions

Built for the nightsyou circle in ink.

Anniversaries. Birthdays. The dinner that marks the moment. On any given Saturday, the reservation book here reads like a list of celebrations.

Tell us what the night is for and we'll take it from there. The right table, the right timing, a bottle worth opening.

Plan the night
07 · Reservations

A small room.Call ahead.

(410) 885-7009

The dining room is intimate and the weekends fill first.
A phone call gets you a real person and a real answer. Lunch · Thu thru Sun 12–4 · Dinner · Sun thru Thu 4:30–9 · Fri & Sat 4:30–10