NYC's best soft shell crab dishes

BREAKFAST
Soft-shell Crab Egg Sandwich
$18 at Craftbar, 900 Broadway
Start the day with what Craftbar chef de cuisine Lauren Hirschberg calls “sweet, awesome crabbiness.”
His version of this season’s shellfish du jour, is an amplified egg sandwich: pan-toasted baguette, Old Bay aioli (the ultimate crab-ready mayo, house-made), pickled ramp relish, bibb lettuce, shishito peppers (mild about 90-percent of the time), one buttermilk Wondra fried jumbo crab, and two over-easy eggs.
“This time of year everyone’s excited for something that’s not butternut squash,” says Hirschberg, referring to the winter staple. So excited that his purveyor recently shorted his order. “Some [chef] downtown begged him for a dozen.”