Far from the warfare of faux-iconography that assaults you at, say, a Joe's Crab Shack, The Wharf Rat has a sincere nautical theme appropriate for its neighborhood. Faded by salt water air and darkened further by the establishment’s apparent distaste for any light brighter than a lantern, the colors here look like they were probably bright decades ago. Paintings of ships and their captains accompany wooden mermaids and tarnished brass on the walls, all dusted with history.