Baltimore is well-known for its delicious foods and a lot of best restaurants offering dishes you’ll only taste in Baltimore. Dubbed as the crabs capital of the world, expect that the majority of restaurants in the city are offering the best seafood and crab dishes that every tourist and local will definitely love.
In this article, we’ll feature some of these Baltimore restaurants that are popular and are recently in the news for several reasons. If you love beer and pizza, then this feature by Lauren Cohen in Baltimore Magazine will definitely arouse your curiosity. Read the article below to learn more.
Menu focusing on Neapolitan pizzas and soft pretzels launches this week.
In between brewing the signature Green Machine IPA and Forte pilsner, the team at Diamondback Brewing in Locust Point has been firing up the oven, rolling out dough, and testing recipes in an effort to make their dream of having an in-house food program a reality.
Though the prep space that the owners have built inside the modern-industrial brewery is only about 50 square feet, co-founder Colin Marshall assures that its size has no effect on the flavors: “The kitchen is small,” he admits, “but the taste that comes out of there is pretty mighty.”
This Wednesday, Diamondback will debut its inaugural menu featuring 12-inch Neapolitan pizzas, hand-twisted Bavarian pretzels with Green Machine beer cheese, and large charcuterie boards meant for sharing. The new eats are launching in conjunction with expanded hours at the taproom, which is staying open until 8 p.m. on Sundays and will begin opening on Tuesdays starting next week. (In addition, Diamondback’s new food license has one drawback in that dogs are no longer allowed inside.)
Marshall says that offering food has been a priority since 2016, when the brewery opened and began hosting local food trucks and pop-ups on busy nights. But it took some time to come up with a plan to execute a menu made in-house.
“It’s been in the works since we opened,” he says. “But, in the past six months, we have really been working through the concept, deciding what we’re going to serve, and figuring out how we would begin to keep it sustainable moving forward.”
Taproom manager Ryan Belton and baker/bartender Cassidy Johnson—industry veterans who were both brought on within the past year—further helped to solidify the path toward pizza. Given the tiny kitchen space, the two thought it was best suited for a small menu of simple, well-executed fare. See full post here…
This restaurant is the perfect place for those who are craving for some pizza and beer, perhaps on a Saturday night while watching your favorite sports team playing on national television. Because of both tourists and local patronage of the restaurants, they planned on expanding to other locations within Baltimore as well to cater more customers.
Next on our list is another famous restaurant in Baltimore known for its delicious foods that are considered one of the best fine cooking in Mid-Atlantic. Tom Sietsema of The Washington Post wrote an interesting review about the restaurant’s cooking. Read the review below.
Charleston is a Beacon of Grace in Baltimore
Charleston
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When chef Cindy Wolf and co-owner Tony Foreman renovated their Harbor East restaurant in 2005, turning the establishment into something that resembled a home with grand taste, they also changed the way customers ordered. Out went a la carte and in went a tasting menu that put diners in the driver’s seat: They had free rein to create their own three- to six-course menu, from every dish on the list — a poster-size menu running to two dozen dishes, not including dessert. A lot has changed on the dining scene since then, but two things haven’t: Wolf is still letting patrons have it their way, and she continues to offer some of the finest cooking in the Mid-Atlantic. Her favorites – lobster soup laced with curry oil, grilled French quail enhanced with peaches in summer — are likely to become yours, and if Wolf gets tired serving fried oysters, a dish she’s been making since the ’90s at Georgia Brown’s in the District, she also knows a petition would follow if she took off the cornmeal-crusted bivalves enriched with cayenne mayonnaise. Read the rest of the review here…
Charleston is a very popular restaurant in the city of Baltimore. As a matter of fact, tourists always visit the restaurant at least once in their whole stay in the city. Customers absolutely love the likes of lobster soup laced with curry oil, grilled french quail enhanced with peaches, etc. The restaurant has found major success over the past 14 years and will continue to do so in the next years.
Food and restaurants as mentioned are among the most popular and profitable business in Baltimore, and in 2018 alone there are lots of new entrants in Baltimore’s dining world. That is despite the fact that some of the old favorites had been closed. John-John Williams IV wrote an article about these new entrants in Baltimore Sun. Read the article below to learn more.
Amid Closing of Old Favorites, Baltimore’s Dining World Welcomed New Entrants in 2018
Image Source: Sarah Meehan of The Baltimore Sun
The past year brought a slew of changes to Baltimore’s food landscape. That meant welcoming a crop of new upstarts while bidding adieu to some familiar faces.
Additions
Patterson Public House, a sleek new American restaurant, opened in July in the former Bistro Rx space on the edge of Patterson Park. Executive chef Wilbur Cox brought fresh-from-the-sea dishes to Topside, the bar and restaurant atop Mount Vernon’s Hotel Revival, which opened in May. Vida Taco Bar branched out from its Anne Arundel locations and brought specialty margaritas (the 24 carrot is a must) and artisanal tacos (the octopus on lettuce is equal parts popular and decadent) as it opened up a new location at Harbor Point in July.
Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House became the company’s first American brewery to open in 64 years when it made its debut in August in Halethorpe. Hampden’s dairy darling, The Charmery, opened locations in Towson in May and then a third location in the Union Collective complex in Medfield in June.
Ampersea, a New American restaurant with a harbor view, opened on the ground level of the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum. It replaced Waterfront Kitchen, which closed in January. Little Bird Coffee Bar, an Italian-inspired cafe from the group that runs the uber-popular cocktail bar Bluebird Cocktail Room, opened in Hampden in August.
In April, Lupa, an Italian restaurant from Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf, replaced Petit Louis in Columbia. Also in Columbia, Cured, a casual American restaurant, and 18th & 21st, a Prohibition-themed cocktail lounge, opened in May. The restaurants, which are on the ground level of the One Merriweather office building, are helmed by Steve Wecker, co-owner of Iron Bridge Wine Co, and Vince Culotta, the restaurant’s former general manager. Click here to read the rest of this post…
With that said, we can definitely say that a lot of Baltimore’s restaurants are amazing, they serve delicious foods and love to serve locals and tourists dishes with Baltimore exclusive taste.
