Last week, we went to Bluegrass Tavern (1500 S. Hanover St., 244-5101, bluegrasstavern.com) to check out their new spring menu, but started with the charcuterie plate (happy hour is four items for $10) and some rye at the bar (The Willett rye is especially good, with a nice spicy kick). We ordered the smoked...
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J. Paul’s, in a spot that may as well be a corner table on the Inner Harbor, recently launched a menu that continues in its seafood-heavy tradition, adding a few twists. As in, a Mojito made with bourbon and brown sugar. Kind of a Maryland club take on Brazilian decadence. Heavy noshers can start...
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On our annual quest to find the coldest beer in Baltimore, we went down to Curtis Bay in hopes of a soft shell crab sandwich and some cold beer at Taylor’s 5000, but discovered that “this establishment is ordered closed/ no sales by the board of liquors license commissions.” Disappointed, starving, and thirsty, we stumbled...
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Seeking a bit of reprieve from yesterday’s record-setting heat, we made our way down into the blessedly dark basement bar of Brewer’s Art to wet our whistles and taste from the spring menu, which Beasley, the bartender, told us has been hitting plates for the last two weeks or so. We got the highly...
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The farmers gathering for the annual opening of the Baltimore Farmers’ Market beneath the JFX today might be surprised to read this gem about Baltimore in an article about a hip Portland-based butcher in the New York Times Magazine. “ ‘We have the Willamette Valley and eastern Oregon that’s full of great small farmers.’...
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While it was only discovered recently the makers of Baltimore’s iconic Berger Cookies were operating without a city license, the feds were nice enough to license the bakery years ago. DeBaufre Bakeries returned the favor by not paying all of its taxes, according to a report. The Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of...
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Here in The City That Drinks there’s nothing that sets up a powerful thirst better than news of a new bar opening, in this case, according to our friends at the Baltimore Business Journal, the Moonshine Tavern which opens for business Monday, Jan. 7th at 2300 Boston St. in the backwoods of Canton (current...
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Thousand Kabobs 218 N. Liberty St. 21201 443-220-0066 www.1000kabobs.com and www.thousandkabobs.com CP’s Sarenka Smith went to Thousand Kabobs in March, and came back enthralled with the place, calling its Pakistani cuisine “top-notch, aromatic, perfectly spiced, and completely authentic.” I have no grounds to argue. But today, I went there for something entirely different: to...
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Patrick “Scunny” McCusker, the owner of Canton’s Nacho Mamas, was hit by a bus and killed while riding his bike in Ocean City on Friday. McCusker opened Nacho Mamas on Elvis’ birthday in 1994 and wore a purple Elvis suit to the Super Bowl in 2001. If Elvis is the King of Rock ‘N...
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Risking your cash on games of chance is one thing, but risking those same dollars (and your stomach) on a chancy lunch at a casino is another. Lucky for local gamblers that chef/restaurateur/cookbook author/television personality Bobby Flay’s Bobby’s Burger Palace (BBP) (7002 Arundel Mills Circle, 661-4147, bobbysburgerpalace.com) will open concurrently with the new...
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Forget infused vodka and house-made sodas. If you really want to shake things up at the bar think…bacon? The Maryland Science Center (601 S. Light St., 545-5980, mdsci.org) will be holding their latest installment of Mixology 101 evenings on Thursday, May 31, this time focusing on the ABC’s of Alcohol, Bacon, and Cocktail....
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Harbor East never slows down. Last week, PABU (725 Aliceanna St., 223-1460, michaelmina.net/restaurants/locations/pabu.php), the latest restaurant associated with the Four Seasons Hotel, opened its doors to the public. Next week, look for the opening of Townhouse Kitchen & Bar (1350 Lancaster St., 268-0323, townhousebaltimore.com) on May 24, 2012. Another venture from Michael Mina (who...
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