We’ve all got to eat. But that doesn’t mean we have to treat our daily intake of edi­ble items like putting gas in the old auto. We need food, but we also want it. Here at the City Paper, we love to eat. From Eat Me, to Cheap Eats, we’re always look­ing ...
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Panic not. There’s a whole busi­ness week until Mother’s Day. But it’s time to make a plan. Here are a few restau­rant brunch spe­cials that have shown up in our inbox recently that are sure to make your mom feel like queen for a day. The Wine Mar­ket (921 E. Fort Ave., 244‑6166, the-wine-market.com) offers...
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Erst­while Sun scribe Rob Kasper’s Bal­ti­more Beer (The His­tory Press, 2012) took a long time to fer­ment, but now that it’s on tap, more than a decade after it was first intended for pub­li­ca­tion, it lives up to its sub­ti­tle: A Sat­is­fy­ing His­tory of Charm City Brew­ing. Kasper did his home­work on the his­tor­i­cal...
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On Fri­day, March 23, the Mary­land SPCA is host­ing an on-site Bal­ti­more Food Truck Rally at its facil­ity at 3300 Falls Road from 5–8 p.m. Par­tic­i­pat­ing food trucks include Souper Freak, the Gypsy Queen Café, GrrChe, Iced Gems Cre­ations, Kooper’s Chowhound Burger Wagon, and South Car­olina BBQ and Cater­ing. Beer and wine will also...
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Every Fri­day morn­ing at 10:00 a.m., Tim­o­thy Ander­son, Wood­berry Kitchen’s res­i­dent barista, and fel­low barista Jade Sterle guide cof­fee geeks and wannabes through the fine art of cof­fee cup­ping. “If you’re look­ing to geek out with peo­ple over cof­fee that’s what we do,” Ander­son says. Sim­i­lar to a wine tast­ing, and only slightly less intox­i­cat­ing,...
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EXCLUSIVE! Photos showing the construction of the EAT sculpture used for City Paper's 2012 EAT cover.
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Happy hours, burger spe­cials, and half-price wine nights have become a fix­ture around town.  But a recent email from the Wine Mar­ket announc­ing $35 prix fixe din­ners reminded us that there are more ele­gant ways for the cash-strapped to have an evening out. Here are a few deals around town: The Wine Mar­ket (921 E. Fort...
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Yes, schaden­freude fans, the episode of Kitchen Night­mares that TV food celebrity/reality host Gor­don Ram­say filmed at Hampden’s own Café Hon last fall debuts tonight on Fox at 8 p.m. In case you haven’t seen the series, Ram­say drops in on a strug­gling restau­rant each episode and tries to tough-love it back onto the...
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The Mary­land Sci­ence Cen­ter brings together sci­ence, food, and booze in the lat­est entry of its “adult bev­er­age series,” The Sci­ence of Choco­late: Cocoa-ology, Thurs­day, Feb. 23. Larry McGlinchey, choco­latier and owner of Cacao Lorenzo, will lead an inter­ac­tive pre­sen­ta­tion explor­ing the ori­gins of choco­late and choco­late pro­duc­tion and pro­vid­ing insight into the ele­ments...
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’Tis the sea­son for eggs and French toast? It sure is feel­ing like it with sev­eral new brunches being offered recently. It’s not on the Café Hon web site yet, but accord­ing to the flier left at my door last week­end, the recently Gor­don Ramsay-fied Ham­p­den spot has returned Sat­ur­day and Sun­day brunch to the...
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The Year of the Dragon roars in on Mon­day, Jan. 23, and Zhong­shan Restau­rant is offer­ing a tra­di­tional 12-course ban­quet to usher in the Chi­nese New Year cel­e­bra­tion. The meal includes assorted plat­ters of cold dishes such as sliced roast duck, bar­be­cued pork, and jel­ly­fish; seafood soup with tofu and fried snow crab claws...
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Does it seem like it’s always Restau­rant Week some­where? Pos­si­bly. But this go ’round boasts a num­ber of new deals. In Bal­ti­more City, the week-long cel­e­bra­tion that usu­ally runs slightly longer than a week begins Jan. 20, and three-course din­ners will cost you either $30.12 or $20.12, a nice reduc­tion from the usual $35...
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