Blogs: Feedbag

Closed since the beginning of August, Corks, Jerry Pellegrino’s 11-year-old restaurant in Federal Hill, is set to reopen Thursday, Oct. 2, with a whole new look, hours, and menu. According to Pellegrino, the renovations designed by Patrick Sutton effect “everything you can see and touch,” including a new entrance with a white marble counter...
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Greg Bandelin used to be angry. Nowhere in his neighborhood could the Lauraville resident find a cup of coffee or a bagel at 6 a.m., the time he left home weekday mornings to sell invisible fencing in Washington and Northern Virginia. “One day I was sitting on 495,” he recalls, “and I decided, ‘I...
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Thursday, Sept. 18, marks the 15th anniversary of Dining Out for Life, an event sponsored by Moveable Feast, the local organization that provides support services to people in the Baltimore area living with HIV/AIDs and breast cancer. (In 2007, Moveable Feast provided over 200,000 meals and 29,000 bags of groceries to their clients, among...
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Looking for a way to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day? (And really, who isn’t?) This Friday, Sept. 19, from 7 to 10 p.m., the folks at Clipper City Brewing, who know a thing or two about pirates (or at least pirate marketing) are hoisting–er, hosting–a celebration on site at the brewery (4615 Hollins...
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Remington’s beloved Dizzy Issie reopened last week with a new name, The Diz, a nickname regulars had christened the bar/restaurant with years ago. Besides the new moniker, the Diz sports a new coat of paint, an enlarged kitchen, and new-but-still-in-the-family ownership, in Darlene Basta and Angela Kelly, sister-in-law and daughter, respectively, of former owner...
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Irena Stein’s delightful Azafran (3700 San Martin Drive, 338-4757), the café-not-cafeteria in the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, is joining the growing ranks of other Baltimore eateries embracing the locavore movement. The most recent Azafran newsletter announces: “We are now beginning to work regularly with 3 local farms...
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For the last five years, The Chameleon Café (4341 Harford Road, 254-2376) has been offering a Maryland-themed menu in late summer. This year is no different, except that each Tuesday through mid-October (or whenever the tomatoes give up the ghost), the restaurant is offering a four-course prix fixe dinner. Diners choose among corn...
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For those who haven’t heard yet–and it seems the word spread through the Waverly farmers market Saturday morning faster than a melting Broom’s Bloom ice cream–lima beans are in! Check out the stall of Caroline County farmer Thomas McCarthy, aka “The Bean Man” (also lovingly referred to as “The Pea Man” in spring), for...
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Calling all imbibers: Get thyselves to Harford Road. After five months of construction, Northeast Baltimore’s latest watering hole, the Hamilton Tavern (5517 Hamilton Avenue), opened a little over a week ago. Newly renovated by Brewer’s Art partner Tom Creegan, the joint boasts tin ceilings, wood floors, wall art–from farm implements to a vintage guitar–procured...
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| Image by Michelle Gienow, from www.citypaper.com What do you do when an institution passes away? Cry into the memory of your sweet potato soup or lift a glass of Beaujolais and remember the good times? We’ll opt for the latter, as Sun columnist Dan Rodricks reports this morning that Martick’s Restaurant Français, one...
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