I'd like your input. For October, the magazine is doing a roundup of the best places to go for breakfast and brunch. I’ve come up with an ever-growing list, but I’d like your help, too, in case I've forgotten a contender. I’m looking for kid-friendly places, too.
Please let me know your favorites. Thanks.

Here's an e-mail sent by Ixia's Brendan Dorr, who we picked as one of Baltimore's best bartenders in our March issue. There's a happy ending.
Dear Friends,
Today is a sad day. Ixia Restaurant Lounge and Bar will be closing its doors permanently. I truly think it is a loss to Baltimore. Un Kim, the owner [...]

I had two potato dishes yesterday that I can’t stop thinking about—and can’t wait to eat again. If you have any other suggestions, let me know.
Some friends from Delaware came to visit, and we headed to the Harbor area, happy to finally have a sunny day. First stop was Regi’s in Federal Hill for brunch.
We [...]

I just had to cook this weekend, but what? I decided to stop by Conrad’s Crabs and Seafood Market in Parkville. (Remember when that area used to be called Baynesville?) Owner/waterman Tony Conrad always has a beautiful display of fresh seafood.
I knew something would grab me, and it did—Maryland soft shells. They were $5.50 a [...]

God help him. Really! Earlier this week, Father Leo Patalinghug was summoned to Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmittsburg for a taping by the Food Network. He didn’t know any details. Then, the celebrity chef star of “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” was standing next to him.
But, first, some background on Father Leo. This Baltimore priest [...]

Sharpen your knives. Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters” starts tomorrow (June 10) at 10 p.m. But what’s really going to be fun is having a locally produced blog to turn to for all sorts of tidbits and recaps about this competition as well as the regular “Top Chef” challenge, when it starts again in the fall. [...]

I just got a delivery of fresh herbs and am as thrilled as if it had been a dozen roses. They’re not from a secret admirer, though. They’re from Shenandoah Growers in Virginia, trying to woo me in a different way.
But the organic plants in little containers, called living culinary herbs, are beautiful and fragrant. [...]

If you can’t make it to the Waverly farmers’ market on Saturday mornings, there’s another option now. The Green Spring Station farmers’ market starts Saturday (June 6) with afternoon hours.
It goes from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and will run through Nov. 21. There’s plenty of parking at the market, tucked between the Green Spring [...]

Harbor East is surely a dining destination with a number of upscale and casual spots within its expanding geographical boundaries. But there’s no pizza joint. Soon, there will be.
Bagby Pizza Co. is scheduled to open at the end of August in the old Bagby furniture building being redeveloped on Fleet Street. Blake Smith, who owns [...]

Glasz Cafe won’t be empty for long. Robb Banks, the new owner of the space in Lake Falls Village, is already hard at work, adding more tables and coming up with a menu for Banksy’s Cafe, named after his late grandfather.
If anyone can make this place fly, it’s Robb, a former Baltimore County judge and, [...]