You know how some restaurants bring your bread with ice-cold butter that is impossible to spread? Jay Cohen, the owner and executive chef of three-year-old Mia Carolina in Glyndon, gets really...
What could be more classic than a corner bar in Fells Point? You know the kind—a long bar in the front and a small dining room in the rear with a side entrance that might once have been for "ladies...
In a pristine slice of Columbia sits a nondescript, brick structure near several similarly unobtrusive buildings in an office park. Even the nearby McDonald's is toned down per the planned community'...
Yellow Dog Tavern has had an impressive growth spurt in the kitchen. Not that there wasn't talent from the start behind the creative cuisine of chef Anita Scheiding, who owns the upper Canton...
When I called to make a reservation, the chef surprisingly answered the phone and asked how I had heard about the restaurant. I told him truthfully that I'd read about it, and I had—in snippets on...
We get lots of mail from readers about their favorite restaurants, and that's a good thing. We want feedback, and with all the food activity going on, we might not be aware of a new venture in town...
There was a certain amount of déjà vu as I walked into Patrick’s of Cockeysville on a recent visit. The familiar shamrocks are still on the door, and the traditional décor hasn’t changed much since I...
Some locals joke that there's a sushi place for every 10 people along the York Road corridor from Towson to Hunt Valley. That might not be such an exaggeration. We noticed quite a few Asian eateries...
I consider myself a bit of a sushi snob. Mostly this manifests in an aversion to maki (or rolls). To me, maki is for sushi-eating amateurs, the people who want dressed up tempura or fake crab stick...
"Huh," says my friend Ben as we gaze around the Grapevine Cafe. Translation: "I do believe that the only people at this restaurant younger than ourselves are the wait staff."
"Yep," I say back. Still...
