Take a strange Italian name and unfamiliar food and you get confusion until you realize what the restaurant is doing: setting the stage for a variety of gustatory pleasures.
We'd like to clear up some confusion about Cinghiale. First, there's the name. It's pronounced chin-GOLL-ee, and it's Italian for wild boar—forager pigs often described as gregarious animals. So how...
A new chef at Oregon Grille shows he cares with one successful dish after another.
It's a beautiful walk to the door of The Oregon Grille amid the greenery of Hunt Valley. You stroll along a winding path with seasonal blooms, tended gardens, and anachronistic lawn jockeys to enter...
Clementine sings with clever cuisine and relaxed vibe.
The Chameleon Café may have paved the way for a restaurant resurgence in the Hamilton-Lauraville area, but darlin' Clementine is continuing the culinary charge along the Harford Road corridor. This...
Fells Point restaurant succeeds in atmosphere, service, and, for the most part, food.
The lower-level restaurant space at the Admiral Fell Inn has had an interesting dining past—most recently as TRUE, which focused on regional-seasonal fare, and, earlier, as Savannah, where the Cindy...
Baltimore Pho lures diners to a forgotten area with flavors of Vietnam.
When I first arrived in Baltimore 20 years ago, it was de rigueur for Hopkins students—notorious for regarding any neighborhood beyond Charles Village as off-planet—to venture over to Sowebo in...
Tark's Grill reinvents American classics in a modern bistro space.
Everyone seems to be harping on how this space in Lutherville's Green Spring Station used to house several other restaurants that didn't fare well. That's true, but that's history. Let's move on. It'...
New Fells Point restaurant offers Mediterranean cuisine with a touch of honey.
Given that most restaurant names are usually self-evident (Charleston equals Carolina coastal cuisine; Lebanese Taverna equals Lebanese tavern food), parsing one isn't usually a revelatory exercise....
Juniors Wine Bar steps into Federal Hill spot with new digs.
I waited a while before going to Juniors Wine Bar, the Federal Hill spot that once housed the tiny and wildly popular Italian wine bar Vespa. Maybe that's because, many weeks after it opened at...
Minato capitalizes on its many strengths, from maki to noodles, in new space.
Let's face it: There is no truly great Japanese cuisine in Baltimore. You have to travel about an hour south to D.C. for the culinary innovation of, say, the venerable but inventive Sushi-Ko, or...
Abacrombie's latest reincarnation centers on an all-female team.
We've definitely been here before. First, there was, let's see, Society Hill, then Grille 58, then La Tesso Tana . . . a veritable parade of restaurants has come and gone in the below-ground digs...
