Local bloggers instruct public on frugal weekend activities

Hey have you seen the Baltimore Sun’s Live! section today? You did pay the $0.75 for your copy of the Baltimore Sun in order to see this really awesome feature on how to have a cheap weekend in and around Baltimore, as put together by four local (and awesome, attractive) bloggers? Well, if you haven’t […]

RIP SoBo Cafe Purchased by new owners

(edit/correction: like some other joints that wind up bought/sold/transferred, SoBo is still in operation. Forgot to add that – thanks to restaurant wizzzard @gorelickingood for pointing that out!) I close my eyes Only for a moment and the moment’s gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes a curiosity Dust in the wind All they […]

Restaurante El Salvador

At the beginning of last summer on a couple of white guys’ adventures in Latin bar hopping, I was introduced to Restaurante El Salvador (207 South Broadway, Upper Fells Point) – City Paper’s best Salvadoran restaurant of 2000! – and was subsequently impressed with the fairly inexpensive bottled beers ($3.50 for a Supremo) coupled with […]

Sangrita

If there are two things alcoholic I tend to avoid, it’s Tequila and Bloody Marys, in that order. Ever since the days of yore when I retched on a room temperature shot of tequila at the bar or turned my nose at what I feel is essentially cold spicy tomato soup with booze in it, […]

Taverna Corvino to become steak-and-redneck related restaurant

In case you missed it last week amidst the unending Grand Prix coverage, Federal Hill’s Taverna Corvino space (1117-19 S Charles St.) had itself a little transfer of ownership (leased property) from the McComas-in-name-only crowd to one C+R Pub, which is in practice going to supposedly be a steakhouse, and the C+R stands for “Cowboys […]