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A number of months ago I had posted a thing about roasted pork sandwiches and how Locust Point’s Barracuda’s had a decent version of it, not long afterward I received an email about how I had BLOWN THE CHANCE to sample Barracuda’s nachos, which the emailer raved about. Time passed, I forgot about it, seasons […]
Sweet baby Jesus, do I love a good roast pork sandwich. Second only to *maybe* a kickass pulled pork sandwich, the roast pork sandwich, when executed properly, is a champion among sandwiches. The peppery, tender porkiness, the sharpness of the cheese, and hopefully a lot of garlic – Baltimore’s menus need more roasted pork sandwich […]
I’ve been at this whole Nachoquest thing for like, three years. There isn’t a single restaurant or bar that I head into in which I don’t look at the menu and think “How are the nachos?,” which is unfortunate when you’re at a place like Prime Rib and they ask you to leave upon asking […]
1120 E. Fort Avenue in Locust Point has been a bar for a very, very long time. Longer than I’ve been alive, longer than my parents have been alive, longer than ….you get the point. To the longest stretch of my memory, it went from being a bar called French Quarter – a dark, unsettling […]
If you’re like me, every time you watch a Ravens home game on the TeeVee you start grinding your teeth with impotent rage at the fact that every time the NFL folks come to town to shoot flyovers of M&T Bank Stadium and stock footage of Baltimore, it’s always the exact same thing: The Inner […]
If you’re in Baltimore this week, head on over to some of our great city’s gigantic American flags – notably Federal Hill Park or Fort McHenry, and salute that mother out. Or, head on over to the Star Spangled Banner Flag House (844 East Pratt Street, Downtown) and see how Baltimore’s Mary Pickersgill created the […]