Chaps Pit Beef on Pulaski Highway in Baltimore has been serving Baltimore pit beef since Bob Schaefer opened it in 1987, producing the charcoal-grilled beef that is Baltimore’s own contribution to the American BBQ canon — a technique distinct from the slow-smoked traditions of the South, built around a charcoal fire, a rotisserie, and the […]
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Baltimore, Barbecue, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 15Sip and Bite Restaurant on Boston Street in Baltimore’s Canton neighborhood has been a city institution since it opened in 1948, serving the Greek-American diner classics and fresh Chesapeake Bay seafood that earn a waterfront Baltimore diner its multigenerational loyal following around the clock. It appeared in Season 14, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Baltimore, Maryland, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 14Joe Squared Pizza on West North Avenue in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District was one of the city’s most celebrated pizza destinations for nearly two decades, building a reputation around square-pan pizzas with creative topping combinations and a live music venue atmosphere that made it as much a Baltimore cultural institution as a food one.
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Baltimore, Gastropub, Maryland, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 13BOP Brick Oven Pizza appeared in Season 4, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Big Flavor,” which aired September 29, 2008, as a Baltimore wood-fired pizza operation producing the kind of brick oven pizza that stands apart from the city’s standard pie offerings. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: BOP Brick
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Baltimore, Maryland, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 4Broadway Diner on Eastern Avenue in Baltimore is one of those diners that announces itself before you get close: a large chrome building sitting up on a small hill, glimmering with neon and rounded corners like a monument to the American diner era. The interior is just as large, with two separate dining rooms and
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American, Baltimore, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 4In 1987, Gus Glava gave his daughter Donna and son-in-law Bob a pit beef stand as a wedding gift. It was a 12-by-15-foot shack in a parking lot on the east side of Baltimore, and Bob loved to cook, so the logic held. What Gus could not have predicted is that the wedding gift would
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Baltimore, Barbecue, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 3Sarah Simington grew up watching her mother Sherri work the diner counter, which gave her both the love of breakfast food and the knowledge of how to execute it properly. In 1996 the two of them opened the Blue Moon Café in Baltimore’s historic Fells Point neighborhood, and Sarah’s rock and roll personality went into
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