Restaurants

Restaurant News: Merriweather Post Pavilion Amps Up its Food Game

by Randi Rom | May 9, 2019 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

Attention food and music lovers: Merriweather Post Pavilion has upped its food game. Chef Cathal Armstrong has signed on as the Columbia venue’s food adviser. Armstrong has been nominated three times by the James Beard Foundation, and was selected as one of Food &...

Restaurant News: Rye Street Tavern is Welcome Addition to Port Covington Community

by Randi Rom | Mar 7, 2019 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

Next time you’re in the Port Covington neighborhood, check out the Rye Street Tavern. Located next to the Sagamore Spirit Distillery, this industrial-chic property is comfortable and welcoming, featuring bi-level dining rooms, a seafood/raw bar and a cool outdoor...

Tony Foreman on Facebook Live

by JMORE Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

Restaurateur Tony Foreman, co-owner and founder of Bar Vasquez, Charleston, Cinghiale, Petit Louis, Johnny’s, Lupa, Bin 604 Wine Sellers and Bin 201 Wine Sellers, appeared on This Week in Baltimore Eating on Facebook Live on Jan. 31. On the show, Foreman...

‘Dining Down Memory Lane’ Features Much-Loved Recipes from Baltimore Landmarks

by Amanda Krotki | Jan 30, 2019 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

Baltimoreans are known for their peculiar brand of nostalgia. Ask a longtime resident for directions and they’ll likely explain them based on a series of “landmarks” that used to dot the route. “Go past where the old Caldor’s was.” Or, “You’ll see Luskin’s...

Restaurant News: State Fare is New Addition to Catsonville’s Main Street

by Randi Rom | Jan 24, 2019 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

With such longtime landmarks as Appalachian Bluegrass and Bill’s Music, Catonsville is known far and wide as “Music City, Md.” And now the “main street” of this Baltimore County hamlet also has State Fare. A new gastro pub serving a mixture of elevated pub fare and...

Hollywood Power Players Save the Landmark Nate ‘n Al’s Jewish Deli

by Curt Schleier, JTA | Jan 15, 2019 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

(JTA) — Like the Jedi, the corned beef shall return. The famed Nate ‘n Al’s Jewish deli in Beverly Hills — a Hollywood landmark where film stars and studio executives mingled over lox and eggs, and where Larry King famously ate every day at one point — had been in...

The Jewish Delis We Said Goodbye to in 2018

by Lior Zaltzman, JTA | Dec 30, 2018 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

With offerings like the classic pastrami or corned beef sandwich and rich matzah ball soup, the deli has long provided our nation with a uniquely Jewish-American take on comfort food. In 2018, we said goodbye to a great number of Jewish delis, that, sadly, closed...

The Best New Jewish Restaurants of 2018

by JTA | Dec 27, 2018 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

By Josh Klasco (The Nosher via JTA) – It seems not too long ago that Jewish food was a novelty, the comfort food of older generations. The heyday of Yiddish comedy in the Catskills is long gone and for many young Jews, Jewish food — especially Ashkenazi food — was...

Alan Hirsch to Run Palio at Foundry Row

by Amanda Krotki | Dec 13, 2018 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

If you live in Baltimore, you’ve probably heard by now that Donna’s in Cross Keys closed on Dec. 9, 2018, after 19 years at that location. Donna’s co-owner Alan Hirsch stopped by Jmore’s Facebook Live studio on Dec. 13 to share some memories of the iconic Baltimore...

Restaurant News: Old Bay, Can’t You See?

by Randi Rom | Dec 10, 2018 | Arts & Life, Food, Restaurants

Chef John Shields’ new cookbook offers tasty and healthy recipes with a decidedly Chesapeake twist. Here’s a great idea for some fabulous and tasty recipes, courtesy of local celebrated chef/restaurateur John Shields. In his new cookbook “The New Chesapeake Kitchen”...