The line “treated like family” gets tossed around a lot when it comes to restaurants. But rarely do you feel that comfortable or connected by the time you pay the check. Hidden in the back of a strip mall off of Joppa Road, Orchard Market is almost impossible to find — unless you know where [...]
Fells Point had been without an Indian restaurant since Mehek closed about two years ago. In late March, Vinay Wahi, a partner in the Akbar restaurants, opened Darbar in the Aliceanna Street space where Talay Thai had been the most recent tenant. Before the Thai restaurant, there were an Italian restaurant and a Greek restaurant, [...]
You don’t have to be a gym rat to enjoy Fresh Fit. But if you don’t work out downtown, you probably haven’t heard of this sandwich spot. Tucked into a corner of the big old building which houses the downtown Merritt Athletic Center, Fresh Fit offers much more than the smoothie stands you find in [...]
So many taverns/sports bars serve the same popular menu within the same quality range — from palatable in a pinch to decent comfort food — that you can describe the kitchen as “good enough” and go on to the other attractions. Drink specials and big-screen TVs draw the target clientele. If the chow is presentable [...]
The twist is that those meals reflect chef and owner Sanette Groenewald’s home cooking and Groenewald grew up outside Cape Town in South Africa. South African cooking has Indian, Malaysian, Portuguese and British influences and there is a little bit of each on the menu. The restaurant is tucked in an alley and the colorful, [...]
The Chameleon seems to slither on and off of people’s radar. For one thing, folks confuse it with Clementine, just a mile to the north. And while Chameleon doesn’t actively shun publicity, it does tend to keep quieter than some of the other restaurants working with the same materials — the local, responsible and seasonally [...]