Zeke’s Coffee is a local, Baltimore-based, small batch, family-owned coffee roastery that is a favorite around the city. "At Zeke’s, we use a fluid bed coffee roaster. Invented by Mike Sivetz, a physicist from Oregon in the 1970’s, fluid bed coffee roasters use hot air to create a fountain of coffee beans. This...

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Crepe Crazy is a Deaf-owned crepe restaurant in Baltimore, as well as a couple locations in Texas. After emmigrating from Russia and the Ukraine, owners Vladimir and Inna Giterman moved to Austin, Texas, so that their two children could attend one of the best schools for the Deaf. They started as a food...

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Thyme After Time is a restaurant and caterer in the Charleston area that has been around in a few different forms on the East End. First, I visited them when they were located on Ruffner Street. I ordered carryout from the menu - a bbq pulled pork sandwich with truffle fries - and...

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Founded in 1886, Faidley Seafood is one of the oldest and best-known purveyors of fresh and prepared seafood - especially crab cakes - in the Chesapeake region. Faidley’s is headquartered at its original location in the “World Famous Lexington Market" in Baltimore, Maryland. I had to order one jumbo lump crabcake, which comes...

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Dangerously Delicious Pies is "dedicated to making only the best handmade pies in the most rock 'n' roll environment." "Dangerously Delicious Pies was founded over fifteen years ago by Rodney “The Pie Man” Henry. Many know Rodney as front man to Baltimore’s own “Glenmont Popes.” Rodney grew up spending summers with Grandma Henry...

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Blue Moon serves breakfast with a rock & roll attitude in the Fells Point area of Baltimore. This location was closed on my visit, so I went to the sister location: Blue Moon Too. "Baltimore-based Conceptionista Sarah Simington has traveled the country honing her craft. In 1996 Sarah, and her mother Sherri- a...

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I left Charleston to visit Baltimore and dine at a restaurant named Charleston. Got all that? Restaurateurs Tony Foreman and Chef Cindy Wolf opened award-winning and highly acclaimed Charleston in 1997 in Baltimore’s burgeoning waterfront neighborhood, Harbor East, reads the website. A 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 James Beard...

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