Articles by Richard Gorelick

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Eating Out: Looking Back At 2007 Over The Menus

Omnivore | 12/12/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

All of a sudden, at the end of the year, big restaurants from big people--Cinghiale, the new Cindy Wolf and Tony Foreman Northern Italian joint in booming Harbor East; Lemongrass, a Baltimore version...[MORE]

Under the Table

Under the Table | 8/15/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

Downtown a few years back you might have run into a young woman selling sterling beef brisket, pork loin, and sausage from a cart in the plaza across from the Mitchell Courthouse. Paula Szczepanek's...[MORE]

Dinner Timed: Eat Seasonally At Any One Of These Local Favorite Baltimore Dining Rooms

Omnivore | 8/15/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

The Maryland menu is back for its third year at Lauraville's Chameleon Café. It mostly revisits last year's efforts, which is great news, because these are dishes to remember and anticipate all over...[MORE]

Brimming Bowls Help Local Charities

Under the Table | 4/4/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

Linwood's sent a simple, unadulterated sweet-potato soup that evoked Moosewood-era cooking. Kelsey's Pub provided an Irish stew with big hunks of beef and a nice, oily glaze. Atwater's cooked up a v...[MORE]

Tastes Like Chicken

Special Issue Eat | 3/7/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

At his self-named Fells Point bistro, Timothy Dean applies the haute-cuisine techniques he first learned from the legendary Jean-Louis Palladin to bistro fare. Diners have responded, and the restaur...[MORE]

Sweet Meats

Special Issue Eat | 3/7/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

Part front parlor, part community meeting house, Big Jim’s Deli (1065 S. Charles St., [410] 752-2434) in the Cross Street Market long ago transcended its role as sandwich counter and delicatessen. Lif...[MORE]

Bread And Hot Cheese

Special Issue Eat | 3/7/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

Baltimore doesn’t yet have a real pupuseria, though there’s rumor of a truck somewhere along Eastern Boulevard. What the city has more and more of are great pupusas sold both in Salvadoran restauran...[MORE]

Park and Pay

Special Issue Eat | 3/7/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

This is not a valet town. Folks will valet their cars if it’s free and some restaurants offer the service, especially in neighborhoods like Little Italy and Fells Point where spots are at a premium....[MORE]

Rum Punched at Joe Squared

Under the Table | 2/28/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

Joe Squared shed its slacker pool-hall drag last fall in favor of more reputable threads, including a full roster of frolicsome risotto dishes on its pizza-and-pasta menu. It is also a rum bar, too, w...[MORE]

City Life: New Yupscale Market And Casual Noshery Spruce Up Downtown And Fells Point

Omnivore | 1/17/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

The new Super Fresh in Charles Plaza (222 N. Charles St., [410] 454-0157) is adorable, but let's just see how well it does. A bartender up the street called it "that trendy store," and an old black ma...[MORE]

Satisfaction: Giving People What They Want At Two Ends Of The Spectrum

Omnivore | 1/10/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

First Watch, a breakfast- and lunch-only restaurant chain based in Bradenton, Fla., has opened its first Maryland location (1431 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, [410] 602-1595). It's only been open for...[MORE]

Old Year, New Year

Under the Table | 1/3/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

A sum total of one restaurant, namely Salt, got people talking this year. Not that everyone loved it--those lamps, the waits--but Salt was at least a place that curious diners felt obliged to visit. H...[MORE]

Small Time Cooks: Making And Eating Little Food For The Holidays

Omnivore | 1/3/2007 | By Richard Gorelick

On the night before Christmas Eve, some 30 friends gathered at a private house in Pikesville for the second official small-food party and competition. Guests trickled in with their small food creation...[MORE]

New Sunday Brunch at Dionysius

Under the Table | 12/20/2006 | By Richard Gorelick

Dionysus just a few weeks ago started serving an early (as in 10 a.m.) Sunday brunch. Taken in the dark downstairs bar, a flight below street level, this is a brunch for winter months, when crawling i...[MORE]

Absolutely Crabulous: Like Unspeakable Humidity and the Orioles Hovering Below .500, Summertime Means Steamed, Soft Shell, and Cakes

Omnivore | 7/5/2006 | By Richard Gorelick

Nonlocals carry a distorted picture of a typical crab house around in their heads. Their crab house is on the water, its floor is wooden, and it’s filled with picnic benches. These setups aren’t unhea...[MORE]

Dining Tips and Tidbits

Eat Feature | 3/1/2006 | By Richard Gorelick

Night of the Week Savvy diners have always known to do their dining on Wednesday or Thursday nights. Waitstaffs are re-energized, the back-of-the house staff has recovered from their day off, and w...[MORE]

Restaurants RIP

Eats and Drinks | 12/28/2005 | By Richard Gorelick

Let it be known that 2005 was the year of the vampire restaurant. Operations didn’t so much die as lapse into deep slumbers, sometimes reviving themselves, sometimes not. The big loss was dear old Mar...[MORE]

Brine Dining: Searching For Something A Little Different Than Raw And On The Halfshell

Omnivore | 9/28/2005 | By Richard Gorelick

It’s time to eat oysters. Slurpy, briny oysters are sold and consumed year-round now, and although it is mostly sentimentalists who still obey the “r-less month” injunction against eating them in the ...[MORE]

Cravings: Our Foodie’s Wish List for Baltimore in 2005

Omnivore | 12/29/2004 | By Richard Gorelick

Some wishes came true last year. Now, when someone tells me they want to take their out-of-town guests to a foursquare and not crazily expensive seafood restaurant, I can tell them about Canton’s Mam...[MORE]

The Producers: Fresh Finds From Baltimore’s Farmers’ Markets

Omnivore | 5/25/2005 | By Richard Gorelick

The Baltimore Farmers’ Market, held Sunday mornings under the Jones Falls Expressway, just started its 28th annual season a few weeks ago. Up in Waverly, meanwhile, the year-round 32nd Street Farmers’...[MORE]

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Martick's Restaurant Français

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 7/2/2008

City Paper last reported on Martick's Restaurant Français back in May 2002, when Morris Martick was only 79 years old. I misremembered this as having been Michelle Gienow's last review before sh...[MORE]

Linwoods

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 6/25/2008

Linwoods was remodeled back in mid-April--and it needed it. It's funny how awkwardly a classic modern interior can age, and Linwoods, after 20 years, was dated. According to a blog on the restaurant'...[MORE]

The Dogwood Restaurant

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 6/18/2008

Bridget and Galen Sampson opened the Dogwood (911 W. 36th St., [410] 889-0952) in Hampden last spring. Reviewing it then, I was encouraged by some things and troubled by others. There was a straightf...[MORE]

Sauté

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 6/4/2008

Sauté is a new addition to the Canton dining and hanging-out scene. I'm worried about that name, which makes it sound either like a mall pasta chain or the moderately priced offshoot of an expen...[MORE]

Luca's Café

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 5/28/2008

Luca's Café is a new corner joint in Locust Point. It's the kind of place where there are linen tablecloths but paper napkins, and about the worst thing you can say about Luca's is that it seems...[MORE]

Lumbini

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 5/14/2008

Named for the birthplace of the Buddha, in Southern Nepal, Lumbini opened back in early February in the old Five Seasons spot in Brown's Arcade. This is the same narrow-sidewalk block of Charles Stre...[MORE]

Gertrude's

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 4/30/2008

Gertrude's is looking as polished and pretty as the day it opened (10 Art Museum Drive, [410] 889-3399). About halfway through its 10th year at the Baltimore Museum of Art, John Shields' restaurant h...[MORE]

Meli

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 4/23/2008

The Kali's Court people, who also brought us Mezze, have now opened their third space, Meli (1636 Thames St., [410] 534-6354). It's a hat trick for Vasilios Keramidas. Billed, coyly, as a "patisserie...[MORE]

Baltimore Pho

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 4/16/2008

It seems like years since anyone's been nostalgic about the bygone restaurants of Sowebo: Gypsy Café, the Telltale Hearth, and Mencken's Cultured Pearl. Mencken's, with its glops of cheap, fun M...[MORE]

Bertha's

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 4/2/2008

Let's drink a pint of Guinness for Bertha's (734 S. Broadway [410] 327-5795): for authenticity, for staying true to its crotchety self, and to the mystique of a pre-developed--we're talking Nixon-era...[MORE]

Junior's Wine Bar

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 3/26/2008

Junior's Wine Bar is an argument for gentrification. Located at the old Vespa address, Junior's is easily eight times larger than its predecessor, with a clubby dine-in bar up front, a quieter dining...[MORE]

Annabel Lee Tavern

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 3/19/2008

Named for an Edgar Allan Poe poem, the beautiful Annabel Lee Tavern opened in December and was an instant hit. It's located within walking distance of the Creative Alliance, on the corner of Clinton ...[MORE]

Tsunami

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 3/5/2008

If the new Lemongrass turned out to be a harmless but ultimately unconvincing take on stylish warehouse dining--middling food at reasonable prices--its sister Annapolis import, Tsunami (1300 Bank St....[MORE]

Abacrombie Fine Foods and Accommodations

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 2/20/2008

Open for dinner Wednesdays through Saturday and for brunch Sunday. The eventful narrative of the subterranean dining room once known as Society Hill and Grille 58, but more recently as Abacrombie Fin...[MORE]

Nanami

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 2/6/2008

Welcome to the dawn of a potentially landscape-changing year for sushi dining in Baltimore. This new era has already been heralded by the high-intensity openings of Tsunami at the Tack Factory and th...[MORE]

Woodberry Kitchen

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 1/23/2008

Spike Gjerde's new farm-to-table restaurant Woodberry Kitchen, a partnership with Amy Gjerde and Nelson Carey, is now open. And the only question is, when will it be safe to go? It's truly a mob sce...[MORE]

Lemongrass

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 1/9/2008

Familiar names to many diners through their very popular Annapolis incarnations, Lemongrass, which serves Thai cuisine, and its sister restaurant, the Asian fusion Tsunami, opened up a few weeks ago ...[MORE]

Cinghiale

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 12/26/2007

After a few visits, Cinghiale, the newest adventure in dining from Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf (Charleston, Pazo, Petit Louis), gets easier. There's much to absorb, including visual information and b...[MORE]

Nak Won

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 11/28/2007

Open now for two years, Nak Won (12 W. 20th St., [410] 244-5501) is the newest of the Korean restaurants in the lower 20s along the Charles Street corridor. God, it's good. And, as does Nam Kang, it k...[MORE]

Indigma

Restaurant review: by Richard Gorelick | 11/14/2007

Indigma is under the same ownership as Saffron, which itself had two distinct iterations. The first, which opened in the fall of 2003, delivered progressive Indian-accented fusion; the second, which d...[MORE]