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Best New Restaurant
Woodberry Kitchen
Hands down the most anticipated restaurant opening of the last season, Woodberry Kitchen impresses o...
Best Fancy Restaurant
Charleston
There are few places in Baltimore that make you want to don a little black dress and impossibly high...
Best Cheap Restaurant
Tortilleria Sinaloa
Chorizo tacos, barbacoa tacos, lengua tacos, plus the regular suspects, like chicken and pork, each ...
Best Kid-Friendly Dining
Glory Days Grill
We hesitate to recommend a place to take kids that boasts as many TV screens as this sports-themed T...
Best Outdoor Dining
Kali's Court
Far too many restaurants in this city set up a few tables and chairs on the sidewalk and call it out...
Best Street Vendor
Herring Run Taco Truck
If downtown was full of food carts peddling shwarmas, tortas, french fries, barbecue, and chicken ti...
Best Place to Eat Alone
Minato
Eating alone isn't merely about a restaurant plopping a single at an open two-top; it's about the qu...
Best Place to Have Your Fortune Told While Eating
Amer's Café
A small Mediterranean eatery nested in a strip mall on Belair Road isn't necessarily the first place...
Best Restaurant Service
The Prime Rib
As sophisticated and versatile diners, we can jibe with any establishment's vibe, from funky casual ...
Best Former Employees
Ex-Brewer's Art Employees Opening Restaurants
Brewer's Art does so much right--a generous happy hour, an outstanding bar menu, atmosphere for any ...
Best Place to Read The 2006 City Paper Holiday Guide
The "Diner" At Charles Street and Lafayette Avenue
It seems like Joy Martin, owner of the Club Charles and Zodiac--RIP, sorta--has been renovating this...
Best Restaurant For Vegetarians
Golden West Café
While we had this spot earmarked for the since-shuttered Zodiac--RIP vegan crab cakes--the Golden We...
Best Vegan Restaurant
The Yabba Pot
We have a friend who claims that the first time he slurped back fresh, unfucked-with juice, he hallu...
Best Crab Cake
Perring Place
When looking for the best crab cake in Baltimore, think blue--yes, as in blue crab, but also as in b...
Best Crab House
Mr. Bill's Terrace Inn
The brown paper covering the tables is just like you'd find at any ol' crab house, as are the garbag...
Best Raw Bar
Faidley's Seafood
Eating raw oysters is like betting on the ponies: It should be done in the company of people, either...
Best Diner
Broadway Diner
Diners tend to get blurred together in our clouded mind, with one 100-page menu flowing into another...
Best Breakfast
Jimmy's Restaurant
Institution enough to not need much of a formal introduction, Jimmy's has been offering diet-testing...
Best Brunch
Gertrude's
After a night out on the town, a cup of good coffee and a sparkling mimosa followed by a plate of eg...
Best Bagels
Greg's Bagels
We like that in this age of mounting foodie perfectionism, the bagels at Greg's sometimes look, well...
Best Coffee Shop
Koffee Therapy
The name may sound alarms--we can quit anytime, we swear--and its hours aren't as long as we'd like,...
Best Cup of Coffee
The 'Spro
We here at Baltimore's Plainest Alt-Weekly like a cup of coffee--and that's it. No funny stuff. But ...
Best Sweet Tea
Teavolve
Teavolve, known best for its diverse hot alchemy selections, crossed over to the icy side with its s...
Best Bakery
Goldman's Kosher Bakery
Of course the bagels are good at this kosher bakery, but it's everything else that sets the 43-year-...
Best Cake
Patisserie Poupon
Sure, Baltimore is the home of cakes that look like, well, anything you want them to look like, but ...
Best Marshmallow Doughnut
Fenwick Bakery
The marshmallow doughnut is a beacon of hope in a world of disappointing Dunkins and oversugared Pru...
Best Pie
Dangerously Delicious Pies
There are good ideas, and then there are great ideas--visionary, paradigm-altering re-inventions. Go...
Best Vegan Baked Goods
Brunie's Bakery
One of the best things about Artscape are the masterworks aesthetically fleshed out for the tongue a...
Best Sno-Ball
Walther Gardens
One of the greatest things about grabbing a sno-ball at Walther Gardens is the environment. It's har...
Best Dessert
Smearcase At Chameleon Café
Owner/chef Jeff Smith isn't messing around with smearcase--no deconstructivist nonsense like re-inve...
Best Reason Not to Have a State Dessert
Smith Island Cake
In April, Smith Island cake was named the official dessert of Maryland. And suddenly a cake that few...
Best Hamburger
Kooper's Tavern
Fells Point has changed a lot in recent years, but there's still at least one thing you can depend o...
Best Hot Dog
Zack's
Zack's boasts "Hotdogs with an attitude," but we don't really care so much about attitude. If you wa...
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Best Fries
Brewer's Art Rosemary Garlic Fries
It wasn't a classy night when we realized in our youth how truly divine the combination of fries and...
Best Pizza
Joe Squared
We didn't take this category lightly. We ran all over town sampling pies and burning the hell out of...
Best Pizza Slice
Fortunato's Pizza
Grabbing a slice of pizza is almost always an unmemorable affair. It's usually just a greasy mound o...
Best Place to Get a Sandwich
Trinacria
You know a place makes a good sandwich when both vegetarians and cave-man carnivores gush over its o...
Best Fried Oyster Po' Boy
Rocket to Venus
There's nothing poor about Rocket to Venus' fried oyster po' boy. The crispy cornmeal-crusted fried ...
Best Falafel
B-More Alive!
The locavore movement exploded in Baltimore this year, but for Adam Kandel, the mastermind behind B-...
Best Pit Beef
Pioneer Pit Beef
How is it that we never discovered this place till this summer? Maybe it's because of its out-of-the...
Best Barbecue
Andy Nelson's Barbecue
We look and we look for better barbecue than this Baltimore County institution's fare, just out of c...
Best Fried Chicken
Prettyboy Market
One fateful summer back in the day, we stumbled upon the coveted "secret spot" in a remote corner of...
Best Chicken Wings
Bruce Lee's Wings
It's the combination of taste, texture, and tang that makes Bruce Lee's Wings a unique chicken-devou...
Best Lake Trout
The Roost
Yeah, sure, we go to the Roost for the collard greens, the macaroni and cheese, the peach cobbler, t...
Best Soul Food
M&J's
A new favorite local business in the heart of Charles Village's burgeoning 25th Street corridor, M&#...
Best Soups
Soup's On
Soup is always good, but when one of the two identical twin brothers who started Soup's On disclosed...
Best Tapas/Small Plates
Tapas Teatro
We've always loved the food at Tapas Teatro. What we didn't like was the attitude--all cooler than t...
Best Homemade Meats
Clementine
More and more restaurants are getting into the charcuterie biz, and this is a good thing, though the...
Best Sausage
Binkert's Meat
For those who love sausage (and we count ourselves among them), the Aug, 4 fire at Binkert's Meat wa...
Best Pierogis
Ze Mean Bean Café
It was once rumored that the ladies at Holy Rosary parish make Ze Mean Bean's pierogis. "No," said a...
Best Caribbean Restaurant
The Curry Shack
It's always a tossup on Saturday mornings at the Curry Shack's stand at the Waverly farmers market. ...
Best Chinese Restaurant
Grace Garden
It is a sad commentary on the state of Chinese chow in this burg when the best Chinese restaurant in...
Best Ethiopian Restaurant
Dukem
Now almost 4 years old, Tefera and Getachew Zewdie's Dukem II (spun off from their popular Washingto...
Best Greek Restaurant
Zorba's Bar and Grill
The measure of the quality of a place specializing in ethnic dishes can often be determined by obser...
Best Indian Restaurant
Akbar
With its combination of a warm intimate ambiance; friendly, on-the-ball, knowledgeable service (our ...
Best Italian Restaurant
Chiapparelli's
If you know of any good affordable genuine Italian food outside of Little Italy but inside city limi...
Best Cheap Italian Restaurant
Giovanna's
While "restaurant" may be stretching things, "cheap" certainly does not at this mostly takeout/deliv...
Best Italian Deli
Dipasquale's
A recent transplant to High-landtown had long known and loved Mastellone's on Harford Road, but had ...
Best Korean Restaurant
Nam Kang
We never eat at Nam Kang when we're in a hurry. Not that the service is slack or the kitchen is poky...
Best Latin Restaurant
La Cazuela
La Cazuela may be the only Ecuadorian restaurant in Baltimore, but it doesn't rest on its one-of-a-k...
Best Peruvian Chicken
Chicken Rico
Long a veritable obsession for diners too busy to cook in Washington and New York, pollo à la b...
Best Mexican Restaurant
Fiesta Mexicana
On some days, Fiesta Mexicana is our favorite local restaurant, period. On the other hand, it's a cr...
Best Middle Eastern Restaurant
Orchard Market and Café
Just as the generic term "Mexican food" hardly covers the entire variety of regional Central and Sou...
Best Sushi
Sushi Hana
We've loved Sushi Hana for years, but our lack of affection for downtown Towson has kept it from bec...
Best Thai Restaurant
Thai Restaurant
There are plenty of pretty decent places to get Thai food around Baltimore these days, but there are...
Best Vietnamese Restaurant
Baltimore Pho
Baltimore has always suffered from a conspicuous scarcity of pho, the signature Vietnamese meal-in-a...
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