Brownstone district north of downtown with tree-lined streets, the restored rowhouse rooms of Cookhouse and a quiet, residential dining feel.
Bolton Hill is brownstone Baltimore, tree-lined and quiet, and Cookhouse gives it a dining room to match: chef George Dailey's restored 19th-century rowhouse, plating pan-seared John Dory and foie gras croquettes. The neighbourhood does one restaurant properly rather than ten loudly.
Cookhouse in Bolton Hill is chef George Dailey's restored 19th-century rowhouse, plating pan-seared John Dory with chanterelles and foie-gras croquettes.
Order: The pan-seared John Dory with chanterelles.
Tip: The restored rowhouse parlour is the prettiest dining room in the city; reserve the front room.