Dooby's is a korean american restaurant in Mount Vernon, Baltimore.
Dooby's in Mount Vernon is an all-day Korean-leaning cafe, plating breakfast sandwiches by day and a ramen and Korean dinner menu after dark.
Signature dishes: Breakfast sandwich, Ramen, Korean dinner plates
Must order: The breakfast sandwich early, or a bowl of ramen later in the day.
Tip: It is part cafe, part bistro; the daytime counter and evening dinner service feel like two places.
Address: 802 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Vaccaro's Italian Pastry Shop has filled cannoli to order in Little Italy since 1956, a sit-down dessert counter for gelato, espresso and Italian cookies.
Signature: Cannoli, Gelato, Espresso
Order: A cannoli filled to order, with an espresso to follow.
Tip: The cannoli is filled to order so the shell stays crisp; expect a line after dinner hours.
Attman's Delicatessen has anchored downtown's Corned Beef Row since 1915, piling hand-cut corned beef and pastrami high in a no-frills lunch counter.
Signature: Corned beef sandwich, Pastrami, Potato knish
Order: The corned beef sandwich, hand-cut and piled high, with a potato knish.
Tip: Order at the counter, then grab a seat in the Kibbitz Room out back; cash moves the line fastest.
Faidley's Seafood at Lexington Market has sold its jumbo lump crab cake since 1886, a stand-up counter where you eat the city's benchmark cake off paper.
Signature: Jumbo lump crab cake, Lake trout, Raw bar
Order: The jumbo lump crab cake, broiled, almost all crab and no filler.
Tip: It is a stand-up counter inside Lexington Market; order the lump grade and eat it at the rail.
Matthew's Pizza in Highlandtown calls itself Baltimore's first pizzeria, open since 1943 and known for a thick-crust pie and a crab pie loaded with lump.
Signature: Thick-crust pizza, Crab pie, Cheese pizza
Order: The crab pie, a thick crust topped with jumbo lump and Old Bay.
Tip: The room is tiny and cash-friendly; the crab pie sells out, so go early on weekends.
Chaps Pit Beef on Pulaski Highway is the benchmark for Baltimore pit beef, charcoal-grilling top round rare and piling it on a kaiser with tiger sauce.
Signature: Pit beef sandwich, Tiger sauce, Pit turkey
Order: The pit beef on a kaiser, rare, with tiger sauce and raw onion.
Tip: Order it rare with tiger sauce and onion; the stand recently moved a few hundred feet down Pulaski Highway.
Ekiben in Fells Point built a citywide following on steamed bao, plating the Neighborhood Bird fried-chicken bun and a tempura broccoli bun in a tiny shop.
Signature: Neighborhood Bird bun, Tempura broccoli bun, Bowls
Order: The Neighborhood Bird steamed bun, fried chicken with herbs and spicy sauce.
Tip: The Fells Point shop is counter-service and tight; there are also Hampden and Locust Point outposts.
