15 editor picks in Baltimore.
Food tour in Fells Point
Baltimore Walking Foodie Tour in Fells Point
6 of these places are in Fells Point
New American is where much of Baltimore's ambition lives, chefs working seasonally across a single tight menu in rooms scattered through the neighborhoods. The Food Market in Hampden and Charleston in Harbor East represent two ends of the range, while Peter's Inn in Fells Point keeps a cult following for its short, ever-changing chalkboard menu.
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Order The Amish soft pretzels to start, then whatever seafood is running that night.
The Food Market anchors Hampden's Avenue, where chef Chad Gauss turns out playful New American plates and his well-known Amish soft pretzels.
Order The garlic bread is non-negotiable; the strip steak is the menu anchor.
Peter's Inn in Fells Point is a former biker bar turned chef's favourite, with a weekly-changing menu around a famous garlic bread and a New York strip.
Order Build the menu around the cornmeal-fried oysters and shrimp and grits.
Charleston is Cindy Wolf's Harbor East flagship, a 2025 James Beard winner for its beverage program, where you build a Lowcountry menu course by course.
Order Whatever lands on the changing canape board, then a seasonal main.
Magdalena inside the Ivy Hotel is chef Scott Bacon's seasonal American bistro, plating a changing canape board and Chesapeake plates in a stone mansion.
Order The pan-seared John Dory with chanterelles.
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 fried oyster tacos, then the Thai seafood hot pot.
Gunther & Co.
Order Whatever the wood fire is turning out that night.
Woodberry Tavern is James Beard winner Spike Gjerde's small Clipper Mill room, the successor to Woodberry Kitchen, cooking off Maryland farms and waters.
Try Crab mac-and-cheese hot dog
Stuggy's in Fells Point is an evening hot-dog shop known for its crab mac-and-cheese dog, staying open to 11pm on weekends for the Broadway bar crowd.
Try Steamed bao buns
Ekiben's Fells Point counter stays open into the evening near the Broadway bars, sending the Neighborhood Bird fried-chicken bun to an after-work crowd.
Try Beer and pub grub
Max's Taphouse on Fells Point's Broadway pours from more than a hundred taps late into the night, with a kitchen of pub grub to soak up the beer.
Peter's Inn is a former biker bar in Fells Point with no reservations and a short weekly-changing menu of upscale comfort food and well-poured drinks.
Try Tacos on house tortillas
Tortilleria Sinaloa in Upper Fells Point presses its own corn tortillas and fills cheap, excellent tacos, a counter half a block east of Broadway.
Try Corned beef sandwich
Attman's on Corned Beef Row piles a hand-cut corned beef sandwich high for not much, a cash-friendly lunch counter that has fed downtown since 1915.
Try Pit beef sandwich
Chaps Pit Beef on Pulaski Highway delivers a hefty, cheap pit beef sandwich, charcoal-grilled rare top round on a kaiser with tiger sauce and onion.
Try Chicken box
Connie's stall in Lexington Market fries hand-breaded chicken to order, with the half-and-half chicken box a cheap, classic Baltimore corner-store meal.
