9 editor picks in Baltimore.
Food tour in Fells Point
Baltimore Walking Foodie Tour in Fells Point
3 of these places are in Fells Point
Baltimore's street food and market culture is one of its real pleasures, from pit beef to snowballs to crab cakes eaten standing up. Faidley's Seafood and Connie's Chicken and Waffles draw the crowds at the markets downtown, Chaps Pit Beef in Greektown holds down the pit-beef tradition, and Ekiben in Fells Point shows the fast-casual future.
9 street food places in Baltimore we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Baltimore · Street Food across every city.
Try Jumbo lump crab cake
Faidley's stand inside Lexington Market serves the city's benchmark crab cake since 1886, almost all jumbo lump, eaten standing at a counter off brown paper.
Try Hand-breaded fried chicken and waffles
Connie's Chicken and Waffles works a stall inside Lexington Market, frying hand-breaded chicken to order and stacking it over waffles for the lunch crowd.
Try Baltimore pit beef sandwich
Chaps Pit Beef on Pulaski Highway is the city's benchmark pit beef stand, charcoal-grilling top round rare and piling it on a kaiser with tiger sauce.
Try Steamed bao buns
Ekiben grew from a food cart into a Fells Point counter, building a citywide following on steamed bao like the Neighborhood Bird fried-chicken bun.
Try Egg-custard snowball with marshmallow
Walther Gardens runs one of the country's oldest snowball stands, shaving ice over syrup and topping the egg-custard classic with marshmallow each summer.
Try Tacos on house-nixtamalized tortillas
Clavel in Hampden presses its own nixtamalized corn tortillas for tacos al pastor and ceviche, a counter-and-bar room that started as a tortilleria project.
Try Oysters, tacos and market counters
Broadway Market at the foot of Fells Point's square gathers grab-and-go counters for oysters, tacos and coffee under two rebuilt sheds with a rooftop bar.
Try Crab pie by the pie
Matthew's Pizza in Highlandtown has fired thick-crust pies since 1943, including a crab pie loaded with jumbo lump and Old Bay that draws steady crowds.
Try Steamed bao bun
Ekiben in Fells Point feeds a citywide following on cheap, generous steamed bao like the Neighborhood Bird, a counter that grew from a food cart.
