9 street food places in Baltimore we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Baltimore | Street Food across every city.

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.

Faidley's Seafood ★ 4.7

Street food · $

downtown · 119 North Paca Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

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.

Connie's Chicken and Waffles ★ 4.2

Street food · $

downtown · 112 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

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.

Chaps Pit Beef ★ 4.4

Street food · $

greektown · 720 Mapleton Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205

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.

Ekiben ★ 4.6

Street food · $

fells-point · 1622 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21231

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.

Walther Gardens Snowball Stand ★ 4.0

Street food · $

downtown · 4725 Walther Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21214

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.

Clavel ★ 4.6

Street food · $

hampden · 225 West 23rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21211

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.

Broadway Market ★ 4.0

Street food · $

fells-point · 640 South Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231

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.

Matthew's Pizza ★ 4.3

Street food · $

greektown · 3131 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224

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.

Ekiben ★ 4.5

Street food · $

fells-point · 1622 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21231

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.