The Bygone is a steakhouse fine-dining restaurant in Harbor East, Baltimore.
The Bygone tops the Four Seasons on the 29th floor, a 1920s-style room serving steaks and seafood with panoramic views over the Inner Harbor.
Must order: A steak or seafood tower, with a window table at golden hour.
Tip: Ask for a window seat; the 29th-floor harbour view is the reason to come up.
Address: 400 International Drive, Baltimore, MD 21202
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: Build the menu around the cornmeal-fried oysters and shrimp and grits.
Tip: It is the city's benchmark special-occasion room; the wine pairing draws on a vast cellar.
Cinghiale in Harbor East is Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf's northern Italian enoteca, pairing house-made pasta and magret of duck with a deep Italian list.
Order: A plate of house-made pasta and the magret of duck.
Tip: The osteria side takes walk-ins; the enoteca dining room is the full kitchen experience.
Tagliata in Harbor East is Atlas Restaurant Group's Italian steakhouse, where chef Julian Marucci plates squid ink campanelle with blue crab and uni cream.
Order: The black squid ink campanelle with blue crab and uni cream.
Tip: The dim, clubby room books out on weekends; the bar takes walk-ins for pasta.
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: Build the menu around the cornmeal-fried oysters and shrimp and grits.
Tip: It is the city's benchmark special-occasion room; the wine pairing draws on a vast cellar.
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: Whatever lands on the changing canape board, then a seasonal main.
Tip: It sits inside the Relais and Chateaux Ivy Hotel; reserve for the courtyard in warm months.
Cinghiale in Harbor East is Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf's northern Italian enoteca, pairing house-made pasta and magret of duck with a deep Italian list.
Order: A plate of house-made pasta and the magret of duck.
Tip: The osteria side takes walk-ins; the enoteca dining room is the full kitchen experience.
Tagliata in Harbor East is Atlas Restaurant Group's Italian steakhouse, where chef Julian Marucci plates squid ink campanelle with blue crab and uni cream.
Order: The black squid ink campanelle with blue crab and uni cream.
Tip: The dim, clubby room books out on weekends; the bar takes walk-ins for pasta.
The Prime Rib in Mount Vernon is a 1940s-style supper club with leopard carpet and a piano, serving the city's benchmark prime rib in black tie.
Order: The prime rib, with the Greenberg potato skins.
Tip: Jackets are required for men; a pianist plays nightly in the lounge.
Ammoora in Federal Hill is Baltimore's Syrian fine-dining room at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, plating kibbeh and lamb beneath mother-of-pearl decor.
Order: The kibbeh and the saffron-rice lamb shanks with pomegranate.
Tip: The Damascene furniture and inlay are part of the experience; ask for a banquette.
