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Clavel

Order Tacos on the house-nixtamalized tortillas with a mezcal flight to match.

Clavel in Hampden is Carlos Raba's Sinaloa-rooted mezcaleria, where tacos sit on nixtamalized corn tortillas and the bar runs deep on mezcal.

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Blue Moon Cafe

Order The Cap'n Crunch French toast, crusted in cereal and griddled golden.

Blue Moon Cafe in Fells Point is a tiny diner famous for its Cap'n Crunch French toast, a 24-hour-on-weekends institution with a near-constant line out front.

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Faidley's Seafood

Order The jumbo lump crab cake, broiled, almost all crab and no filler.

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.

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NiHao

Order A spread of dumplings and soup dumplings off the dim sum cart.

NiHao in Canton runs a weekend dim sum brunch from chef Peter Chang's kitchen, sending dumplings, buns and soup dumplings to a packed rowhouse.

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The Helmand

Order Start with the kaddo borawni; few first courses in the city are as well-loved.

The Helmand on Charles Street has cooked Afghan food in Mount Vernon since 1989, known for its kaddo borawni baby pumpkin and aushak dumplings.

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Ekiben

Order The Neighborhood Bird steamed bun, fried chicken with herbs and spicy sauce.

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.

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Zeke's Coffee

Zeke's Coffee is a family-run Baltimore roaster in Lauraville, small-batch roasting on Harford Road and pouring its beans across cafes citywide.

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Miss Shirley's Cafe

Order The fried green tomatoes and a coddie, the Maryland brunch tradition.

Miss Shirley's Cafe near the Inner Harbor is a Southern brunch destination, plating fried green tomatoes, shrimp and grits and Maryland coddies.

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Attman's Delicatessen

Order The corned beef sandwich, hand-cut and piled high, with a potato knish.

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.

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Cafe Dear Leon

Order A laminated pastry and an egg sandwich with a careful.

Cafe Dear Leon on Canton Square is a cafe and bakery for a quieter brunch, plating fresh pastries, egg sandwiches and careful coffee off the square.

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The Dara

Order The khao soi and the Hatyai fried chicken.

The Dara in Fells Point is chef Jeff Wannapithipat's Thai room, drawing crowds for khao soi and Hatyai-style fried chicken on South Wolfe Street.

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Chaps Pit Beef

Order The pit beef on a kaiser, rare, with tiger sauce and raw onion.

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.

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Matthew's Pizza

Order The crab pie, a thick crust topped with jumbo lump and Old Bay.

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.

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Vaccaro's Italian Pastry Shop

Order A cannoli filled to order, with an espresso to follow.

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.

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Vent Coffee Roasters

Vent Coffee Roasters is a small-batch Hampden roaster inside the Union Collective, running a full espresso bar plus slow-bar Aeropress and Chemex alongside.

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Dooby's

Order The breakfast sandwich early, or a bowl of ramen later in the day.

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.

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Golden West Cafe

Order The green chile breakfast burrito, smothered and loaded.

Golden West Cafe on Hampden's Avenue runs a Southwestern brunch of green chile, breakfast burritos and huevos rancheros with deep vegetarian options.

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Of Love and Regret

Order Whatever Stillwater or rare Belgian is on draft, with the seasonal plates.

Of Love and Regret in Brewers Hill is a gastropub from the Stillwater beer team, pairing a tight craft tap list with seasonal plates and Belgian.

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Papermoon Diner

Order A stack of pancakes and a milkshake.

Papermoon Diner in Remington is a daytime diner crowded with toys and mannequins, plating big breakfast plates and milkshakes amid the maximalist decor.

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