37 upscale places in Baltimore, editor-picked. Occasion restaurants in Baltimore: destination kitchens for celebrations and visits. All Baltimore food.
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Order The Eastern Shore crab cake with Maryland blue crab, the New England lobster roll and raw bar oysters.
Thames Street Oyster House serves Maryland, Mid-Atlantic and New England seafood in a historic Fells Point row home, with at least ten kinds of oysters daily.
Order The pierogies and the tavern pie, with a side of tomato hot honey for dipping.
Little Donna's in Upper Fells Point is Robbie Tutlewski's Eastern European kitchen, on the New York Times best list for its pierogies and tavern pie.
Order The nettle soup and the cassoulet finished at the bar.
The Wren in Fells Point is the contemporary pub from Le Comptoir du Vin's team, on the New York Times best list for nettle soup and bar-side cassoulet.
Order The crab cake, plus a cup of the Maryland crab soup loaded with vegetables.
Gertrude's sits inside the Baltimore Museum of Art, where founder John Shields cooks the Chesapeake canon of crab cake and Maryland crab soup.
Order An arepa spread, then the roasted duck breast with guava.
Alma Cocina Latina in Station North is a rare Venezuelan fine-dining room, where chef Hector Romero plates arepas and roasted duck with guava jelly.
Drink Amaro and seasonal cocktails
W.C. Harlan in Remington is a candlelit speakeasy behind an unmarked door, Lane Harlan's first bar, pouring seasonal cocktails and a deep amaro list.
Le Comptoir du Vin in Station North is a tiny natural-wine bistro from Rosemary Liss, pouring grower wines beside a weekly-changing French menu.
Order A dozen heavy steamed crabs and a pitcher, eaten with mallets on the deck.
LP Steamers in Locust Point is a classic two-storey crab house, steaming blue crabs heavy with Old Bay and serving a rooftop deck above Fort Avenue.
Drink Inventive seasonal cocktails
Sugarvale in Mount Vernon is an intimate basement cocktail bar, mixing inventive, balanced drinks with zero pretension off a frequently changing menu.
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Order A dozen Jerome Creek oysters and the jumbo lump crab cake.
True Chesapeake Oyster Co. in Whitehall Mill is chef Zack Mills's bay-to-table room, serving its own Jerome Creek oysters and a jumbo lump crab cake.
Order Start with the house-made plant cheeses and whatever small plates are running.
Oleum in Fells Point is chef Alisha Adibe's vegan fine-dining room, plating plant-based small plates, house-made cheeses and an internationally spiced menu.
Order A plate of house-made pasta and whatever seafood is running.
Cosima in Mill No. 1 is a Sicilian and southern Italian room above the Jones Falls, plating house-made pasta and seafood with views of the old textile mill.
Order The porterhouse lamb chop over polenta.
Marta in Butchers Hill is chef Matthew Oetting's nouveau Italian room in the former Salt Tavern, built around a porterhouse lamb chop over creamy polenta.
Drink Literary-themed seasonal cocktails
The Bluebird Cocktail Room in Hampden is a literary-themed upstairs cocktail bar, mixing hyper-seasonal drinks in a book-lined room above the Avenue.
Fadensonnen in Old Goucher is Lane Harlan's natural-wine, sake and beer garden in a converted carriage house, pouring skin-contact wines under string lights.
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 The fried oyster tacos, then the Thai seafood hot pot.
Gunther & Co. in Canton is a contemporary American room in a restored boiler building, plating fried oyster tacos and a Thai-spiced seafood hot pot.
Order A dozen steamed crabs in season, or the crab cake the rest of the year.
Mama's on the Half Shell on Canton Square is a neighbourhood crab-and-oyster house, working steamed crabs, oysters and a crab cake across two busy floors.
Order A plate of the house-made pasta, plus the branzino when it runs.
Sotto Sopra on Charles Street in Mount Vernon plates house-made pasta and an opera-night supper, a long-running Italian room with a deep wine list.
Order The tuna melt at lunch, or a raw-bar spread before dinner.
Johnny's in Roland Park is Foreman Wolf's relaxed neighbourhood diner, plating a tuna melt, raw-bar plates and a wood-fired all-day menu daily.
Drink Gin and tonics, gin cocktails
Dutch Courage in Old Goucher is a gin-focused cocktail bar on North Charles Street, building its list around gin and tonics and a long back bar of botanicals.
Drink Spirit-forward classics
The Elk Room in Harbor East is a hidden cocktail bar behind Italian Disco, pouring spirit-forward classics in a dim, vintage Atlas Restaurant Group room.
Order The whole roasted chicken polished with duck fat.
Petit Louis Bistro in Roland Park is Foreman Wolf's Parisian-style bistro, plating a duck-fat roasted chicken and trout amandine on a Left Bank corner.
Order The swordfish meatballs over house-milled polenta.
Costiera in Little Italy marks chef Brian Lavin's return, a coastal Mediterranean bistro plating swordfish meatballs over house-milled polenta.
Order A Roman-style pizza and a plate of cacio e pepe.
Italian Disco in Harbor East is Atlas Restaurant Group's pasta-and-pizza room, plating Roman-style plates and a disco-era soundtrack on Fleet Street.
Drink Hundreds of taps and bottles
Max's Taphouse on Fells Point's Broadway is a beer hall with more than a hundred taps and a deep bottle list, a Baltimore craft-beer institution.
Grand Cru in Belvedere Square is a wine bar and bottle shop in one, pouring a deep by-the-glass list with cheese and charcuterie inside the market building.
Order The spaghetti with bottarga and anchovy butter.
Love, Pomelo on Canton's O'Donnell Square is a Roman-leaning Italian room, plating spaghetti with bottarga and anchovy butter in a candlelit storefront.
Drink Classic cocktails
The Owl Bar in the Belvedere Hotel is a Mount Vernon landmark since 1903, a wood-panelled former speakeasy with terracotta owls and brick-oven pizza.
Drink Beer and a shot
Cat's Eye Pub on the Fells Point waterfront is a no-frills live-music bar, running blues and rock bands nightly in a cramped, well-worn room on Thames Street.
Drink House and guest craft beer
Wet City in Mount Vernon is a brewery, full bar and kitchen in one, pouring house beers and a chosen guest list alongside tacos in a colourful upstairs room.
Drink Sagamore Spirit rye cocktails
Rye Street Tavern in Port Covington pours cocktails built on Sagamore Spirit rye, a waterfront tavern with an open hearth and a Chesapeake-leaning kitchen.
V-No Wine Bar in Fells Point is a wine bar and shop on South Ann Street, pouring Italian and Old World bottles with cheese, charcuterie and panini.
Bodega & Vino in Locust Point is a small grocer, cafe and wine bar in one, pouring small-producer bottles by the glass alongside snacks and pantry goods.
Drink Beer and whiskey
The Horse You Came In On Saloon in Fells Point claims to be America's oldest continuous saloon, a Thames Street bar tied to Edgar Allan Poe's last days.
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