From menus full of spring flavors to tasty alternatives to support good causes, Baltimore’s restaurant scene is full of enjoyable this week. Here’s a have a look at what’s on faucet:
Openings & bulletins
The house owners of Birds of a Feather, the Scotch bar that has been a Fells Point fixture for over 40 years, introduced this week that the bar had closed. However, the co-owners of of Le Comptoir du Vin are taking on the area and have plans to open a pub with a menu alongside the traces of what’s provided at Le Comptoir. They hope to reopen someday this yr.
Happy 8th birthday to one of many Baltimore meals neighborhood’s unanimous favorites: Ekiben. In honor of the restaurant’s April 9th birthday, all three areas will have fun with birthday pricing: $7 buns and $14 bowls.
Clavel has superior to the finalist spherical of the James Beard Awards. The Remington mezcaleria is nominated for Outstanding Bar – and as anybody who has been to the bar is aware of, it’s a well-deserved honor.
Café Gia has launched an up to date catering menu – and they’re additionally open to off-menu requests.
National Caramel Day
Friday, April 5 is National Caramel Day – and Baltimore’s personal Goetze’s Candy Company is benefiting from the event.
Goetze’s, which has been round for almost 130 years and is nationally beloved for its Caramel Creams and Cow Tales, is including a new taste to its Cow Tales lineup: Honey Bun. The new deal with will function honey bun-flavored caramel, cream and “hints of cinnamon.”
Eating native on the Lord Baltimore Hotel
The Lord Baltimore Hotel is deepening its neighborhood ties with a bunch of new native partnerships. The culinary crew on the resort will now be working with and providing merchandise from a wide range of Maryland purveyors, together with the bakery Charmed., South Mountain Creamery, Wight Tea Company, and MFG Toffee and Bark.
Items from every of those firms can be out there on the LB Bistro & Bakery, so each resort company and most people can take benefit.
Chefs Cycle Benefit Cocktail Party
On Tuesday, Gunther & Co. is internet hosting a cocktail social gathering to learn the non-profit No Kid Hungry. Gunther Chef Jerry rice is gearing as much as journey 200 miles in California to boost cash and consciousness for the group; all proceeds from the social gathering will support the trigger.
Gunther isn’t the one restaurant taking part within the social gathering, both. They’ll be joined by Kneads Bakeshop, La Cuchara, Marta, Rize & Rest, True Chesapeake Oyster Co., The Capital Grille, The Food Market, and Victoria’s Restaurant Group.
Mama’s giving again
On Wednesday, each Mama’s on the Half Shell areas (Canton and Owings Mills) and each Nacho Mama’s areas (Canton and Towson) will donate a portion of all proceeds to support the families of the victims of the Key Bridge collapse. The donations can be made to Construction Angels, a non-profit that gives “rapid monetary help” and different support to families of building staff who’ve misplaced their jobs whereas working.
Gertrude’s large week
On Thursday, Gertrude’s within the BMA will donate 10% of all payments to the non-profit Art with a Heart. The museum is open late on Thursday nights, so it’s an ideal alternative for dinner, philanthropy, and a stroll by top-of-the-line artwork collections wherever on this planet.
The restaurant is following that up on Friday with the tenth annual Rebel Rally Keg Party, which advantages Moveable Feast.
Ramps, gentle shells & extra
Ramps solely make an look for just a few, wonderful weeks – and their time is true now. The seasonal delicacy is popping up on just a few menus round city, together with at La Cuchara, the place they’ve been paired with roasted salmon, English peas, and tarragon vin blanc. Also keep watch over the menu at Foraged, the place the kitchen at all times makes the many of the transient ramp season.
Soft shell crabs – one other hyper-local deal with – are additionally beginning to seem on menus round city, like at Thames Street Oyster House, the place they’re served with housemade fettuccine in crab tomato sauce.
At Silver Queen Café, each treats are on the menu. This previous week, the Hamilton restaurant provided an Agrodolce Ramp & Mushroom Pizza and a gentle shell entrée pairing crabs with vegetable couscous and lemon caper sauce.
Café Campli has up to date its menu for early spring, together with dishes like trumpet mushrooms with candy pea risotto, and rosemary beef with candy onion cipollini sauce.
Feastival plans
One of probably the most enjoyable meals occasions of the yr – Feastival – returns to West Shore Park on Saturday, April 13.
Feastival, which is now in its 8th yr, is a fundraiser for the Maryland Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. During the afternoon occasion, a few of the space’s greatest eating places and meals firms come collectively to supply bites, sips and a typically festive ambiance to a crowd that’s at all times enjoyable and fascinating.
This yr’s individuals embrace: Alma Cocina Latina, Ammoora, Ash Bar, Atlas Fish Market, And 4 Dessert, Baltimore Waffle Company, BLK Swan, Blue Pit BBQ, Bunny’s Buckets & Bubbles, Duck Duck Goose, The Capital Grille, The Food Market, Italian Disco, James Joyce, Kora Lees, La Cuchara, La Scala, The Local, Marta, Poet’s Modern Cocktails & Eats, Rec Pier Chop House, Sydney’s Ice Cream, Taharka Bros, Treats4Eats, and True Chesapeake Oyster Co.
There may also be native beers and cocktails created by members of the Baltimore Bartenders’ Guild.
Planning for the longer term
Mark your calendars for:
April 13: Atwaters turns 21
April 17 & 18: Boujee Junk Food Dinner at The Food Market
April 23: Oysterfest Week at Manor Tavern
