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The Baltimore Bar Remembering Name(s) Game
So there I was, crawling around South Baltimore so I coulds check out the new Kumari location (protip: the lunch buffet is like $10, free Nepalese Tea) when I saw the rearside of one Wiley Gunter’s...
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Dives of Note: Venice Tavern
Venice Tavern, 339 S. Conkling St. It’s funny how sometimes a dive bar can be recognized so very often by all sorts of people as one of the “Best Of’s” here in Baltimore and yet somehow the general pop...
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MoonShine Tavern: a pre-analysis
Well it was a long, long ride for the ownership at Boston Street’s Gin Mill (2300 Boston St., Canton) but the doors finally closed after what seems like an eternity but was in fact 16 years, after some...
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Absolut Cities – Absolut Baltimore!
Swedish Vodka megajuggernaut Absolut is continuing its “Cities” line this year with yet another US city to add to its long line of city-themed-and-subsequently-rebranded flavors (“Berry Acai” used to...
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the Inexplicable Bar Marketing Campaign
Filed under “uhhh… ok then” comes a recent marketing campaign for General Mills’ cinnamon and sugar drenched breakfast cereal for children Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The one month campaign was put together...
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Nepenthe, new homebrew store, comes to Woodberry
Continuing its steady march to fully becoming Little Portland comes the news that Nepenthe (3600 Clipper Mill Rd, Woodberry), a home brew supply store with the new and exciting option of brewing on...
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Shucker’s slapped for operating without a business license
From today’s Liquor Board hearing comes a bit of trouble, seems like Shucker’s of Fells Point (920 S Broadway) has/had been operating without a business license, which is kind of a big no-no in the...
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Shuckers slapped with eviction notice, massive back rent owed
Roughly 90 days after our last rumblings from one Shuckers of Fells Point (1629 Thames St) in which they were fined for operating without a business license – later revealed to be an issue of back...
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Cross Street’s Cross Bar Denied
In case you haven’t noticed lately, the Ryleigh’s Oyster group has been lobbying pretty hard on Twitter and Facebook in an effort to bring to fruition “Baltimore’s first German Biergarten” in the form...
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First Impressions: Dirty Oars Tavern
Good God almighty it seems like a jillion years ago that defunct tequila bar Lime went up for sale – well, two years to be exact, which is an eternity in Blog Years – but at long last the...
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Baltimore Pride Drinking Game!
We saw The Baltimore Chop’s Pride Parade Bingo and we liked it, and we obviously love Pride, but we thought something was missing. The answer was obvious. What makes everything more fun? Alcohol! So,...
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Bar Rescue and Murphy’s Law: please help control the bar population, have...
11/21/12 EDIT/UPDATE: Muprhy’s Law closed a mere few months after relaunch and went to auction. It has since reopened as a place known as Bradley’s, which the Sun recently reviewed as “Bland“ In case...
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5 bars in Fells Point that they don’t know about (And let’s keep it that way)
Whether you’re new to Baltimore or a seasoned veteran, we can all agree that it’s nice to discover (or rediscover) a new place away from the hustle and bustle of often times touristy Fells Point. Here...
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Say Hello To Smaltimore
The long awaited, long anticipated, looooong time in the works new restaurant in Canton by one No Idea / former Don’t Know bartreneur Jason Zink, now officially called Smaltimore (Where everybody...
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Former Shucker’s gonna be a mexican joint
A little while ago we TOTALLY BROKE THE STORY that Fells Point’s Shuckers was being shuttered with haste due to a litany of issues but an expiring lease was cited as the primary reason according to...
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Tommy’s Downtown Tavern is the toehold Pigtown needs
A while ago I had heard through the grapevine (probably via @casey18cc and @carolott, who live within eyeshot) that Tommy’s Downtown Tavern (839 W Cross St, Pigtown) was for sale and was reminded...
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Will Crossbar der Biergarten be open by October?
Crossbar der Biergarten, or Crossbar for short, is the latest “super-bar” planned for Federal Hill. Brian McComas, Ryleigh’s owner, continues to push for this newest concept. The plan is to merge 12...
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A local favorite now offering lunch on the weekends
Not that we needed more Sunday Funday options in the Hill area, but ask and ye shall receive! Pub Dog has long been providing us in the neighborhood with delectable eats, this is no surprise. The...
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No Idea Tavern is Dead, Long Live No Idea Tavern
Do you have No Idea what’s going on? Well let me catch you up some. No Idea’s owner Jason Zink has sold No Idea to one of the same people he sold Don’t Know to back in 2011 in one Ryan Cooper. This...
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Another Unicorn Dead: Cross Bar License Invalidated
In setting what could only be described as a dangerous precedent today, Octogenarian Head of the Liquor Board Thomas Ward and Commish Dana Moore voted 2-1 to invalidate the 10,000 year old (but...
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