Boarded-up windows, padlocked doors — it’s a familiar site to the many Baltimore-area residents whose favorite bar or eatery closed this year.

Labor costs are up. Competition is high. What’s already typically a notoriously difficult industry to succeed in continues to grapple with rising food and supply costs, according to a 2024 State of the Restaurant Industry report. So it’s no wonder your go-to spot may no longer be around.

We wrote about many of the announced closures of eateries in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County in the last year, and estimate there’s been nearly 60 of them overall. We spoke to the men blasting R&B music in the Inner Harbor to mourn the loss of a long-tenured Hooters, looked at the local impact of the bankrupting of national chains, dove into allegations of restaurant staff left with unpaid checks and met with a family picking up the pieces after a fire shut down their livelihood.

Owners complained of slimming profit margins, a lack of foot traffic in downtown Baltimore, a struggle to retain staff. More recently, longtime businesses like Nacho Mama’s and Mother’s Federal Hill Grille announced plans to close their city outposts in the coming weeks and concentrate on the counties, where there is a less saturated restaurant scene.

Check out our map to see the eateries that shut their doors, the length of their tenures and what we wrote about them. Leave a comment if you have a memory to share, or see an institution we may have missed.