Christina Tkacik is a food reporter for The Baltimore Banner. She joined the staff of The Baltimore Banner in August of 2022 to cover all things food. Prior to that, she spent more than six years at The Baltimore Sun, including three years as the newspaper's dining reporter and restaurant critic. After all this time in Charm City, she can pick a crab but still can't shuck an oyster.
If it’s on the shelves at Butcher & Bay, a new specialty market in Kingsville from Geresbeck's, there’s a good chance that it’s either made in Baltimore or going viral on TikTok.
Offering elevated takes on Baltimore staples from coddies to tiger sauce, Wye Oak Tavern from chefs Bryan and Michael Voltaggio is well worth the drive to Frederick.
Though Faidley’s Seafood is better known for its jumbo lump crab cakes, the business at Lexington Market has been selling muskrats and raccoons since it opened in the 1880s.
Lilly Ordoñez is hoping for a fresh start as she relocates her Owls Corner Cafe restaurant from near the Key Bridge in Dundalk to Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood.
High rent, increasing food and product costs, fewer customers. It’s a trifecta of business killers that has hit local eateries hard in recent months. Now it has come for Charm City Chocolate.
From paczki to king cake to bombolino, eating sweet, fried dough just before Lent is a tradition that spans the globe. Here are the Baltimore bakeries where you can find your Fat Tuesday fix.
The Di Pasquale’s sign, a part of the Italian market and restaurant’s history since 1988, had been stolen earlier this week from its Gough Street building, owners said.