Food & Drink

Across months of reporting — and more meals than any reasonable person should admit — the same themes kept resurfacing. Not trends invented online, but habits formed at tables, counters, bar stools and parking lots across the city.

The Don’t Know Tavern, which first opened on Light Street in 2007, is set to close next month.

Xi'an Famous Foods, which specializes in Northwestern Chinese cuisine, will open a location in Rockville. The fast-casual chain started as a basement food stall in New York and was co-signed by Anthony Bourdain.

From Restaurant Week deals to Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and a huge anime convention, there’s plenty to do this weekend and beyond in Montgomery County.

A couple starts their own Brazilian pão de queijo business in the Fells Point Farmers Market.

The Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel and its ground floor restaurant, Morton’s The Steakhouse, have both closed their doors in Baltimore.

The Yemeni coffee trend has come to Perry Hall.

7 Brew, a popular drive-thru coffee chain known for its customizable drinks, opened its first Maryland location.

If your New Year's resolution to eat healthier is starting to feel unsustainable, we have just the restaurants to help you keep going.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store will open in early February across from the Annapolis Mall. World of Beer opened Monday at Annapolis Mall.

Thelma Beall, the matriarch of Ledo Pizza, died New Year’s Eve.

Baltimore-based Atlas Restaurant Group is acquiring a majority stake in Boatyard Bar & Grill, a popular haunt in Annapolis.

You talked a big game on Dec. 31 about the ways you were going to change your life this year. Executing those intentions is another thing. These seven activities happening this week in Montgomery County offer the opportunity to do good on your New Year’s resolutions.

Chef David Zamudio, a James Beard Award semifinalist for his time at Alma Cocina Latina, finally launches his own solo venture with Josefina in Harbor Point.

Laura Silverman, a North Bethesda resident, turned her sobriety journey into an international movement for nonalcoholic beverages. Here’s what you can learn from her this Dry January.

The chain co-founded by Thelma Beall now has more than 100 locations, and is still family-run.

The rectangular-shaped-and-cut pizza, known as Maryland-style pizza, originated at Ledo Pizza in 1955 and has continued to evolve at these Montgomery County eateries.

Don’t let the uninviting strip malls of Eastern Baltimore County deter you. They offer cuisine every bit as flavorful as the city’s.

Unavu, a new ghost kitchen in Charles Village, aims to introduce its delicious, lesser-known Southern Indian cuisine to customers.