Food & Drink

With her Southern drawl and rich laugh, Peggy Bailey has been a fixture at Jennings Cafe since 1979. At 81, she is retiring from the cafe where she has waited tables and cheered customers for more than four decades.

You could take in an art exhibit, tug your heart out in the annual “Slaughter Across the Water” or listen to jazz classics from Disney films. Those are just some of the best things to do in Annapolis through Nov. 8.

Despite prior announcements, Tony Norris, owner of Fells Point neighborhood landmark Bertha’s, said the restaurant served its last mussel on Monday night.

For nearly a year, the building’s been vacant.

It's not just cheese sauce that makes great nachos. Some come with short rib, tuna tartare and even crab.

Fishnet’s new restaurant space in Remington will allow them to rethink the scale of their business, as well as the impact of the food they use.

Heavy Seas, Maryland’s largest remaining craft brewer, is the first to use a hop native to the state, discovered on a veterinarian’s Frederick County farm.

The latest outpost of Pinky Cole’s Slutty Vegan restaurant is scheduled to open in the Rye Street Market, a boutique office space within the Baltimore Peninsula neighborhood.

If you’re in Annapolis Saturday, should you celebrate Kunta Kinte or the Day of the Dead? The answer is both. The twin festivals are two of seven great things to do in Annapolis through Nov. 1.

Allora owners Brendon Hudson and David Monteagudo, rising stars in Baltimore’s dining scene, have recently weathered a firestorm of bad press and legal action.

Since 1944, a generational ideology has inspired the local grocer. They’ve invested and renovated as other grocers have closed.

Fuzzies Burgers will open its first permanent post, and has an eye on local stadiums.

Lidl officially signed a lease for a 36,000-square-foot space this past February in the Perkins-Somerset-Oldtown footprint, ending a long hunt for a grocer in the area.

Atlas will take over Pusser’s Caribbean Grill inside the Annapolis Waterfront Hotel, creating two separate restaurants and an expanded banquet space that will open in 2025.

As Lexington Market celebrates one year in its new space, we checked in to see how everything is going. The answer was a bit of a mixed bag.

To make matcha, a barista whisks ground green tea powder with water and frothed, steamed milk.

Chris Franzoni tells us his favorite places to get steaming hot bowls of soup, the perfect fall and winter food.

No Napa? No problem. Virginia's Monticello Wine Trail, which is advertised as the “birthplace of American Wine” and has at least 40 wineries, had plenty to choose from for a solo trip from Baltimore during the first weekend of fall.

For decades, the tangy entrée has drawn diners to the main hall of Zion Church of the City of Baltimore and other German churches in the area.

For small-business owners like Little Donna’s owner Robbie Tutlewski, such big-name acclaim can come with unwanted baggage.