Food & Drink

Demand for food assistance continues to rise with subsiding government benefits and increasing food prices. Here’s how you can help this holiday season.

Joe Squared, the beloved Baltimore City eatery and entertainment venue, will shutter its doors in Station North following ongoing pandemic-related losses.

You could line up for tickets to see “A Christmas Carol,” catch the county executive in a Latin dance competition or listen to some award-winning blues. Those are just some of the best things to do through Nov. 22.

Where can Baltimore-area shoppers see their dollars go the farthest this Thanksgiving? The Banner investigated and — surprise — it’s not Whole Foods.

Some things, like properly roasting a turkey, are best left to the professionals. Here are nine great local places from which to order your Thanksgiving meal.

At a time when Black diners are voicing their complaints about discriminatory practices such as dress codes, targeted automatic gratuities and overall poor service, Black chefs are working to create welcoming experiences through supper clubs and recurring dinners.

Even as Hampden has grown wealthier and more diverse, some Black business owners say racist elements of “Old Hampden” remain stubbornly entrenched in the area.

You can honor Veterans Day, take in a traveling circus, catch a college basketball doubleheader, or hear some great jazz and roots. Those are just some of the best things to do through Nov. 15.

Readers provided dozens of restaurant recommendations that I should try as a Baltimore local. Family-run eateries like Samos, Attman's Delicatessen and El Salvador Restaurant were at the top of my list.

Looking for the best gift for the foodie in your life? Here are the best food and drink gifts with a Maryland touch.

“Restaurants are not back. It’s as simple as that,” said Zack Mills, co-owner of The Local Oyster.

His two Baltimore-area restaurants on the brink of closing, Keith Asante ordered a book by email: “International Man’s Guide to Offshore Banking.”

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.

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.

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.