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May 7, 2007

For you night owls

Good Eater Marty Katz, the Baltimore editor for Zagat, sent me the following e-mail this morning. I'm passing it along because the last time I was up at 12:30 a.m. was ... actually I don't think I've ever been up at 12:30 a.m. So if you're going to get restaurant news after midnight, it isn't going to be from me ...

He wrote:

I was in Fells Point at bar closing time Friday night and the newish Mehek Indian place on Broadway had two somewhat formally clad servers selling four $5 dishes to the drunken revelers from a sidewalk stand.

I asked for more details and he wrote back:

Mehek is sort of nicely out of place anyway -- white tablecloths, soothing light atmosphere inside for conversation ... more civilized, in an Ambassador DR sort of way -- except bright -- and somewhat the opposite of neighbors Bertha's or Jimmy's. And they have sidewalk tables, which is brave in the face of the permanent residents of the square. I was shocked at 12:30 a.m. to see two white-dress-shirted servers manning a set of chafing dishes and offering passersby from the starting-to-close bars a chance to have grown-up food. If you've ever seen the pit-beef operation on Cross Street after midnight outside 8x10 -- it was the inverse.

 

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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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