The restaurant name game
I got the following two inquiries this week about restaurants that I should remember the names of but don't. The first is from A Lam, the second, Paul.
Of course, I could go into the archives and ferret them out, but that would be work.Want to help me out? ...
1) I thought that perhaps your newspaper would have a review of a wonderful MEXICAN restaurant that use to be on (?)Charles Street near the Brown's Aracade. I have asked all my friends if they had remembered the name, but no one seems to remember it. It was in the 80's and it was very a very upscale restaurant. They had the best mole sauce and I have never been able to find another restaurant in the United States that compared to their mole sauce. They even made their own corn tortillas at the front of the restaurant for public display. Unfortunately, as with all good restaurants, it closed and was only opened for a few years. It seems to be that the name might be Mexicana Rosa, but I could be wrong. Can you find the name of this restaurant which has been on my mind for several years?
2) I was discussing favorite old restaurants with my 82 year old father today. Places like Danny's, The Chesapeake, Obrycki's Carry Out on Lombard St., Haussner's, etc. There was one that we remembered liking a lot, but neither of us could remember the name. It was a steak house on Reisterstown Road in Garrison with a stone silo as the entrance. It was on the right heading toward Owings Mills, in the middle of what has become an ugly stretch of auto dealerships. Do you remember the restaurant? I know that I'm going to smack my forehead when I find out.
Comments
The answer to #2 is the Golden Plough.
Posted by: LRN | August 15, 2008 11:05 AM
If I recall correctly, the Mexican restaurant referred to in question #1 was named "El Charro". I don't think it survived past 1983.
Posted by: daa2202 | August 15, 2008 11:15 AM
El
How about a TOP TEN list of restaurants that do not exist anymore
Posted by: Hue | August 15, 2008 11:44 AM
The Golden Plough...(sound of hand hitting forehead!)
Posted by: pgp | August 15, 2008 12:47 PM
Listen up gang. See here, we're in the now business! The past is behind us, dig it, bury, stomp on the ground. Next! We don't need no lists of things that ain't no more. What we need is youth, vigor, and vitality! We gotta skew our demos young, very young. Can we feed this interweb thing to fetuses? Yeah, that's right, beam it into directly into the bun oven! Ding, it's ready. I want this rag to jump off the page like a Pop Tart! Can we do that? Smell-o-Vision. Smitty, you and Dutch get on that. I want the Sun to smell like daisies and fresh baked bread. Next! Back to chow. Lizzie, see if you can get make this Smell-o-vision thing work for your reviews too. Talk to Inky on the first floor. Lists people! Need more lists. How about restaurants of the future? Get me a psychic! Who does the weather? Snuffy, wake up! You're doing restaurant forecasting now with Lizzie. I predict rain with a 50% chance of fajitas! Something like that. Next!
Posted by: Owl Meat Scoop | August 15, 2008 1:04 PM
Hue -- EL's been there, done that. See this post and this related post.
Posted by: hmpstd | August 15, 2008 1:09 PM
OMG/Scoop's prescient post is pretty much what Zell was thinking when he hired Lee Abrams recently, the XM Radio programmer most famous for developing the album rock playlist format that negated the need for local DJ's, leading to a homogenization that made stations commodities to be bought by enemies of the people like Clear Channel. Now he wants to hip up newspapers, even though he has no news experience other than to decimate the population of local radio newscasters:
http://www.tellzell.com/2008/07/lee-abrams-permanent-cloud.html
Posted by: chowsearch | August 15, 2008 2:07 PM
Hey, folks, chowsearch is not my second pseudonym. He/she just managed to get inside my head somehow.
Posted by: Federal Hill Jim | August 15, 2008 3:09 PM
Although this part of Mr. Abrams' comments concern Tribune TV stations, I think it says all we need to know about any Tribune newspaper: Instead of building everything around the shows, we’re building everything around the look and sound...the vibe. Or, content does not matter, only how it looks.
Unless the Sun gets sold, in 18 months the Baltimore Examiner will be Baltimore's leading newspaper and the subscription rate for the Washington Post and New York Times, in the Baltimore metro area will be higher than that of the Sun.
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | August 15, 2008 3:17 PM
Interesting how many of you are knowledgeable about the jerks running Tribune. If you want an advance clue what the New Sun will look like, check the Orlando Sentinel. I fear the worst -- except for EL and a handful of others.
Posted by: Federal Hill Jim | August 15, 2008 5:25 PM
Just visited the Sentinel's web site: looks just like the Sun's. Give it a year, and like radio stations, the papers and web sites will all be done from India and filled with stories from the wire services (assuming there is more than one.) All local news will be AP produced.
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | August 15, 2008 5:56 PM
I just went and looked at the Sentinel's web site, too. They have a food blog on there. EL's counterpart posted an entry re: Watermelon Cherry Mojitos on 8/12/08. It has prompted one comment.
What a bunch of amateurs...
Posted by: Rob't from TBRS | August 15, 2008 7:25 PM
Obviously, by this time next year, EL will be the food critic for all the Tribs, since she gets the most comments.
I look forward to her review of my favourite German restaurant in Chicago.
Posted by: EL | August 16, 2008 8:03 AM
To be the restaurant critic for all the Tribs, she could only do chains. Here's the bait ... So what's up with the new look at Ruby Tuesdays?
Posted by: Owl Meat Gesundheit | August 16, 2008 4:07 PM
Or ... EL could be franchised out for all the Tribs, like mall Santas. Which is the real one? They all are, because kids can't be in two malls at once, unlike Schroedinger's cat.
Posted by: Owl Meat GuessMyMiddleName | August 16, 2008 4:23 PM
NO! I want to keep this blog all to ourselves!!!
selfish me.
well, we can add bloggers from all those other papers, if it makes Our Leader happy. But don't farm this out!
Posted by: Rob in PCB FL | August 16, 2008 5:24 PM
OMG, the real Santa was the one at downtown Hudson's, in Detroit. Being as the downtown Hudson's closed over 20 years ago, and the chain doesn't even exist any more, despite having an entire floor devoted to Santa and to the children's shopping area (no parents allowed, but the sweetest grandmotherly sales people were there, and the tables were low), I am afraid that I must report that Santa is homeless.
He probably didn't survive many Detroit winters.
Posted by: Lissa | August 16, 2008 7:05 PM
The LATimes just announced their new publisher, and it's the former head of DirecTV. Interestingly, this person "has no newspaper experience" according to this story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_bi_ge/la_times_publisher_3
Posted by: chowsearch | August 16, 2008 10:06 PM
chowsearch -- why should "newspaper experience" have anything to do with it? After all, how much "newspaper experience" did Sam Zell have prior to his purchase of Tribune?
Posted by: hmpstd | August 17, 2008 7:37 AM
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
-- Pablo Picasso
Newspapers are dead. Let a thousand flowers bloom from the compost of their destruction.
Posted by: Rev'Ed | August 17, 2008 1:17 PM
Is Rev. Ed a Maoist now? Draped in velvet?
Posted by: Rock Chicklet | August 17, 2008 2:29 PM