Putting on the Ritz
Earlier this year I was nagging the folks at the new Ritz-Carlton Residences along the Inner Harbor because I had it on good authority that a BLT Steak would be moving in.(Naturally they would neither confirm or deny.)
Boy, was I wrong.
Check out this story in today's Baltimore Business Journal. The owner of Crazy Lil's in Federal Hill and oZ. Chophouse in Fulton has filed an application for a liquor license to open a restaurant in the Ritz.
The hearing will be held next week, the city liquor board tells me. I've called Katie Buscher, the owner, at her home all afternoon; but the number has been busy. She probably took the phone off the hook once the story appeared.
(Andre F. Chung/Sun photographer)
Comments
Thought this was about the Ritz in Fells Point. Boy was I wrong.
Posted by: JD | August 6, 2008 5:26 PM
This is a shame. Anywhere the Ritz and the Four Seasons are the food is excellent and therefore would raise the bar for dining. Food good. Service EXCELLENT. That is what Baltimore needs to move up the pole.
Posted by: mdlrvrmuncher | August 6, 2008 5:40 PM
I wonder if the restaurant will manage to obstruct even more of the Federal Hill view.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | August 6, 2008 6:40 PM
No, RoCK, it won't do any more damage to the hill than it has already. However, keep your eyes on the waterfront promenade, which is supposed to be open to all.
Posted by: Federal Hill Jim | August 6, 2008 7:06 PM
Think the Ritz will allow rocks in the restroom sinks?
Posted by: Bucky | August 6, 2008 7:47 PM
Wait, there is still a view from Federal Hill? How did the city permit this to happen?
Posted by: Lissa | August 6, 2008 8:46 PM
Bucky, has Mrs. Bucky forgiven you for the rocks in the sink yet?
Posted by: Dahlink | August 7, 2008 6:30 AM
She has. Mrs. Bucky expects things like that from me. Like when we moved into our current house and in the back yard, I laid down a perfectly round circle of turf grass, right in the middle.
My thinking was, that way I needed only one sprinkler head, right in the middle, that would rotate 360°, greatly simplyfying the automatic sprinkler installation.
She called it "crop circle landscaping."
But, yeah, she's used to it.
Posted by: Bucky | August 7, 2008 9:26 AM
My DW and I (and her parents, brothers and wife) had dinner at the Ritz at Lake Las Vegas a few years ago for her parents' 60th anniversary. Food was good but the service was not up to the standards we expected. I think they had only been open for a few months.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | August 7, 2008 10:33 AM
obviously you dont have any clue as to whats going in the site.all you are doing is regurgitating info that just about anyone can get ,so why would you post an article telling people you simply dont know and wait till you actually know something real,
Posted by: ted basili | August 8, 2008 10:00 PM
I thought all the grumpy, illiterate people who aren't amusing had left this blog.
Posted by: gosseyn | August 9, 2008 6:38 AM
OK, OK...I don't know if Mrs. Bucky has forgiven me yet. I'll let you know if she ever actually says, "Bucky, I forgive you."
Posted by: Bucky | August 9, 2008 9:17 AM
It appears that "ted basili" is the kitchen manager of oZ. Chophouse, per this link. His grumpiness certainly does little to leave a good impression with readers, either as to the current oZ. or as to the future Ritz location.
Posted by: hmpstd | August 9, 2008 9:23 AM
hmpstd, I am continually in awe of your fact-finding.
Posted by: Bucky | August 9, 2008 10:55 AM
Thanks, Bucky. Now, if I could only figure out how to make a living out of surfing the Web, I'd be set.
Posted by: hmpstd | August 9, 2008 11:32 AM
hmpstd, you could become a reference librarian--but it's not much of a living, I'm sorry to say.
Posted by: Dahlink | August 9, 2008 3:18 PM
If all the reference librarians are doing these days are googling, I'm really glad I got out of it.
You are good at finding things, though, hmpstd.
Posted by: Lissa | August 9, 2008 6:16 PM