I miss lunch counters. Lunch counters and front porches.

(Yet another sign that Life has flashed its headlights in my rearview mirror, signaling me over to the right-hand lane so it can speed by me.)

OK...NOW, back to work.

It's been bad news for boston street place for quite a while. What is next?

I know, a year or so ago, when I was a regular for Sunday-morning breakfast at the S&B, we were told that they were going to close "for remodeling" for a few weeks ... sometime in the future. Perhaps, this is the time. Gawd, I sure hope so. To this day, the best meal I have ever had in Baltimore was had at the Sip-n-Bite (fresh ham over mashed potatoes and sauerkraut).

Multiple people over on twitter confirmed its just closed for renovations. Whew :)

Maybe they're giving the place a good scrub.

Oh man, I LOVE that place!!!

I'll be keeping my eye out for more info, and if it's only temporary, I will be first in line for a Chicken Gyro on the day it re-opens.

Crossing my fingers!!

I had read a case study at some point over the last year about remodeling and branding that used S&B as the example. Whoever they contracted with on the design side apparently decided to keep going with what has worked and not shift direction entirely. Driving by over the last year, I figured that they really did keep with the same theme. Maybe they just hadn't started the work yet - ha!

I ate there for a Valentine's Day breakfast and there were signs all over the front doors/windows saying it would be closed in the coming weeks for equipment upgrades and minor renovations.

Drove by last night on my way to the store and saw some people in there working on the ceiling, think it is just remodeling.

They will probably get some extra space for seating once they scrape the grease off the walls.

The Sip & Bite, its patrons and management are a plague on that neighborhood. They are loud, obnoxious and self-absorbed. I'm crossing my fingers that it's disappearing.

Owl – M3ch4n!c411y $3p4r473d fr0m R341!7y?

mechanically separated from reality?

I'm going to move to Fell's Point and complain about the noise and drinking.

@ RayRay, you're cracking me up. :)

S&B is a Baltimore tradition. The S&Bs "loud, obnoxious, self absorbed" patrons have been eating there late-night since my uncle was partying in Fells in the 70s, so I'm pretty sure your statute of limitations on complaining about the customers has expired.

I'm so glad to hear that it's most likely just temporary!

I suffer from IBS - - - Irritated Bovine Syndrome.

I had heard that they are just remodeling.

I've lived in Fells Point (and various other neighborhoods in Baltimore) for many years, and I've never encountered anything like the Sip & Bite crowd. I enjoy drinking and going out with my friends as well (or I wouldn't be living in a bar district), but there is a difference between the behavior elsewhere and the behavior at the Sip & Bite. Just because they are located in a bar district does not give the Sip & Bite management and patrons permission to defecate .(sometimes, quite literally) on the quality of life of all their neighbors. That place just seems to draw the dregs of society. Believe me, once I figured out how awful it was, I waited for my lease to run out and got the hell out of there. Perhaps this is why most of the buildings on that particular block of Cambridge street are owned by the Sip & Bite management and their cronies. No one else can take it. But I'm happy for you that, when you're craving an omelette made with six-day-old grease, the Sip & Bite is there to serve. Be sure to urinate on my car when you're finished, and then speed home drunkenly in your enormous SUV. Because, of course, you can do whatever you want in a bar district.

AB, you know how that area is. Please.Where did you move to, suburbia? Maybe Wyoming has a spot available.

If you don't like it, move wrote Maybe Wyoming has a spot available.

Whoa up there, Hopalong...don't be sending all your malcontents west. We don't want them. Wyoming is a wonderful state...well, half of it is...and people there are happy. They don't need no whiners moving in, ruining things.

Apparently, you cannot read. I did move.
Obviously, you're correct. The Sip & Bite, its owners and patrons have every right to urinate, drive drunk, vomit and purchase prostitutes wherever they'd like. Because the Sip & Bite has, like cheesesteaks and stuff. What was I thinking?

I moved 10 blocks away, to Canton, in the middle of bar district where the behavior of innumerable frat boys does not compare to what the neighbors in the Boston Street corridor have endured, courtesy of establishments such as the Sip & Bite, Hucka's (RIP, thank God), etc. Yours is the exact attitude of ignorance that encourages people to leave our fine city and relocate to the suburbs. "Suck it up, it's the city," is no way to cure this city's ills.

Hey Bucky,
What is wrong with the other half of Wyoming? They have neat license plates, I see a couple of them around town now that Spring Break is starting.

I live in Canton and have been subjected to much of the behavior AB describes. I accept the fact that there will be the 2 A.M "WHISPERERS", urinators, vomitors etc. It has been getting worse, but hey, I like living in Canton.
BTW I am decades past my partying twenties.

Hey Fl Rob, speaking of Spring Break, I bet you get a lot of that vomiting, urinating, prostitute purchasing crowd coming right next door to you!

Be brave! If I ever really meet you "off-line" I'll bake brownies!

Owl – M3ch4n!c411y $3p4r473d fr0m R341!7y?
mechanically separated from reality?

Yup. I opened an Opera Widget that translates to l33t. Pretty annoying, huh?

A lot of smug Hopkins doofuses used to hang out at S&B. Reason enough for me to avoid it.

Wyoming? Yeah ... home to beacon of sunshine and lollipops Dick Cheney.

Fells Point & Canton – to paraphrase Claude Rains, "I am shocked, shocked to find that such behavior is going on here"

PCB Rob:

Southeastern Wyoming

Northwestern Wyoming

Please, Canton does not equal the city.

PCB Rob -- when it comes to Big Rectangular States, I'd trust Bucky's knowledge without asking.

Bucky,
Very succinctly put. Thanks and I see what you mean.

Joyce,
Actually, that crowd pretty much stays put in one little part of the beach, the condos right by the superclubs. So I stay away from there.

PCB is starting to market here as a family destination, so maybe they will be cracking down on that stuff. They blew off MTV this year so that might keep some of the rowdies away.

Us locals still get flashed by girls in the backs of pickup trucks though.

I just looked at the big US map I have on the wall behind my desk to check out WY.
Duh, I forgot that is where the Grand Tetons are (and in the picture Bucky sent).

In NE WY, there are the Owl Creek Mtns. too.

Also, in SE WY, there is a town called Chugwater.

I've been to Chugwater, Rob. It's just a wide spot in the road.

Here's a good place for you, if you ever visit Wyoming:

Hell's Half Acre

It looks more hospitable than it is. LOL. Diamondback rattle snakes are the primary inhabitants of Hell's Half Acre. (Required food reference: yes, I've eaten rattle snake. I didn't know what it was when I ate it.)

That link doesn't work anymore, according to google. But I did google Hells Half Acre, doesn't look like I'll be camping there anytime soon.

As for the rattle snake, did it taste like chicken?

We have rattlers around here too, judging from the skins that are displayed on some bars' walls.

The link works for me...humpf.

I was a kid (in Wyoming) when I ate the rattle snake. I don't really remember what it tasted like. I know that from that point forward, I never ate anything that I didn't know what it was.

The cool thing is, I still have the rattler's rattle, from the snake we ate.

Us locals still get flashed by girls in the backs of pickup trucks though.

What is wrong with seeing grand tetons while driving along the road?

I believe John McPhee had a story that involved an enterprising Western woman who fed a hungry guest rattlesnake. He muttered something about shooting anyone who would serve him snake, but she coolly said, "Won't you have some more of this delicious chicken, Mr. X?"

Good one Lissa.

Nothing at all, Lissa. I figure its a perk of living in The Middle of Nowhere.

It was funny when my fiancee made her first trip down here and we were leaving a restaurant. A monster truck came by, and it was loaded with girls who flashed the construction workers building the huge condo next door to the gulf-front restaurant that has since been auctioned.

She was rather surprised at that, and
I just said to her, Welcome to Panama City Beach.

I never ate anything that I didn't know what it was.

But how can you be sure? :-)

Speaking of grand tetons, I always liked the T-shirt which somebody first sold back in the 1970s (when the Treasures of Tutankhamun museum exhibit toured the USA), and which, appallingly enough, is still being sold 30-odd years later, here.

Well, Hal, that's a really good point. But I'm sure you have noticed I fall into the extremely cautious camp. I may have been fooled, to be sure. But not often.

Regarding the behavior of people in Canton and Fell's Point (an area I moved out of though still in the city) I had fun with the drunks. I would spray them with my garden hose when they tried to pee in my alley then my neighbor would let out her Doberman.
It was fun watching them run.

Um, Sheila? Didn't you know that Canton is not the city? (According to our friends on this forum.) I just died laughing at your story. I wish my little house behind the Sip & Bite had a garden hose and a giant guard dog ... or cauldrons of boiling oil lining the roof. Usually, I found that scolding the urinators as if I was their mother did the trick. And when the owners of certain businesses in the area (ahem ...) decided to set off professional-grade fireworks in the middle of the street (in the middle of a drought) in front of my house, some good old-fashioned motherly scolding fixed that, too. But a giant Doberman would have been way better! Fortunately, I've found living just a few doors off Eastern Avenue at Patterson Park to be much quieter, and with less necessity for vicious animals. :-)Thanks for the laugh.

They were closed by the health department. I know this for a fact. That place was NASTY. Just imagine a place open 24/7 with college kids in and out all the time. They had no time to clean, and the health department had given them several warnings. They finally had enough and shut them down. i found a roach in my mashed potatoes there 2 years ago. Yes, the food WAS good there, but it is also filthy and disgusting at the same time.

Jason, you should find a new source. Nowhere here does it say the City Health Department closed the restaurant.

HELLO MY NAME IS LIA I USE TO WORK IN SIP AND BITE I USE TO WORK THERE IN THE LATE 70'S IAM LOOKING FOR MY FREIND JANICE SHE WAS INDIAN IF ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING PLEASE WRITE ON THISW PAGE..THANK YOU

@mmmcorn- you're an idiot. You think you're so clever by posting health department closings, don't you? If you knew anything about the restaurant business, you'd know that those listings for closures were for NON-COMPLIANCE!! The health department will always give you several chances to comply, or else forced closure. Sip & bite closed DUE TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS THREATS. In order for them to comply with the large demands from the health department... means they had to close (especially due to them being 24/7 dining) THEY NEVER CLOSE!! This means they have no time to clean. 30 years of not closing and/or putting a dime back into your establishment means it's out-dated and disgusting!! The demands were not simple as usual... they basically told them they needed a complete overhaul to meet their compliance...so.. they had to close- whether it was forced or willingly. I know for a fact it was due to the health department... SO YOU GET THE FACT MY FRIEND!!