Abacrombie Fine Dining still there -- whew
Occasionally someone will make a heart-stopping comment under one of my entries. Such a one was posted last night by hungry hungry hippo. (Great user name, by the way.)
In almost an aside, hhh casually mentioned that we had lost Abacrombie along with Saffron and Nasu Blanca. Abacrombie is the kind of tucked-away restaurant that might close quietly and I wouldn't hear about it right away, but I was still startled. Add that to the fact that Abacrombie didn't make Baltimore magazine's Top 50 list, as I would have thought it would if it was still open. So I quietly worried.
First thing this morning I called the bed and breakfast that houses Abacrombie, and to my relief it is definitely still open, still under the same management with the same chef as it has been for the past three years.
My guess is that hhh was thinking of Abacrombie under the original owner/chef Sonny Sweetman. He was, indeed, a loss to the Baltimore dining scene. But the current Abacrombie is also, in my opinion, a delightful restaurant.
(Doug Kapustin/Sun photographer)
Comments
Maybe he thought they were closed because he tried to call them and didn't get an answer. We ate there several weeks ago during one of the local food challenges and it was not easy to make a reservation. Then one of the people in our group couldn't find her wallet afterwards and she called several times throughout the day to see if she had left it there. She got no answer and they had no answering machine. If we hadn't been there the night before, I would have started to think they were closed. It was a great meal, but it shouldn't be such a hassle to make contact.
When I called this morning I got an answering machine. EL
Posted by: Claudia | March 3, 2009 4:44 PM
I called friday and left a message to make a reservation for saturday. they called back right around the time they open (5) and I made the reservation without a problem.
Posted by: hey! | March 3, 2009 5:26 PM
I made a reservation there a couple months ago and the chef herself called to confirm!
Posted by: CS | March 4, 2009 2:23 PM
I did mean the Sweetman Abacrombie, no knock on the current crew, I had the best duck 2 ways there, and that pompano dish was excellent. We used to go to Abacrombie every other Weds to take advantage of 1/2 wine bottles and Sonny's 6 course chef tasting menu. I think that we only had 6 courses once, everyother time it was more like 7-8 once we became "regulars"
Posted by: hungry hungry hippo | March 5, 2009 3:13 PM