Whenever I do jury duty - which seems way too often - I like Peter's Pour House at 111 Mercer St. Short walk from the courthouse, really good affordable lunches and if you sit at the bar, you can pretty much bet you'll have plenty of time for lunch and the stroll back. Friendly atmosphere, decent food at decent prices.

Usually google maps overestimate the time I need to walk somewhere, but those times look really low. 5 min. from the courthouse to the WIE? Uphill? Only if you walk a lot and ignore lights.

And to think I simply ate at Subway.

This is a great list for a deserving crowd, doing their civic duty. Get out there and spend your $15 stipend on something good!

Java Joe's likes it when you call in your order. They don't make you wait in line to pick up your food.

My new favorite is Gina's on Calvert at Fayette. I had a huge plate of fresh good food plus a drink for $5!

Sugarbee's has very good sandwiches and specials for reasonable prices. They are right across the street from the courthouse.

I always go to Copra.

I can get a meal, and two beers in.

Since I work in the courthouse, I thought how great. Then I saw your list which was as poor as the long or short term survival chances of your paper. How can you include a choice from the Inner Harbor? Why list the Au Bon Pain on South Street without at least indicating there is one directly across the street from the Mitchell Courthouse. How can you not list Sugarbee's, a fairly decent grille, or Gina's, a very nice salad bar? Did you bother to actually do any research or did you just list places out of the phone book?

Those are fair questions. I listed the South Street Au Bon Pain because I like the courtyard. I don't know Sugarbee's, and since I wasn't listing places out of the phone book, I didn't include it. I'm not a fan of Gina's, so why list it? I don't think something in the Inner Harbor is automatically bad. Your list may be different, and this is your opportunity to tell folks about it, but I'm not clear why you're angry at me for having my list. EL

Well, for those who are AA County residents, my go-to lunch when on Jury Duty in downtown Annapolis is Joss's. Last time I was there, they had the 'jury duty' lunch which was a bento box type sushi lunch with non-alcoholic beverage for $15 (the per diem), tax included. Just don't forget to carry extra for the tip.

Five guys doesn't serve milkshakes (unfortunately)

I'll correct it. You can tell what I had on my mind from the post before. Thanks. EL

FD - you haven't had Jury Duty in a while, have ya. Copra is gone - very sad. They had a great burger and other lunch selections in a nice atmosphere.

Joe B - Your questions look like they were all answered if you read the lead-in, the links referenced where feedback was solicited, and the details listed by each selection closely. You must work in the building with the slow elevators.

Copra closed months ago, FD. The new restaurant in that space is supposed to open soonish, according to signs on the door.

I had a decent meal at Sugarbee's once.

Joe B., ever read this before? She gets a lot of this stuff from folks who participate here, and if you'd joined in a few days earlier, you could have contributed to the thread.

I'm with Kelly, Peter's with their ~40oz yuengs are a nice option.

Although I'm not personally a fan, on multiple occasions my twenty-something friends have admired Roly-Poly.

Some beer at lunch might help me get through jury duty. Good idea. :-) EL

Geez Joe, if you hate it here so much, why do you hang around?

Burke's is doable if you're a reasonably fast walker and sit at the bar for faster service. And, of course, beer is available.

The last time I had jury duty I made it up to Sasha's for their lunch buffet.

Gina's and Sugarbees are both awful, very dirty inside. Rosina Gourmet has, by far, the best sandwiches and you can even get a few minutes of lunchtime exercise while getting there.

Hal, I suspect that beer will always be available at lunch for people like Joe B. who "work in the courthouse" rather than show up for occasional jury duty.

Have a decent, high fibre breakfast with fruit, skip lunch, then eat what you want for dinner. Lunch is why so many are so fat these days. Take a long walk instead.

If I were a restauranteur in the vicinity of the court house, I would have fun making up names for the menu items. Definitely, desserts would have a tort section. A sandwich called the PBJ P & J. How about The Defense Rests rooms? Somebody stop me before I think of more possibilities.....

Aaah the irony- I had Jury Duty last Wednesday. I did go to the Tremont, which is one of my favorite Delis. I didn't know about the discount. I want to say that when I served 3 or 4 years ago, they gave us a list of places offering discounts. I guessnot any more.

Talk of skipping meals on a dining blog? Blaspheme! I lol at your comment, Bill.

Mather - when I talked to the lady at the Tremont about not knowing they gave a 10 percent discount, she mentioned that they continuously drop off fliers to the courthouse. I'm thinking that someone there has a pet bird at home...

Au Bon Pain?
You have got to be kidding. for the same price you can get a quality sandwich from the Tremont Deli

What about the multiple eateries, specifically Pizzeria Speranza, in the Charles Plaza food court (next to Superfresh)?

uhm.... Werners? How could you leave off Werners?

I haven't been recently, and too many people were negative about it in earlier posts. EL

I can't believe no one has mentioned Mick O'Shea's for Jury Duty Eats! a Burger and 2 Resurrections (+ Tip) is almost exactly what they courthouse pays you ($15). It's my Jury Duty Staple.

I also ate at Mick O'Sheas when I had jury duty! It was nice to have a cold beer at lunch. Also, David & Dad's which has a wide selection of food, which was good the day I ate w/ other jurors. Closer to the court house I think I ate falafel at Cypriana at least two days of the six days I was on jury duty.

Lunch is why people are fat????!!!!!! Wow. That is so weird.

Five Guys can be pretty slow, especially if they have a line. And not slow in a bad way, as everything is cooked to orderI. I would imagine the line at the Harborplace Five Guys during lunchtime can be rather long, so you need to have a really good chunk of time available if you go there.

I haven't had jury duty anywhere for years. But the stipend is still the same! Eat extra fiber for breakfast and skip lunch? That's no fun. Five Guys burgers look good, but do not have much flavor.

Great New York style buffet, hot and cold food, at Cafe 200, 2nd floor of the Bank of America building a few paces East of the courthouse. Pay by the pound for exactly what you want, healthy or not, pocket the change, and take a short nap with all the extra time left over.

David and Dad's is so-so, except they do a very good chicken pot pie on Thursdays.

I've eaten at Cafe 200 before, and the food, while lots of selections, is pretty much cafeteria food.

Tedious technical update.

Today's Sun home page coming in at 60M. Today's Top Ten thumbnail = 10K. That's only 0.017%. What are they wasting memory on? For the World's Most Fattening Blog they should be throwing food at the screen like the City's Most Annoying Restaurant Blog – Chiangale.

2 hugely popular sites:
Drudge Reportt = 1M (simple text plus ads)
Huffington Post = 18M (very photo and ad heavy)

Other sites:
Guardian.co.uk = 4M – Beautiful and useful
El Pais (Madrid) = 6M
The Economist = 4M

What kind of IT Hell is at work at The Sun with their 60M page?

VoodooPork, I doubt it is IT staff who are making the decisions about the Sun website.

IT people don't get to make decisions. One still has to ask how they could be so out of synch with every other news web site? Couldn't part of it be really bad programming?

Depends on a ratio of how much they are paying and whether it is in-house or contract, VoodooPork

I didn't realize something new had moved into the cafe space at the Women's Industrial Exchange. I'll have to check it out!

I recommended it before, but Impressed at Lexington and Calvert is very good.

Does anyone know the name of the place with the red awning farther down Lexington St.? I've heard good things about their food but haven't eaten there in years.

Gina's dining room smells like mold, and unless Sugarbees has changed in the last few years, it was always just ok - not worth stopping at when there were better options in the area.

Seconding (or thirding) Mick O'Shea's - the daily specials in particular.

Morton's - which shares dining space with David & Dad's - is a better choice than they are, I think.

Also, there's Ban Thai a little further up the block. The lunch specials are decent - esp. the Pad Thai and fried rice. They servers are the same people that sell Thai food at the downtown farmer's market.

I used to manage the business in the space above Gina's. Our sprinkle pipe burst, flooding our office and Gina's below.

Gina's refused to close. I suppose that might have something to do with the mold smell in their dining room, and why I wouldn't let anyone eat their "lysteria special", as I would call it.

Sugarbee's, on the other hand, was always quality cheap lunch. Loved their Turkey Burger special. Those were the days...

Laya - I think you are talking about Take it Away between St. Paul and Charles. I forgot about them. They do great sandwich work there too, for breakfast and lunch! Great call.

Geisha on Charles St. for sushi is also a good option.

sorry, i'll stop now :)

Grand Cafe on Charles Street.

I always go to Blu Bambu next to Chipotle for their asian stir fry bar. It's about a 10 minute walk.

I'm a lawyer with a downtown office and while I don't necessarily disagree with most of EL's choices, some of them don't take into account that many judges on the Circuit Court try to keep their jurors' lunch hours very short - so many of these choices just wouldn't work for people with strict time demands. The Big Apple Cafe on Baltimore Street is an Asian buffet - very clean, many choices, quick service, cheap eats, very filling, and many many cops eat there because it's in the shadow of Cop Central. Werner's has seriously gone downhill, in my opinion, since the long-time owners sold it. Now it's slow, dingy, and extremely overpriced. Cypriana is an excellent choice with delicious food served quickly in a nice, bright cafe. But getting a decent, quick lunch during jury duty is always going to pose a challenge.

After several days as a juror on a murder trial, I was surprised to learn that my fellow jurors had been eating take-out lunch together in the deliberation room. I'd been enjoying my lunches alone with a book in nearby eateries. Not the best way to meld with the group. Make sure you know what everyone else is doing for lunch. It may matter when deliberation begins.

Karin - what do you get at Blu Bambu? I perpetually strike out there, but keep feeling like there is something good there that I just haven't found yet.