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June 17, 2009

The Hill, crab prices and last week's Top 10

CheesecakeDessert.JPGToday's Table Talk column might be of interest to blog-only readers because I don't think I repeated anything this time. (I sometimes do.)

The lead item is on the Hill in Federal Hill, and I already have a correction to make in next week's column. I understood the owner to say he gets his desserts from Connie Crabtree, the caterer across the street, but he meant that he got the desserts from someone who shares her space but is a separate entity. The company is Tenzo Artisan Chocolate, Pastry and Catering. I received a very nice e-mail from the owner, Janice Shih, who is looking for a new space to expand into. ...

Also in the column I printed some steamed crab prices. I had picked up the phone and called a few places downtown just to see what I'd have to pay for a dozen hardshells. The prices varied but were all high. It wasn't meant to be a scientific survey, just a random sampling.

Last week's Top 10 Tuesday reprinted in today's paper is Outdoor Eating Places, with a few comments included.

(Algerina Perna/Sun photographer)

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 3:16 PM | | Comments (11)
        

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I can't wait to try The Hill. I've heard such good things!

lg hot steamed crabs in Chinqateague $17 doz - shhhhh don't tell anybody else!

Those desserts look amazing! Ms. Shih could expand her operations into my kitchen...I suppose that's not what she had in mind though!

They screwed up the web formating for your column, Elizabeth. Missed some headings and such.

Even if they'd gotten it right, it'd still be hard to read. Forget the main website. I'm not bothering any more.

Patience Lissa. I' sure the people here worked hard on it. Nobody sets out to make something bad. Any new thing takes time to get used to and work out the bugs. I'll give them a week. :-)

Lissa, could it be the browser you're using. E/L's column looks fine to me. I'm using Safari 4 on a Mac, but I also tried Firefox 3.0.11 and everything looks good.

EL's column looks good in Chrome

I'm using the latest release version of Firefox. That doesn't explain missed headers. That is simply bad html. The font is way to small, and the page is mostly blank. I've looked at the source, and it sucks.

No, I'm not having any of this. It isn't my browser.

Ha ha. It's always your browser according to bad coders.

The final part of this rant is that I am not your beta tester.

The design and coding should come as no surprise, as these Tribune neononjournalist communicators are people who think it's OK for a headline to be "A new/old place to bite, imbibe" and then to leave it up for weeks. EL's blog page seems unchanged, it's the dining page of Entertainment leading to it they seem to have m-ucked up.

Shifting back to the topic du jour, those baby cheesecakes are the prettiest li'l things I've seen in a long while, and each with its shmear of sauce. PRETTY!

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About Elizabeth Large
Elizabeth Large, The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic, blogs about memorable meals, dining trends, comings and goings on the restaurant scene and more.
Elizabeth Large retired in February. Until a new critic is named, Laura Vozzella will be blogging here. Vozzella has been a reporter with The Sun for 10 years. She’s covered small-town scandal (Columbia gym towel thefts!) and big-city mayors (O’Malley, Dixon).

Lately she has been writing about food (cilantro, pine nuts). She also writes The Talk, a weekly column about politicians and other local oddities (again: O’Malley, Dixon). She’ll continue with the food writing and The Talk column while blogging.
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