Next Sunday's review
And now for a change of pace. Enough of these new, trendy, Harbor East, high-energy, tapas kinds of places. Next Sunday I review Pappas Restaurant in Parkville.
It's a classic Old Baltimore restaurant, the kind that used to be everywhere but is now a dying breed. Seafood and steaks are the specialty. You have to have the crab cakes. And prices are surprisingly reasonable.
These days when most restaurants are struggling, Pappas had every table filled the night we were there. To find out how our meal was, please look for my review in next Sunday's Arts & Entertainment section.
(Photo courtesy of Pappas's Web site)
Comments
We finally figured out how to get seated at Tapas Teatro after a movie--go on the 4th of July about the time the fireworks get started! We almost had the kitchen and wait staff to ourselves.
Posted by: Dahlink | July 5, 2009 2:15 PM
ahem
Posted by: jl | July 5, 2009 9:31 PM
Pappas has one of the best crab cakes in town, if not the best. It's just about every bit as good as the "original" Angelina's crab cake.
Posted by: Donny B | July 6, 2009 9:21 AM
Is it just me, or are their hours not listed on their web site?
Posted by: Tweety Cat | July 6, 2009 3:23 PM
jl - you can't just say "ahem", you have to tell us how much of that foo-rah you beileve. (I count three helpful hints in all.)
Posted by: Bucky | July 6, 2009 5:57 PM
Bucky,
The "ahem" was the attention-getter, a shot over the bow, the amuse bouche.
I didn't want to launch into a personal crusade unless someone showed interest in playing Brown to my von Richthofen.
Posted by: jl | July 6, 2009 9:01 PM
All right, you two! jl's "ahem" is yet another site logged and reported by Corporate IT. I don't even know who the hell Brown and von Richthofen.
Posted by: Eve | July 7, 2009 3:20 PM
Eve:
von Richthofen = Baron Manfred von Richtofen, the German flying ace.
Brown = Charlie Brown, who owned Snoopy, the American flying ace who shot down von Richtofen in the song, Snoopy vs. The Red Baron. Or maybe it was Snoopy vs. The Red Baron, Christmas version, I forget which.
(Probably ed abernathy can look up the wrong thing in the dictionary and tell us which was which.)
Posted by: Bucky | July 7, 2009 5:23 PM
It's from the Peanuts comic strip, the song came later. Snoopy sat on top of his dog house with aviator goggles and fantasized that he was in a dog fight with the Red Baron, a bit of playing possum.
Posted by: ed abernathy | July 7, 2009 5:37 PM
Eve - HA HA HA, ol' ed abernathy actually did it. He went and looked up the wrong thing. Cracks me up.
Brown = (Can't remeber his first name) Brown, a...Canadian, I think...pilot who is credited with shooting down the Red Baron. But he probably didn't.
Posted by: Bucky | July 7, 2009 6:06 PM
Bucky -- Wikipedia claims that Snoopy first fought the Red Baron in the Peanuts comics strip in 1965; that the song Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron was released in late 1966; and that the song Snoopy's Christmas was released in 1967.
Posted by: hmpstd | July 7, 2009 6:12 PM
Bucky -- I just made another post that is being held up for EL's approval of the embedded hyperlinks, which will answer the Snoopy questions.
Posted by: hmpstd | July 7, 2009 6:22 PM