Pur Ultra Lounge owner buys Angelina's
There. I feel better now that I've gotten my experience last night off my chest. Back to restaurants.
Angelina's on Harford Road, once THE place to get crab cakes and Italian food outside of Little Italy (once being a million years ago), went to auction last Wednesday.
I wanted to do some reporting of my own on this one before I blogged about it, but I haven't gotten a call back from the new owner yet, although I left a message on his cell phone. Our Douglas Paige at the liquor board is out until tomorrow so I haven't been able to get hold of another number for the owner. Rather than wait, I'll link to the story that appeared in the Daily Record. I'll update this if I find out anything new. ...
I'm not linking to the Web site where you can order Angelina's crab cakes because that's a separate business and not being sold with the restaurant and its bar, O’Reilly’s Shebeen Pub. (However, the crab cake recipe is going with the restaurant.)
Anyway, according to the story, the new owner is Doni Mason, owner of the Pur Ultra Lounge in Canton. Why do I think he's not going to open another traditional Italian restaurant selling Maryland crab cakes with an Irish pub in this location?
By the way, the Angelina's Web site that sells the crab cakes must have gotten on the ground floor of the Internet sales business. The address is www.crabcake.com.
Also, here's the caption for the photo, taken in 1998:
Angelina Tadduni holds a crabcake dinner in the doorway of Angelina's restaurant. She was owner for many years, and now Susan and Bob Bufano, rear left, are owners. At right is Carole Reilly, manager.
(Nanine Hartzenbusch/Sun photographer)
Comments
The web site has supposedly been around since September 1996. However the furthest back I could find was April 1997. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crabcakes.com
-Matt K
Posted by: Anonymous | September 22, 2009 12:55 PM
Matt K, you are mixing up two different websites. You were referring to the crabcakes.com domain name (with an "s"), which is associated with Phillips, and which was created in October 1996, according to a whois search. The separate domain name crabcake.com (without an "s"), associated with the Angelina's recipe, was created in June 1997.
The Internet Archive can be useful to track down old versions of webpages, but it is hardly comprehensive.
Posted by: hmpstd | September 22, 2009 2:11 PM
Does this mean Angelina's will have a $20 cover?
Posted by: Heather | September 22, 2009 6:57 PM
Point to Heather.
Posted by: Lissa | September 22, 2009 9:28 PM