I hope he hires back the Marconi's waiter who said "some sugar lumps for your coffee or is your companion sweet enough?"

Anything that keeps him out of the Orioles offices is a good thing... up to an including devastating the memory of what Marconis once was. Which he surely will do.

More dollars than sense is bad, bad thing in any endeavor but especially so in restaurants.

Wait, Marconi's had coffee cups big enough you could dip your dining companion in them?

Want!

So, Baltimore's going to have a restaurant where they lose half the meals, the best chefs are out on the DL or traded to NY chophouses and the hottest servers are busted for roids? Cool. I suppose they'll have to use the Designated Hostess rule.

On the other hand, the losing bidder was Farhad Jafari, general manager of Mo’s.... Things could've been worse, I guess.

Let's hope that if Marconi'''s reopens there they DON't hire the same serves back.. My last visit to Marconi's was to celebrate a daughter's birthday. We ordered cream of crab soup and asked for some additional sherry, The waiter brought us a shaker bottle of sherry and I noticed it was full of fruit flies. When I mentioned it to him, he quipped " There is no extra charge for the added protein" Needless to say, I was aghast at that remark and wrote a letter to Mr. Angelos about the incident, I am STILL awaiting a reply, an apology, anything, but to date NADA!
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No word yet on the details, but Mr. Peter Angelos was handed the keys and visited later in the day. But I do have fond memories of the Marconi's house salad.

Considering how much time Angelos spent there, he may have bought it for sentimental reasons. He used lunch there regularly, and "lunch" would often extend into the late afternoon for him.

It's easy to rap Peter Angelos for the way he fouled up the Orioles. Took him far too long to learn that neither he nor his family were as savvy as they thought about baseball -- and finally hire a pro, Andy McPhail. But his restaurant, Perring Place, has done a nice job of serving its admittedly well-aged clientele. Among the best prime rib in town for the price. So what happens to Boccaccio may just work out well.

I've always liked Perring Place despite the fact that even now in my middle aged years, I'd be one of the youngest folks in there. It does a nice comfortable affordable prime rib in a casual/dressy setting without any thing weird or odd or surprising. But, it does it well and consistently. And it may be the home of all the old servers from the fine restaurants of old because they still have some pretty impressive service in that place.

In my 60's I shall dye my hair blue to go there.