Top 10 Tuesday -- best people-watching restaurants
I ended up deciding to save the Top 10 list I was working on for another time, when it can be incorporated into a larger Baltimore Sun project.
Brainstorming with my podmates, we hit on the idea of the Top 10 best people-watching restaurants in Baltimore.
I was thinking not so much of the places to watch the best-looking people (RA Sushi is apparently Hottie Central these days) but the places with the best table arrangements and sight-lines. The lower level of B&O Brasserie, for instance, is designed so that most people have a good view of the entrance and of each other.
Louie's Bookstore & Cafe, I think, was the best place Baltimore ever had for the pure sport of people-watching -- for one thing, if you were waiting for a table, you could always pretend you were looking at a book.
What restaurants do you go when you want to be be An Anthropologist in Baltimore?
Baltimore Sun photo/Lloyd Fox
Comments
Cross St. and Lexington Markets are always entertaining. Not sure if those count as "restaurants" but they're definitely my favorite people-watching spots.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 25, 2011 1:00 PM
Pazo and City Cafe
Posted by: Miss Kittens | January 25, 2011 1:08 PM
Java Moon in Penn Station. Just don't drink their coffee or eat anything.
Posted by: Lissa | January 25, 2011 3:07 PM
Mt. Royal Tavern is pretty good, especially now that there's no smoke cloud to choke your view down the bar.
Posted by: mobtown | January 25, 2011 5:04 PM
Gah.
RA makes me want to claw my eyes out.
The crowd is largely "young professionals", or more to the point, wannabes, who apparently patterned their lives after Friends.
We get it -- you say you're a Monica, when deep down, you secretly think you're a Rachel.
I wouldn't be so dismissive of RA if their sushi or service warranted such popularity.
Posted by: El Generalissimo | January 25, 2011 5:08 PM
New Wyman Park Diner, 25th and Howard. One of the best mixes you'll find in the city.
Posted by: Volker | January 25, 2011 6:14 PM
I definitely agree with the suggestion of Pazo. Sometimes I find myself and my friends not talking to each other for long stretches of time while enjoying the various dramas -- and strange outfits -- around us.
Posted by: KB | January 26, 2011 9:29 AM