A Baltimore Magazine category challenge
I told you about the "apples to apples" category breakdown in this year's Baltimore Magazine best restaurants issue: fine dining, New American, seafood, urban gourmet, Italian, foreign affairs, tapas and wine bars.
Here's a challenge:
Which of these ranked restaurants (I've put them in alphabetical order) are New American and which are urban gourmet. I'm not saying the editors got it wrong -- I'm just guessing it wasn't always so obvious.
No fun peeking, but I guess I can't stop you
First correct response gets a copy of Faith Durand's Not Your Mother's Casserole (Harvard Common Press), source of those salted caramel and walnut slices that no one ever made a batch of to bring into me.
Update -- this is a tough one!
I'll get you started -- Woodberry Kitchen is New American; Salt is Urban Gourmet
Comments
What do New American and Urban Gourmet mean? Any of them could be either. Bah. Im not guessing.
Posted by: B'More Cat Food Lover and of Dogs too | March 2, 2011 12:40 PM
UG:
b
B&O Brasserie
The Brewer's Art
Bluegrass Tavern
Blue Hill Tavern
Corks
Meli American Bistro
Mr. Rain's Fun House
Salt
Woodberry Kitchen
NA:
The Chameleon
Clementine
Crush
The Dogwood
Henninger's
Langermann's
Peter's Inn
The Point in Fells
Restaurant Sabor
Tark's Grill
close but no cigar
Posted by: charlie brown | March 2, 2011 1:06 PM
UG:
b
B&O Brasserie
The Brewer's Art
Bluegrass Tavern
Blue Hill Tavern
Corks
Meli American Bistro
Mr. Rain's Fun House
Salt
The Chameleon
Clementine
Peter's Inn
Woodberry Kitchen
NA:
Crush
The Dogwood
Henninger's
Langermann's
The Point in Fells
Restaurant Sabor
Tark's Grill
nope. I added a hint above
Posted by: southbaltimoregirl | March 2, 2011 1:31 PM
UG:
b
B&O Brasserie
The Brewer's Art
Bluegrass Tavern
Blue Hill Tavern
Meli American Bistro
Mr. Rain's Fun House
Salt
Woodberry Kitchen
3 correct
NA:
The Chameleon
Clementine
Corks
Crush
The Dogwood
Henninger's
Langermann's
Peter's Inn
The Point in Fells
Restaurant Sabor
Tark's Grill
7 correct
Posted by: MadelBlue | March 2, 2011 3:53 PM
Is there a definition of urban gourmet? Is it the opposite of suburban gourmet?
Posted by: BaltoFred | March 2, 2011 9:36 PM
B
The Brewer's Art
Salt
Henninger's
Langermann's
Peter's Inn
The Point in Fells
you have 5 out of the 10 Urban Gourmet correct
Bluegrass Tavern
The Chameleon
Clementine
Corks
Crush
The Dogwood
Restaurant Sabor
Tark's Grill
Meli American Bistro
Mr. Rain's Fun House
Blue Hill Tavern
Woodberry Kitchen
B&O Brasserie
You have 9 of the 11 New American restaurants. Four of your guesses are Urban Gourmet listings
Posted by: CityMich | March 3, 2011 8:49 AM
UG
B
The Brewer's Art
Clementine
Crush
The Dogwood
Henninger's
Langermann's
Meli American Bistro
The Point in Fells
Restaurant Sabor
5 correct
NA
Bluegrass Tavern
The Chameleon
Corks
Tark's Grill
Mr. Rain's Fun House
Blue Hill Tavern
Peter's Inn
Salt
Woodberry Kitchen
B&O Brasserie
5 correct
Posted by: Melissa | March 3, 2011 10:18 AM
I am just confused how they determine what is Federal Hill, and what is South Baltimore.
Baba's Mediterranean Kitchen is listed in Fed Hill, but Rallo's (across the street) is South Baltimore. Bluegrass and The Rowhouse are Federal Hill, when Centro Tapas Bar (firmly ensconced between the two) is South Baltimore.
And the kicker, Mother's is listed under Federal Hill, yet there is a picture of Mother's in the South Baltimore section...
If they can't come close to getting the locations right (or at least consistent), why would I bother trying to figure out what they are thinking when it comes to made up, hokey terms like New American and Urban Gourmet.
Posted by: TheBeav | March 3, 2011 1:18 PM
My bad. I got the City Paper EAT guide and the baltimore Mag guide mixed up. Still, the City Paper one makes no sense...
Posted by: TheBeav | March 3, 2011 1:24 PM
Urban Gourmet just sounds like a completely b.s. category.
Posted by: Baltimanda | March 3, 2011 1:59 PM
I just got around to reading this issue. All in all, I thought the restaurant picks were good, and most of the categories were more straightforward (can't argue with Italian).
I was very sad to read that Suzanne Loudermilk has been fighting breast cancer, but wish her the best, and commend her positive attitude--a chance to wear wigs and be the disguised restaurant critic!
Posted by: Dahlink | March 4, 2011 6:30 AM