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November 13, 2009

An Italian Thanksgiving?

GranoExterior.jpgI promised to tell you about restaurants that are going to be open for Thanksgiving for the first time this year, and I thought I would hear about more of them than I have.

But here's one you probably haven't thought of: Grano, the Hampden pasta bar that moved to 3547 Chestnut Ave. and is now much more of a restaurant.

Bored with the traditional American Thanksgiving dinner? Grano will be open on Nov. 26 for an Italian Thanksgiving. ...

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October 24, 2007

Italian restaurants revisited

CinghialeWell, Italian restaurants are certainly a hot topic, as we found out yesterday. I think 40 comments on one post is a record for me.

In case you missed it, Jim Seay raised an excellent point that certainly deserves a response:

I assume you have never owned a restaurant. The friends I have that do work incredibly hard to make their places a success. I am sure the food at Cinghiale is good (I feel I am practically an investor at their other restaurants I go so often) but to crown them as top ten without going there is a slight to those that have established successful businesses already such as Tiburzis in Canton. ...

 

(Amy Davis/Sun Photographer)

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Categories: Italian
        

October 23, 2007

Top Ten Italian Places Outside Little Italy

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Little Italy gets all the attention, but Baltimore and its environs have plenty of good Italian food elsewhere. Here's my list of the Top Ten Italian Restaurants Outside Little Italy, which of necessity left out a lot of places. (La Piccolo Roma in Annapolis comes to mind -- I just haven't been there recently enough, and no one I know has.) And I could probably have made up a whole other list of best Italian delis, judging by the comments under Next Tuesday's Top Ten. 

Here's my list. Let me know what you think. ...

 

 (Kim Hairston/Sun Photographer)

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Posted by Elizabeth Large at 6:18 AM | | Comments (67)
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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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