Well, 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. ...

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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. ...

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