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Crossroads Bar & Restaurant (3328 Foster Ave.) doesn't look nearly as devious by day.
When I drove by a week or two ago and took this photo, I was really tempted to get out of the car and scream:
"KUPKAKE! WHERE ARE YOUUUUU??!?!?
Side note: What in tarnation is sour beef? And why would you advertise it?
Nasty, nasty, nasty.
I hear back in the day, Crossroads was the place to be.
Eric Clapton even wrote a song about it.
(Photo by me)
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "simulated sex with a potted palm tree." Before The Sun, he was a reporter at the Miami New Times. He's also written for Miami magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Gainesville Sun. Got tips? Gripes? Pitches? He's reachable at erik.maza@baltsun.com. Click here to keep up with the dumb music he's listening to.
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Comments
I'm not so sure that this is what cousin Eric had in mind.....
Posted by: SS2 | July 25, 2008 1:32 PM
What? You don't know what sour beef is? I grew up in Towson during the Reagan years and even I know about sour beef. It is a "Baltimorized" German dish that was one of the big specials down at the now defunct Haussners and is also still served at German Festivals accross the State. It is a potroast-like beef that is slow cooked in a sweet tangy brown gravy (which tastes like it has a lot of vinegar in it) with dumplings. It is actually surprisingly good especially accompanyied by a Paulaner or a Spaten ... PROST! ... :-)
Posted by: TotalVicky | July 25, 2008 2:19 PM
Sour Beef is German but not to be confused with Sauerbraten. One seems to involve very heavy dumplings but I don't know which.
Posted by: Granny | July 25, 2008 2:19 PM
the BEST place for SOur Beef is the Eastern House on Eastern Avenue. In this Eyetalian's opinion.
Posted by: JMGiordano | July 25, 2008 2:34 PM
Whaaa? How can you not loooooove sour beef and dumplings. It's one of my fav down home meals.
Posted by: ero | July 25, 2008 3:13 PM
I'll tell ya how -- I'm an Italian farm boy from the Eastern Shore who's never so much as heard of sour beef. And to me, it sounds nasty.
Posted by: Sam Sessa | July 25, 2008 3:15 PM
I heard it goes great with Broadway fries with vinegar as well...
Posted by: K | July 25, 2008 3:25 PM
Sam,
You're better off NOT knowing about sour beef and dumplings. It's artery clogging, and you're far too young to have clogged arteries.
Posted by: Courtney B. | July 25, 2008 4:15 PM
In college, my roommates and I referred to this one girl as Roast Beef. Sour Beef would have been 100 times better.
Posted by: TS | July 30, 2008 1:13 PM