Baltimore Grows

Harbor East has the best collection of restaurants in Baltimore…. well at least according to the Harbor East website.  So yes, it’s a biased claim, but it might be hard to argue with them.  From the site;

HARBOR EAST IS HOME TO BALTIMORE’S FINEST COLLECTION OF RESTAURANTS. From casual to fine dining, your options are distinct and memorable, as is the cuisine that each establishment has to offer.

Harbor East currently has; Charleston,  Chui’s Sushi, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Grille 700, James Joyce Irish Pub & Restaurant, Kosmo’s Lounge, Lebanese Taverna, The Oceanaire Seafood Room, Pazo, RA Sushi, Roy’s, and Taco Fiesta. Coming soon is  Cinghiale a Northern Italian restaurant - a Cindy Wolf venture.

Granted, most if not all of these restaurants fit a certain mold, are new, and cater to a somewhat upscale consumer.  Lacking are “traditional” Baltimore type restaurants with long standing traditions, but given that everything in Harbor East is new, we can’t really hold that against them.  So there are no Peters Inn or John Stevens type gems.  And I guess we could argue whether Pazo is Harbor East or Fells Point.  In any case that’s a high concentration of quality restaurants in a small area.  I know two of our favorites are there - Roy’s (me) and Pazo (my wife).

So if it’s not Harbor East, who takes the cake for best restaurants?  Fells, Mount Vernon, Canton?