Baltimore Grows

If you haven’t been to Dogwood Restaurant in Hampden yet, you really need to go.  The food is unbelievable, mostly locally grown, and the restaurant runs a non-profit program to help train former homeless people and drug addicts in the restaurant industry to help them get back on their feet.  So you can eat delicious food, be environmentally friendly, and feel good about yourself while doing it.

Well if you can’t make it up to Hampden, but you work downtown, you’re in luck.  Dogwood will be opening a deli in the Woman’s Industrial Exchange Tea Room (333 N Charles St. just north of downtown).  Although it won’t be serving dinner like the main restaurant in Hampden, the new location will initially be open for breakfast and lunch.

From the Woman’s Industrial Exchange Website:

The Dogwood Café is planning to open on November 1, in our historic tea room.  Starting out with a simple grab-and-go format, with a juice and smoothie bar, Dogwood Cafe will grow into a full service, seated lunchroom by spring of 2009. The Dogwood Cafe is a sister venture of award-winning Dogwood Restaurant in Hampden, which is owned by Galen and Bridget Sampson. Dogwood is “neighborhood gourmet,” using as much local and organic product as possible, with creative, but down-to-earth food—prepared to be enjoyed and shared every day.

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