Jan 13 2009
Upscale Casual Restaurants Baltimore Trend for 2009
It looks like 2009 might be the year for upscale casual restaurants in Baltimore. It seems like a whole slew of them are in the works across the city, despite the current economic conditions. Maybe they’re counting on the regulars at Charleston, Prime Rib, and Tio Pepe to cheapening up a little bit. However, it’s probably more likely that that the upscale casual dining option is just becoming more popular.
The Maryland Daily Record recently reported on a bunch of these types of eateries opening on the West Side of the harbor, including Frank & Nic’s West End Grill, which just opened in the Zenith Apartment Building across from Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Click below to read the article.
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=10390&type=UTTM
The article also gave us some updates on two other restaurants that BaltimoreGrows has been tracking. Sullivans Steakhouse http://www.sullivansteakhouse.com/is set to open in February or March, with Kona Grille http://www.konagrill.com/ set to open in April. Both will be located in the Verizon Building at Pratt and Light Streets. Supposedly, Redstone Grill http://www.redstonegrill.com/ was going to set up shop in the same building, but may back out of the deal.
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Add the Village Square Cafe to your list of newly opened casual, upscale eateries. Just opened last month at the Village of Cross Keys serving breakfast (all day) and lunch, seven days a week. http://www.villagesquarecafe.com
Hear Hear! Maybe it’s just me but I feel the resteraunts downtown are way heavily weighted to fine/expensive dining. It’s cool to have high quality resteraunts available, but for people that don’t cook, it’s not realistic to eat at these places more than a few times a month. Getting a Panera on Pratt street was a major victory. Pei Wei is good too - Now how about a Bertuccis?
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