I live in Baltimore. I'm not from here, I was born just north of here on the other side of the Mason Dixon line. I have also lived further south. But for the last 8 years, I have made my home in the fine crime mecca of Baltimore. For the most part, I like it here. Great markets, good restaurants, lots of interesting people.
Having spent a good portion of my life in the restaurant business i have a love/hate relationship with restaurant reviewers. I think it's awful presumptious and in some cases really pretentious to post your thoughts about one or two experiences at a resaurant. Folks that start a restaurant sink their hearts, souls and a ton of money into those ventures. They at least need a grace period to get their shit together and even after that, if you have a bad experience, you should talk to the resaurant not a blog full of people. So I am not going to be talking about my eating experiences in those kind of terms. I may mention places that I have eaten but I plan on only expanding about the positive parts.
Over the holidays I did a lot of breakfasting out. The breakfast that I enjoyed the most was at the very popular Miss Shirleys. I loved loved loved loved loved it. I had the Southern Slammer! It was fantastic. Throw caution to the wind, eggs in the face of cholesterol. This little sammy has Applewood-Smoked Bacon, Avocado, White Cheddar Cheese, Egg and Fried Green Tomatoes in between two slices of puzzlingly healthy pumpernickel. My friends had various verions of eggs benedict. one with crab and fried green tomatoes, the other with smoked salmon, potato cakes and chive hollandaise. The coffee was fresh hot Seattles Best and the service great. (a chic named Michael)
I can not believe it took me this long to try out Miss Shirleys. I have ben a fan of Alonso's consistent, anti-budget busting food since i moved to the city just shy of 8 years ago. But that's another story
soon
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