Need some suggestions

by BPinOK on Jul 1, 2008 11:46 AM EDT Comment 34 comments

My wife and I are flying in tomorrow on a quick two day stop before driving on to PA to visit family. We will be attending the Wednesday and Thursday games. I asked a while back and saved most of those suggestions but thought I'd ask again just to make sure. Any suggestions on places to eat and drink around the ballpark that we need to check out? Nothing too touristy. We also thought about heading over to Fells Point one night as well. We are staying at the Marriott by the ballpark I believe.

Thanks everyone.

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Maryland Sports Legends museum

a definite must. And the Babe Ruth Museum. Both are near the stadium.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 12:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Looking

forward to the Babe Ruth Museum. Thanks.

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by BPinOK on Jul 1, 2008 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fells Point

theres a place i always go when i’m down in bmore in fells point that has something like 100 beers on tap. its awesome, but i cant for the life of me think of the name of it off the top of my head. i’m sure someone who lives down there on this site should be able to think of it…

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by daveh873 on Jul 1, 2008 12:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Are you thinking of Max's on Broadway?

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by Stacey on Jul 1, 2008 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where you sitting?

I’m going Wednesday, might stop by and say hey. Never met a real live CCer yet.

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by 33 on Jul 1, 2008 12:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

re

No tix yet. Just thought we’d wait and see what we could find before the game.

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by BPinOK on Jul 1, 2008 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Save room in that Okie belly

for some real good Bog’s Barbecue.
No trip to OPACY is complete without a huge sandwich and some awesome potato salad.

There's no crying in baseball

by elktonfan on Jul 1, 2008 1:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That should have been Boog's!

I got so hungry just typing it that I forgot how to spell his name!

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by elktonfan on Jul 1, 2008 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No doubt

we’ll have some BBQ but I have to say that, right or wrong, a big part of our summers in OK and TX revolve around the smoker. I have a hard time imagining that I haven’t already eaten some of the best BBQ I’m ever going to eat. Not to mention a trip to Rendezvous BBQ in Memphis for a little different BBQ (dry rub) than most of what we have west of the mississippi. I’m game though.

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by BPinOK on Jul 1, 2008 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No offense to elktonfan or Boog himself

But I don’t really think it’s the all that great as far as pit beef goes. It’s good, but it’s not awesome. It’s more of touristy pit beef, if there is such a thing. The best pit beef is usually found on various stands on the side of the road. They have an awesome pit beef at the farmer’s market under the JFX on Sundays.

by Stacey on Jul 1, 2008 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Red, Hot & Blue near Annapolis

ain’t bad. Just sayin’.

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I mentioned pit beef in the last BPinOK post

BPinOK, pit beef isn’t anything like the BBQ you are thinking of. It’s beef with a rub, grilled until it is crusty on the outside, rare in the inside (I told you it isn’t BBQ). It’s thinly sliced and heaped on a kaiser roll (maybe rye) with generous horseradish and tomato.

Are there any other good places in the city near the Marriott? All the places I know tend to be outside the inner city.

by drj on Jul 1, 2008 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's gotta be a kaiser roll

Who eats pulled pork or pulled beef on rye? That’s just wrong.

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

we're talking pit beef duck

by drj on Jul 1, 2008 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Even beef...

who eats that with RYE? Seriously? Unless you’re getting a Reuben, when is rye bread ever your first choice?

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rye is good

with roast beef. Just lettuce & a little tomato. NO mustard.

Mustard is OK for hot dogs, not roast beef. Just like ketchup is OK for burgers, not steak.

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by sluggo 2.0 on Jul 1, 2008 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dijon mustard is excellent with roast beef

as it is with just about any cold sandwich.

by pipkin on Jul 2, 2008 7:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

mmmm don't forget the onion!

onion and lots of horseradish and just a sprinkle of bbq sauce.

I don’t know of any places right downtown with good pit beef. I know a few good places over on the east side, like Essex, but not really easy to get to if you’re an out of towner. I’ve passed a place right off of Greene a couple times (Maybe Lexington or Fayette?) that looks like it has pit beef but I’ve never been there.

by Stacey on Jul 1, 2008 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh yeah. Because I do not like raw onions, I always leave them out.

But they are a traditional condiment.

by drj on Jul 1, 2008 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bypassing

the onions. Fried onions I’m ok with.

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by BPinOK on Jul 1, 2008 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Best moves

Near the ballpark are either of the nearby City Markets -

Lexington Market has the famed Faidley’s Crabcakes, which are pretty damn good. There is no seating there, people eat standing up at tables, but if you need to sit you could always either sit elsewhere in the market or, do what I do and just take them down to the ballpark and eat them on the tables they have set up on the Upper Level.

Cross Street Market, in Federal Hill, has Nick’s seafood which is a fine, fine place to eat steamed shrimp and drink some beers before a game.

Both are within walking distance to the stadium, both are local/anti-touristy as hell, both have kickass seafood, and both offer many other options for food as well. Cross Street Market is in a better area though, and is surrounded by the Federal Hill bar district. Lexington is the largest market in the city – and I’ve read the largest food market in the world, but who knows – and has some other Baltimore mainstays like Pollock Johnny’s polish sausage and Berger cookies from Berger’s bakery.

If you’re looking for anything in specific, let me know and I’ll try to help.

by Jonny Pops on Jul 1, 2008 1:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thanks...

I’m game for as long as my wife can hang. She’s on a 9 month designated driver program no thanks to me so we’re at the mercy of her energy level at this point. We’re game to do some walking though.

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by BPinOK on Jul 1, 2008 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Does Faidley's still use MD crabs

or switch to the SE Asian stuff like Phillips’ did?

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Last I heard it was "Atlantic" crab.

From packing houses in MD in the summer and from NC or FL during the winter.

My “inside scoop” is a family member in the food business. I’ll have to ask him again when I’m back home in August. Things do change.

by drj on Jul 1, 2008 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was seriously depressed

when Phillips went away from MD crab. If they’re still using Atlantic seaboard crabs, that’s still a plus, even if it isn’t exclusively MD.

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

wait, what?

that’s appalling.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 1, 2008 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Phillips went to SE Asian crabs

more than a decade ago. Sorry I had to be the one to break the bad news to ya.

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That explains

That tells us why Phillips is crap. It’s nothing but a tourist trap these days.

by blawk359 on Jul 1, 2008 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, it's where tourists go, that for sure

Take Jonny Pop’s recommendation on seafood. Me? I either catch it myself (every couple of years at most) or buy it from a local seafood place, where I know the wholesalers they get it from are from Crisfield and Deal Island, 40 minutes away.

by duck on Jul 1, 2008 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

ugh...

i mean, i haven’t been in years (favor more the mom and pop joints, myself), but that doesn’t make it any less disappointing!

i really can’t remember the name of the place, but there was this place we used to stop on the way back from a friend of the family’s in southern md and i’d always get the fried softshell sammie, doused fries and a nutty buddy for dessert. delicious.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 2, 2008 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Southern MD's got good seafood too

as much as we Eastern Shore types hate to admit it. Ain’t much difference between Charles and Wicomico counties, in a lot of ways…

by duck on Jul 2, 2008 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought

That marriott right next to W. Camden St. opened in August?

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by Baltimo on Jul 1, 2008 6:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs