Welcome, and of course!
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Welcome aboard. We need more info on AZ. I havenât been there in close to 10 years, but I remember some great tortillas in Phoenix and good pizza and roast chicken in Scottsdale. Iâd love to get back, not least for Spring Training.
Oh, and I was surprised by how engaging the Museum of Musical Instruments was.
Welcome welcome from a tiny island far away on the other side of the pond.
Nice people and great food are what you will find here. Oh and some useful life-hacks.
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Hello 
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Where are you?
- Oakland, CA Bay Area
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What food-related topic are you most passionate about, that you want people to ask you about and you canât stop talking about it?
- Food recommendations and cuisines around the world (especially Asian and Mexican)
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Whatâs a great food experience you have had?
- My stomach brought me to Florence and a local told me about a gelato festival going on, so I had to go. One of the makers invited my friend and I to tour around and try a bunch of gelato at the festival and inside the gelato school.
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A little tidbit about you
- I believe âAnything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible.â Always thinking about food and my next meal.
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Welcome to the community!
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Moved to Baltimore in the last year.
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Chinese & Korean food. Cocktails and wine.
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Several meals in Italy come to mind first: Rainy day-long lunches in really good but not fancy restaurants {La Chiusa in Montefollonico; Cicchetti in Rialto Market at a place whose name I forget, the late and lamented Fiaschetteria Toscana in Venice, a long ago BBQ meal at Woodleyâs Sunspot BBQ in Tennessee}
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I used to own restaurants in DC and I am definitely in restaurant owner/chef recovery. Now I can cook my passions which tend towards Asia.
We have a huge urban garden and so far we have the worldâs only $1000 sungold tomato to show for it. On the other hand, it did taste great.
Sondheim and opera are passions.
Dean formerly of Dinoâs Grotto and Dino. Partner is Kay.
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I intend to post a lot of Baltimore content. The food scene in Baltimore is superb if you pick well.
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Thank you, that would be awesome !
Btw whatâs your catâs name?
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Everybody loves somebody sometimes!
Any pit beef or crab cake wisdom, youâre in like Flint.
WelcomeâŚ
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Welcome, and feel free to share your expensive gardening habit with the rest of us over on the Veggie Garden thread.
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Pioneer Pit Beef is like the one ring in LOTR. One pit beef to rule them all!
Canopy is the best of the rest in areas urban. I think the guys at the Baltimore Farmerâs Market have the smell down perfect, but the lines are too long for me to have actually tried them. Maybe if we show up decently early.
Have not done much crab or crab-cake eating as prices are thru the roof. Nicks and LP Steamers have great crabs but maybe/probably not local. Wild Seafood in Jessup Fish Marketplace has great cold crab.
Our Cat Lord is Lord Poopington of the Patapsco-adjascent Bal Meow Estate. He adopted us just over 2 years ago after living the high life {living with a bottomless chow bowl and 7 more pounds than today} before he needed to get rehomed. He does not have a high opinion of me but I AM alpha cat.
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HmmmâŚmaybe and welcome!
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I am told that 8 of our tomato plants have green tomatoes growing all of a sudden. I am not going to reveal the denominator. 
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You are Alpha Cat, but also Cat Daddy. Welcome aboard and look forward to your cooking and dining out adventures!
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Get yourself down to the Smokehouse BBQ Shack in Mechanicsville for some pit beef cooked over hickory. And have a rib there, too. Itâ reviewed on my blog
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Is that Maryland or Virginia? We vacation sometimes in N Carolina, as well as a lake in Virginia - we could probably make it happen. It sounds pretty wonderful, and Iâd certainly take your word for it too.
