succotash_witch t1_je9psvx wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM

A few miles is basically the whole city. Or did you mean a few blocks?

rgbarometer OP t1_je9u9cb wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:47 PM

I wanted to say like 5-10 blocks but I was concerned I was really off. Your comment is well taken.

OwnEqual8219 t1_je9fixn wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:41 AM

Do you remember the cuisine? Unfortunately, a lot of places didn’t survive the pandemic, so there’s a good chance it’s in the Great Beyond for restaurants.

No-Lunch4249 t1_je9fwxm wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:45 AM

Basement bars were already in trouble and generally a dying breed even before the pandemic too

OwnEqual8219 t1_je9gesy wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:50 AM

You’re not wrong

rgbarometer OP t1_je9uj0b wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:49 PM

Ty for all the comments about the basement restaurants disappearing.

rgbarometer OP t1_je9uhgx wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:49 PM

Just American fare. No focus that I recall.

tizzou74 t1_je9g5a7 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:47 AM

Tio Pepe?

rgbarometer OP t1_je9ufwh wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:48 PM

I'll check it out. Ty.

zalapadea t1_je9lrxh wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:40 PM

Maybe the basement of brewers art?

sboz317 t1_je9pjmd wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:11 PM

That’s what I was thinking. Is that bar still around?

scottywottycoppertip t1_je9pp6j wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:12 PM

Yes

rgbarometer OP t1_je9uery wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:48 PM

Ty all. I'll check that out as well.

rgbarometer OP t1_jea51fq wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:06 PM

The Brewers Art site says it opens at 4pm. I was hoping for lunch. :(

KingBooRadley t1_jeanul7 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:10 PM

Are you trying to find a specific restaurant, or just lunch?

rgbarometer OP t1_jecd6q6 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:53 PM

I was trying to find a specific restaurant I'd been to a while ago. It was decorated very different from other restaurants, and I don't recall enough to explain what I mean. If I can't go there, then I'm just loooking for lunch, preferably a place with a parking lot.

KingBooRadley t1_jecf4ci wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:08 AM

American food and free parking. Sounds like you're looking for the suburbs.

jturner5858 t1_je9n46i wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:51 PM

The restaurants mentioned above are not corner row houses. There was a restaurant in the basement of a row house on the corner about 5 years ago, across from the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Cathedral and Biddle streets. Closed now. It was great. The building houses a boutique hotel now. They really could do well to open a restaurant there again!

rgbarometer OP t1_je9udgb wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:48 PM

I'll check that out to see if it's what I'm talking about. Thanks for saying a lot of them have disappeared. Can you recommend a place near Second Chance were there's a decent chance I could park a car?

jturner5858 t1_je9umvg wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:50 PM

The Horseshoe Casino is there with a parking garage but there are so many great restaurants in Baltimore. Parking is not the biggest concern.

PigtownDesign t1_jead0n4 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:00 PM

There are several restaurants on Washington Blvd. just off of MLK, which is about 1/4 mile from 2nd Chance.

PigtownDesign t1_jeb0f37 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:30 PM

No restaurant there anymore. And it's not a boutique hotel anymore, either. It seems like a flop-house/airbnb if their clientele is anything to go by.

Source: my parking lot backs up to that building.

umyumflan t1_jebdvyr wrote on March 30, 2023 at 7:55 PM

Lol are you talking about the place that was featured on Hotel Impossible?? Abacrombie?

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/hotel-impossible/episodes/crack-vials-and-denials

bourbonpl t1_jeac0sj wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:54 PM

Sugarvale?

rgbarometer OP t1_jeccxuk wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:52 PM

That's not it, but

Thanks for that suggestion

Complete-Ad9574 t1_jebtn4k wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:36 PM

There was a nice bar-restarurant on Pratt St across from the entrance to the RR museum.

Maleficent_Thanks_51 t1_jebtxnu wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:38 PM

Was it in the basement of 4 East Madison Inn?

TheBaltimoron t1_jefocjf wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:48 PM

Near the casino?

rgbarometer OP t1_jegqnd0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:06 PM

All done and over. I was outvoted. We went to Cracker Barrel and had a ton of food for the price, including marshmallow whip with nuts and syrup on a baked potato!

ECLECTIC RESTAURANT in BASEMENT of corner rowhouse perhaps a few miles from Second Chance? I went perhaps 5 yrs ago. I'd like to go back & can't figure out what it's called or where it is. I tried Yelp and can't find it. (I hope it's still there! If not, I'd appreciate other suggestions.)

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