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.

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

Tio Pepe?

You’re not wrong

Maybe the basement of brewers art?

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!

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

Yes

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

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

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?

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

I'll check it out. Ty.

Just American fare. No focus that I recall.

Ty for all the comments about the basement restaurants disappearing.

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

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

Sugarvale?

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

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

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.

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

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

Was it in the basement of 4 East Madison Inn?

That's not it, but

Thanks for that suggestion

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.

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

Near the casino?

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!