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Cafés: Atwater's
Belvedere Square Market, 529 E. | Eat Feature
Caribbean: Judy's Island Grill and Bake Shop
5216 Park Heights Ave., (410) 367-0272, judysislandgrill.com, $-$$
We keep meaning to check out this Jamaican carry-out spot's amazing breakfast menu--plantain porridge? butter bean and saltfish?--but its belly busting dinner options keep elbowing out the brain space that tries to remember to have Caribbean cuisine for breakfast. | Eat Feature
Chinese: Grace Garden Chinese Restaurant
1690 Annapolis Road, Odenton, (410) 672-3581, gracegardenchinese.com, $$-$$$
Early adopters have long weighed selfishly keeping this seemingly nondescript Odenton eatery a secret against promoting it to ensure continued operation. | Eat Feature
Classic American: Burke's Restaurant and Café
36 Light St., (410) 752-4189, burkescafe.com, $$-$$$
Burke's is not necessarily the kind of eatery you'd take someone on a first date, unless it wasn't going well. | Eat Feature
Contemporary American: Abacrombie Fine Food and Accommodations
58 W. | Eat Feature
Delis: Attman's Authentic New York Delicatessen
1019 E. | Eat Feature
Diners: Jimmy's Restaurant
801 S. | Eat Feature
Eclectic: Golden West Café
1105 W. | Eat Feature
Ethiopian: Dukem #2
1100 Maryland Ave., (410) 385-0318, dukemrestaurant.com, $-$$
Luckily, pretty much the only Ethiopian dining option in Baltimore is also dependable, affordable, and delicious. | Eat Feature
French: Bonaparte Breads
903 S. | Eat Feature
Hawaiian: Roy's
720 Aliceanna St., (410) 659-0099, roysrestaurant.com, $$$
With so many fabulous local restaurants in Baltimore, we usually avoid chains, but we make an exception for Roy's. | Eat Feature
Indian and Nepalese: Akbar
823 N. | Eat Feature
Irish: James Joyce Irish Pub and Restaurant
616 S. | Eat Feature
Italian: Aldo's
306 S. | Eat Feature
Korean: Joung Kak
18 W. | Eat Feature
Latin: Arcos Restaurant and Bar
129 S. | Eat Feature
Mediterranean: Black Olive
814 S. | Eat Feature
Middle Eastern: Amer's Café
7624 Belair Road, Belair Beltway Plaza, Nottingham, (410) 668-5100, amerscafe.com, $-$$
Amer's Café offers great Mediterranean/Egyptian food served in a warm family-friendly atmosphere. | Eat Feature
Pizza: Angelo's Carry-Out
3600 Keswick Road, (410) 235-2595, angeloshampden.com, $
Best pizza in Hampden with huge delicious slices, regular-sized ones, and large, New York-style pizza pies made with pride for generations. | Eat Feature
Pub Grub: Curb Shoppe Bar and Grill
5736 Falls Road, (410) 433-8299, curbshoppe.com, $
This neighborhood pub serves juicy hamburgers with cheese and/or bacon on a sesame seed bun that go so well with a domestic draft and watching the game on the floating flat screens, that we've had little else here, save a little plate of fun from the free Friday happy hour buffet. | Eat Feature
Russian: Vernisage
1004 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, (410) 484-7701, $$-$$$
With its glass chandeliers and disco ball, Vernisage is perpetually dressed for a party whether or not one is booked for the evening. | Eat Feature
Southern: Charleston
1000 Lancaster St., (410) 332-7373, charlestonrestaurant.com, $$$
Somewhere along the line, Charleston became the grand dame of Baltimore's fine dining establishments; the first place locals think of when they really want to go upscale. | Eat Feature
Spanish: Pazo
1425 Aliceanna St., (410) 534-7296, pazorestaurant.com, $$$
If you don't leave Pazo a little tipsy, so full you couldn't eat another bite, and smelling of garlic, you aren't doing the tapas thing right. | Eat Feature
Thai: Ban Thai
340 N. | Eat Feature
Upscale Comfort Food: Ale Mary's
1939 Fleet St., (410) 276-2044, alemarys.com, $$
Kudos to Ale Mary's for celebrating that most inexplicably underexposed member of the potato side-dish family, the tater tot. | Eat Feature
Vegetarian: Liquid Earth
1626 Aliceanna St., (410) 276-6606, liquidearth.com, $$
We've appreciated the vegetarian/vegan soups and sandwiches at Liquid Earth for over a decade now, and the place just keeps getting better. | Eat Feature
Vietnamese: Baltimore Pho
1114 Hollins St., (410) 752-4746, baltimorepho.com, $$
Despite the downtrodden locale next to Hollins Market, Baltimore Pho qualifies as a date restaurant. | Eat Feature
Cool Comfort: EAT: City Paper's annual dining guide | Introduction
Barbecue and Pit: Andy Nelson's Barbecue
11007 York Road, Cockeysville, (410) 527-1226, andynelsonsbbq.com, $-$$
When you spot the pink pig on the roof looming over busy York Road, you know you're only moments away from the best barbecue the Baltimore area has to offer: succulent Memphis-style pulled pork and ribs; three varieties of beef, including regional pit style; even smoked turkey and chicken. | Eat Feature
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Sweeping the Clouds Away: Exhaustive book tells you how a group of television innovators got to Sesame Street | Books by Molly O'Donnell
Repress the Child: Victorian mores turns natural urges into teen angst | Stage by John Barry
Trailer Trashing: Lively production bogged down by playwright's clichés | Stage by Bret McCabe
Curtain Time: THE DOZENS Local performance artist Rebecca Nagle debuts a new first-Fridays performance series at Hamden's Minás Gallery March 6.
Lost Signals: Wily exhibition pays respects to a possibly vanishing aspects of a mass medium | Art by Martin L. Johnson
Quick Sketches: ART WEEK 2009 This UMBC event officially started March 3--after March 2's events were rescheduled because of snow--but plenty events remain slated for the rest of the week.
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