Category: Baltimore

Find the best Locally owned and operated restaurants, bars and locals gems across the city. Our local writers have the area covered, Fells Point, Mount Vernon, Mid Town, Downtown, and gems off the beaten path in beautiful Baltimore.

Baltimore Mid-Downtown Food Scene from High-end to Casual

It seems that I cannot escape working somewhere in mid-downtown Baltimore. In the last 25 years, I’ve toiled at one job or another within the half square mile bounded by Baltimore, Greene, Eager, and Charles Streets. Over the years, I’ve seen the food scene in the area go from a few random sandwich shops to […]

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Baltimore’s Fells Point, a Neighborhood Journey Through Time

I spent the first 19 years of my life in Fells Point on the diversely populated 500 block of South Ann Street. At the time, there was a smattering of elderly Polish and Ukrainian immigrants living there, several families from Puerto Rico, and a good handful of folks who had moved up from West Virginia […]

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A locals love Southeast Baltimore neighborhood Fells Point

Editors Note: One thing we like to do when launching in a city is to partner with local writers. This is a key part to the City Walker experience, we don’t only want our app (iOS and Android) to have a local prospective, we want our blog to have it too! This gives the authentic personal […]

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Wet City, The bar with Sneakily Good Food

Imagine going to a brand spanking new bar hoping to get a few drinks but getting surprised by sneakily good food. It’s the best kind of surprise and not one I’ve experienced a lot in Baltimore. Enter Wet City, yet another great indication of how food is moving in the right direction in Charm City. […]

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Neighborhood Nooks – Charm City insiders guide to amazing coffee

Editors Note:  One thing we like to do when launching in new city is to partner with writers local to that market. This is a key part to the City Walker experience, we don’t only want our app to have a local prospective. We want our blog to have it too! This gives the authentic personal prospective that no […]

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New Coffee – Charm City insiders guide to coffee

Editors Note:  One thing we like to do when launching in new city is to partner with writers local to that market. This is a key part to the City Walker experience, we don’t only want our app to have a local prospective. We want our blog to have it too! This gives the authentic personal prospective that no […]

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The Original Gangstas – Charm City insiders guide to amazing coffee

  I’m far from a coffee expert but I have been to my fair share of coffee shops and coffee is an essential part of my life. So, if volume of consumption and an addiction count for anything then they’ve come to the right place. Yet I couldn’t pick four or five because I see […]

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City Walker Launches hyper-local platform in Baltimore

City Walker, the travel app that allows you to live like a local, announced today that it’s bringing it’s hyper-local platform to Baltimore. City Walker, which previously launched in Philadelphia, Washington DC, and New York City is now available in the amazing city of Baltimore. The new release includes streamlined features for end users to ensure they […]

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Holy cannoli! Vaccaro’s cannoli: After a century, still rolling along

Everyone around him talks and jokes occasionally as they work, but Nick Vaccaro rarely says a word. With single-minded determination, he is folding squares of cannoli dough around forms — by hand, just as his great-grandfather did. By day’s end, he and his employees will have formed about 40,000 cannoli shells, the culmination of a […]

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