This week Baltimore’s Beloved will take on an American favorite – the burger.
The Burger Last on this week’s Burger Battle is Burger Bros and their bacon cheeseburger. This one comes with cheddar cheese, smoky bacon, caramelized onions and 1000 island dressing.
What I love about food halls is that I have a lot of options but it’s all in just one place. In a world where people treat going to restaurants like they’re going to museums – this trend of having little restaurants and vendors all in one place seems like it’s here to stay.
With that being said, here are three of my favorite food halls and marketplaces in Baltimore.
Mt. Vernon Marketplace 520 Park Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
Out of all three places, I would say this place offers the most eclectic mix of mini restaurants and vendors per square. Located in the heart of Mt. Vernon, this food halls contains a mixture of an oyster bar to a dumpling place to even a jewelry store.
(Belvedere Square Market. Image from: https://belvederesquare.com/directory-group/eat-and-drink/)
Belvedere Square Market 529 E. Belvedere Ave. Baltimore, MD 21212
This place probably has the most history and is the largest out of all three places. Once you step into the market, you feel like you’ve been somewhere that holds a lot of stories to tell. I love how it’s a place where everyone can come. It’s not too trendy and it’s a lot more of a welcoming environment.
(R.House Image from: https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/2017/01/r-house-new-home-baltimores-culinary-entrepreneurs)
R.House 301 W 29th St, Baltimore, MD 21211
R.House is a newly established food hall – only about two years old. It’s the perfect example of a trendy food hall place. Despite being new, however, R.House seems like a promising Baltimore favorite. It knows how to cater to a younger demographic and offers a lot of cool features in their food hall to help it function better. Like for, example, the bar is placed right in the middle of the place – easy to spot. There’s a one stop place for water and you know where to dump your plates and trays afterwards.
This week Baltimore’s Beloved will take on an American favorite – the burger.
The Burger All About Burger’s Hamburger will be put to the test to see how well it does on the scale. The burger comes with the standard hamburger toppings – lettuce, tomato, pickle and a sauce.
This week Baltimore’s Beloved will take on an American favorite – the burger.
The Burger This Burger Battle will begin with The Clark Burger from, you guessed it, Clark Burger. This burger comes with sharp cheddar cheese, bacon, red onion, pickles, lettuce and a signature Clark Burger sauce.
This week What better way to warm up during the colder season than a steaming, hot bowl of noodles? That’s right. We’re doing ramen.
The Ramen Last, but not least is Peko Peko’s TanTan Ramen – a mouthful, I know. This ramen consists of chicken broth, minced beef, spicy sesame chili paste, ginger, mayu, bean sprouts.
This week What better way to warm up during the colder season than a steaming, hot bowl of noodles? That’s right. We’re doing ramen.
The Ramen Next up on the ring is Kippo Ramen and their Tonkotsu Ramen. A bowl of ramen noodles in a pork bone broth with pork chashu, bamboo shoots, egg, green onion, kikurage mushroom.
This week What better way to warm during the colder season than a steaming, hot bowl of noodles? That’s right. We’re doing ramen.
The Ramen First up on this week’s Ramen Rumble is Mi & Yu Noodle Bar’s Buttermilk Fried Chicken Miso Ramen.
I know that all the restaurants featured on the blog have mostly been local restaurants or at the very least, native to the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) area. However, I don’t think I could ever pass up the chance to talk about how much I love Kung Fu Tea.
I’m going to be honest – I used to be completely apathetic about bubble tea. Part of the reason why I disliked it so much was because it was so popular among my friends and I never really understood it until I got into Kung Fu Tea and discovered their honey milk tea. There is something about how the almost saccharine sweet milk tea is balanced by the soft and chewy tapioca pearls that just works.
Aside from the delicious bubble tea, it also serves yogurt drinks and espressos. The stores are always so brightly decorated and always comes with board games and card games you could use with your friends – no matter what location you’re in.
There’s about about 2 locations opened in the Baltimore area – with a third one opening up soon in White Marsh. Currently, Kung Fu Tea has locations in US, Canada, and Australia. The company began around 2009 and was founded by four friends who were looking for that authentic bubble tea experience they had when they were kids in Taiwan.
This week Baltimore’s Beloved will take on everyone’s favorite – pizza.
The Pizza The final pizza in this round is Verde’s Prosciutto e Fico – translated to prosciutto (a type of ham) and fig. According to its menu, the ingredients of this pizza are “homemade mozzarella, prosciutto di parma, fresh fig, pecorino romano, basil, extra virgin olive oil.”
This week Baltimore’s Beloved will take on everyone’s favorite – pizza.
The Pizza The second pizza pick is Pasta Mista’s Three Cheese Pizza.
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