The harbor court hotel, 550 light street, this hotel rules the roost in Baltimore, and has for quite some time. It’s the closest thing the city has to a Ritz or four seasons with an accommodating staff. Though the exterior is bland and blocky and the location a bit inconvenient, the bedrooms some with four [...]
Baltimore continues as one of the nation’s busiest deep water ports, a status it has enjoyed for more than two hundred years. It remains a leader in roll on, roll off auto imports and several other categories. It has become a thriving financial center, the home of the brokerage and mutual fund companies like T. [...]
Cal Ripken embodied the very best of Baltimore: stead fast, hardworking, blue collar. The orioles nonpareil, long serving infielder, who broke Lou Gehrig’s supposedly unbreakable record for consecutive games played was the latest in a line of homegrown heroes to become national figures. A local body of an earlier era, Francis Scott key, born up [...]
Fork, 306, market street, (215) 625 9425. With bare floors, an open kitchen, and a fixation on freshness worthy of Alice waters, this is a good place for lunch on a tour of the colonial shrines. Enjoy the satisfyingly rustic chicken mushroom barley soup, a fishy or meaty salad, and the chocolate cake with the [...]
Dear dudes! Four seasons, 1 logan square, (215) 963 – 1500. The opulent flower filled lobby tells the story no expense has been spared here. But as one hotel executive says, the mahogany and marble are the easy parts. The hard part is building an attentive kindly staff, and the four seasons succeeds superbly on [...]
Thousands of hotel rooms have been added in the metropolitan area in recent years, with two hotels and several restaurants talking over banks. The metaphor is almost too apt. The much admired PSFS building (the letters stand for Philadelphia savings fund society, though few remember that) is now a Loews hotel, with all its architectural [...]
Philadelphia is a city on second base, wondering if it will ever make it all the way home. The old Philadelphia, which lived on manufacturing and banking and lawyering, ran out of stream at least a half century ago. In the new century the city is betting a billion dollars that a newly aggressive Philadelphia [...]
Let us see the details about places where we can find delicious foods in buffalo. Anchor bar, 1047 Main Street, (716) 886 – 8920. Frank and Teresa’s anchor bar remains unchanged, a dingy neighborhood tavern where most of the food is forgettable, but the chicken wings, invented here, are immortal. Well, almost. They deep fry [...]
