Matti Gellman

1 day ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Matti Gellman

Lindy’s Seafood owner Aubrey Vincent is watching anxiously as the cost of paper rises. It’s one of the many raw materials she has imported to process and package her crabs for decades. But sweeping tariffs threatened to drive up the cost of critical supplies for her just weeks into the crabbing season. “I’m not sure where we’ll be in a few months,” Vincent said. Maryland’s crab processors have become their own endangered species.

5 days ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Matti Gellman

After a successful matcha-themed pop-up, Remington cafe owner Quentin Vennie is putting down roots in his hometown. The Baltimore-raised business owner, who opened the city’s first matcha tea bar in February, will sign a two-year lease next week to move the shop to 311 W. 28th Street. It’s a transition he hopes will allow his premium tea company, Equitea, to be a mainstay among the city’s growing beverage providers. “We left the city in 2022 because we couldn’t raise any capital,” Vennie said.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Matti Gellman

In March, restaurateur Desmond Reilly closed Chicken + Whiskey at the Mall in Columbia, but promised that his two other county eateries wouldn’t be going anywhere. They closed the next month. Bennie’s Pizza, a newcomer at the mall offering a menu co-signed by Michelin-starred chef Gerald Addison, and The Walrus Oyster & Ale House, a seven-year veteran that recently attempted to revitalize the business with a new, more French menu, both permanently shut their doors at 10300 Little Patuxent Parkway.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Matti Gellman

While some restaurants battle for foot traffic, one Jamaican eatery in White Marsh, nestled in the shadow of an indoor skydiving park and a desert of beige strip malls, appears to have struck gold. Long lines form for oxtail and goat curry in a neighborhood where restaurant owner Jazz Tucker says nearly no Caribbean community exists.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Matti Gellman

Deborah Wilson, who grew up in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood during the 1980s, could never find a deli in West Baltimore. After church near Walbrook Junction along West North Avenue, she and her grandmother would drive across town to Attman’s Deli for a corned-beef sandwich. It was a luxury many of her friends didn’t have. “They’ve got to catch the bus to the grocery store just to be able to grab some lunch meat,” Wilson said, noting that some stores were over three miles away.