Baltimore Magazine

6 days ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland

Health & Wellness Our annual Excellence in Nursing Awards recognizes a fraction of the thousands of nurses working in the area every day to make patients’ lives healthier, safer, and happier. Each year, it’s our privilege to recognize a fraction of the thousands of nurses working in the area every day to make  patients’ lives healthier, safer, and happier. Without their skill and expertise, where would we be?

6 days ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Jane Marion

After working music festivals and pop-ups for few years, Will Fagg, a former Hopkins operating room nurse turned self-professed pizza nerd, opened TinyBrickOven in 2019. He had a bunch of loyal regulars, but it still wasn’t enough to sustain the business. And it didn’t help that he was having issues acquiring a liquor license in bar-hopping Federal Hill. So, last December, Fagg decided to call it quits. “I had tried everything possible but still was not making any money,” he says.

1 week ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Jane Marion

As the Food Network, social media, and food-focused travel continue to blur our borders and make the world a smaller place, consumers are craving international flavors from tahini to turmeric. At Hampden’s The Local Fry, this trend has been going strong for a decade.

1 week ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Christianna McCausland

Tucked into a side street off Mountain Road, that busy thoroughfare that winds through Harford County’s suburbs and farmland on its way to I-95, is a two-room building that was once home to Fallston’s Youth’s Benefit School. When it opened to much fanfare in 1910, teachers commuted on horseback and heated the rooms with a coal stove. The frame building still stands where a string of restaurants, a gas station, and a Walgreens peter out into countryside.

1 week ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Jane Marion

Twenty years ago, when longtime restaurateur Eddie Dopkin was getting ready to open Miss Shirley’s Cafe, the motivation was less about opening a breakfast spot and more about the chance to provide additional parking for his other properties across the street on Cold Spring Lane in Roland Park. “He was like, ‘I can’t just pay for a parking lot,’” recalls his son, David, who joined Miss Shirley’s as a general manager in 2007, then took over after his father passed away in 2013.