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Seven Mile Market - supposedly the largest kosher supermarket in the country.

Market Maven (formerly Seasons) - great prices for meat and chicken, also good place for shabbos food


Hotels:
Only 1 Close and decent hotel to Jewish area (but not quite walking distance) is this Hilton Doubletree

Airbnb in the frum community:
Eruv Inn
Edelweiss - Located about 15 minutes from the frum community, practically next door to Ateres Elka wedding hall

Otherwise, there are a number of nice hotels downtown (which is also the inner harbor area) and near BWI airport. There are no shuls in the downtown area with regular minyanim, aside from Mincha minyanim in various offices.



Restaurants in the Jewish area (in no particular order):

Dairy

Dunkin Donuts - 2 kosher locations
Here and Here

Croustille Cafe French Bakery - French bakery with many delicious dairy and pareve bakery items.

Milk & Honey Bistro - dairy homestyle cooking

Goldberg's Bagels - very good bagels and free wifi.

Mama Leah's - pizza that is a bit different, but IMHO (Lunatic), the best pizza in Baltimore

Tov Pizza - classic pizza shop - Mocha thinks this is a hell of a lot better than ^

Caramel's - pizza shop, also has sushi

Cocoaccinos/Pie 18 - cafe with sandwiches and salads, as well as custom made brick oven pizza

Playa Bowls Quarry Lake - "the original Acai bowl" - lots of great pareve options as well, delicious bowls

Pareve

Sushi Sakura
Cinnaholic Owings Mills - This location only was recently certified kosher pareve (across from the area Costco).

Meat

David Chu's - Reasonably priced great Chinese food and good sushi. Dan's rating - 7.25/10 
Address: 7105 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, MD 21215
Phone:(410) 602-5008
Not to be missed:
  • Curry Chicken

Dougie's- This is now CLOSED. Leaving it up in the wiki since it is newly closed in case people are looking for it (9/29/23)

Knish Shop - Excellent subs and good sushi - Good place to pickup food for shabbos
Address: 508 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, MD 21208
Phone:(410) 484-5850

The Club Deli & Grill - Newly opened (2023) fleishig meat/sandwich restaurant

Taam Tai - Reasonably prices Asian food. Great Lo Mein. Located between Mama Leah's and Goldberg's Bagels

Kosher Bite - fast food (American, Israeli, and Chinese)
Not to be missed:
  • Double Burger (better than KD's a"h)

Serengeti - Traditional excellent steakhouse (review Here, Here and Here) - definitely the nicest place in Baltimore.
Address: 2839 Smith Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209
Phone:(410) 413-6080
Not to be missed:
  • Lamb Burger on Ciabatta Bun
  • Short rib eggrolls

Accent's - reasonably priced burgers, sandwiches and salads. Also has a full size liquor store.   
Address: Greenspring Shopping Center, 2839 Smith Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209
Phone:(410) 602-2224
Not to be missed:
  • English Pub Burger

Yesh Hummus and Grill - Excellent shawarma and other Israeli food.

Cafe Shalom - Located inside Sinai Hospital's Greenspring Cafe, they have dairy, meat, and pareve options. The only restaurant that's also open over Chol Hamoed Pesach.


Downtown Area

Me Latte - small kosher cafe located in Johns Hopkins

Candy
The Candy Store (Star-K)
http://www.thecandystoreonline.com/
7002 Reisterstown Rd, Baltimore, MD 21215
(410) 653-9900

Minyanim
See here for a complete list of minyanim

Merkaz Torah Utefillah (Eichenstein)
6500 Baythorne Rd, Baltimore, MD 21209
Shachris every 15 min

Agudah of Park Heights
6200 Park Heights Ave, Baltimore, MD 21215
4107643333 (Hotline)


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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #580 on: June 24, 2015, 12:58:29 PM »
A distant cousin of my wife's is getting married this Sunday in Baltimore. My wife just found out about this earlier today and seeing as they were close when they were younger and before my wife decided to follow me out here to mountain country, she would like to go.

We are okay with getting there, although Butte to Baltimore is a bit of a shlep. Seeing as there no hotels in the jewish area, we're wondering if anyone knows where to find a rental apartment/house in the jewish neighborhood near shuls and a mikvah perferably?

Looks like the Ross caravan is headed east again...

J.D.

Baltimore does not have a very big rental market (aside from apt buildings) altogether, perhaps call the hachnosas orchim (http://baltimorejewishlife.com/institutions/institution-detail.php?cid=193), I don't know the criteria they have, but worth a shot...

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« Reply #581 on: July 06, 2015, 02:44:20 PM »
Does everyone eat at Serengeti or Accent's even though they only have an OU hechsher? (a lot of people don't eat OU meat)
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(I apologize in advance if this is the wrong thread)
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« Reply #584 on: July 06, 2015, 04:54:28 PM »
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you already created a thread about this.

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Thanks for pointing that out.

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« Reply #587 on: July 06, 2015, 06:17:22 PM »
Thanks for pointing that out.

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Facebook, on the Baltimore Rummage page and the Baltimommies page.  Although, to be honest, you should at least advertise whether you'd pay commission to a buyer's agent.  With another TH a few doors away asking the same price on the MLS you're going to be hard pressed.

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« Reply #588 on: July 06, 2015, 06:18:35 PM »
Does everyone eat at Serengeti or Accent's even though they only have an OU hechsher? (a lot of people don't eat OU meat)

Everyone I know eats there except my [idiot] brother.  He won't because they "lost" the Star-K hechsher even though it was political and not about the kashrus of the food.

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Does Christiana Mall have cheap shopping or is it just a big mall?

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« Reply #590 on: July 06, 2015, 06:58:17 PM »
Everyone I know eats there except my [idiot] brother.  He won't because they "lost" the Star-K hechsher even though it was political and not about the kashrus of the food.
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Does Christiana Mall have cheap shopping or is it just a big mall?
Definitely not a discount mall.

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #592 on: July 10, 2015, 12:06:40 AM »
A distant cousin of my wife's is getting married this Sunday in Baltimore. My wife just found out about this earlier today and seeing as they were close when they were younger and before my wife decided to follow me out here to mountain country, she would like to go.

We are okay with getting there, although Butte to Baltimore is a bit of a shlep. Seeing as there no hotels in the jewish area, we're wondering if anyone knows where to find a rental apartment/house in the jewish neighborhood near shuls and a mikvah perferably?

Looks like the Ross caravan is headed east again...

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there are hotels near/in the Jewish area on Reisterstown road. Walkable if needed on Shabbos.

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« Reply #593 on: July 10, 2015, 12:37:45 AM »

there are hotels near/in the Jewish area on Reisterstown road. Walkable if needed on Shabbos.
The ones that are hypothetically walkable are no place I would ever suggest anyone stay. The ones closer to the 695 are not so bad but the walk is reallllly long.

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« Reply #594 on: July 10, 2015, 12:45:51 AM »
The ones that are hypothetically walkable are no place I would ever suggest anyone stay. The ones closer to the 695 are not so bad but the walk is reallllly long.

yes, was referring to those 2 locations. If it's just the 2 of them then it may be approx 30-40 min walk. (Also, perhaps the friends of the wedding family can offer hosting just for Shabbos?)
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« Reply #595 on: July 10, 2015, 11:53:43 AM »
yes, was referring to those 2 locations. If it's just the 2 of them then it may be approx 50-75 min walk. (Also, perhaps the friends of the wedding family can offer hosting just for Shabbos?)
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« Reply #596 on: July 10, 2015, 12:00:42 PM »
yes, was referring to those 2 locations. If it's just the 2 of them then it may be approx 30-40 min walk. (Also, perhaps the friends of the wedding family can offer hosting just for Shabbos?)
If it's just the 2 of them then it may be approx 50-75 min walk
FTFY
actually, I know baltimore, too:
the nicer DoubleTree is a 39 min walk to Suburban Orthodox shul acc to Google: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/DoubleTree+by+Hilton+Baltimore+North+-+Pikesville,+1726+Reisterstown+Rd,+Pikesville,+MD+21208,+United+States/Suburban+Orthodox+Congregation,+Seven+Mile+Lane,+Pikesville,+MD/@39.3760074,-76.7366357,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c819fff9cb969b:0xf28af64b84a5bd2a!2m2!1d-76.73343!2d39.382577!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c81a73b611e69d:0x97429ba9f6d0adbc!2m2!1d-76.7061015!2d39.3729708!3e2

And, the not-as-nice Red Roof Inn is also under 40 min walk to Suburban!
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« Reply #597 on: July 10, 2015, 12:23:44 PM »
shkoiach. suburban is like the outskirts of the jewish community! wtvr no need to get our knickers in a tizzy  ;)
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« Reply #599 on: July 10, 2015, 12:42:03 PM »
FTFY.... and I would not go near that red roof inn

exactly, which is why i first mapped the DoubleTree/Hilton.  :) A 39 minute walk to Suburban Orthodox. If the OP Is now living in Montana, then a 39 minute walk on Shabbos to a wide-range judaism place like suburban may be a good option. Nice Rabbi and nice minyan (and usually great Kiddush food) there. Otherwise their family will help pre-wedding... (He's asking last minute.) If (future) Season's and Seven Mile Market are nearby, can't be too bad...
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