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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 #180 on: February 03, 2014, 11:05:12 AM »
A friend got mugged there at gunpoint...
Can happen any where.

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #181 on: February 03, 2014, 11:08:38 AM »
Can happen any where.

True. The downtown area (bolt) has a much higher crime rate but the white marsh area (mega bus) is much quieter.

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #182 on: February 03, 2014, 11:09:20 AM »
A friend got mugged there at gunpoint...

Where? White Marsh?

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #183 on: February 03, 2014, 12:03:45 PM »
Where? White Marsh?

Yup. About three years ago

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #184 on: February 03, 2014, 12:27:57 PM »
Yup. About three years ago

Well, the area by Penn station is worse...

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #185 on: February 03, 2014, 02:11:07 PM »
Well, the area by Penn station is worse...

They're both pretty bad. I prefer Bolt @ Penn Station because its a lot closer/ more convenient, but to each their own :)

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #186 on: February 03, 2014, 02:15:50 PM »
A friend got mugged there at gunpoint...
i dont get why people keep going to gunpoint if there are so many muggings there

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #187 on: February 03, 2014, 02:53:19 PM »
NMB is right baltimorejewishlife.com is a great site. My friends father started it, he did a great job. Agudah of Park Heights has round the clock minyanim you can call 410-764-3333 to get updated times. Also you can check shamash.org's restaurant database for all balt kosher restaurants, if you need any suggestions feel free to ask.
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Yes - great site, interesting to see up-to-date articles such as today's snow, and community calendar, etc..
some of the food and other links end up as 404 errors..
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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #188 on: February 03, 2014, 03:18:43 PM »
True. The downtown area (bolt) has a much higher crime rate but the white marsh area (mega bus) is much quieter.

Bolt area is not downtown

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #189 on: February 03, 2014, 03:20:06 PM »
They're both pretty bad. I prefer Bolt @ Penn Station because its a lot closer/ more convenient, but to each their own :)

Agreed. You have to be careful either place but either place is not terrible.

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #190 on: February 03, 2014, 04:52:03 PM »
They're both pretty bad. I prefer Bolt @ Penn Station because its a lot closer/ more convenient, but to each their own :)
true, but he needed Megabus from NY to go to White Marsh (other stop was Wash DC)
and then take the Greyhound to destination. otherwise Bolt would be better..

He got a great ride with a taxi for $41 direct to Greyhound station for departure an hour after -
Greyhound now has leather seats, better outlets and free Wi-fi  :)

A frum driving service would have been similar in cost, but asked for safety
so because of posts now i see why the 10:00pm white marsh drop off is easy to have that fear -
it was desolate and the taxis were actuall leaving empty until the megabus driver flagged one down.
nothing else in sight - dark, late, empty - easy to get mugged.
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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #191 on: February 03, 2014, 09:20:41 PM »
true, but he needed Megabus from NY to go to White Marsh (other stop was Wash DC)
and then take the Greyhound to destination. otherwise Bolt would be better..

He got a great ride with a taxi for $41 direct to Greyhound station for departure an hour after -
Greyhound now has leather seats, better outlets and free Wi-fi  :)

A frum driving service would have been similar in cost, but asked for safety
so because of posts now i see why the 10:00pm white marsh drop off is easy to have that fear -
it was desolate and the taxis were actuall leaving empty until the megabus driver flagged one down.
nothing else in sight - dark, late, empty - easy to get mugged.

absolutely. everytime ive been to the White Marsh stop it has been dark and desolate.

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #192 on: February 05, 2014, 10:30:42 PM »
Whats the cheapest way to get to bwi from park hights area?

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #193 on: February 05, 2014, 10:45:54 PM »
Whats the cheapest way to get to bwi from park hights area?

Walking

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #194 on: February 05, 2014, 10:56:21 PM »

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #195 on: February 05, 2014, 11:07:02 PM »
Whats the cheapest way to get to bwi from park hights area?

You could try Light Rail, which may be annoying if you have luggage.

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #196 on: February 06, 2014, 10:22:52 AM »
You could try Light Rail, which may be annoying if you have luggage.

There is a Marc train from Penn station that stops at BWI.

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #197 on: February 06, 2014, 10:25:33 AM »
Is there a local bus that goes to Penn?

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #198 on: February 06, 2014, 11:22:03 AM »
Is there a local bus that goes to Penn?

I am sure there is, but I can't vouch for their safety.  I don't know many people who take local buses other than the Bais Yaakov girls :)  The Marc Train (behind the Reisterstown Road Plaza) stops at Penn and you would probably need to transfer to another train to get to BWI (also not the safest). If you are ok with public transportation I would recommend the Light Rail which has a stop in Mount Washington (1501 Smith Avenue  Baltimore,MD 21209).

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Re: Baltimore Master Thread
« Reply #199 on: February 06, 2014, 11:43:20 AM »
I am sure there is, but I can't vouch for their safety.  I don't know many people who take local buses other than the Bais Yaakov girls :)  The Marc Train (behind the Reisterstown Road Plaza) stops at Penn and you would probably need to transfer to another train to get to BWI (also not the safest). If you are ok with public transportation I would recommend the Light Rail which has a stop in Mount Washington (1501 Smith Avenue  Baltimore,MD 21209).
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