I haven't yet but I'll add it to my list. As far as Italian goes Sotto Sopra is next up

That's great, I really disliked both the food and the atmosphere. It's not apples and oranges it's in my opinion a bad restaurant

They advertise it as pizza. The focaccia itself isn't particularly good and I really disliked the vibe generally.

As a fellow Italian New Yorker, Baltimore is by and large a disappointment. I went to Joe Benny's which everyone raves about and heard the guy working there talking about how their Focaccia bread pizza was better than a NY slice. It was awful

Was in Memphis last December. I'd never been and was shocked how it was a complete ghost town. One of my first thoughts is that's what Baltimore will be in a decade with the way things have been headed

Interesting, there aren't offices or anything in ahampden so I'm curious what kind of work you do that'd be hybrid here. As for commuting here from DC, take the train to Penn Station and it's a quick walk to the light rail Mt Royal stop and you can take it to the Woodberry stop. When the weather is nicer I'd recommend just getting on a scooter and riding up Falls rd

Oh, it's nothing againt it. I just feel (amd anecdotally have seen) that's where recent college grads living here tend to go. I'm out of that phase now so don't think to head down there a lot. To the point of the original question though. The reasons I stated for hanging out there frequently are the reasons things are still lively there late at night

All I ever heard was it's a local coffee shop. As far as I'm concerned you described a Starbucks

Damn I'd heard Red Emma's was cool but crossing them off my list now. Thanks for the heads up

True, but that's a scene I don't tend to think about

I live down the street and don't bother with it anymore. Really sucks moving to Midtown/Mt. Vernon this year because antime we want to go out we really have to go back up to Hampden. If there were any decent sized houses up there I'd move back in a heart beat because the rest of Baltimore seems dead now. And I've asked a few bar tenders in this area why this is the case and they all say they have neither the business nor people willing to work those time anymore

Awesome, I'm getting married there next year! I highly recommend Sammy's Trattoria in Mt. Vernon. Good food and price with a private space that should fit your party but probably not many more than that

This sucks, I hate that there's a massive one just built in Woodberry off of 83 too. The building that was there was there collapsed, and they just put a giant storage facility in a historic community where everything has to be approved. It sucks that they could do that without comforming to the community at all

Movement is expensive and it's a climbing gym so there isn't a diversity of machines. They have everything for major lifts/free weights but if you want actual weight machines they don't have any. Also only a few racks so there is a wait time during peak hours.

Brick Bodies is good and you'll get a solid gym experience but it tends to be busy but you can use their Timonium location too which is pretty large though also busy.

The Y is a great option. It's cheap and the one in Towson has a good amount of machines and free weights and usually not too busy. Also you'd have access to all of Y locations which adds flexibility, there's one nearby on Druid Park dr.

Personally I do both Movement and the Y but you should be able to walk in to any of these places and get a free tour. Brick Bodies will likely give you a day pass to try it out

Yea they merged with other climbing gyms and thats the new name but it's always going to be ET to me

I couldn't have told you who it was but when I saw it was gone figured they did something undesirable and there was pressure to remove it which is fine. I just hope they replace it with another comparable statue

Good time but definitely not a cycling group

But OSU football (and band) is the best

My cousin always wanted to be a cop in the NYPD. Didn't get selected for the police academy but was told to go to BPD because they'll take anyone. Ended up not doing it and thos was a decade ago but seems like Baltimore has always been desperate for cops

The safest way imo would be Charles>Francke>Greenspring>Wight>Ashland