Really depends on exactly where it’s at. Parking availability in that area really varies block by block IMO.

Hahhahahhaha - right across from Revival Hotel on Cathedral Street, right?

True. But it’s odd to me that Baltimore School For The Arts, a magnet high school, is one of the “zero” schools. Sure it’s tempting to make the assumption that an arts school wouldn’t do well on math, but these kids are actually pretty talented, well rounded academically, and many come from affluent households. Is something off with the reporting? Am I missing something? It simply seems weird.

Excellent question. I don’t really have a good answer for you, but I have the same question for the general scarcity of good dosas… ;-(

This Eater article has a nice listing of restaurants in the DC/Baltimore area with thali.

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I got lunch from Akbar a couple of weeks ago and they did not have buffet.

$18 does not seem expensive for an all you can eat buffet. For comparison, Fogo de Chão lunch basic buffet is $15, but goes to $23 if you want chicken, and $27 for lamb. I think the weekend brunch at Ambassador Dining Room is around $22 now. A Denny’s Grand Slam (mostly just flour-based pancakes and garbage breakfast meats) is around $11-12 these days, and they have the advantage of scale and buying in bulk.

Can’t comment on the quality aspect.

Lumbini is not currently doing a buffet, neither are Akbar nor Kumari nor Indigma.

I think in general, it’s kind of hard for places to run buffet right now, in part because there’s generally less volume coming through for lunch.

For reference prices, all serve Chicken Tikka Masala as a dinner item, with prices ranging from $17 (Kumari, Akbar), $18 (Himalaya House, Indigma), $19 (Lumbini). Perhaps a decent proxy indicator of hypothetical buffet prices, although this of course makes some assumptions about quantity and quality of each of these Chicken Tikka offerings.

Sakoon is a bit farther away, and it’s kind of “fusion”, but at least from recent reviews they appear to have a buffet, and it may be around $14? I’ve been meaning to go there for a while but haven’t made it yet.

Incidentally, their Chicken Tikka Masala is $18..🤔

Ellin & Tucker, etc.

Good call. He still lives in the neighborhood, but not sure if he’s still taking work. Hopefully so.

Yeah the last place I recall him reviewing was Little Donna’s, and (I think) it brought them a lot of attention. I just happened to wander by there a little over an hour ago and tried to get a single seat at the bar, but they were booked for the night and had multiple people waiting for bar seating. And I just thought to myself, “good for you guys, seriously”.

I could care less about Spike Gjerde but am otherwise happy Baltimore locations continue to be featured by Tom Sietsema in WaPo.

Yeah you know what, the oil-filled heater efficiency arguments don’t seem to hold water. I relent ;-)

From the perspective of breakers tripping, I suspect the biggest difference is that many oil-filled heaters have variable wattage, while most coil electric heaters more often than not just run 1500W only.

You’ll have some of the usual culture/lifestyle adjustment for someone coming from a more rural area to a more urban area, but lots of people do it every year (I think historically most of the entire original population of the Hampden neighborhood working in the mills came from West Virginia).

Also, lots of people live just outside the city limits first to test the waters. Worth checking out.

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I totally understand where you’re coming from (after all, to a certain extent, heat transfer is heat transfer, right?). Oil-filled heaters find their cost savings through the use of the oil as a heat sink and generally having better thermostat performance in part because of that heat sink. Overall, it’s a more controlled and consistent power draw, and they do apparently seem to use less electricity overall. they also turn on and off less, so the wear on breakers (especially the old fashioned ones) is less.

As anecdote, I’ve run about 30 oil heaters at once in a very large building successfully for months on pretty old wiring. Every coil-based heater I tried to introduce into the mix blew out a breaker within a day. I don’t have direct personal data on the relative long-term power consumption during that period.

I’m not really sure what to say otherwise. Could I be wrong? Absolutely.

In all seriousness, there’s likely some demographic lopsidedness due to larger socioeconomic digital access issues, but otherwise this sub at least generally seems to be pretty healthily racially/ethnically heterogenous, at least to the extent that Baltimore and it’s surrounding areas also are.

Regardless, Baltimore is best played/raced as a team sport…

Sooo…. you’ve decided potatoes should be the real pommes d’amour, not pommes de terre? I back that.

Hope you have some regular pommes happening with those latkes…

Well good for you. The app told me I’m “not hotdog”.

I’m assuming you’re talking about using a space heater to preferentially heat one room and leave the rest of the unit cooler. If this is the case, consider getting an oil-filled electric heater, and if needed, circulating the air around it with a small fan (to blow heat to the rest of the room). These heaters work quite well, generally use less energy, and are usually less of a power draw when they start up (less likely to blow a breaker).

I could be entirely wrong here, but I suspect the nominating committee tried to diversify the nominee slate based on multiple factors, cost likely being one of them. There’s always a big deal made over the cheapest 1 Michelin star restaurant in the world (I was lucky enough to go to Tim Wo Han in Hong Kong when it held the title) — it’s possible that was in their mind when making some of these choices. No disrespect meant toward Ekiben, just to be clear.

Charleston was nominated, but for hospitality this time around.

To be clear, Wolf herself or one of her restaurants have been nominated over 20 times (with various wins) since around 2007 in many different categories.

Again, a lot of these nominations and awards are kind of arbitrary. I was (mildly) surprised Little Donna’s didn’t make the list, but it could be too new. I’m sure there’s other deserving spots as well that haven’t been nominated recently.

Ditto!

Just FYI, retail pharmacy staffing is in pretty rough shape across the board these days (especially with pharmacy techs), and the pharmacists are exhausted from giving COVID shots. The whole industry is kinda ragged right now, and my guess is that experiences will vary from day today, even at the same store.

Looks excellent.

This is the answer. Be the adult in the situation and politely but firmly emphasize that you require the code by EOD. Email (for better documentation) in addition to text May be warranted.