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Wendy’s new ‘do
Wendy isn’t letting her hair down, but her pigtails look a little more relaxed. And maybe that will help make you decide to drop in for a burger and a Frosty. Wendy’s announced this week that the...
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No delivery of pizza question?
Pizza Hut offered a pizza a week for 30 years or more than $15,000 to anyone who would pose the pizza-centric question “Sausage or pepperoni?” during Tuesday’s presidential debate. But the promotion...
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A premium on National Premium
National Premium beer — the more refined older brother to Natty Boh — is making its comeback on Baltimore taps Tuesday night thanks to a realtor from Easton who’s determined to return the brew, which...
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You want a franchise with that?
The owners of The Melting Pot restaurants are coming north with a chain of fast casual hamburger places called Burger 21, with the first establishment in Maryland set for Rockville. Burger 21 is...
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Eat, fly, love
If travelers through Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport have a long enough layover, they should scoot on over to Concourse B to eat, according to The Daily Meal website. The...
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Restaurant rendezvous
Just when you thought you’d prevailed through the diet-sabotaging holiday season (Pumpkin pie! Christmas cookies! Champagne!) and actually made progress on that health-related New Year’s resolution,...
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The dish on the Dish Mob
What do you get when you cross Restaurant Week with a flash mob? A food fight would be a good guess (with enormous fun potential) but the correct answer is slightly more innovative. Say hello to Dish...
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Nando’s Peri-Peri to give away free meals via Facebook
As part of its March 20 Baltimore grand opening buzz, the spicy, flame broiled chicken restaurant Nando’s Peri-Peri will be giving away free meals via Facebook. The “Afro-Portuguese” restaurant that...
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Dinner for two? That’s the ticket
You make a reservation at a restaurant but then don’t show. That may not be a big deal to you, but it is to the restaurant. So some of them are doing something about it: selling tickets. A small number...
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Serving up a good cause
This week through Thursday, California Pizza Kitchens in Annapolis, Hunt Valley and across Maryland and the U.S. are raising money for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and their families. The...
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Ocean City boardwalk gets crafty
Shorebilly Brewing Co. on the boardwalk in Ocean City is Maryland's newest craft brewery. (Alexander Pyles/The Daily Record) I spent about three days in Ocean City last week, mostly sitting in on...
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Belly up to Chocolate Bar in Bethesda
Max Brenner is opening a Chocolate Bar in its fifth American city at Bethesda Row on Wednesday. A purveyor of a multitude of things chocolate, the establishment promises, according to a news release,...
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Party is ‘sugar high’ for cupcake business
(Alissa Gulin/The Daily Record) For breakfast this morning, I had a cupcake, a luscious chocolate morsel infused with Old Bay, slathered with salted caramel buttercream icing and topped with a...
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College Park: An eat-able community?
The Common (photo provided) College Park is the latest jurisdiction to launch what has become an ubiquitous marketing tactic: the restaurant week. The first annual College Park Restaurant Week, in...
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Flacco vs. Kaepernick, the commercial sequel
The McDonald’s commercial featuring Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco and his Super Bowl counterpart, the San Francisco 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick, debuted on Monday. It’s an update of the Larry...
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A tasty play on tradition at Maggiano’s
We’ve all seen our fair share of ribbon cuttings. Maggiano’s Annapolis opened it’s doors Monday after a ribbon cutting ceremony using a 10 foot braided pasta ribbon. From left, Maggiano’s VP of...
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At Applebee’s, dinner and a tablet
Hello, I’m a tablet, and I’ll be taking care of you tonight. Applebee’s is insisting that’s not what is on the horizon as it installs tablets at every table in all 1,860 of its restaurants in the U.S....
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Christmas on a sundae
According to multiple sources, this Wednesday, Dec. 25, is Christmas. Now, I enjoy the holiday season as much as the next person, what with everyone in a festive mood and the new Apple commercial that,...
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