The Brass Tap, a popular craft beer and bar food spot on Mt. Royal Avenue, has closed for good. August 31 was its last call.
Owner Barry Lowenthal told The Bulletin that he had asked MCB Real Estate, which in 2022 purchased the Fitzgerald Apartments building on Mt. Royal Avenue where the bar has operated for nearly a decade, to reduce the rent. “We negotiated in good faith,” Lowenthal said, “but we couldn’t reach an agreement.”
Bolton Hill’s newest food establishment – a Mexican grill akin to Chipotle – will open in the Sav-a-Lot strip mall on McMechen Street this fall. It’s the latest addition to the neighborhood from the Ranjha family of Ellicott City that bought Maryland Sav-a-Lot grocery outlets nearly four years ago.
Located at the corner of Eutaw Place and McMechen Street, at the ground level for the Jordan Apartments, The Tilted Row opened for business shortly before the pandemic shut down businesses across the country and left the hospitality industry reeling. The pandemic changed eating and going-out patterns for many families, leading scores of restaurants to permanently close in Baltimore and around Maryland.
The restaurant at the corner of Mt. Royal Avenue and Oliver Street has changed names and owners again, but pizza remains its raison d’être. Angeli’s Pizzeria, which has shops in Little Italy, Federal Hill and elsewhere, is moving in now that Noona’s has moved out.
Noona’s restaurant – now called Noona’s Curry & Pie – is open under new ownership, and for the first time in many years, Bolton Hill residents can get a table-served lunch or dinner and cocktails seven days a week.
Bolton Hill’s oldest watering hole – a nationally-noticed dive bar – has new owners for the first time in many years. One of them lives in the neighborhood.
The property which housed the Park Avenue Café, shut down early during the pandemic, has been purchased and will re-open as a coffee roasting facility and coffee shop – perhaps as early as March.
When my husband and I were house shopping a few years ago, a flyer at an open house in Barclay mentioned its proximity to Baltimore’s Koreatown.
That declaration acts as a preface to BHCA’s new strategic plan for Bolton Hill, the first such document in 15 years, intended to guide the association in establishing priorities and interacting with city government and private interests. The 21-page plan was unanimously adopted by the BHCA board at its April Zoom meeting.
Most of the news about dining out this year has been bleak. More cheerful has been the arrival in December of Alma Cocina Latina, relocating from Canton to the old Chesapeake (and more recently Pen and Quill) restaurant site on North Charles Street.
