The Wine Market |
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| 921 E. Fort Ave. | |
| Locust Point | |
| Baltimore, MD 21230 | |
| 410-244-6166 | |
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Hours:
Lunch: Tuesday through Friday, Dinner: nightly Brunch: Sunday The Wine Shop is open daily. | |
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The Wine Market isn't cheap - but it's hard to think of a better fine-dining deal than this outpost of South Baltimore industrial chic. The food and wine look and taste more expensive than they are and come with attentive service. The care starts with appetizers. A chilled pea soup garnished with morels and bacon was almost too pretty to eat. Entrees have a lot going on, but somehow it all works. Tender pan-seared sea scallops sat on a bed of risotto that contained not only sweet corn and wilted spinach, but pork confit. Strip steak might show up with gnocchi, fava beans, pancetta and mushrooms. Desserts included a wonderfully creamy panna cotta with blueberry-coriander syrup and a whimsical chocolate trio. Wines, many of them available in the adjoining store, are attractively priced. Mondays are "neighborhood nights," with 20-percent- off entrees and 30 bottles of wine for about $15 each. And you don't even have to live in the neighborhood.
-- Kate Shatzkin
-- Kate Shatzkin
