Compiled with input from readers and the newsroom, The Baltimore Sun’s list of 100 essential food experiences encompasses places people talk about, think about and come back to again and again and again.

Developers for Cross Street Market say that a Royal Farms stand selling fried chicken will soon join the offerings at the renovated Federal Hill market.

In Baltimore, we fight and squabble, and sometimes we get what we want

Women and minority owners at Cross Street are not coming back after renovation.

Despite what critics say, a renovated Cross Street Market will include a diverse array of businesses, according to one of the developers.

A renovated Cross Street Market leaves out small and minority and women-owned businesses, but makes developers Caves Valley Partners richer.

A vegan takeout spot, a cocktail bar and a pizza spot are three of the new tenants coming to Cross Street Market in Federal Hill, developers announced Tuesday. 

The Atlas Restaurant Group is currently in lease negotiations to open a new seafood tavern and crab house at the Cross Street Market, along with a seafood market. The new concepts will replace Nick's Inner Harbor Seafood, which closed earlier this year.

Developers announced designs for a new Lexington Market, a Westside anchor that could break ground in early 2020 and open in the summer of 2021.

Developers promoting carless living are finishing an apartment building where tenants will get a bike when they sign a lease.

Nunnally Brothers, believed to be one of the Baltimore's oldest businesses, has sued the city saying it put them out of business by the renovation of the Cross Street Market and failed to pay relocation expenses. Earlier this week, the Court of Appeals agreed to hear a fellow merchant's case.

A farmer's market is planned for May-October alongside the Cross Street Market

Kenneth R. Glauber, former president of Glauber's Fine Candies Inc., that was founded in Baltimore in 1876, died Jan. 22 from congestive heart failure at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, Pa. The former Riderwood resident was 88.

With more than a year to go until the electoral primary, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has revealed that she has nearly $1 million in her campaign coffers. But where did the money come from?

Four new vendors serving lunch, craft beer, tacos and poke are joining Cross Street Market.

Baltimore-area businesses weathered failed deals, layoffs, closings and restructuring in 2018. But some started new chapters by expanding or merging, and new development sprouted all over and one new industry spread like a weed.

Cross Street Market vendor Nick’s Inner Harbor Seafood has announced it will close in January amid a lease dispute with the market’s operator.

Three longtime Broadway Market vendors and five newcomers will sell food and drink in the renovated market when it opens next year.

Baltimore officials issued new plans for a redeveloped Lexington Market, where a new building will have a smaller footprint and cost less than earlier plans for the revamped market.

Cross Street Market isn't the only public market that's being updated.

When Cross Street Market opens in the spring it will offer a mix of 30 current and new vendors, including meats, fresh fruits and vegetables and freshly prepared foods and coffee.

Cheese Galore and More, formerly a longtime vendor in the Cross Street Market, has relocated to a Federal Hill storefront and acquired a liquor license.

James E. “Jim” Sizemore, a retired Social Security Administration art department worker and cartoonist, died of lung cancer Sept. 24 at Gilchrist Center Towson. He was 80 and lived in South Baltimore.

When life hands you lemons — well, don’t even bother. Jamaria Crump already has you beat. It took the 11-year-old one year to perfect her top-secret lemonade recipe along with the pies, cakes and cookies that have made her all-things-lemon business, LemonTopia, a hit.

A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by four former Cross Street Market merchants who said the city should repay their moving and relocation expenses.

The current and former owners of Cross Street Seafood, Baltimore’s Best Bar-B-Que, Cross 10 Grocery and Bruce Lee Wings are seeking up to $250,000 in damages from the city in lawsuits.

A roundup of Baltimore City Health Department closures at public markets since 2012.

Northeast Market closed Tuesday after a video surfaced showing a pair of rats scampering through one of its aisles.

Agnes F. Reisenweber, a super-centenarian whose family believed was the state's oldest living person, died April 14 at age 111 from complications from a fall.

At 32, Han has already spent five years filling gaps in the city’s food scene. The proprietor of Dooby’s, Sugarvale, Sundays and two forthcoming eateries is equal parts driven and grounded, bold but calculated in bringing fresh dining experiences to Baltimoreans.

Baltimore Sun staffers make "best of" choices in the dining category.

Coach was named Sunpapers coach of the year

A crowdsourcing effort to “save” Bruce Lee Wings, the mainstay in Cross Street Market for almost three decades, seeks to raise $60,000 for the business, which the page says will close at the end of the month.

An Annapolis man received 20 years in prison for opening fire during a street brawl after the bars closed in Federal Hill in November 2016, prosecutors said.

A Cross Street Christmas and the smashed balsam tree

Caves Valley Partners has released a new, 1950s-inspired design for its overhaul of Cross Street Market.

Big Jim's Deli at Cross Street Market will close next weekend after 38 years in business. The closure comes as Caves Valley Partners plans a massive overhaul of the Federal Hill market.

Andrew C. "Andy" Helms, a popular Washington College economics professor whose somewhat quirky behavior delighted his students and friends, died Nov. 12 from undetermined causes at his Crumpton home. He was 44.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday for a community center in the Sharp-Leadenhall neighborhood. It is part of a large project called Stadium Square, which includes 600 luxury apartments, retail and office space and revitalization of Solo Gibbs Park.

Even by Baltimore standards, recent crimes have many feeling as if the city has tipped over into a terrible place of lawlessness, coupled with a seeming inability by its leadership to right the course.

The first apartment building in South Baltimore’s three-block Stadium Square development celebrates its grand opening Wednesday.

Cross Street Market will add pop-up vendors to four renovated stalls throughout November.

Ravens fans react to players kneeling during the national anthem in London.

A restaurant, seafood market and butcher shop are being proposed as part of Broadway Market's overhaul.

Tian's Teriyaki is moving out of Cross Street Market so its owner can attend to a sick relative in China.

My friend and I went to a great, new, little Italian place in Reisterstown called Kecco's Woodfire Kitchen. We had sandwiches which were so good we made a m

Sen. Bill Ferguson has requested $250,000 from the state to make tenant improvements at Cross Street Market, as plans for a private renovation remain in limbo.

Baltimore's long-standing public markets, badly in need of an overhaul, work to remain relevant in the city's changing and competitive foodscape.