The Dining Dish blog is Dara Bunjon's take on anything food, both national and in her hometown of Baltimore. Warning: this food blog can be harmful to your waistline.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Immeasurable Chicken and Waffles – better than Breakfast at Tiffany’s

If every a restaurant had spirit, soul and joy it is Immeasurable Chicken and Waffles. It is located on West Pratt Street, a bit off the beaten path of the downtown restaurant neighborhoods but worth the trip. A Sunday morning jaunt for breakfast with friends proved to be an enjoyable dining experience.

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Immeasurable Chicken and Waffles – better than Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Chilly chili cookoff 2010 at the National Aquarium - Recipes included

I haven’t met a person who makes chili who didn’t think their chili was the best. Chili with meat (beef, pork, lamb, sausage etc) and beans, with chicken, no beans, with no meat topped with onion, cheese and nacho chips or Cincinnati chili over pasta. A friend of mine in Oklahoma, a BBQ competitor, cried out that there are no beans in real chili. Chili, like many foods, is subjective to what you have grown up eating and what makes the best chili is weighted in childhood memories.

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Chilly chili cookoff 2010 at the National Aquarium - Recipes included

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Monday, January 18, 2010

A little too much chocolate is just about right - The Chocolate Affair

Salazon chocolate bars, mojo spice chocolate ice cream truffles, hazelnut crusted chocolate goat cheese salad, chocolate hazelnut mole served over wild mushroom ravioli are just a few of the chocolate delights at the 19th annual Chocolate Affair being held Thursday, February 4th. Known as “the sweetest night in town,” the business/cocktail event will feature dazzling displays of sweet and savory items competing for awards by celebrity judges.

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A little too much chocolate is just about right - The Chocolate Affair

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

The Gin Mill - much more than I expected

Over the years I have ridden by the Gin Mill on Boston Street where Fells Point ends and Canton begins. I thought of it as one of many bars in the neighborhood where the 20 year olds partied, never as a restaurant. Brian Lawrence of Style Magazine, one of my dining buds the evening I was there states on his blog “the Gin Mill of old— when both upstairs and downstairs bars would be packed shoulder-to-shoulder on weekends with beer-quaffing revelers.”

Things do change and yet remain the same

Luke and Lester Reeder have owned the Gin Mill for 15 years and for awhile others managed it but the Reeder boys took it back a couple of years ago. As they have matured, the Gin Mill has matured. Read the full report and check out the photo slide show:
The Gin Mill - much more than I expected

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Gin Mill on Urbanspoon

Saturday, January 16, 2010

In search of authentic Chinese food


How daring are you when it comes to new foods? Do you hesitate or do your jump in with your tastebuds a blaze with curiosity? Do you search out new flavors, new cuisines and new restaurants? I fall to right of the center of the scale, willing to try the new – wanting to search out authentic foods of countries, not the American version.

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In search of authentic Chinese food

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Meat Week: Alternative to Baltimore’s Restaurant Week

Are you a meat lover, a barbecue (BBQ) lover, a lover of all things meat well welcome to Baltimore’s Meat Week. Kicking off Sunday, January 31st through Sunday, February 7th join your carnivorous peeps for Meat Week for 8 straight days of local barbecue. Meat Week is held in multiple cities, it isn’t just regional.

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Meat Week: Alternative to Baltimore’s Restaurant Week

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Baltimore Restaurants and Bars raising money for Haiti’s earthquake victims

The food service industry never ceases to amaze me with their generosity in time and giving in time of need and tragedy. The devastating earthquake in Haiti has left many dead, many homeless and many missing. How can your hearts not go out to these people, to their children?

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Baltimore Restaurants and Bars raising money for Haiti’s earthquake victims

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Upcoming Italian Cooking Classes - mangia!!!!!

Don't you just love cooking classes? I do, being surrounded with other foodies, people sharing your same passion. Similar to being at a Raven's game of like-minded, purple-decorated fans, just not so many. Many of my friends and dining cohorts come from cooking classes I've attended - we've created cooking/dining clubs or go out to eat on a regular basis. Try a cooking class, they are fulfilling and filling.

Crossing my desk recently have been a number of Italian inspired cooking classes so here are the details for the foodies. Check out the upcoming classes:
Upcoming Italian Cooking Classes - mangia!!!!!

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Shrimp Scampi in 5 minutes for the cooking challenged

I’m not much for prepared foods; I like to do most of my cooking from scratch. I know there are a great number of you out there that are cooking challenged and finding an easy to prepare tasty dish would be appreciated.

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Shrimp Scampi in 5 minutes for the cooking challenged

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Saturday, January 09, 2010

Restaurant Weeks: Baltimore, DC, Howard County, Newark DE, New York City & Philadelphia

In putting this post together for you as to the restaurant weeks in the surrounding areas I’ve come to find out that most cities are not posting their menus. The official Washington DC page does not have the menus though DC Foodies has put it together. On the Howard County list you have links to websites but few have posted their menus. New York City will open up reservations starting 1-12-10.

Get all the details to each city's restaurant week:

Restaurant Weeks: Baltimore, DC, Howard County,, Newark DE, New York City & Philadelphia

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Friday, January 08, 2010

Nil by Mouth – could you survive?

Roger Ebert, one of the country’s most recognized movie reviewers just wrote a column about not having the ability to eat or drink anymore. I was polarized – a deer in headlights, frozen in time thinking what life is like having the ability to enjoy food and beverage and if I lost that gift.

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Nil by Mouth – could you survive?

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Gayot lists the country’s heart-healthy restaurants


My instinct was to look immediately for the Baltimore restaurants on the Gayot ~ the guide to the good life list of heart-healthy restaurants. As Gayot explains, “A heart-healthy diet has nothing to do with dieting. It's simply a way of eating foods low in sodium, fat and cholesterol.”

Check out the Baltimore's heart healthy list:

Gayot lists the country’s heart-healthy restaurants

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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Three course VALUE seafood dinner for two special at Red Lobster for $29.99


Darden Restaurant Inc owner of The Red Lobster restaurant chain has finally jumped into the value-added bundled meals reports Restaurant News. Just introduced is dinner for two for $29.99 which offers a choice of Caesar or Garden salad for each guest, a choice of entrees with new menu items Garlic Herbed Shrimp Pasta and Peach Bourbon BBQ Chicken & Shrimp.

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Three course VALUE seafood dinner for two special at Red Lobster for $29.99

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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Grano Pasta Bar (piccolo) on ‘the avenue’ temporarily closed


Owners Gino Troia and Yolanda (Julie) Padilla are revamping, refreshing and redoing the original and the tiny (piccolo) Grano on ‘the avenue’ in Hampden, the one on the corner of Hickory at 1031 West 36th Street. Renovations started Monday and continue through to January 14th.

The changes :

Grano Pasta Bar (piccolo) on ‘the avenue’ temporarily closed

Grano on Urbanspoon


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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

You don’t have to wait for Restaurant Week – check out dinner for two for $30 including wine.

The Mt. Washington Tavern is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a great special for dinner for two for $30, representing the number of years they have been in business. Did I ever tell you that the Tavern is where my husband and I met? Well it is true, and it was thirty years ago come this September.

Let me get back on track. The Mt. Washington Tavern is offering this special dinner now---

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You don’t have to wait for Restaurant Week – check out dinner for two for $30 including wine.

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Monday, January 04, 2010

Suburban House Restaurant re-opening

On July 8, 2009 the landmark, much cherished Suburban House Restaurant, one of the few Jewish deli's still remaining in the city, caught fire. The restaurant has been around for over 40 years and gone through multiple owners. The most recent owner is Mark Horowitz who was the boy who used to live next-door to me on Sequoia Avenue.

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Suburban House Restaurant re-opening

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Bacon salt, bacon envelopes….now the bacon alarm clock

No joke, an alarm clock that wakes you by cooking bacon and letting the sizzling pork’s aroma awake you from your sleep. The prototype was created by Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini, Hsiao-huh Hsu.

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Bacon salt, bacon envelopes….now the bacon alarm clock

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Friday, January 01, 2010

Food Network's Worst Cooks in America premieres Sunday, January 3

Damn I don’t qualify to be on the Food Network’s new reality cooking show Worst Cooks in America.I’m a good cook but not quite Top Chef skilled or crave the abuse on Hell’s Kitchen.

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Food Network's Worst Cooks in America premieres Sunday, January 3

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