L’Shana Tova!
Trying to figure out all of your High Holiday season culinary needs? Eddie’s of Roland Park is now offering a complete “Chef’s Prix Fixe,” an all-inclusive, traditional dinner box for Rosh Hashanah that includes all of your yontif faves — matzoh balls and chicken soup, European apple cake, roast brisket with gravy and glazed corned beef.
For the Yom Kippur break-fast, their popular smoked nova salmon platter includes bagels or a challah sub roll, courtesy of A Friendly Bread, a local bread business owned and operated by baker/entrepreneur Lane Levine.
(For information about Eddie’s, visit eddiesofrolandpark.com. For information about A Friendly Bread, visit afriendlybread.com/)
Good Stuff
The phrase “the Good Life” is commonly used to describe the life you dream of living.
During Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, “The Good Life” is a special event with an entire schedule of cool things to do from Oct. 8 to 10.
Want to learn about beekeeping? Experience an authentic Japanese tea ceremony? Learn how to cook a fabulous three-course brunch from an award-winning chef?
“The Good Life” brings together experts to satisfy your desire to know more, do more and be more. One of the featured events is “Brunch with celebrated chef Jerry Edwards” of The Manor Tavern in Monkton.
On Saturday, Oct. 9, at 11 a.m., you can enjoy a livestreaming interactive and in-person cooking demo with Chef Edwards, who will guide people at home to cook along with him while in-house guests watch the magic happen. A grocery store partner will sell meal kits for at-home cooks to purchase.
This event benefits The Red Devils, a nonprofit based in Baltimore whose mission is to fund services that improve the quality of life for breast cancer patients and their families.
Those services include treatment transportation (van services, gas cards, taxi vouchers), family support (housecleaning, groceries, child and respite care) and medical services (co-payments and insurance premiums, chemo and radiation, and exams).
If you or someone you know is battling breast cancer, give The Red Devils a call. (For information about “The Good Life” and The Red Devils, visit the-red-devils.org.)
Spirits Among Us
Thanks to recent legislation, spirits distilleries — for the first time in Baltimore’s history — can make and serve cocktails to the public.
The Baltimore Spirits Company welcomes guests 21 and older to its new tasting room and bar, the Cocktail Gallery at 1700 W. 41st St., an arts-centric space. With production inside the distillery just down the hall at the Union Collective, guests can enjoy a unique cocktail menu that’s divided into “art movements,” including surreal and modern. A large gallery wall will feature a rotating exhibition of art, and each artist will have an exhibition opening reception.
(For information, visit baltimorespiritsco.com.)
Speaking of artists, Topside Restaurant in Mount Vernon’s Hotel Revival has named Alexis Hernandez as its new executive chef. With extensive experience working in fine dining and upscale restaurants in Peru, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Chef Hernandez began his formal training at Le Cordon Bleu, in the Peruvian capital of Lima, as the youngest student in the institution’s founding culinary class.
Dishes include Chilean sea bass, bronzino, crab pasta, braised oxtail and the Topside burger topped with white aged cheddar and caramelized onion puree.
(Visit jdvhotels.com/revival.)
No Way!
Chef Ashish Alfred, owner of Duck Duck Goose in Fells Point, is opening a new concept restaurant in October called No Way Rosé, in the space formerly occupied by Bookmakers Cocktail Club in Federal Hill.
While Duck Duck Goose is an upscale French bistro, No Way Rosé also will offer a French menu but in a more casual atmosphere.
In 2018, Duck Duck Goose was named “Best Restaurant in Maryland” by Southern Living magazine, and Chef Alfred was named “Chef of the Year” by the Restaurant Association of Maryland in 2019. (For information, visit facebook.com/nowayrosebaltimore/.)
Meanwhile, Bark Social, a beer garden, coffeehouse and off-leash dog park, is set to open at the end of the year in Canton.
Patrons can enjoy libations, as well as tasty pup and human menu offerings, while spending time with their fur babies under the supervision of “bark rangers.” (Visit barksocial.com.)
Randi Rom is president of RJ Rom & Associates. She is a freelance columnist and writer who represents some of the region’s top restaurants and food-related events. Contact her at randirom@comcast.net.
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