Cinghiale Restaurant Review
822 Lancaster St. (S. Exeter St.) 
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Baltimore, MD 21202
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Cinghiale Restaurant is one of our 2012
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Cuisine
Open
Dinner nightlyFeatures
- View
- Romantic setting
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Outdoor dining
- Valet parking (complimentary)
- Business casual
Wine
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 Cinghiale is right across the street from Charleston --- the flagship in Cindy Wolf and Tony Foreman’s justly famed Charleston Group of restaurants --- but it’s also a continent away. What Charleston does for the low-country cooking of the American South, Cinghiale (“wild boar”) does for the Italian North. It’s really two restaurants in one: the Enoteca, or wine bar, is for feasting on antipasti, pasta, panini, and charcuterie and cheeses from the central salumeria, while the formal dining room, the Osteria, offers four courses of Julian Marucci’s most luxuriant specialties. There might be some concern regarding the Osteria’s high prices and portion sizes that look mingy to locals used to Little Italy’s bounty. But when your meal includes such fare as grilled magret of duck with candied fennel and caramelized honey sauce and pan-seared rockfish with anchovy-hazelnut brown butter, a little sticker shock just might be worth it. You’ll probably want to indulge in paired wines, too. Any cellar masterminded by Foreman is one well worth exploring.
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