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Owl Bar Restaurant Review

The Belvedere
1 E. Chase St. (Charles St.) Send to Phone
BaltimoreMD 21202
410-347-0888 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
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Dazzling courses of decorative German brickwork make this historic bar one of Baltimore's favorite watering holes.

Cuisine

Open

Lunch & Dinner daily, Brunch Sun.

Features

  • Full bar
  • Reservations suggested
  • Open late
  • Valet parking & parking lot
  • Casual

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The fabled owls still sit high atop the brass-railed bar in one of Baltimore's most famous watering holes. Supposedly, if you see their eyes blinking, you've imbibed more than enough. Order that yard of beer, and it's likely you'll live the myth. The antidote lies in a menu that rounds up both classic and creative versions of such usual casual-dining suspects as salads, sandwiches and pizza---one pizza, for instance, is topped with crab dip, another with fresh peaches, bacon and goat cheese---and a selection of eclectic entrées ranging from Thai salmon to chimichurri pork loin to spicy Cajun shrimp and grits. But the real attraction is the environs. The two-story space boasts courses of decorative German brickwork in what used to be the favorite gentleman's-only haunt of the legal community---and their bookmakers---throughout the early 1900s. If only these walls could talk.

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