Colleen and Tyler Wittig Are ‘Syked’ Husband-and-wife entrepreneurial team Colleen and Tyler Wittig were on staff together at the Market Tavern in Sykesville for seven years before they decided to make their pitch and take over the business from the ...

Funny- or Quirky-Named Bars and Restaurants from Movies and TV This month, we take a break from our current series of articles in which we have been spotlighting funny- and quirky-named bars, restaurants, and taverns in and around Maryland and Washin...

Jailbreak Foodworks & Brewing Company ... with a name like that, you would think this Laurel, MD, establishment would exist in a former jail or prison that has been renovated and retrofitted. But the name is more of a metaphorical one. After year...

An Out-of-This World Gastropub in Baltimore’s Hampden When Geoff Danek moved to the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore in 2002, he had no idea that three guys back in the 1920s tried to build a 24-foot-tall rocket ship right in his garage. The local r...

Gino Palma is the embodiment of the American dream. The Pozzuoli-born restaurateur emigrated without any family to the United States at the age of 19. He had almost no money and spoke very little English, but he knew he could find employment in foods...