David’s 1st & 10: Baltimore’s Best Sports Bar?

Lately in Baltimore it’s been pretty tough to open a new bar or restaurant without drawing a lot of attention to yourself. As soon as your doors are open the fooderati are inside snapping up Instagrams of their dinners and Yelping their opinions all over the place. You might get a table visit from the […]

The Do’s and Don’ts of Christmas Lights

We’re forgoing any Christmas decorations this year. Call it an austerity measure. Call it Grinching. Call it (most accurately) laziness. With the amount of traveling we do every year, and not knowing when we’ll next be home for the holidays, it didn’t seem prudent to invest time, effort and money in decorations that may not […]

Anonymity: an Undervalued Commodity

An interesting incident occurred earlier this week. The Chop went to dinner in a certain North Baltimore establishment. It’s a small place, but it does a good trade and is usually more full than empty. As soon as we walked in though, we were greeted like old personal friends. More than that, we were recognized […]

Kickball in the Schoolyard

As you probably already know, many area Catholic schools are slated to close due to ‘budget issues’. We’re going to reserve any comment on the Church as a whole, and instead stick to what we know best. We have very mixed feelings, to say the least. Although the Chop is (mostly) a product of the […]