09-25-2022 Capital Style - Flipbook - Page 22
Best restaurants
BEST BAKERY, BARBECUE,
BREAKFAST, BURGER,
TAKEOUT, VALUE
JULEP SOUTHERN
KITCHEN & BAR
2207 Forest Drive, Annapolis.
410-571-3923. julepannapolis.com
It’s almost a given that, while table-hopping with
diners, Bob Krohn receives a daily hug. Or two. The
food makes folks do it. The pecan-smoked fried chicken,
shrimp and grits and chicken-fried steak tend to trigger
unabashed thanks from patrons.
“There’s comfort in taking a bite of something, having
your shoulders relax and getting a smile on your face,”
said Krohn, 68, co-owner of the 3-year-old family
restaurant. “This is upscale, down-home Mayberry
food.”
A spinoff of sorts from The Hideway, Krohn’s
award-winning barbecue joint in Odenton, Julep Southern shares some top entrees but adds twists of its own,
like the southern egg rolls filled with collard greens,
black-eyed peas and pulled pork. The fried green tomatoes, in a remoulade sauce, have a gently-fried shrimp
on top.
The setting is rustic: walls are covered with recycled
pallet wood, and the light shades are galvanized Italian
olive-picking buckets. The bar boasts 61 different bourbons and, in a nod to Southern moonshiners, alcoholic
drinks come in Mason jars (takeout jars have handles).
Rib-sticking bread pudding leads desserts; it’s made
from the kitchen’s scratch biscuits.
“The biscuits are fluffy and immense,” Krohn said.
“Eat a whole one and you’re not so hungry for dinner,
but I try not to advertise that.”
Key lime pie is a popular
dessert at Julep Southern
Kitchen, a restaurant in the
Forest Plaza in Annapolis.
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THE LIST
Ambience
Bar food
Honorable mentions:
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Blackwall Hitch
The Crab Shack Edgewater
Honorable mentions:
Julep Southern Kitchen & Bar
Riverbay Roadhouse
Adam’s Grille &Taphouse, Edgewater
Bakery
Barbecue
Honorable mentions:
Black Market Bakers Edgewater
Carlson’s Donuts &Thai Kitchen
Blue Crab Cupcakes
Honorable mentions:
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Bayside Bull
Riverbay Roadhouse
CHART HOUSE
JULEP SOUTHERN
KITCHEN & BAR
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JULEP SOUTHERN
KITCHEN & BAR
Bartender
RILEY SELIGMANN,
FEDERAL HOUSE
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Justin Shade, Annapolis Smokehouse
Beer list
HEROES PUB
Honorable mentions:
Julep Southern Kitchen & Bar
Lures Bar & Grille
Fox’s Den