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Best restaurants
Sara and Tim
Richards in the
lounge of Red Bird
Bar & Grille, best
new restaurant.
PHOTO BY KIM
HAIRSTON
Best new restaurant
Red Bird Bar & Grille
3800 Ten Oaks Rd, Glenelg, 443-419-5188, redbirdbarandgrille.com
Exciting comfort food. That oxymoron
describes the fare at this neighborhood
rendezvous, which has rooted itself in the
Glenelg community, and beyond, since it
opened last August. Here, one finds juicy pork
chops topped with candied bacon; beef-andbean chili with deep-fried cornbread; and the
signature Red Bird Burger, a plump favorite
cloaked in cheddar cheese, pickled onions and
tomato-bacon jam. Plus a choice of 16 beers on
tap to wash down the spicier entrees like voodoo
pasta (shrimp, blackened chicken and capicola
with Asiago cheese in a Cajun cream sauce.)
A jazz duo plays during Sunday brunch, and
a pooch-friendly patio awaits those with pets.
Casual and colorful, the Red Bird Bar and
Grille isn’t all that new, decorated with vestiges
of beloved but long-gone local hangouts. The
tables came from Cacao Lane Restaurant; the
booths, from the Diamondback Tavern; the wall
hangings, from the Crab Shanty. That nostalgic
vibe permeates both the food and the familiarity
of the place, as owners Tim and Sara Richards
routinely greet patrons with a cordial, tablehopping how-de-do.
“Feedback is a gift,” Sara Richards said. While
customer comments run the gamut, one seems
to rule the roost at Red Bird, her husband said:
“The three words I love to hear are, ‘We’ll
be back.’ “
THE LIST
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CURED | 18TH & 21ST
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Coffee
DECADENT, A COFFEE
AND DESSERT BAR
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