ENTERTAINMENT
by Richard Gorelick and The Baltimore Sun | January 10, 2013
Charles Street will be closed from Mulberry to Saratoga streets from early Saturday morning (around 3 a.m.) to approximately 6 p.m. on Sunday, according to city officials. The closure will accommodate a massive crane needed for work on one of the buildings on the 300 block of Charles Street. There are quite a few restaurants on that block, one of the longest blocks downtown. They include Lumbini , Maisy's , Cazbar , Homeslyce, Ban Thai , Mick O'Shea's , David & Dad's and the Woman's Industrial Kitchen . All of them will be open regular hours during the street closure.
NEWS
By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun | January 10, 2013
North Charles Street will be closed between Saratoga and Mulberry streets for much of the weekend. Motorists are encouraged to avoid the area and take alternate routes. The two-block closure will last from 3 a.m. Saturday through about 6 p.m. Sunday to accommodate a crane that will be working on a building, according to the city transportation department. Detours and parking restrictions will be in effect. sdance@baltsun.com twitter.com/ssdance
ENTERTAINMENT
Richard Gorelick and The Baltimore Sun | May 20, 2014
Indochine Vietnamese Restaurant (1014 N. Charles St., 410-539-4636) is now open in the Mid-town Belvedere neighborhood. The restaurant's specialty is the Vietnamese noodle soup known as pho, which can be ordered with various combinations of well-done steak, flank steak, tendon, brisket and meatballs. The menu also includes other Vietnamese cuisine, both stir-fried and from the grill. Indochine's owner is Amy Nguyen, whose family owns the Pho Hiep Hoa Vietnamese restaurants in Wheaton and Silver Spring.
NEWS
August 13, 2010
Those of us of a certain age can recall Charles Street when there were dozens of shops and consumer oriented services in the blocks between Fayette and Centre Streets, the area addressed by Janet Heller ("Charles Street could use a little TLC," Commentary, Aug 11). In particular, in the 300 block in the 1950s on the east side of the street, there were two furriers, a TV store, a silversmith, a purveyor of antique jewelry, a camera store, a men's' haberdashery, two sellers of fine china and stationery (one was my family's 120-year-old business at 317)
ENTERTAINMENT
Richard Gorelick and The Baltimore Sun | January 16, 2014
Joseph Poupon, the owner of Patisserie Poupon, is preparing to open a cafe version of his patisserie downtown. Cafe Poupon will be located in the cafe space at 225 N. Charles St. The storefront space adjoins the Grand Historic Venue, the former Masonic Lodge now operated as an event space by the Embassy Suites Baltimore - Inner Harbor hotel. Unlike the Jonestown patisserie on Baltimore Street, which sells only pastries, the new location will offer a menu similar to that at Poupon's store on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, namely breakfast and lunch fare like omelets, quiches, brioche and baguette sandwiches and salad nicoise.
NEWS
By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | November 21, 2012
A stretch of Charles Street that was damaged and closed after a 90-year-old water main broke beneath it and sent torrents of water downhill two weeks ago was reopened Wednesday night, according to Baltimore's Department of Public Works. The stretch reopened - "just in time for holiday travel," the city said - about 8:20 p.m., after being closed between W. North Avenue and W. 21st Street in the city's Charles North neighborhood Nov. 7. All sidewalks, road surfaces and utilities on the street damaged by the break are also fixed, the department said.