New Restaurant

A new restaurant will open in the Living Classroom's Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum in late October. Waterfront Kitchen will feature a menu of "spirited American cuisine" designed by Jerry Pellegrino of Corks and will "emphasize seasonal ingredients," some of which will be grown by students in Living Classroom 's BUGS (Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students) program in a greenhouse located on the school's nearby Caroline Street campus.  The new restaurant, which will seat 75 inside and 100 outside on a waterside promenade, is owned by Charles Nabit and Michael Klein.

On a corner in Little Italy sits Pacific Coast Dining Company, a restaurant trying to bring multicultural cuisine to the heart of red sauce country. And aside from a few inventory issues on a recent trip there, it succeeds. From its name, you might think Pacific Coast Dining Company sells cooking supplies. It's actually a romantic, modern-looking restaurant, with blue walls and azure accents in the bar and dining areas. We were seated next to a windowed wall with a people-watching view of Eastern Avenue.

Dan Rodricks dropped by Phillips Harborplace on Sunday for a sweet good-bye to the Light Street Pavilion anchor restaurant. He wasn't the only one. Here's Rodricks' story about the people who showed up for the last day to reminisce about the celebrities that came through back in the go-go '80s, A-listers like Muhammad Ali, Queen Latifah andBrad Pitt. Later this fall, Phillips will open a new restaurant nearby in the Power Plant space forrmerly occupied by the ESPN Zone.

Grillfire, the new restaurant at Arundel Preserve, itself a new mixed-use development near Arundel Mills, was the subject of the Sunday review. The review is not very positive. I received a courteous and genuinely concerned response about it from George Korten, the owner of Grillfire, and I let a representative of his know that Mr. Korten was welcome to post a response to the review in the comments below, as are all of the Baltimore Sun's readers.

Sometimes, eating at a restaurant is all about the adventure. You can try a dish you've never had before, and maybe even come home with a story to share with friends. At Mat Jip in Charles Village , you might just find both. Mat Jip, which means "Taste House" in Korean, has taken over the space once filled by Famous Yakitori One. A small restaurant to begin with, it has none of the previous tenant's hipster panache. The place is seriously stripped down: A few sheets of paper with house specialties are taped to the stark white walls, and blinds hang from the ceiling, in between tables, to help sequester diners.

A ctor Chazz Palminteri (“The Usual Suspects,” “A Bronx Tale”) has partnered with Aldo’s owners Sergio and Alessandro Vitale to open a new restaurant in Harbor East called Chazz: A Bronx Original. With its soft opening Friday, Palminteri’s restaurant is styled after the eateries on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx and will feature classic Italian-American dishes. Palminteri sat down with b to discuss his restaurant, movies, the mafia and the proper way to eat a slice of pizza.

The Corner, a new restaurant in Hampden, took over the location where a diner had operated since the beginning of time. The Corner has things like escargot, moules frites and roasted monkfish on the menu, so, naturally, folks fretted about The Avenue losing another piece of its flinty soul. Don't worry. The Corner has the makings of a weird-Hampden classic. In these early months — it opened in early March — it's as awkwardly charming as a newborn calf, and part of an evening's pleasure is watching it stay upright.

Annapolis Town Center has opened five new restaurants and two financial services companies. Below is a description and  list: Fidelity, t he 4,958-square-foot investor center at Annapolis Towne Centre will offer a full range of investment products and services to individual mutual fund and brokerage customers. Flat Top Grill , a create-your-own stir fry restaurant that features fresh ingredients and house-made sauces in an interactive setting. The 3,497-square-foot location will be Flat Top Grill’s 17 th restaurant nationwide, and the first one on the entire eastern seaboard.

Restaurant weeks come and go. Already this year, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Annapolis have mounted successful winter dining promotions. Frederick is wrapping up its winter restaurant week Sunday. Talbot County is up next. Some two dozen restaurants, clustered mostly in Easton, Oxford and St. Michaels, will be offering fixed-price, two-course lunch ($20.11) and three-course dinner menus ($30.11) March 20-27. Participating restaurants include a few I've written about lately — the Robert Morris Inn and Brasserie Brightwell — and others I've been wanting to go down and try. What distinguishes this year's Talbot County's restaurant week is its glamorous March 27 closing event at the Tidewater Inn . "An Evening with Julie and Julia" will feature a pair of best-selling food writers, Julie Powell and Amanda Hesser.

Restaurateurs Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf hope to open a new restaurant in the Roland Park Shopping Center in the space once occupied by a beloved deli. The pair, who are known for local restaurants such as Charleston , Pazo and Cinghiale , are negotiating to open the eatery later this year. The new venture will also occupy space in a former Long & Foster office adjacent to the deli. The shopping center is also home to Foreman and Wolf's Petit Louis restaurant , which recently marked its 10 t h anniversary.