Prime Rib

Longtime general manager David Derewicz is leaving his position at the Prime Rib . His departure was confirmed by the restaurant's owner, Buzz Beler, who described the parting as amicable. Two familiar figures at the Prime Rib, John Klaus and Brad Black, will now be co-managing the storied steak house, and Prime Rib regulars will be seeing more of Beler himself. "I'll be taking over," said Beler, who relegated himself to an ownership role during Derewicz's long and widely admired tenure.

2009 Ferrari-Carano Tresor From: Sonoma County, Calif. Price: $50 Serve with: Prime rib, rack of lamb Yes, it's expensive, but if you are looking for a special-occasion red wine that you can drink with pleasure now, this is a fine choice. It's a Bordeaux-style blend of exceptional elegance and style. It's complex and rounded, with flavors of black cherry, blackberry, vanilla and chocolate. It's structured to age well but there's really no need to wait. -- Michael Dresser

Starting this Sunday, Fleming's is offering a $29.95 prime rib dinner on Sunday nights through September 2. That's 11 Sundays! The Fleming's offer includes a choice of salad (The Wedge, Fleming's house salad, or Caesar), dessert and a choice of one side with the prime rib, which is served with a trio of sauces. The promotion also includes a specially priced wine -- B.R. Cohn North Coast Silver Label Cabernet Sauvignon (2008/09) for $40 a bottle.

Baltimore Restaurant Week winds up on Sunday. But some restaurants are extending their special menu offers beyond the official end of the promotion. The extenders are posted on the Baltimore Restaurant Week website. Among those extending are: 17 Light, Alchemy, Alexander's, B a Bolton Hill Bistro, Caesar's Den, Da Mimmo, The Helmand, Kali's Court, Matsuri, Mezze, Michael's Steak and Lobster, Mo's Crab and Pasta Factory, Pazo, Plates, The Prime Rib, Regi's American Bistro, Sabatino's, Sascha's, Sullivan's, Supano's, Talara, Tapas Adela, Wine Market Bistro and Ze Mean Bean.

Maryland Live Casino has opened its version of the Prime Rib, the iconic Baltimore steakhouse that has flourished almost from the second of its founding in 1965 by the Beler brothers. The new steakhouse is operated by the casino and is technically unaffiliated with the Prime Rib restaurants in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington. The casino operators describe the relationship as a licensing partnership with Buzz Beler. He has, by all accounts, played a significant role in pulling off the casino restaurant, whose chefs received training in the Prime Rib ways in the Washington restaurant's kitchen.

Has The Prime Rib, which requires waiters to wear tuxes and exudes "the intoxicating aroma of old money," according to Esquire magazine, got a deep discount deal for you. Eat $100 of the restaurant's haute chow and pay just $50 under its wildly successful Groupon promotion, which was pitched last month. (Diners have all summer to use the offer.) Order The Prime Rib's signature dish, which normally costs $47.95, and pay only a little more than you would at Outback. The Rib sold 5,000 coupons within a few hours on Groupon.com.

The Prime Rib at Maryland Live Casino is on track to open, quietly, sometime in December, but there is a hiring of note. The steakhouse has brought on as its dining room manager Jean-Jacques Retourne, who was the general manager at Citronelle in Washington for more than 13 years. Citronelle, Michel Richard's celebrated restaurant in the Latham Hotel, closed in July after suffering extensive water damage, and the status of its reopening remains uncertain. The restaurant also announced the appointments of head chef Michael Meisel and sous chef Doff Edwards.

Baltimore-based steakhouse The Prime Rib will join the line-up of restaurants at the Maryland Live Casino, Cordish Cos. officials announced Wednesday. The Prime Rib joins the previously announced Cheesecake Factory and Phillips Seafood , which will be part of a station-style buffet. Celebrity chef Bobby Flay, whose participation in Maryland Live was first announced in October 2010, will be represented by his Bobby's Burger Palace brand. The Prime Rib addition is a coup for Cordish, which had originally announced that Ruth's Chris would be the steak house brand at Maryland Live.

The return of crisp, cool autumn air beckons the past. It conjures feelings of nostalgia, a need for something warm, familiar and classic. The simple, smoky Manhattan represents this return to the season. The good Manhattan's fragrance connects to the world of Don Draper or, even further back, to Prohibition-era glamour. To me, the setting for enjoying a good Manhattan only contributes to the lore of the cocktail - and nowhere embodies the sophistication of the drink more than the Prime Rib in Mount Vernon.

Joan Rivers played the Hippodrome on Friday night. Rivers apparently wanted a Maryland crab cake before the show. And, after some back-channel communications, it came to pass that the Prime Rib delivered a crab cake dinner, along with a floral arrangement and a bottle of red wine, to Joan Rivers' dressing room before the show.  I know for a fact that Joan Rivers is a nice person because my neighbor Cookie Hymer told me so. Cookie was a manager at...

Maryland Live Casino has opened its version of the Prime Rib, the iconic Baltimore steakhouse that has flourished almost from the second of its founding in 1965 by the Beler brothers. The new steakhouse is operated by the casino and is technically unaffiliated with the Prime Rib restaurants in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington. The casino operators describe the relationship as a licensing partnership with Buzz Beler. He has, by all accounts, played a significant role in pulling off the casino restaurant, whose chefs received training in the Prime Rib ways in the Washington restaurant's kitchen.

The Prime Rib at Maryland Live Casino opened, quietly, a few weeks ago, six months after the casino's grand opening and 10 months after the surprise announcement that Buzz Beler's storied Baltimore steakhouse was joining the casino's lineup. Operated, Beler has said, as a "joint venture" with the casino's developers, the Baltimore-based Cordish Cos., the new restaurant has been designed with respect for Prime Rib icons like leopard skin carpeting, black-leather booths and Icart prints.

When Demetrios "Jimmy" Minadakis opened a restaurant in 1974, he had high hopes for the place's success - such high hopes that he chose the name Jimmy's Famous Seafood. Nearly 40 years later, the Dundalk restaurant has lived up to - and deserves - its "famous" billing. Now run by Minadakis' sons, John and Tony, Jimmy's timeless takes on classic cuisine and professional service feel just as relevant today as they did in the 1970s. On a Tuesday night during a busy holiday week, Jimmy's cavernous dining room was about half full, with a mix of couples and larger groups.

It's holiday party time. It can be a drag, especially if you're the one planning it for your office gang. For restaurants, holiday party rentals provide a welcome, sometimes vital source of income. I'll be telling you about options in a coming column, and on the Baltimore Diner blog, but this option got my attention. On Dec. 10, Joe Squared at the Power Plant is throwing a "shared holiday party. " So let's say you have an office group that wants to get together for the holidays - but no one wants to do the planning.

Longtime general manager David Derewicz is leaving his position at the Prime Rib . His departure was confirmed by the restaurant's owner, Buzz Beler, who described the parting as amicable. Two familiar figures at the Prime Rib, John Klaus and Brad Black, will now be co-managing the storied steak house, and Prime Rib regulars will be seeing more of Beler himself. "I'll be taking over," said Beler, who relegated himself to an ownership role during Derewicz's long and widely admired tenure.

The Prime Rib at Maryland Live Casino is on track to open, quietly, sometime in December, but there is a hiring of note. The steakhouse has brought on as its dining room manager Jean-Jacques Retourne, who was the general manager at Citronelle in Washington for more than 13 years. Citronelle, Michel Richard's celebrated restaurant in the Latham Hotel, closed in July after suffering extensive water damage, and the status of its reopening remains uncertain. The restaurant also announced the appointments of head chef Michael Meisel and sous chef Doff Edwards.

The return of crisp, cool autumn air beckons the past. It conjures feelings of nostalgia, a need for something warm, familiar and classic. The simple, smoky Manhattan represents this return to the season. The good Manhattan's fragrance connects to the world of Don Draper or, even further back, to Prohibition-era glamour. To me, the setting for enjoying a good Manhattan only contributes to the lore of the cocktail - and nowhere embodies the sophistication of the drink more than the Prime Rib in Mount Vernon.

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