Restaurant Group

It's a boy! The fifth restaurant from Baltimore restaurateurs Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf is named Johnny's. Scheduled to open Tuesday morning in Roland Park, Johnny's will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. • Get a sneak peek: Johnny's in Roland Park [Pictures] Johnny's will occupy the space at the Roland Park Shopping Center that was formerly occupied by the Roland Park Bakery & Deli. It joins the four other restaurants in the Foreman Wolf restaurant group, Charleston, Pazo, Cinghiale and Petit Louis, which is located in the same shopping center.

The Bagby Restaurant Group  ( Bagby Pizza , Ten Ten , Fleet Street Kitchen ) sent out news about its fourth restaurant, Cunningham's, which will open this summer in the renovated Towson City Center. There's a slight name change. The restaurant was originally announced as Cunningham Kitchen. And Cunningham's will have a little brother in Towson City Center, a casual ground-floor space named Cunningham Cafe & Bakery. Cunningham's, like Fleet Street Kitchen, will feature dishes from "local, sustainable meats, produce and housemade ingredients.

Powerful tobacco lobbyist Bruce Bereano -- who was convicted in 1994 of mail fraud but is best remembered in Howard County for suing the County Council that year for $1.5 million over cigarette issues -- has joined the battle over the county's strict new anti-smoking law.Neither the council nor County Executive Charles I. Ecker has shown any interest in reviving the bruising debate, but the hiring of Bereano, who is appealing his convictions, is evidence that...

Call it manifest restaurant destiny. In 2012, Baltimore-based restaurateurs set about expanding their empires, or at least their brands. Clementine opened a second location in the Creative Alliance in Highlandtown, the team behind Langermann's in Canton opened a second location in South Baltimore, and the owners of Mo's opened a new restaurant in Towson, in the old Hersh's Orchard Inn. And, in December, a version of Baltimore's estimable Prime...

CLARIFICATIONHoward County Councilman C. Vernon Gray's position on the county's anti-smoking law was not fully explained in an article in Wednesday's Howard County edition of The Sun about efforts to lobby the council to repeal the law. Gray does not plan to revive County Council discussion of the anti-smoking law. But if the issue comes to the council through the initiative of another member, Gray said, he would consider its merits as he would with any...

Call it manifest restaurant destiny. In 2012, Baltimore-based restaurateurs set about expanding their empires, or at least their brands. Clementine opened a second location in the Creative Alliance in Highlandtown, the team behind Langermann's in Canton opened a second location in South Baltimore, and the owners of Mo's opened a new restaurant in Towson, in the old Hersh's Orchard Inn. And, in December, a version of Baltimore's estimable Prime...

Food ** (2 stars) Service *** (3 stars) Atmosphere **1/2 (2 1/2 stars) Towson is an area that never seems to have as many good, reasonably sophisticated eating places as I think it should, given the disposable income of the people who live around there. One of the bright spots has al ways been Paolo's Ristorante, a local chain -- sorry, restaurant group -- that defined Cal-Ital for Baltimore in that trend's heyday. You remember: light, bright, fresh takes on Italian food in a contemporary, high-energy bistro atmosphere.

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. is now open at Harborplace. The restaurant and market takes over the old Phillips anchor space. The restaurant will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. The restaurant is owned by Houston-based Landry's Inc, which refers to itself as "America's biggest dining, hospitality and entertainment company. " Their holdings include casinos, resorts, hotels and such formerly independently owned restaurants groups as McCormick & Schmick's and Morton's the Steakhouse.

Columbia already has a restaurant park by design, but the co-owner of a successful Washington-based restaurant group is creating his own version in Town Center by happenstance.Clyde's Restaurant Group, which has operated Clyde's of Columbia on Wincopin Circle overlooking Lake Kittamaqundi since 1975, opened The Tomato Palace adjacent to Clyde's on March 23. The restaurant group also recently purchased the closed Rusty Scupper restaurant a stone's throw away.John Laytham, Clyde's Restaurant Group co-owner and executive vice president, and executive chef Tom Meyer say they are contemplating turning the Rusty Scupper site into a steak and seafood house.

Columbia already has a restaurant park by design, but the co-owner of a successful Washington-based restaurant group is creating his own version in Town Center by happenstance.Clyde's Restaurant Group, which has operated Clyde's of Columbia on Wincopin Circle overlooking Lake Kittamaqundi since 1975, opened The Tomato Palace adjacent to Clyde's on March 23. The restaurant group also recently purchased the closed Rusty Scupper restaurant a stone's throw away.John Laytham, Clyde's Restaurant Group co-owner and executive vice president, and executive chef Tom Meyer say they are contemplating turning the Rusty Scupper site into a steak and seafood house.

It's a boy! The fifth restaurant from Baltimore restaurateurs Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf is named Johnny's. Scheduled to open Tuesday morning in Roland Park, Johnny's will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. • Get a sneak peek: Johnny's in Roland Park [Pictures] Johnny's will occupy the space at the Roland Park Shopping Center that was formerly occupied by the Roland Park Bakery & Deli. It joins the four other restaurants in the Foreman Wolf restaurant group, Charleston, Pazo, Cinghiale and Petit Louis, which is located in the same shopping center.

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. is now open at Harborplace. The restaurant and market takes over the old Phillips anchor space. The restaurant will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. The restaurant is owned by Houston-based Landry's Inc, which refers to itself as "America's biggest dining, hospitality and entertainment company. " Their holdings include casinos, resorts, hotels and such formerly independently owned restaurants groups as McCormick & Schmick's and Morton's the Steakhouse.

PABU, the second restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, is set to open Tuesday night. See reactions and photos from pre-opening dinners . The dinner only restaurant is a first collaboration between Michael Mina, whose San Francisco-based restaurant group also developed the concept for Wit & Wisdom , the Four Seasons ' three-meal restaurant, and Ken Tominaga, owner and chef of Hana Japanese Restaurant in Sonoma County,...

Gourmet hot dogs must be doing huge business in Baltimore. A year after Ryan Perlberg, co-owner of Stuggy's, opened Rye, a cocktail bar, he's launching Willow. The new bar/restaurant will focus on infusions by Rye mixologist Doug Atwell and revisionist Mexican by Stuggy's chef Benjamin Polson; it's expected to open in late June, Perlberg said. With Rye and Stuggy's beside it, Willow gives Perlberg control over a small fiefdom in Fells. And Perlberg is working on re-organizing ownership of the venues under one partnership tentatively called RP Restaurant Group; he co-owns Rye and Stuggy's under different partnerships.  The group name has not been registered yet with the state, records show; Perlberg says paperwork was filed this week.

Ten Ten, the handsome new Harbor East restaurant adjacent to the Bagby Pizza Company, is brimming with good ideas about everyday dining. The menu is credited to executive chef Mark Davis, formerly of the Baltimore Country Club. His tenure there, you're tempted to think, instructed him on the fine art of giving people both what they think they want, and what they don't know they want — until they have it. So, the menu at Ten Ten is a smart and compact mix of the accessible and the gee-whiz.

The Bagby Restaurant Group has released details about their two new restaurant concepts in the Bagby Building, along with the news that Christopher "Squints" Becker will be leaving the Wine Market to join its company as co-executive chef with Mark Davis. The first, a contemporary bistro named TEN TEN, and located adjacent to Bagby Pizza Company, is tentatively scheduled to open in late August.  TEN TEN, a Bagby representative says, will offer "a warm urban setting with a contemporary American menu at affordable prices.  It’s a neighborhood café, elegant bistro and eclectic tavern all balanced into one beautiful and inviting space.

When the Belvedere Restaurant Group (1 E. Chase St., 410-347-0888) lost Pauli Santi, aka Champagne Tony, it lost the chef its main dining room was named after. But now the Belvedere restaurants have come up with an interesting replacement. Morou D. Ouattara, a native of the Ivory Coast, has arrived from the Red Sage in Washington, where he was executive sous chef. He plans to focus on "contemporary American cuisine, emphasizing presentation as well as taste" at Truffles Restaurant at the Belvedere (the main dining room's new name as of May 1)

Baltimore is a city that can use more bagel shops. Now we have a new one, the Roland Park Bagel Co. (500 W. Cold Spring Lane, 410-889-3332). This is the latest in the Crazy Man Restaurant Group, which includes Loco Hombre, two Miss Shirley's, Alonso's and S'ghetti Eddie's. The new shop replaces Sam's Bagels, so I asked owner Edward Dopkin why he thought another bagel shop would succeed in the same location. For one thing, he says, it's a more ambitious endeavor, offering sandwiches made with "quality meats" on wraps, flatbread and ciabatta rolls as well as bagels.

How much does it matter to you that a restaurant feel local? This is the question I was mulling over as I had an enjoyable meal at the new Real Seafood Co. in Annapolis. The small, Michigan-based chain delivers decent food, professional service, a handsome setting and, well, a fun evening. But it feels like a restaurant that could be almost anywhere - in Maryland, Michigan, Florida, Ohio. (And indeed it is in those four places.) If that doesn't bother you, you'll have a fine time there.

Baltimore is a city that can use more bagel shops. Now we have a new one, the Roland Park Bagel Co. (500 W. Cold Spring Lane, 410-889-3332). This is the latest in the Crazy Man Restaurant Group, which includes Loco Hombre, two Miss Shirley's, Alonso's and S'ghetti Eddie's. The new shop replaces Sam's Bagels, so I asked owner Edward Dopkin why he thought another bagel shop would succeed in the same location. For one thing, he says, it's a more ambitious endeavor, offering sandwiches made with "quality meats" on wraps, flatbread and ciabatta rolls as well as bagels.