Sandwich Shop

Pasadena man robbed outside sandwich shopA 23-year-old Pasadena man was robbed early yesterday while using a phone outside a sandwich shop near Curtis Bay, Anne Arundel County police said.Police said two men accosted the man near Sandy's Subs and Stuff, in the 7300 block of Fort Smallwood Road, about 3:30 a.m. and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.No weapons were used during the robbery and the man was not injured, police said.

Man robs sandwich shop after customers leaveA man who apparently waited outside for customers to leave robbed a Hospital Drive sandwich shop Monday, county police said yesterday.The man had walked into the Soda Pop Shop in the 300 block of Hospital Drive in Glen Burnie shortly after 7 p.m., stepped up to the counter, placed a brown paper bag on it, pulled a small-caliber handgun from his coat pocket and demanded money from a clerk, police reported.After the clerk put an undisclosed amount of money into the man's bag, the robber left the store and headed down Mountain Ridge Drive, police said.

The greater Mount Vernon neighborhood has grown stronger, more confident and busier lately. What's been happening in this eminently walkable district? I tend to think of Baltimore's midtown neighborhood as being far more extensive than Mount Vernon. I see it as everything south of North Avenue, with Charles Street as its spine. This fall, the space long occupied by Hasslinger's and the Chesapeake Restaurant is being readied for a new opening. Maybe it was the overly long closure of the Chesapeake, as the neighboring Tapas Teatro flourished, that made me so impatient.

The website listed the address as 300 E. Lombard St., and sure enough, when we arrived, a prominent sign assured us we had landed at those very coordinates. But there was no sign, literally or figuratively, of Rosina Gourmet. Pluckily, we entered the office building that didn't look anything like a gourmet sandwich shop. If ever a place resembled an office lobby and not a restaurant, this is tit. In fact it looks exactly like the Alex Brown Realty Inc. office building it purports to be and not a sandwich shop at all. After a moment of complete disorientation we asked a kind receptionist what happened to the restaurant.

A two-alarm fire swept through a strip of Roland Park businesses in the 500 block of W. Cold Spring Lane, destroying a sandwich shop and a remodeling company and damaging several other shops early yesterday. The blaze started about 1:30 a.m. in a building that was home to three businesses - a Subway sandwich shop; Thomson Remodeling Co., a residential contracting company; and the former location of Carmen's of Roland Park Family Cuts barbershop, fire officials said. Six engines and 46 firefighters brought the blaze under control at 2:49 a.m., fire officials said.

The twin retail buildings Michael Stavlas is building on South Camp Meade Road aren't even finished, but already one tenant has moved in, and nearby merchants are worried that those soon to come will duplicate the services they offer."

Don't look for the Roland Park Bakery & Deli in Roland Park. The combination bakery and counter shop is in Hampden now and doing well, where it appears to have filled a niche between the fancy fare of the neighborhood's new spots and the slapdash grub you can still find at the old haunts. A longtime fixture of Roland Park life, Anita Ward's combination bakery and sandwich shop reopened last year on Chestnut Street after 27 years in the Roland Park Shopping Center. The move wasn't entirely voluntary.

When the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve last year, Karen Ruchkin and a group of friends climbed to the rooftop of her Canton home, said goodbye to the old year, and watched the fireworks over the Inner Harbor usher in the new."That was one of the stipulations the former owners had for me when we closed the sale of this house two years ago," Ruchkin said. "I promised them that every Fourth of July and every New Year's Eve I would host a party and share the spectacular view of the fireworks with friends."

Sans his usual bow tie, Chick Levitt stayed up well past his usual bedtime last night to lobby the Annapolis City Council for a reprieve for the blue and orange neon sign that decorates the window of his well-known sandwich shop.By 10:15 p.m., after meeting for nearly three hours, the council hadn't even begun to consider the issue of the sign at Chick & Ruth's Delly."I get up at 4 a.m. every day to go to work," said Mr. Levitt. "The fTC main thing I'm trying to say is that I'm not asking for special treatment, I'm asking them not to take something from me. The next thing they'll tell me is I can't hang a Hanukkah bush in the window during the holidays."

The dish: turkey and cheddar wrap The popular Charles Street mainstay, David and Dad's, has opened a cafe inside the Enoch Pratt Free Library 's Southeast Anchor branch in Highlandtown. The Highlandtown location has nothing like the full menu at the restaurant's 334 N. Charles St. digs or the Express shop at 1 N. Charles St. The library location is stocked with meals prepared at the parent shop and really feels more like what it's meant to be: a quick-stop coffee shop.