Thames Street

Brown's Wharf, Fells Point. Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays to Wednesdays; 8 a.m. to 3 a.m. Thursdays to Saturdays. Call 276-5751.Rosalie Spence, owner of the Deli, is a familiar face. Visitors to the Brown's Wharf shop quickly recognize her from the days when she sold hot pretzels and popcorn at the Brokerage and in Fells Point. Now she sells Belgian waffles, raisin nut logs, bagels, breakfasts, sandwiches, salads and desserts at a friendly storefront on Thames Street.The Deli just opened three weeks ago, so it's not without new business pains -- a wait here, no seafood salad there -- but don't let that stop you from trying the healthy-sized combination sandwiches that come with creamy coleslaw and chips ($5.50)

You'd expect a Baltimore restaurant to compete in crab cake competition, but Thames Street Oyster House is contending for a big lobster roll prize. The event is Tasting Table's third annual Lobster Roll Rumble, which will take place in New York City on June 7. You can take a look at event information and photographs of all 20 contenders here So, how did a Baltimore restaurant come to have a contending lobster roll. Turns out chef Eric Houseknecht stayed in Providence after graduating form Johnson & Wales University.

THE BUSINESSES that make up Baltimore's nascent "Digital Harbor" have been housed mostly in old industrial buildings recycled for new uses. Now, a local development team is formulating plans to extend the waterfront revitalization by building half a dozen structures that will fill a gap along the Fells Point shoreline while continuing the scale and character of the surrounding historic district. Struever Bros., Eccles & Rouse and Constellation Real Estate are working with the design firm of Cho Benn Holback & Associates to create a master plan that will guide development of 4.7 acres along both sides of Thames Street between Bond and Caroline streets.

John Houser III reviews The Waterfront Hotel in Fells Point, which is not to be confused with the new Waterfront Kitchen that opened late last month just two blocks west on Thames Street. Nor should the Waterfront Hotel's current menu be confused with that of the Waterfront Hotel under its previous ownership. The Fells Point property changed hands in February, and things have changed, for the better, Houser says. Here's his review of The Waterfront Hotel .

John Houser III reviews The Waterfront Hotel in Fells Point, which is not to be confused with the new Waterfront Kitchen that opened late last month just two blocks west on Thames Street. Nor should the Waterfront Hotel's current menu be confused with that of the Waterfront Hotel under its previous ownership. The Fells Point property changed hands in February, and things have changed, for the better, Houser says. Here's his review of The Waterfront Hotel .

On January 18, 2005, ELIZABETH M. SAAL (nee Owens); beloved wife of the late John Joseph Saal; devoted mother of Patricia Ann Saal; sister of Mary Cherigo. Friends are invited to celebrate a Memorial Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 37th Street at Hickory Avenue, on Saturday at 10 A.M. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Johns Hopkins Medical Center, 1627 A Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. Inquiries may be directed to the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc. (410) 889-3735.

Lucretia Billings Fisher, the leader of an early effort to save Fells Point and Federal Hill from a 1960s interstate highway, died of renal failure Friday at her Ruxton home. She was 98. "Lu Fisher was way ahead of her time," said former Judge Thomas Ward, a fellow preservationist and former City Council member. "There weren't too many people who saw the possibilities of those neighborhoods when she did. " Born Lucretia Billings in Pittsburgh, she attended the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Her father was a prominent physician and her mother was a Mayflower descendant.

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.

THE PROBLEM : Streetlamps along the Harbor Promenade in Fells Point have been unlit since 2006. THE BACKSTORY: Michael D. Williams was not the first person to write to Watchdog about the unlit streetlights. Most of the public walkway that runs along the waterfront from Federal Hill to Canton has plenty of light, but a stretch that starts at The Crescent apartments to where Thames Street dead-ends at the water had been in the dark. Williams, a Canton resident who runs along the path, said he first noticed the problem in September.

Few development projects at highly sensitive locations have had the preliminary attention accorded to the site of the old AlliedSignal chemical plant on the Inner Harbor. Instead of dropping a wrapped package at City Hall's doorstep, AlliedSignal and its local advisers have held extensive negotiations -- involving real give and take -- for 10 months. Not everyone between the harbor and Fells Point is satisfied, but so far, so good.The AlliedSignal rendering calls for a mixture of housing, offices, shops and public facilities on the 27-acre site.

Bond Street Social is off to a good, swaggering start. The Fells Point newcomer wants to be destination not only for evening dining but for late-night carousing, too. If early indications are reliable, it will manage to have it all. In Baltimore, the bar for success is set hilariously low for this kind of multi-use establishment. Simply by not being rank amateurs or greedy knuckleheads, the people behind Bond Street Social moved to the head of the pack on opening day. This cavernous restaurant space in the Bond Street Wharf was originally home to DuClaw Brewing Co., whose otherwise successful sports bar concept never quite took in Fells Point.

Lucretia Billings Fisher, the leader of an early effort to save Fells Point and Federal Hill from a 1960s interstate highway, died of renal failure Friday at her Ruxton home. She was 98. "Lu Fisher was way ahead of her time," said former Judge Thomas Ward, a fellow preservationist and former City Council member. "There weren't too many people who saw the possibilities of those neighborhoods when she did. " Born Lucretia Billings in Pittsburgh, she attended the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Her father was a prominent physician and her mother was a Mayflower descendant.

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.

Fells Point, a waterfront neighborhood, has had a historic shortage of good seafood restaurants. There are one or two very good high-end choices, but the casual options are meager and the mid-range options non-existent. Here comes Thames Street Oyster House , which in the few weeks since its opening has been drawing a steady stream of customers. Part of the instant success at Thames Street has to do with the popular owner, Candace Beattie, who developed a following behind the bar at nearby Alexander's.

The Sunday review is of Thames Street Oyster House. The review is online now. Since reviewing Thames Street , the seasons have changed. But there are heat lamps for the courtyard.

Chazz: A Bronx Original starts lunch service on Aug. 30. And Thames Street Oyster House started its lunch service last week. The lunch at Chazz goes from 11:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m., and features the dinner menu along with a few added-in lunch options like panini and chicken Caesar salads. The lunch at Thames Street Oyster House, which Suzanne Loudermilk mentioned in her In Good Taste blog, began on Aug. 24 and is offered on Wednesday through Sunday, 1:30 a.m.-2 p.m., according to the restaurant's Facebook page .

Frederick Douglass, famed abolitionist and editor of The North Star newspaper, resided in Fells Point from 1826 to 1838 - as a slave. Learn about his life here at Baltimore Black Heritage Tours' Frederick Douglass "Path to Freedom" Walking Tour Saturday at 9:45 a.m. The tour, led by BBH Tours President Louis C. Fields, visits several 18th-century buildings and historic sites associated with Douglass, including locations where he lived, worked, worshipped and...

The storm surge didn't come, so Rob and Paula Notrica went ahead with their wedding reception Sunday. It didn't matter that guests dressed in their finest had to skirt sandbags to get into the Fells Point restaurant. It didn't matter that relatives had begged them to postpone as dire warnings mounted. It didn't even matter that the frantic week before the nuptials had been accompanied by an earthquake. "We almost had a disaster, but it turned out perfect," said 33-year-old Paula Notrica, a psychiatric therapist who lives in Pikesville.