OT: Going to Camden Yard
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Capt. Tuttle
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Get there early for Boog's BBQ. Also the CF bleachers are a great spot to watch BP. Do the aquarium and dolphin show b/4 if you can. By tickets in advance.
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I wish.
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Thx
Thursday night tix don't appear to be an issue on the O's website.
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Guaranteed Oriole victory
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Two words: Natty Bo
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Went about a month ago for the 5th or 6th time. Pickles Pub was a good time beforehand with very reasonable drink prices. Also had an excellent meal at Pratt Street Ale House. Probably my second favorite park I've ever been to, and my favorite of the new generation of stadiums. Any of the seats on the lower level are good seats, and I paid like $30 to sit in section 60.
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Made my first trip there over memorial day weekend. Top 3 of all the baseball stadiums I've been too. Enjoy some Natty Bohs and have fun!
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Went for the first time in mid-April.
Only advice is splurge for good seats. I took my son and we got seats day-of-game about 15 rows behind first base. Wasn't terribly expensive (compared to what I'm used to at Fenway and Yankee Stadium) and really worth it, IMHO.
Enjoy!
Only advice is splurge for good seats. I took my son and we got seats day-of-game about 15 rows behind first base. Wasn't terribly expensive (compared to what I'm used to at Fenway and Yankee Stadium) and really worth it, IMHO.
Enjoy!
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I lived in Baltimore from 2008-2013 and can point you in the direction of some good restaurants - how long are you in town for and where are you staying?
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Staying at Brookshire Suites near the Inner Harbor. In town for 5 days which will include 1-2 day trips to D.C. Any and all recommendations appreciated!
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Woodberry Kitchen is an excellent restaurant. Lexington Market has a couple good options (especially crab cakes). Also, you'd need a car, but Chaps Pit Beef is the rare TV-featured restaurant that's not overrated. Though the pit beef in right field at the ballpark is decent, too.
Awesome stadium, really good baseball fans, too (so many fewer transplants than Washington, for instance). Get there early, get a sandwich at Boog's, enjoy the atmosphere. You'll love it.
I remember my first trip to Camden about 20 yrs ago. My wife and I and my buddy and his wife who had never been to a baseball game. I bought the tix on line the day they went on sale and the only thing avail was club level. So we walk into the stadium and take an elevator up to the club with a really nice reception desk. Looking around and they are offering food like tossed caesar salad, etc ( 20 yrs ago not as common as today). We are seated and a waitress comes up and asks and takes a drink order. After she brings them back my buddies wife says "I think I could get used to this." So the lesson to this story is if you have someone not interested in a sport at all spoil them a little and they will probably come back.
Boog's Backyard BBQ is defintely a good stop in the stadium. I haven't been to Saratoga Raceway for a while but he used to have a place there as well.
Try Joe Squared Pizza too. There is one in Inner Harbour but the Station North location is the original and they also have live music. Lots more than pizza on their menu.
Boog's Backyard BBQ is defintely a good stop in the stadium. I haven't been to Saratoga Raceway for a while but he used to have a place there as well.
Try Joe Squared Pizza too. There is one in Inner Harbour but the Station North location is the original and they also have live music. Lots more than pizza on their menu.
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Meant for the aquarium.
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-OttoMets saying that Woodberry Kitchen is an excellent restaurant probably doesn't do it justice. It's arguably the best restaurant I've ever been to. It could be a random Tuesday night in February, and the place (which is big) is absolutely packed to capacity. It's farm-to-table, the menu changes daily, just unbelievably high-quality cooking.
Other things to see…
-Lexington Market (Faidley's has what many consider the best crab cake in the area)
-Fort McHenry (if you're a history buff, it's a very cool War of 1812 fort that has a great panoramic view of the water)
-Fells Point (historic, cobblestone street neighborhood, where Michael Phelps lives, lots of boutique shopping and bars/restaurants)
-SeaDog (a fun high-speed boat ride around the harbor)
-Little Italy (walking distance from the Inner Harbor, lots of great Italian restaurants, and a place called Vaccaro's is famous for it's cannolis.
-As others have said, the aquarium in the Inner Harbor is very popular.
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Mari Luna restaurant is a nice Mexican place nearby. Easy walk
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I second getting a sandwich @ Boog's at Oriole Park. It's second only to a Ben's Chili Bowl Half Smoke with chili, onions, and cheese at Nats' Park for ballpark food down this way.
Some neat things to look at near Boog's are the stars in Eutaw Street where homers hit the ground after they left the seating area of the Park. When one does, someone will run over and mark the spot with their foot until an usher can get there.
Some neat things to look at near Boog's are the stars in Eutaw Street where homers hit the ground after they left the seating area of the Park. When one does, someone will run over and mark the spot with their foot until an usher can get there.
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Call me crazy, but I'd rather have a 6-year-old Kahn's hot dog left over from the last season at Shea Stadium than a half-smoke from Ben's.
(Not to get off-track, but the best food bet at Nationals Park -- thanks to their generous carry-in policy -- is to get a burger at the Five Guys on Half Street, stuff the bag full of peanuts, and bring it into the stadium.)
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They used to have the Five Guys inside the park!
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Yes indeed, but the service took forever and the prices were like 50% more than the outside location. After missing 1.5 innings on a couple occasions, some friends and I tried the Half Street option and never looked back.
