Fell’s Point is Olde Towne with Hip Spots

Fell’s Point is one of the older areas of Baltimore’s harbor area.  I spent a lot of my afternoon walking around there because I heard so many locals talking about it when I asked them about places to go in Baltimore.  I also had some of you guys suggest the area in the Comments earlier, so I decided to take you up on it!

This is a really cool part of town.  Note the cobblestone roads.  It is the first thing you’ll notice about the area., but this is in no way a mainly historic area.  Instead, you’ll see it is a popular hang out point for Baltimore’s, for lack of a better word, hipster crowd.  Don’t let that turn you off, though.  Baltimore’s hipsters are way more down to earth than what you normally think of when you hear that term.

I first stopped in the Broadway Market.  It is an old-style market that now host a series of restaurants in an open space.  Mostly, there is just bar seating.  It’s like you are in the kitchen with the restaurants.  There is a Korean Fusion Place, a European Deli, a Burger Joint, and Sal’s Seafood.  Since we don’t have a whole lot of seafood in the ATL, I went up to Sal’s “counter.”  Well, it’s less of a counter and more a display of fresh fish on ice.  See for yourself in the pic.  I had a Fish Taco Wrap and fried smelt, which is basically the fish equivalent of french fries.  It was all pretty tasty.

Another place of note was the Sound Garden.  This was a huge new and used music store.  I could be consider a bit snobbish when it comes to music, so I went inside and saw if they had 4 rare albums I would want.  They had 3, which is actually pretty impressive.

Right outside of Sound Garden, I ran into a guy who asked me outright if I like Spoken Word poetry and hip hop.  Don’t laugh, but I actually wrote my thesis on it.  Needless to say, we talked for a while on the street.  He really represented the friendly nature of the people I’m running into here in Baltimore.  Also, he had a small part in The Wire, which is cool cuz I love that show.  Anyway, check out Urn-Raunchi, he’s a cool guy trying to show the intellectual side of Baltimore hip hop.