Apartment Look

Diners enjoy lunch at Tortilleria Sinaloa, which has top-notch tacos in tortillas made the right way — by hand. The unassuming storefront in Fells Point is one of several cheap-eats destinations in a city suddenly flush with award-winning chefs. (Doug Kapustin/For The Washington Post) Baltimore is that rare city with a dish so fundamental to its culture that the food’s name is an answer to a crossword puzzle. But if the crab cake is Charm City’s calling card, it can also be a cross to bear for those planning to open a restaurant there. The chef who dares to ignore the crab cake is the chef who risks losing the tourist searching for Baltimore’s signature dish, typically built with Chesapeake jumbo -lump crab, saltine cracker crumbs , a mayo binder and, of course, Old Bay. “You will find that in many restaurants there is a crab cake,” says Suzanne Loudermilk, restaurant critic for the Baltimore Sun. “It’s just part of our cuisine. When people do come from out of town, they inevitabl...

Description: Riverstone at Owings Mills Apartments Surround yourself with lush landscapes and relaxation in this tranquil and convenient Owings Mills community . Located just off Interstate 795, Riverstone at Owings Mills Apartments is just minutes away from all of the shopping, dining, and entertainment venues that make this northwestern Baltimore County location the perfect new tohome. Once you enter the community, choosing a floorplan to suit your lifestyle becomes a fun adventure. Offering numerous one, two, and 3 beds options with expansive layouts will ensure comfortable stress -free living. Your roomy apartment will provide an of incredible amenities from the dramatic 9 foot vaulted ceilings with crown and decorative molding to the designer kitchens with premium granite counters . As a Riverstone at Owings Mills resident you will enjoy Owings Mills and Baltimore s many restaurants, supermarkets, and retail shopping experiences . Grab breakfast, lunch or dinner at Eggspect...

Take a ride on the 8M Metrobus line called Shirley -Duke.But don't expect to find any traces of the old Shirley-Duke -- the notorious, decaying crime- ridden apartment complex that was closed in the late '70s. This is now Foxchase of Alexandria. And, as the trendy Foxchase ads have promised for the past year, it offers "2,113 new leases on living." "That bus is one of the last things left with the Shirley-Duke name," said Leonard Skolnik, property manager of Foxchase, a development that could house 5,000 people, or 5 percent of Alexandria's population. "And I don't think there is anything we can do about that. Though we'd like to . . . ." It has been a year since the first tenants moved into the 87-acre property -- formerly the 200 buildings of the Shirley-Duke and Regina apartments -- between Duke Street and Shirley Highway in the west end of Alexandria. After renovating the interiors of all the buildings, adding balconies to al...