Linwoods Ranked in Baltimore Magazine’s Best Restaurants 2012 List

Owings Mills’s was recently named among the top 10 best restaurants in the Baltimore region, according to a list published this month by Baltimore Magazine.

Linwoods, which opened more than 20 years ago by Linwood and Ellen Dame, was third on the list, and was praised by the magazine’s editors for its special flare with daily items, such as a dinner salad topped with grilled duck, or a crab cake that is combined with fried tomatoes.

“The smooth dark-wood interior, walls of hunter green, and bevy of white-toqued chefs hard at work in the open kitchen promise something special and grown-up,” according to the Best Restaurants 2012 list in Baltimore Magazine. "But while the restaurant pre-dates many of the digs that define Baltimore as a foodie town, Linwoods is by no means over the hill. Even words like seasoned and mature don’t do it justice——unless you’re describing the way a pat of blue cheese slowly melts on the surface of a juicy tenderloin, or the sweet lemon crab salad embellishing a generous fillet of sea bass, with horseradish-spiked mashed potatoes on the side.”

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