As I mentioned in my previous Baltimore Eats post, the weekend that I was in Baltimore was the same weekend as the Fells Point Fun Festival. While looking for breakfast I happened to have found it but it was too early. The vendors were just setting up but I did see giant chunks of meat getting ready to be BBQ’d. After getting breakfast and trying out my first ever scrapple I walked back to the hotel and was stuck watching Sky High on HBO. Yeah I just couldn’t get myself to stop watching it and actually be out doing something. What finally did get me out of the hotel was hunger. Again I had no idea what to eat for lunch but I knew where to go back to Fells Point to check out the festival.

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While researching on what to eat in Baltimore, besides crab, scrapple came up a lot of times. So of course I had to find out what this scrapple thing is. From what Wikipedia says about scrapple, it sounds a lot like spam! And I love spam! Then I went and researched on specific spots to eat. I wanted some place close to the hotel but sort of outside the tourist area too. Well most of the places I found weren’t walking distance except for Blue Moon Cafe. Good thing there were tons of good reviews for Blue Moon Cafe. But I was hesitant to go because I found out that Guy Fieri went there also! I am not a fan of his. He’s very annoying. Anyways, a lot of people seem to love that place so I kept Blue Moon Cafe in the back of my head just in case.

After a rainy Friday night I woke up to a beautiful partly cloudy Saturday morning. It was only 8am and I didn’t have to get to the wedding venue until 3:30pm. What to do what to do. I guess I could go and explore Fells Point which was right next to the hotel that I was staying in. It’s also where Blue Moon Cafe was. By the time I stumbled out on to the streets it was already close to 10am. I had no clear path I just knew I had to walk eastward. I came upon a tiny farmers market, looked around and continued on. It was nice to walk around Fells Point and be in an actual neighborhood. After a good 15min walk I found Blue Moon Cafe. People on The Internet said to go super early, oh like 7:30am. I guess they were right, there were already a bunch of people waiting outside. Oh well next time I guess.
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What do I know about Baltimore? The Wire? Even when Anthony Bourdain went to Baltimore for his “Rust Belt” show he did it around The Wire. It seems that The Wire is more famous than the city and from the one episode I saw of The Wire I should be really careful when I go. Baltimore has always been a city that I pass by on my way to somewhere else. Springfield, DC, Annapolis…and etc. Visiting Baltimore has never crossed my mind before until my ex-boss asked me to be her wedding photographer. I was honored when she asked me and then I got excited because I get to be out of town for a weekend. Okay I may have exaggerated a bit about only knowing Baltimore from The Wire, there’s also Ace of Cakes!

It’s so weird traveling by yourself. What do you do? I had spent a lot of time in the hotel room with the free HBO. Didn’t really do a lot of sightseeing nor did I venture out too far from the hotel. It helped that the hotel was RIGHT AT the Inner Harbor, tons of museums and shops for mostly tourists. I arrived at Baltimore around 8pm on a drizzling Friday night. After checking into the hotel, half of me just wanted to crash into bed while my other half wanted to go out. Damit it was only 8:45pm. I was invited by my ex-boss to go have drinks with them and their friends. I’m actually kind of shy and am always afraid of being quiet in front of people, especially people I don’t know. Took me 15mins to debate about it but finally decided to go. It was 9pm on a Friday night and I was in another city. I can’t be a frakkin’ loner. I went out and got a cab.
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