Visit Baltimore Meeting & Event Planning Guide Winter/Spring 2020 - Sustainability Issue | Seite 32

Eco- ndly Frie A vegan diet isn’t the only Earth- friendly eating style. While Baltimore’s culinary scene includes plenty of restaurants that emphasize local, seasonal menus, some take it a step further. Woodberry Kitchen This Woodberry favorite takes a nearly obsessive approach True Foraged as a “hyper- Chesapeake Described seasonal” eatery, this petite Hampden restaurant takes Oyster Co. to local sourcing, with a Built around a concept menu that is fully driven by of restorative dining that supporting regional growers includes education on local and refl ecting Chesapeake aquaculture and a focus on Bay culinary tradition. When environmental issues, this it debuted in 2007, it was new Hampden restaurant one of the fi rst to introduce is the brainchild of a a hyperlocal format—and the partnership between a local inventive dishes still feel fresh chef and two area oyster (and delicious) today. pros. A Maryland-focused menu and raw bar highlight local oysters harvested from the True Chesapeake Oyster Co.’s Southern Maryland farm, and other regional purveyors. Woodberry Kitchen SC T OT SU CH M A N N farm-to-table to the next level—the forest. Foraged chef Chris Amendola turned his passion for fi nding food in nature into a menu here, loaded with local, seasonal and foraged ingredients, off set by a nose-to-tail program, and sprinkled with fl owers and herbs grown in a hydroponic garden installation on one interior wall. Q