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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

GREAT ESCAPE: Baltimore's First-Ever Greek Week Celebration

Patch finds a fun parents' night out each week so you can keep your babysitters employed!

This week you can escape to the Mediterranean! Well, your taste buds can. Baltimore is hosting its first-ever Greek Week from March 20 to March 27. With 24 restaurants participating, you can sample everything from the casual Double T Diner’s spinach pie, moussaka, stuffed grape leaves and feta cheese, to the classy Black Olive’s kleftico. What’s kleftico? It’s tender roasted lamb with lemon and cheese over couscous. Hungry? Good. ‘Cuz you know there’s baklava for dessert. Eleni Peltsemes, the organizer of Greek Week, is excited to share Greek culture through food. “When you ask a Greek person what do they do for a living, they say, 'I’m in the restaurant business!'” said Peltsemes. “Every place has something to offer.” Peltsemes has wanted…

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Frugal Family: The Cheapest Extra-Large Pizza in Town

Patch finds a weekly great deal in the area that caters to local moms.

George Georgeantonis does things big. As the owner of A Little Taste of Italy, his subs are over-stuffed, his manicotti is fat, and his pizza deal is huge.  It’s not the small personal pizzas he runs his best specials on.  It’s not the mediums or the larges either.  It’s the extra-large cheese pizza, that’s as cheap as you’re ever going to find. At A Little Taste of Italy, which many of us know as the old Whistlestop, right at the train tracks 401 West Seminary Ave., Saturdays and Mondays are the days for a $6.99 extra-large, 16-inch cheese pizza. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., whether it's delivery, carry-out or dine-in, the mother of all pizzas is the mother of all deals. The extra-large cheese pizza is normally $10.75, which is also still a …

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