Full disclosure: Before moving to the DMV area and starting as The Baltimore Sun’s new food reporter, I had never had a pit beef sandwich. Embarrassingly, I didn’t even know what tiger sauce was! (For ...

At Chaps Pit Barbecue, meat-loving foodies won't find neon signs or flashing arrows. Instead, the roadside barbecue joint dutifully spouts meaty aromas into the surrounding air. It's almost hidden in ...

The new location of this Baltimore institution may have lost some of the charm of the old spot. It’s a little less “Bawlmer” than its slapdash shack predecessor on the side of the highway—they now ...

Michael Alvin Shores Jr., operator of the long-standing pit beef stand Beef Barons at the Baltimore Farmers’ Market, died Aug. 3 after being shot at his home in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. He was 54.