Cheap eats in Baltimore

Pit beef, pit ham, pit turkey. The most famous name in Baltimore pit beef: charcoal-grilled top round sliced thin onto a roll with raw onion and horseradish sauce.

Steamed buns, Taiwanese-style fried chicken, rice bowls. Started as a farmers’ market stand and grew into three small Baltimore shops.

Corned beef, pastrami, the "Cloak and Dagger" sandwich. The last of the delis on Lombard Street’s old Corned Beef Row, run by the same family since 1915.

Deep-ish pan pizza, crab pie. One of Baltimore’s oldest pizzerias, open on Eastern Avenue since 1943.

Crab cakes, lunch counters, Berger cookies. One of the oldest continuously operating public markets in the United States, founded in 1782.

Food stalls and bars in a renovated market hall. Federal Hill’s public market, renovated into a food hall with stalls, bars and a few grocers.

Gyros, lamb, Greek salads. A family-run Greek restaurant in Greektown, the neighborhood around Eastern Avenue’s eastern end.

Cannoli, gelato, Italian pastries. Little Italy’s best-known pastry shop, open since 1956, where cannoli are filled to order.

Burritos, tacos, margaritas. A casual, inexpensive Mexican spot on The Avenue that has fed Hampden for years.

Philly-style cheesesteaks. A neighborhood bar in Locust Point whose cheesesteaks, made with house-cut rib-eye on Amoroso’s rolls, won Best Cheesesteak in Best of Baltimore 2026.

Baked Peruvian empanadas, including lomo saltado. A small shop making baked Peruvian empanadas with fillings like lomo saltado.

Diner classics, crab cakes, breakfast anytime. A family-run Greek-American diner on Boston Street that has been a Canton landmark for decades.

Several food stalls under one roof, a central bar. A food hall in a former auto body shop in Remington, with rotating food stalls from local chefs around a central bar.