Seafood restaurant · Inner Harbor · $$$
Phillips Seafood
Crab cakes, crab soup, harbor views. The Baltimore restaurant of the Maryland seafood company also known for its Ocean City crab houses.
Restaurants right on the Inner Harbor are big and visitor-friendly. Walk ten to fifteen minutes and you reach some of the city’s best neighborhoods for food.
Seafood restaurant · Inner Harbor · $$$
Crab cakes, crab soup, harbor views. The Baltimore restaurant of the Maryland seafood company also known for its Ocean City crab houses.
Brazilian steakhouse · Inner Harbor · $$$$
Churrasco carved tableside, salad bar. A Brazilian churrascaria near the Inner Harbor where servers bring skewers of grilled meat to the table until you say stop.
Seafood restaurant · Inner Harbor · $$$
Skyline views across the harbor, seafood. A long-running waterfront restaurant on the Inner Harbor’s south shore, known above all for its view of the downtown skyline.
Rooftop restaurant and bar · Harbor East · $$$$
City and harbor views, cocktails, 1920s-style glamour. A rooftop restaurant and bar on the top floor of the Four Seasons, decorated in old-Hollywood style, with some of the best views in the city.
Seafood and whisky bar · Harbor East · $$$
Oysters Rockefeller, raw bar, whisky, live music. A seafood and whisky bar in Harbor East with a raw bar and live music.
Italian restaurant · Harbor East · $$$
House-made pasta, salumi, duck. The Foreman Wolf group’s Italian restaurant in Harbor East, with house-made pastas, a salumeria and a deep Italian wine list.
Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$
Pane rotondo (pasta served in a hollowed round loaf), red-sauce Italian. A casual, family-friendly Little Italy restaurant known for the pane rotondo, a round loaf hollowed out and filled with pasta and shrimp.
Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$
Sicilian-style home cooking, a colorful dining room and rooftop. A bright, colorful mother-and-daughter restaurant on the edge of Little Italy, serving Sicilian-leaning home cooking.
Public market and food hall · Federal Hill · $
Food stalls and bars in a renovated market hall. Federal Hill’s public market, renovated into a food hall with stalls, bars and a few grocers.
Seafood counter · Downtown and Lexington Market · $$
Jumbo lump crab cakes, raw bar. A family seafood business in Lexington Market since 1886, and one of the names that comes up first when Baltimoreans talk about crab cakes.
The Water Taxi is an easy way to reach Fells Point and Canton from the harbor.
Every place here was checked as operating in October 2026. Hours change, so check before you go. Ratings come only from readers.
Official sources: Visit Baltimore
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