Comments on: A little food cart and a big hotel beefing over downtown Baltimore turf

By: rudy_d

rudy_d — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:32:54 +0000

I can see the arguments of both sides, but I’ve got to side with the hotel if the permit can be transferred to another suitable location. There are plenty of good locations nearby. It’s current location is quite close to the entrance of the hotel, and the fact that there was no cart there when the hotel was built and there was no hotel there when the cart permit was issued justifies changing the terms.

I had assumed that the cart was in some way associated with the hotel until reading this very interesting article.

I’ve noticed a sudden increase in the number of lunch carts/hot dog stands downtown and wasn’t sure if this was due to a change in permit laws, an influx of entrepreneurs, or just the state of the general economy and demand for cheaper food. Any ideas? Might make a good story.

By: Unellore

Unellore — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:46:01 +0000

Every single person in front of the food cart is either already amply endowed or on the verge of stepping into the kingdom of the fat. Maria Kaimakis is in great shape. Look at her arms and that smile. She’s raking it in at the expense of the fat people of Baltimore whose nasal passages can always smell out a place that will give them more of what will kill them for less money. Miner’s minor skirmish with Kaimakis will be his major defeat unless he’s quick on the uptake. His menu sounds just as genocidal as hers and at a higher price he stands no chance of roping in the willing victims faster than she can. To survive he should demolish his restaurant and replace it with a giant food cart, halve the prices of all his offerings and call his enterprise, “The Gallows”. Then there is a small chance Maria (and her stunning bare arms) will return to Cypriana.
U Nellore

By: Carol Ott

Carol Ott — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:16:28 +0000

“She’s right in front of my restaurant that I just opened in March and right now I’m getting three or four customers for lunch. This week was horrible,” Miner said.

Perhaps if Miner wasn’t banking on people eating overpriced food, he would see his business pick up. $12.95 for fish and chips at lunch? Really?

The fact that the food cart is doing a terrific business, and his restaurant isn’t — that should be a wake-up call.

By: One Fine Jay

One Fine Jay — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:52:26 +0000

“Cypriana is an institution downtown and we love its story about how they moved from grassroots to the restaurant at Baltimore and Calvert Streets,” Fowler said. “They were acting on a permit that was given out when there was not a hotel there. Now there is. Times have changed.”

AHEM? The cart came first. Nothing has changed.