Grand Cru

Small parking right in front. Wine bar that has a few tables. Service was good. This is not really a place for dinner, very limited menu. The food pricing seemed high. Prices for beer are pretty good. Around 8 locals on tap. I bought a couple bottles. No reason for me to go back for such a limited number of beer.

Grand Cru is a bit north of downtown Baltimore in a primarily residential area, and is located inside an open-air shopping complex. It is primarily a wine bar but a thoughtful draft and bottle selection greets the beer drinker. The food is excellent, fresh, and well-prepared. Friendly and prompt staff.

Cool place at the end of a large open market. The place itself carries an artisanal style to match that of the market setting. Despite the place being a beer, wine, and liquor shop, the shelves of product are subtle and don’t make the place seemed crowded. About a dozen well-selected tap choices and your can also select from any of the bottles sold there, but they do charge a $3 corking fee per beer if you intend to drink it there. Food options were good and delicious with nice meat and cheese plates. Overall a cool place.

Though they may have started by billing themselves as more of a wine bar, Grand Cru is certainly a great place to stop while in Baltimore for a beer. Came in here early on a Saturday afternoon and grabbed a seat at the bar. The tap list here is small (eight taps I believe) but carefully selected. Think I ended up with a local double IPA to start, but there were a good offering of styles for only eight taps. The really nice thing in terms of selection is that their entire bottle selection from the store portion is available for in house consumption for a $3 corkage markup. Given the bottles are priced for retail takeaway, that’s quite nice. Food here was very good. I started with a local pickle plate featuring some in house pickles (that day there were pickled ramps and pickled sweet and spicy peppers) and some other pickles from local producers. Followed this up with their take on pizza, flaky pastry style flatbreads with a number of toppings (opted for Gruyere with dijon mustard – it was excelllent). Service was great, the staff were friendly and knowledgeable. Wonderful place. Can’t wait to go back.

Great place to try some rare to find cheeses, with a good selection off bottle beer. Quite an expensive place to go And the decoration is quite a bit anon;

Nice place. Too small--couldn’t get a seat on a Thursday night. Two really good taps and a couple of less interesting ones--Oud Beersel Gueze for $7 isn’t bad, and the other beers were $5. Nice decor, albeit the coolers for the wine and beer aren’t fancy. Not a place for a special trip--too few beers to justify that--but definitely a place to go if you’re on the north side of Baltimore. Good restaurants and an independent movie theater in the same area, so it’s a good destination for an evening.

Rather cool - only wish I had more time (and $$$) to check out not only this but the the whole interconnected market. Did take a walk around the place with beer (La Chouffe draft) whlst eyeing very good looking wares of other shoips. De Dolle stout on tap as well. The small selection is VERY select and probably worth the trip.

These guys are under the radar as a beer joint. They have six rotating handles of small brewery local stuff and Belgian beers. They also have quite a few big bottles to choose from with a small ($3) corkage fee over retail price. They just put in a beer engine & are pulling cask ales every other weekend.

The best newcomer on the Baltimore scene. Six quality drafts and at least a hundred super quality micro and international choices in the back. Stellar. Bring your own food in--I’ve even seen people chowing down on steaks--from the several local joints, or orders tasty apps here that are prepared at the nice Italian joint next door. Take your wino friends, and actually enjoy yourself.

This place bills itself as a wine bar, but they always have six good beers on draft and over 100 beers available in either large bottles or six packs. Since this place is a cross between retail and a bar you pay a small corkage fee (around $3) to open bottles of beer. Imagine paying $12 for a 750ml Cantillon lambic and only shelling out $3 more bucks to enjoy it out of crystal stemware at the bar. Perhaps the best part of this establishment is the bring your own food option. That’s right either bring your own food or ask a bar tender for menus of surrounding restaurants. I recommend Yeti for Indian and Al Pacino for pizza/middle eastern. It is great to sip on a draft Chimay White while waiting for your chicken tikka masala to be delivered.