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Hampden, Baltimore
An independent Hampden bookstore focused on indie comics, small press, zines and graphic novels. It is also the receiving address for John Waters' fan mail.
Best for Indie comics, zines and small-press books
Baltimore
Maker of the Baltimore Berger Cookie, a shortbread-style cookie under a thick layer of fudge. DeBaufre Bakeries produces it from a recipe dating to the 1830s.
Best for Chocolate fudge-topped Berger Cookies
Fells Point & Remington, Baltimore
An independent neighbourhood bookstore with shops in Fells Point and Remington. Careful curation and local events define both locations.
Best for Curated independent bookstore
Belvedere Square, Baltimore
A Baltimore maker of small-batch organic fermented foods, kombucha and kraut. Its Belvedere Square superette carries the range as a Made in Baltimore producer.
Best for Small-batch kombucha, kraut and fermented foods
Harborplace, Baltimore
Made In Baltimore Store, located at 301 Light Street in Harborplace, sells one-of-a-kind gifts made by Baltimore artisans drawn from a network of more than 200 local product-based businesses. It also supports makers through the five-month Home-Run Accelerator entrepreneurship program.
Best for Locally made gifts from baltimore artisans
Hampden, Baltimore
An independent Baltimore ice cream maker scooping small-batch flavors, including Old Bay caramel, since 2013. It runs its own factory in Hampden.
Best for Independent Baltimore ice cream maker scooping small-batch flavors, including Old Bay caramel
Lake Falls, North Baltimore
The Ivy Bookshop occupies a house on Falls Road in Baltimore, with books and events at the centre of its programme. Readers can browse in person or use a subscription in which a bookseller selects titles for them. Book clubs also meet at the shop, extending its role as a place for conversations about reading.
Best for Bookseller-selected reading and book clubs in Baltimore
The Ivy Bookshop is a Baltimore bookstore whose physical setting is part of its cultural programme. The business has operated for twenty-two years and spent its first two decades at Lake Falls Village Shopping Center. In 2020 it moved into the former Divine Life Church in Mt. Washington, a nineteenth-century building surrounded by three acres of gardens. Those grounds support reading and gatherings as well as the shop itself. Author events and book clubs turn books into public conversation, while rentals use the building and gardens as community spaces. A subscription programme gives an Ivy Personal Shopper responsibility for choosing books for a reader or recipient. School-book services add an institutional role beside the public catalogue. The Ivy also identifies Bird in Hand as a sibling shop in Charles Village, where coffee and books have shared a locally sourced programme since 2016. Together these facts describe a bookseller shaped by continuity and place. The merchant joins staff selection with events and education, all supported by outdoor space, using a converted church and its gardens as infrastructure for Baltimore's reading communities.
Highlandtown, Baltimore
Tigerlillyshop designs handcrafted sterling silver jewelry cast directly from natural objects, including impressions from an elm tree along Baltimore Street near Patterson Park, from its Mount Vernon Marketplace location in Baltimore. Designer Allison Fomich makes each piece to order, including branch and twig necklaces, impression necklaces, and spoon ring reproductions.
Best for Nature cast sterling silver jewelry
Little Italy, Baltimore
A family-owned Italian pastry shop founded in Baltimore's Little Italy in 1956. Cannoli, Italian cookies and gelato fill the cases.
Best for Cannoli, Italian cookies and gelato
Northeast Baltimore
An independent Baltimore coffee roaster working in small batches since 2005. It supplies its own cafe along with local markets and wholesale accounts.
Best for Small-batch Baltimore coffee roasting since 2005
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