 So many of these articles start out with how a restaurant owner just wanted a beach house or a quiet getaway. Then one thing leads to another (it always does), and the next thing y'know they're slingin' hash full-time here at the beach. Such is the story behind Goolee's Grille in Ocean City, MD. Owner George Stakias was working for Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore as a Greek interpreter and patient representative. In 2003, he rewarded himself for his accomplishments by buying a little beach house. But food service has a way of running in families, and George's dad (for 36 years the owner of the Penn Restaurant on Pratt St. in downtown Baltimore) knew that his son would be good at it.
Again, one thing leads to another, and next thing you know George is
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 In spite of what some of the locals may tell you, there is indeed intelligent life south of the Dewey Beach Corporate city limits. In fact, there are some delectible little gems just a click away in the Other Area Reviews box on this page.
If you venture down to the
 One of the hundreds of online accolades about Grove Market restaurant includes the description, "diamond in the rough." Even a diamond in the rough is still a diamond, and this one doesn't need a bit of polishing. It's just fine the way it is.
Now keep in mind that it's my obligation to be critical and ferret-out things that you might not like about a restaurant. I'm fortunate that most of the places around here are at least OK, but I'm always on the lookout for
 Yup, that's a 9.5 alright. It means "just about perfect." So far we've only awarded a couple of these to the over 130 restaurants we've reviewed. We went back several times, desperate to find something wrong, and we failed each time. (Well, OK, the setting sun does sometimes get in your eyes when you sit by the windows that look out onto the bay.) The soft, live piano music didn't hurt, either. Kudos to Pino Tomasello, owner of Frescos for 11 years.
The festivities begin with a basket of simple but fresh
 It was February 5, 1927 when Chris Matulich opened the doors of Chris' Steaks in New Orleans. Unbeknownst to him, across town (on that very same day), a little girl named Ruth Ann was born. Bright and competitive, she skipped grades and eventually earned degrees in chemistry and physics. (Meanwhile, Chris--blissfully unaware of young Ruth--continued to crank out steaks down in the French Quarter.) In 1965, Ruth Fertel, now-divorced and struggling to
 The Rehoboth Foodie still holds fond memories of those cavernous Ocean City restaurants of the late '60s and '70s when he was bangin' out rock 'n' roll 7 nights a week at Jack & June Fisher's long-gone Hideaway Lounge. Places like the (old) Bonfire, the (old) Embers, Phillips (the one at 21st St.), even the relentlessly Italian Mario's, always had long in-season waits, and were always
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 It's a foodie version of one-stop shopping. Liquid Assets is nestled into the crowded (but festive) 94th St. Shopping Center in Ocean City, MD, about 40 minutes south of Rehoboth. Just walking into Liquid Assets is an experience. The racks of bottles for sale and the row of glassed beer coolers suggest that
 Like any good Foodie worth his salt (and pepper), I do, from time to time, venture southward to the Bethany Beach and Ocean City grazing grounds, and one of the venerable Ocean City standbys is BJ's On The Water. When I think of Ocean City, I think of places like
 It's not hard to find the Crabcake Factory at 120th St. and Ocean Highway (ocean side) in Ocean City, MD. Flashing signs, blinking lights and neon pointers all beckon you to experience their unexpectedly delicious seafood. Part sports bar, part seafood house with big wooden booths, beer signs and an inordinate number of televisions, it is anything but
 I love pizza, and we all know that there are all kinds of styles and tastes, all different enough that a person can have several "favorites." And that brings us to Lombardi's Trattoria in Ocean City, Maryland.
Years ago, my family had a place in OC at 91st. St., across the highway from Lombardi's. My parents used to scamper across
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