Category: Food

Family owned and operated Coffee Coffee emphasizes local products from its roasted beans to its foods and gifts

Family owned and operated Coffee Coffee emphasizes local products from its roasted beans to its foods and gifts

| February 21, 2012 | Comments (0)

Give your day a flavorful boost at Bel Air News & Views sponsor Coffee Coffee, a family owned and operated gift and coffee shop in the Festival at Bel Air Shopping Center since 1993. Choose from more than 60 varieties of coffee beans freshly roasted by local Baltimore roasters. Try their lattes and mochas that [...]

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Bel Air’s Flavor Cupcakery wins The Food Network’s Cupcake Wars

Bel Air’s Flavor Cupcakery wins The Food Network’s Cupcake Wars

| December 4, 2011 | Comments (1)

Bel Air’s Flavor Cupcakery won The Food Network’s Cupcake Wars Sunday night, battling another Maryland cupcake bakery to take the top prize: $10,000 and a visit to the New York City Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker. Flavor Cupcakery’s Jason Hisley and Shelley Stannard took on three other cupcake bakers to go three rounds tackling the [...]

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Fallston Diner closed suddenly Nov. 21 and its owners are now running Papadukies Place in White Marsh

Fallston Diner closed suddenly Nov. 21 and its owners are now running Papadukies Place in White Marsh

| November 28, 2011 | Comments (0)

The Fallston Diner closed suddenly last Monday due to financial struggles, according to owner Gina Hatzimarkos. “With the economy, you’re playing catch up and then you get behind,” Hatzimarkos said. She and her husband, owner and chef Juan Munoz are now operating Papadukies Place at 11244 Pulaski Highway in White Marsh. Hatzimarkos declined to discuss the [...]

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The new Mars Supermarket in Bel Air is to open Nov. 16

The new Mars Supermarket in Bel Air is to open Nov. 16

| November 3, 2011 | Comments (2)

November 16 is the grand opening date for the new Mars Supermarket in Bel Air according to the company’s website. The new Mars in the Bel Air Plaza at the corner of Routes 1 and 24 replaces a Superfresh store that closed in February 2009. Mars has been running its weekly deals in the local [...]

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Things to do this weekend around Bel Air (Nov. 4-6)

Things to do this weekend around Bel Air (Nov. 4-6)

| November 2, 2011 | Comments (0)

Things to do this weekend around Bel Air include Sts. Mary Magdalene and Markella Greek Orthodox Church Longaberger Basket & Pandora BINGO, Harford Day School’s Fine Arts Festival, the Holiday Open House at A Country Setting and a “Fun’raiser” at Tiddlywinks Toys and Books for a Whiteford toddler fighting a brain tumor. Friday, Nov. 4 Sts. Mary [...]

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How to tell if the food in your refrigerator is safe to eat after a power outage

How to tell if the food in your refrigerator is safe to eat after a power outage

| August 31, 2011 | Comments (0)

  Forty-one degrees Fahrenheit is magic number, according to Harford County Health Department food sanitarian Larry Outten. If any of the food you had in your refrigerator or freezer rose above that number during the Hurricane Irene related power outages we’ve had this week, Outten recommends you get rid of it to avoid making yourself [...]

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Bel Air’s Flavor Cupcakery auditions for Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars”

Bel Air’s Flavor Cupcakery auditions for Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars”

| August 22, 2011 | Comments (1)

The Food Network’s Cupcake Wars has asked Bel Air’s Flavor Cupcakery to audition to appear on the show’s Season 4. Owner Shelley Stannard and her staff at the store she opened just last year at 118 N. Tollgate Road produced an audition video with the help of the Harford Community College’s Media Department. Check out [...]

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Marshall Klein (seated in middle row, left with shoulder in front of gold curtain) listens to First Lady Michelle Obama thanking grocery store entrepreneurs developing stores that provide healthy, affordable food to people who live in areas that do not presently have easy access to fresh, nutritious food. The new Klein's ShopRite will be in Howard Park in northwest Baltimore, near the intersection of Northern Parkway and Liberty Road. At the ceremony at the White House on July 20, 2011, Mrs. Obama stated "The commitments you are all making today have the potential to be a 'game-changer!" Marshall Klein said that "the Klein family is excited to be a part of the effort in helping to make a difference.”

First Lady Michelle Obama recognized Forest Hill-based Klein’s ShopRite of Maryland for making healthy food more readily available in areas that need it at White House ceremony Wednesday

| July 21, 2011 | Comments (0)

Just got this news release about members of the Klein family receiving recognition from First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House ceremony on Wednesday for providing access to healthy food: Andrew Klein, Marshall Klein and New Klein’s ShopRite in Baltimore City Recognized by Michelle Obama as Supporting Access to Healthy Food Forest Hill, MD, July 21, [...]

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Harford County Restaurant Week has been extended through June 26

Harford County Restaurant Week has been extended through June 26

| June 17, 2011 | Comments (0)

Harford County’s 2nd annual  Restaurant week continues through Sunday, June 26. If you haven’t yet stopped by one of the participating restaurants, there’s still time. More than 40 local restaurants are participating in the Office of Economic Development and Tourism event, offering Restaurant Week menus or other special deals. Participating full service restaurants will offer a [...]

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Klein’s ShopRite at Festival celebrated its grand reopening today after expansion; features “Café Express” eat-in area and gourmet food section

Klein’s ShopRite at Festival celebrated its grand reopening today after expansion; features “Café Express” eat-in area and gourmet food section

| June 15, 2011 | Comments (1)

The Klein’s ShopRite at Festival at Bel Air celebrated the opening of its remodeled store today. The grocery expanded into two adjoining properties and now features an Artisan Bread Station, a Cheese Creation Station, an expanded Delicatessen and “Café Express” eat-in area. Here are the details: KLEIN’S SHOPRITE AT FESTIVAL RE-OPENS AFTER EXPANSION Enlarged Store [...]

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