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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Bad News: You Live In Howard County!

HowChow has good news, bad news.

The good news is that Laura Vozzella posted a reader's compliment about Kloby's Smokehouse on Johns Hopkins Road.  The bad news is that she thinks it is bad news that the tasty barbeque is in Howard County.

Laura, Laura, Laura. . . The Dining at Large blog used to be a friend of the suburbs!  All your readers are welcome on Rte 29!  Come for the BBQ; stay for a giant yard, public schools, and parking lot cafes.

(Thanks to Brandon for the tip.  Notice in the post that the Laurel post office address does confuse the out-of-towners.  More proof that isn't Laurel.  Two words: Fulton annexation.)
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8 comments:

  1. Work in progressApril 3, 2010 at 12:13 PM

    I'd put our parking lot cafes up against any other. HoCo has the world's best "dining by the asphalt" experience.

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  2. MaybeKathyApril 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM

    If this keeps up I'm *never* going to be able to get a table at Kloby's again! :-D

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  3. perrikApril 3, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    Poor Laurel, who thought it would be a good idea to pull it apart like a BBQ pork shoulder and toss the pieces into four different counties?

    Darn it, I am really, really craving pulled pork right now.

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  4. SkyWriterApril 4, 2010 at 11:36 PM

    What's so bad about mentioning a good restaurant in Laurel? It's halfway between DC and Baltimore; a good stopping or meeting place when traveling between the two Metros. It's also home to Pasta Plus; better than *any* Italian restaurant in Baltimore's Little Italy.

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  5. dzoeyApril 6, 2010 at 10:44 PM

    I tried the beef ribs at Kloby's last weekend and they were really good, as were the fries. My daughter really enjoyed the tri-tip as well which had good flavor without overdosing on smoke.

    The only downside was our waiter was really spacey.

    It'd been a while since I was there, but I'll definitely be back soon.

    Perhaps I should try Red Hot & Blue to see how it compares.

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  6. EileneApril 7, 2010 at 10:15 PM

    Change it from Laurel to Fulton? Never. Kloby's is in Upper Scaggsville.

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  7. AnonymousApril 11, 2010 at 8:15 PM

    I was always told that the area by APL is really scaggsville, but JHU did some lobbying to gerrymander that area into Laurel, because they didn't want a Scaggsville address because they didn't like the way it sounded.

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  8. kamApril 12, 2010 at 10:41 AM

    I have to wonder how the Scaggs family feels about all this.

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