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You got a job. You had a kid. You're looking for a house. You are leaving behind your old home -- probably in a city and definitely a place where you knew where to eat and shop. You fear you have ended up in suburban chain restaurant hell.
Relax. I came to Howard County for a women, not the food. I discovered the food on weekends when she would go to work, and I drove around to replace the joints that I had left at my old neighborhood.
You can get great food in Howard County. You can eat fancy or casual. You can shop organic or ethnic. You can get almost everything that you want. We don't have the urban choices, but you can eat perfectly well.
This is HowChow's 2012 guide to Howard County -- Welcome Home. Ten posts to prove there are dozens of places worth your time, that you can find great food all across the county. It's written for someone new to Howard County (maybe a link you send a friend thinking about moving here), but hopefully it's useful to anyone:
- Quick Fixes: My first suggestions for a new neighbor
- Date Night: Trying to get lucky / Trying to get a babysitter
- The Basics: Pizza and Chinese rule the suburbs, and these are the pizza and Chinese that rule
- The Big Three: Howard County's deepest cuisines, and the restaurants your city friends will love
- Get Your Drink On: You can try post-college see-and-be scenes to microbrew joints to wine bars.
- Shop 'Til You Drop: Markets, bakeries, butchers and more so you can cook your own food.
- No Signs, No Problem: Navigating a county that doesn't want you to know where you are.
- Seasons Of Howard County: You can go hot or cold, but you'll eat well either way.
- Korean 101: It's delicious. It's different. It's better here than anywhere but Annandale.
- I Can't Believe You Ate The Whole Thing: Food far from a chain menu -- fish heads, heart and more.
- Bonus: What I Missed In The Welcome Home Posts
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| Wings! Read the series to find good ones. |
This series is aimed to highlight places around Howard County. All kinds of places and trying to repeat names as little as possible. Once they're all up, I will re-post them in reverse order so that they read in order if you click the "Welcome Home" label.
If you want more, check out a 2009 series where I posted about What I Learned writing this blog. There are posts -- maybe a bit outdated, but still pretty good -- on subjects like barbecue, Chinese, vegetable shopping, etc.
If you want more, check out a 2009 series where I posted about What I Learned writing this blog. There are posts -- maybe a bit outdated, but still pretty good -- on subjects like barbecue, Chinese, vegetable shopping, etc.