Upcoming MD-DC-Regional Dining, Hospitality & Tourism Events:
~Aug 14-20 DC Restaurant Week Prix Fixe $20 lunches, $30 dinners @ Washington DC best restaurants. Baltimore & NYC Restaurant week were a terrific success! BOOK tables free online here, never use phone, we love opentable DC for all USA

Aug 23-27 Ocean City MD Factory Outlets to kick off MD's Tax Free Shopping Holiday. ~Aug 30 RAM DC Events: Restaurant Assoc of Washington DC event @ Perry's Restaurant.
September 16-18 Baltimore Crab & Beer Festival 12-6 pm Harbor Point, Fells Point
September 24, 10th Annual Taste of Little Italy, Baltimore 1-5 pm. under tent @ DaMimmo's lot in Little Italy. Maria for tix 410-276-5565
~Sept 27th Annual Academy Awards of Travel, Hospitality & Tourism Marriott Waterfront Hotel Baltimore. Tix purchase.
~September 29 7 PM La Tavola Italian Wine Dinner, Little Italy Baltimore. $85pp. Nov 15-17 Maryland Governor's Tourism Industry Conference

Nov 3-5 The Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show DC Convention Center.

FREE FALL Baltimore Free Tickets to Museums all around Baltimore. patti@citypeek.com for info.

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Extended Stay Hotel All Suite, Extended Stay hotel in Baltimore MD or DC or Miami Beach or in USA. Extended Stay hotel choice: Residence Inn. Ex: Residence Inn by Marriott Baltimore.

CITYPEEK knows OC MD and Bethany-Rehoboth Best Dining, hotels, things to do:
Beach is in High Season From NY area-S. VA, everybody is flocking to the beach!:
Ocean City OC MD Hotels, Resorts, Motels, a PEEK at the best:
In Bethany Beach, Delaware known as the “quiet resort,” Maui Wowi, a new cool gathering place for all ages has just celebrated its grand opening. Co-owned by Baltimore natives & Gilman graduates Mark Neumann & Alex White, beach-goers have been lining up for Hawaiian fresh fruit smoothies & exotic blended coffee drinks to cool off. Maui Wowi: daily 7 am. - 10 pm, has a full service coffee bar and snacks like pastries, bagels, cookies and muffins, which are all baked locally. 105A Garfield Pkwy, one block from beach.
Bethany casual, yet sophisticated dining: Sedona. Innovative American and southwestern inspired cuisine Thurs-Sun 5-10 pm. 26 Pennsylvania Ave

Visitors and locals all savor the sunsets at the beach. One new place to view the sun’s daily retirement is Galaxy 66 Bar & Grille: recently unveiled Ocean City's only open-air rooftop bar. Lunch & dinner daily, lite fare til midnight. 66th St, Bayside. www.galaxy66barandgrille.com.

Locals & tourists flock to Ocean City’s famous location for decades to watch the sunset at Fager’s Island. Always memorable for happy hour with a friend, the sunset watch at Fager's Island is simulcast to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Fager's also has opened a bay front beach bar open daily 4 pm. It touts steel drum & Latin bands Thurs –Sun. 201-60th St in the Bay 410-524-5400 or 888-371-5400. www.fagers.com .

Castle in the Sand Hotel and Resort: Family-owned & orientated hotel, 3 blocks of direct oceanfront @ beach at 37th Street. You never have to leave the hotel property to have a great, affordable vacation! www.castleinthesand.com Check rates for OC hotel or OC condo rental, waitress service at beach & pool--have a burger or frozen drink brought to your beach chair! Entertainment daily @ outside bar & grille Coconuts or The Beach House-breakfast & dinner buffet, activities for the kids with Lady Sunshine: arts & crafts, beach hat making, even Pirate events!

PEEK at OC MD HILTON Hotel Ocean City, Maryland www.oceancityhilton.com New oceanfront all-suite hotel HILTON Oceanfront Ocean City MD (between 32 & 33rd St). The OC MD Hilton Hotel: oversized suites w/ a separate living rm, waterviews, stocked kitchen, in-room jacuzzies, 32” flat screen tv's with DVD/VCR, cable, internet, balconies, lux baths, fitness , adult pool w/bar & family pool w/lazy river. Concierge books: spa, golf, family fun, charter fishing, dolphin sightings, reservations. Business services available. The Ocean City MD (OC MD) Hilton Suites brings renewed luxury to Ocean City, MD.

Plantation House Bar & Grille offering FREE appetizer with entree. Coupon to print.

Baltimore Restaurant-Entertainment SCENE News:
Pazza Luna, 6 mos after being sold, the new owners have closed the doors of the once fav Locust Point restaurant. LEBANESE TAVERNA is slated to open in Harbor East this Fall. RUB in Federal Hill to open soon, run by Michael Marx, past owner of Blue Agave. Serving bar-b-que-this will be a area hit for sure!
Vespa, after about 10 years of business has closed it's doors in Federal Hill.
Spice to open at Inn @ Colonnade in September.
Vaccarro's Italian Pastry Shop has a new location on O'Donnell Square in Canton. Geppi Entertainment Museum slated to open mid-September. Pop culture comes to Baltimore MD like never before. Thx to Steve Geppi, Wendy Kehlman & Julie Meadows!

Need a Hotel locally, at the beach, in LA or Vegas? CITYPEEK.com can help find just the one: same choices as Expedia, etc & NO FEES. Support a local company: Worldwide Flagships: RITZ, Marriott Hotels, Holiday Inn, Kimpton, Hyatt, etc best rates! No hidden fees.

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Free tix to Rascals Baltimore Comedy Club to 1st 6 emails, email address & we'll send you tix!

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