Full disclosure: Before moving to the DMV area and starting as The Baltimore Sun’s new food reporter, I had never had a pit beef sandwich. Embarrassingly, I didn’t even know what tiger sauce was! (For ...

After 36 years in a nightclub parking lot on the side of Pulaski Highway, the location has become part of the lore for Chaps Pit Beef, one of the city’s staple purveyors of the pit beef sandwich, ...

At Chaps Pit Barbecue, meat-loving foodies won't find neon signs or flashing arrows. Instead, the roadside barbecue joint dutifully spouts meaty aromas into the surrounding air. It's almost hidden in ...

Chaps Pit Beef, a Baltimore institution featured in the Wire and on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, is moving from its original pit beef shack to a larger, newer restaurant in the same strip club parking ...

Art from a country under siege gains hard-won luster in a city of postwar intrigue.