Woodberry Kitchen Named Among Best Restaurants in America

BALTIMORE, MD — Woodberry Kitchen has done it again. It's been named among Eater's best restaurants in America for 2016. This marks the third consecutive year that the Clipper Mill establishment has made the online dining guide's list.

"The kitchen at Spike and Amy Gjerde’s always-thronged flagship mines the Chesapeake region’s under-rated culinary treasures, which reach far beyond blue crab," Eater says in its writeup for 2016.

The Gjerdes, who own Woodberry Kitchen, look locally and regionally for their ingredients and also make a conscious effort to incorporate sustainability into the experience.

"The thing on my menu that excites me the most is the seafood that comes from the Chesapeake region —the oysters that are grown by people that are very serious about bringing great seafood and a clean bill of health back to the Chesapeake as well as the farmed shrimp that we have," Spike Gjerde told Visit Baltimore.

Woodberry Kitchen buys produce from the Waverly farmers market and even incorporates local ingredients into the restaurant's cocktails.

Check out the menu.

Eater's Restaurant of the Year for 2016 is Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York, noted for its location on a working farm and experimentation with agriculture.

Woodberry Kitchen was celebrated for its use of crab imperial as an embellishment on a wreckfish entree rather than making the crab the star of the culinary show, appearing alongside red potatoes, garlic cream and asparagus.

Read the full writeup about Woodberry Kitchen from Eater.

Since opening in an old foundry building in Baltimore's Clipper Mill in 2007, Woodberry Kitchen has received heaps of praise, from Forbes to The New York Times.

In 2015, Spike Gjerde won the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Award for the Mid-Atlantic. Woodberry Kitchen made The Baltimore Sun’s best 50 restaurants in Baltimore, the Washingtonian’s list of the 100 very best restaurants, Wine Enthusiast’s 100 best wine restaurants of 2013, The Washington Post’s 40 favorites in D.C. and USA Today’s 10 best restaurants in Baltimore.

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