Realizing how incredibly juvenile my inaugural review sounds, I have vowed to up the linguistic styling of my writing in order to not offend the pastry chefs who slave over their craft in an effort to appease the subtleties of the everyman (woman's) pallate... Thus, I begin this review of one of the most cuturallly advanced, locally significant, and luxuriously elegant establishments in all of greater Maryland and District of Columbia... namely the Maryland Renaissance Festival!
This collossus of food is to be met with only the most ambitious of intentions... Running throughout the weekends, from late August through October, there is very few delicacies from both the old world and modern faire that "shan't be found!"
If your heart is not content with the steak on a stick, cookies in a cup, meatball sandwiches, turkey legs, fried bread, chicken dippers, fried cheese, gyros, chili poppers, meat pies, corn on the cob, quesadilas, barbeque ribs, or pulled turkey sandwiches, there's always peach cobbler, belgium waffles, root beer floats, custard, and Baltimore's own snowballs, to satisfy the sweeter cravings.
In my humble opinion, it is quite possibly the most amazing array of food options found this side of a good old fashioned midwestern fair. While you should not expect a Kobe beef-esque cut of meat when you do order your steak on a stick, and or fresh fruit flown in from California sprinkled over your fried dough, the lack of extravagance is quite refreshing when you are surrounded by fans from all over dressed in their best middle aged attire. My own visit began with a stop at one of the many steak on a stick huts along the very scenic path deep into the woods in which the Fair resides...
Driving up to the fair was actually quite amazing as all of a sudden along the side of a modest country road, thousands of cars are parked amongst a giant open field, bordering what from a distance appeared to be just an everyday sect of trees. As you begin to follow the crowd from your parking spot, you can hear the excitement going on just past the tree line, and after you pay your very modest entry fee you are exposed to a culinary explosion of "feel good" food and entertainment that brightens even the most mundane of work days. While the time has come and gone this year to stop by, definitely check it out next year if you can!
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