Canton
10 places in Canton: places to eat, bars, arts and theater. Every one was checked against the venue’s own sources, and each listing says which source that was and the day it was read.
Coming up in Canton
- Rhythm & Reels: The Craft at Canton Waterfront Park, 7pm to 10pm
- Natalie and Brittany Haas at Music on the Square, Church on the Square, 1025 S Potomac St, Doors 7pm, show 7:30pm
- Freaky Tiki's Haunted Tiki Hut, Sopro, 3000 O'Donnell St, Tue-Fri 5pm-9pm; Sat-Sun noon-9pm
- El Bufalo's Annual Dog Costume Contest, El Bufalo, 2921 O'Donnell St, Noon to 2pm
- Soprotoberfest, Sopro, 3000 O'Donnell St, 12pm to 10pm
- Halloween Party: Black Lipstick, Dark Synths at Creative Alliance, 8pm
Places to eat in Canton
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Mama's on the Half Shell
The green-awninged oyster house holding down the corner of O'Donnell Square, and the one the founding family kept when they closed sibling Nacho Mama's across the street in January 2025.
Mon-Thu 11am-10pm; Fri 11am-11pm; Sat 9am-11pm; Sun 9am-10pm
Street View
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Lee's Pint and Shell
A corner oyster tavern at Hudson and Linwood, named in tribute to Lee Carey and built around a raw bar, rotating local drafts, and a serious bourbon shelf; its own site pitches oyster shooters over white-tablecloth anything.
Mon-Thu 4pm-close; Fri-Sat 11am-close; Sun 10am-close. Kitchen to 9pm Sunday to Tuesday, 10pm Wednesday to Saturday
- Canton
$$ · Highlandtown, on South Conkling Street
Union Hill Kitchen & Craft Bar
A New American kitchen with a bar on Conkling Street, open late at the weekend and doing brunch from half ten on Saturday and Sunday.
Mon-Thu 3pm-10pm; Fri 3pm-midnight; Sat 10:30am-midnight; Sun 10:30am-9pm
Bars in Canton
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Claddagh Pub
Family-owned since 1995 and self-billed as Baltimore's original Irish soccer pub, it opens at 10:45am on weekdays because match kickoffs do not wait, then runs to 2am.
Mon-Fri 10:45am-2am; Sat-Sun 9am-2am; kitchen to 10pm
Street View
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The Chasseur
A new-American bar and restaurant buried in the rowhouse grid at 3328 Foster Ave, named for the 1812 privateer clipper dubbed the original Pride of Baltimore.
Bar Mon-Tue 4-11pm; Wed from 4pm; Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri noon-1am; Sat 10am-1am; Sun 10am-11pm. Kitchen Mon-Thu 4-10pm; Fri 12-11pm; Sat 10am-11pm; Sun 10am-10pm
- Canton
$ · Highlandtown line
Snake Hill
A tiny corner bar whose bar and tables are covered in more than 17,000 Scrabble tiles with names and phrases hidden in them, serving nearly 20 house-made sausages from chicken to alligator alongside a 60-plus can list.
Mon-Thu, Sun 11:30am-12am; Fri-Sat to 1am
Arts and theater in Canton
$ · Highlandtown line
Creative Alliance
A multi-arts nonprofit in the restored Patterson movie house on Eastern Ave, technically over the Highlandtown line but a short walk from Canton's rowhouse grid, and the closest thing the area has to a real stage.
Box office Tue-Sat 12-5pm plus one hour before events
- Canton
$ · Highlandtown, at Conkling and Bank
Highwire Improv
A small improv theatre at Conkling and Bank with two rooms: a lounge at the front that doubles as a classroom, and a showroom behind it that seats between thirty and forty-two depending on the layout, with barely any standing room.
By the show, in blocks at 7pm, 8pm and 9pm. The theatre does not publish a weekly grid, so read the run of dates rather than a night of the week.
Parks and waterfront in Canton
Free
Canton Waterfront Park
Eight acres of open harbor edge where the Waterfront Promenade widens out, with the Korean War Memorial, a no-license-required fishing pier, and a straight sightline to Fort McHenry.
City parks closed sunset to sunrise except lit fields and permitted activities
Free · Patterson Park, on the Highlandtown and Canton edge
Patterson Park
The big one on this side of town, and the city's own list of what is in it runs long: two playgrounds, five basketball courts, ten tennis courts, nine ballfields, nine athletic fields, a swimming pool, an ice rink, two picnic pavilions, a city farm garden and an Audubon centre.
Sunrise to sunset, like every city park. The Pagoda opens noon to 6pm on Sundays, mid-April to mid-October.
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