Dining@Large: Comfort food in the burbs - Elizabeth Large blogs ...

Robert of Cross Keys has made my day, maybe my week, with this fine guest post. My Pikesville source, a guy who tells my husband about restaurants to pass on to me, has been going on for a couple of years about a fabulous Chinese restaurant called the Wigwam. Chinese, not American Indian, which is a little weird. Every time I'm in Pikesville, I look for it but have never found it; and it's not listed in the phone book. Now I know how to find it. Thanks, RoCK! EL

She was working on a writing assignment about seasonal menus in Ellicott City. I’ve always found some very good restaurants there, from Tersiguel's on Main Street to Asian Court, the dim sum place, in a shopping plaza. One of my new favorites is Diamondback Tavern.  I just feel the Diamondback does a lot of things right.

They use quality ingredients, many of which they get locally, when you know that it would be very easy for a tavern to just open up a Sysco box and dump the contents into a deep fryer. They serve comfort food, but they are also willing to take chances with it.  By this I mean that old classics you just don’t see anymore, like Scotch Eggs, are on the menu. You’ll also see new creations of comfort food, like the Testudo, which is pulled pork with caramelized banana, onion and avocado on Italian bread.     The Testudo sounds like something you’d assemble in your kitchen at 2:30 a.m. after closing down the bars. However, much like the Caesar Salad -- a dish that actually was thrown together early one morning to satisfy the hunger of people who were drinking all night -- the flavors all seem to complement each other. I couldn’t believe how good it was.  It was like a savory bananas Foster.   I went back and forth on whether the sandwich had enough meat on it.  The pulled pork was excellent; and because it was seasoned with brown sugar and garlic, it had a nice balance of sweet and savory.  I wanted more of it, but...

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