At a recent happy hour, a friend sent the unlikeliest of texts: “I’m sitting in a dive bar in Fells Point eating escargot.”
Welcome to Lil’ Phil’s Tavern, a proudly quintessential Baltimore dive bar that in April debuted a food menu unlike any other in the city. Co-owner Dale Fields dubbed it “Little Phil’s Sorcery,” and the bar’s one-named chef, Skippy, prepares it.
With offerings like the John Holmes Special (a footlong hot dog topped with sauerkraut) and Shit on a Shingle (cream chipped beef), it takes a whimsical approach to naming its dishes, but a much more serious one to executing them…