There are restaurants that look impressive from the outside and disappoint you the moment the food arrives, and then there are places like Steak & Main in North East, Maryland, which look modest from the street and then absolutely floor you once you sit down.
That second kind of restaurant is the one worth driving for, and Steak & Main is absolutely worth the drive.
North East is a Cecil County gem that sits right at the top of the Chesapeake Bay, where the Northeast River meets the water and the whole landscape takes on that particular beauty that Maryland does better than almost anywhere else.
It’s a small town with genuine character, the kind of place that hasn’t been polished into something generic and interchangeable…