The name is misleading. Though off the beaten path, this Fells Point bar with doors at each end is more like a pass through than a dead end.
If you can find the Fell Street entrance (the other door is on Wolfe) through all the vines covering the building, you'll step into a surprisingly a spacious, well-lit dining room. People seek out this tavern for its atmosphere not necessarily its food. Though not bad, the food, which comes in hefty portions, is fairly typical pub grub–burgers, steaks, salads and appetizers. But seafood dishes, such as buckets of oysters or baskets of shrimp, are the favorites.
Plenty of folks take their dinner at the bar because really the bar, with its friendly staff and ample beer selection, is the draw here. A scruffy wooden floor, beer banners and sailing knickknacks are spread through the place. A wood-burning fireplace separates the main bar from the pool players at the three tables in back near the Wolfe Street entrance. With a dozen or so taps, Dead End rotates popular microbrews plus keeps Baltimore favorites like Natty Boh on hand.
With the nautical theme one might expect a sailor or two bellied up to the bar, but really these days there aren't too many true sailors in Fells Point. This is a locals hangout, where the talkative patrons tend to have a bit gray in their beards and a love of the water. The throngs of twentysomething bar goers that roam the main streets of this one-time maritime district rarely find the Dead End.
935 Fell St.
Baltimore, MD 21231
410-732-3602
11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Mondays-Saturdays
