Todd Conner's — Restaurant in Baltimore

Best breakfast and Bloody Mary...ever

Ok, so my wife and I were trying to go to the Blue Moon Cafe, but the wait was an hour or more and the place was a bit noisy as well. We walked up the street about another 50 yards and saw some tables outside and people partaking of mimosas, bloody Marys and breakfast shooters. My wife saw the sign for crab eggs benedict and our interest was captured. Going inside we found a bar area playing the cooking channel on one tv and Shrek 3 on another and an intriguing menu with amazing prices, like $4 bloodies and a modest list of breakfast selections. We sat at the bar and ordered the bloody marys, crab eggs benedict and I had the biscuits and gravy. The friendly bartender also told us of their breakfast shooters, which consisted of Captain Morgan, butterscotch schnapps, and OJ. Describing the taste as a liquid version of the scent inside of a Pancake House, he sold us on it....and it was delicious and exactly as described. Our food arrived and it tasted great. The place was nice and relaxing with a relatively low noise level and we were each able to enjoy our breakfast watching the cooking channel and Shrek at the same time. Another Bloody Mary each. (did I mention "best ever"?) and we were very happy. And full. Total bill was $41 including tax....about half what we spent last night for two mixed drinks each at our hotel and far more satisfying. They also appeared to have a simple but interesting menu for later in the day and similarly great prices on beer. We agreed that next time we are in Baltimore we are skipping the hotel bar and coming directly...

After our server brought our drinks they vanished. After waiting for thirty minutes I managed to flag them down and get our order placed. When it came time to get our check we again waited a long time while tables that had been sat after us had already eaten and left. We weren't in a hurry, but a french toast and benedict breakfast for 2 shouldn't take 90 minutes to have. I could Ignore the long wait times and attribute it to maybe a hungover/tired server having a bad day and I would not even have bothered with a review. These things happen, but when we finally did get our food it was average at best. The crab benedict tasted mostly of lemon and old Bay, the crab was almost non existent and the English muffin was raw and mushy. The home fries were fairly meh. Instead of being that warm comfort food tastiness one associates with them, they were more like sad dry reheated french fry bits. I have never written a restaurant review before but I felt the need to after this experience. On a positive note the place seemed clean, the atmosphere was nice and they had works from local artists on the wall which I appreciate. The other server I grabbed when we needed our check seemed very attentive to her tables and was helpful and friendly when I asked her for assistance. Perhaps we stopped by on a bad day, but it will be quite some time before we're willing to give it another go if we do. I'd rather deal with the long wait time to be seated at blue moon and get something that is...

I love the fact that this is primarily a premier league bar and a Steelers bar, this is why I'll be back. Also my food was absolutely amazing. The chicken Alfredo pasta is amazing and I'll definitely be back to try it again!! Only bad thing was that I had a very unpleasant experience with one of the staff members there. It was a Sunday night and I understand they are busy as myself being in food business I can understand the stress. However you don't tell at my buddy in there at the top of your lungs when we are trying to get our food. I literally had to tell the staff member to chill out because he was getting nasty with my friend that I had brought in and it was super super not cool.

All in all I can definitely compliment the way this little pub is. I love the design and it's so convenient being almost 6 miles away from me and not even knowing it! You'll definitely have my business again, just would like to contact someone directly about my complaint if that would be ok? Thank you guys so much for taking the time to read my review and GO...