Pazo Restaurant   

1425 Aliceanna St
Baltimore, MD 21231
410-534-7296
www.pazorestaurant.com

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Celebrate New Year's Eve at Pazo with a reserved seating for $30 or admission to the bar and lounge for $20. The festivities begin at 9PM and include a champagne toast, party favors, a balloon drop and dancing. Having already taken low country cookery to new heights at Charleston and reinvented stuffy French cuisine into casual fare at Petit Louis, chef Cindy Wolf and partner Tony Foreman haven't run out of concepts to conquer. PAZO in Fells Point proves the pair's entrepreneurial spirit is still intact. A machine shop/warehouse dating to the 1880s has been gutted and transformed into a fashionable restaurant/lounge. Inexpensive tapas are the Mediterranean-influenced menu's focus. Diners dwell among the building's original beams and columns, with a color scheme of red hues, Persian rugs and limestone floors. One of the two dining rooms is a communal area, and a mezzanine in the two-story nightspot offers the perfect people-watching perch. The peasant cuisine of Sicily, Sardinia and Campania is represented in small but filling portions of treats from land (pork ribs with garlic sauce, chorizo and potato, braised veal cheeks), sea (mussels gratin, sauteed whitefish, octopus salad) and field (roasted beets, wilted spinach, chickpea pancakes). Wood-fired breads, artisan cheeses and Neapolitan pizzas round out the menu. If you find decisions difficult, the "Grand Table for Two" offers a tour of regional menu tastes for $49. Once dining's done, an impressive sound system produces a nightclub feel.