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Restaurant Earth Wood & Fire to Open in New Retail Building

A restaurant serving coal-fired pizza and burgers will open in the former Daily Grind site in Baltimore.

Run by restaurant industry veteran Mark Hofmann, Earth Wood & Fire will open in March.

Hofmann says he and his three partners will invest $500,000 to open the new restaurant.

The 3,000-square-foot restaurant will look "funky and edgy" and feature fresh, local ingredients, says Hofmann. The partners haven't determined the prices or the exact menu items yet.

Hofmann says he hopes to draw everyone from the college kids at Towson University and Loyola College to residents in neighboring areas. He also hopes to attract the 1,000 workers in the Bare Hills Corporate Center, where the restaurant will be located. The restaurant will be located in a new retail building currently under construction.

Close to Interstate 83, the restaurant is easy to get to for residents in the affluent areas of Homeland, Towson, Lutherville, and Pikesville, Hofmann says. "It's a densely populated area," Hofmann says.

Trained as a chef at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, Hofmann is the former general manager of Tark's Grill in Lutherville. He also helped open the Grille at Peerce's, at the former Peerce's Plantation spot. Hofmann was also a chef at Linwoods in Owings Mills and the former Polo Grill.

Hofmann says Earth Wood & Fire is a concept he has had in his head for four years now. If it succeeds in the corporate park, he hopes to open another one in Canton, Federal Hill, or downtown Baltimore.

"Gotta make this one work first," Hofmann says.

Writer: Julekha Dash
Source: Mark Hofmann, Earth Wood & Fire
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