The Chowda Head plate at Liv2eat Restaurant on Light Street.
(Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun / December 13, 2012)
Featured in Scene  Baltimore has a shortage of good, small
restaurants, the kind with 20 or 30 seats, where diners can have
some intimacy. Restaurants, at least the ones I've been
reviewing, have been getting bigger, brassier, louder. I'm not
complaining. I've been having some great dinners in big and
medium-size, crowded restaurants.  A sweet, small new restaurant
named Liv2Eat has opened in South Baltimore. I'll confess to
hating the name on sight. I got over it, and I hope others do
and give it a chance.  Liv2Eat is run by a couple, Cecilia
Benalcazar and Kevin Perry, the chef, who live upstairs from the
restaurant with their infant son. They've thrown themselves into
their restaurant. You can feel how much they care. Liv2Eat
opened around Election Day, and I started hearing nice things
about it right away.  This is the South Baltimore space that
began a dozen years ago as the Bicycle, a re