Hello to very good coffee on the eastern shore! I am a very biased city dweller but I am also an advocate of very good coffee, so with that in mind I deigned to cross the bridge in search of caffeine.
Baxter is hidden up an alley across the road from Beastlands, and provides a small and sweet refuge from such a place. It also has a small selection of sweets in the cabinet AND toasted sammos available for purchase! My cubano filled the hole in my belly quite nicely, and was an extra treat as I wasn't expecting such a thing to be available--we were going to just have a coffee at Baxter and then find somewhere to eat, and the sandwiches solved that problem nicely. There's not a great deal of space to dine in (slash outside on the astroturf) but things weren't busy so it was easy for us to pull up a milk crate or three and finish up our sandwiches before we went on our way.
Coming from the right (ahem) side of the river, I won't be going out of my way to visit Baxter in the future, but I'll sure point all of my eastern shore friends toward it and make a point to drop in whenever I am pulled eastward! read more