A sushi restaurant has emerged as a possible replacement for Souvlaki, a Greek restaurant that closed earlier this year on a prominent corner of The Avenue in Hampden.
Baltimore’s liquor board disclosed in a public notice this week that a group called Hama Sushi LLC has applied for a Class “B” Beer, Wine & Liquor License for a restaurant it is planning for the space that Souvlaki’s owners renovated but then vacated at 1101-1103 W. 36th St.
The individual license applicants are Malcolm Stoll and Yongdeng Chen. They’re seeking to provide outdoor table service and off-premises catering as part of their as-yet unnamed restaurant. The liquor board has not set a date for a public hearing to consider the application, but its notice said it will be on or after Oct. 30.
Before it was part of Souvlaki, the building at 1101 W. 36th St. was the home of Philly’s Best sub and pizza shop. For his 1998 movie “Pecker,” filmmaker John Waters turned it into The Sub Pit, where the title character, played by Edward Furlong, worked.
Hama Sushi is the second group this fall to apply for a Class “B” license in the 1100 block of W. 36th Street, known to many as The Avenue. On Thursday, the liquor approved a request from Glenroy Laing of Voight Stempf LLC to open an arcade game-themed restaurant at 1113 W. 36th Street, where a store called Caravanserai used to be. Laing is aiming to open by early December.
Other liquor license applicants disclosed this week include: The Central Baltimore Partnership, which is seeking a Class “C” Beer, Wine & Liquor License for AREA 405, an arts venue at 405 E. Oliver St.; T Street Licensee LLC, which is seeking to take over the Class “B” hotel/motel license of the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore hotel at 1715 Thames St., which was sold recently; and Epic Nights LLC, seeking a Class “B” license for a new as-yet unnamed restaurant at 1140 S. Paca St..
Also, Live K Baltimore LLC, seeking a new Class “BD7” license for 301 Mission Boulevard, Suite 1102, part of the Baltimore Peninsula development; Helmand Group LLC, trading as Helmand Kabobi, seeking to take over a Class “B” license at 855 S. Wolfe St., Suites D and E, near Johns Hopkins Hospital; and Selam Enterprise, LLC, trading as Jano Ethiopian Restaurant and Lounge, seeking to take over the Class “B” license at 34 S. Eutaw St., near the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center. The Eutaw Street restaurant was forced to close in the fall of 2024, due to fire damage.
Hearings for those applicants also would be held on or after Oct. 30, according to the liquor board.
