If you go to Little Italy (which I think is a must do,) you should go to Vaccaro's It's an Italian dessert restaurant - to die for. We sometimes skip dinner in the summer and make that our dinner. As a native Baltimorean, I'm chuckling at the people warning you to be safe. Seriously the day after the riots, the misdirected kids went back to school and life went back to normal. Yeah, we still have our fair share of bad neighborhoods like any city, but you shouldnt be concerned visiting downtown . As we saw yesterday, insane violence can break out in any city - its not something we are doing everyday here.