Gertrude’s Restaurant is a fine Chesapeake restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland. This restaurant has a stunning view of Baltimore Museum of Art’s sculpture garden as well as an award-winning outdoor terrace. Loved by locals, the outdoor seating area won a “Best of Baltimore” award from Baltimore Magazine. You’ll be in good hands with owner/creator John Shields, also known as the “Culinary Ambassador of the Chesapeake Bay,” who has written cookbooks and starred as a cooking show host. The location of this restaurant makes it a venue that you and your guests will remember.
Facilities And Capacity This restaurant venue can accommodate 180 guests with a station or buffet style event. For a seated and served dinner, the venue can host 120 guests. Ceremonies of 150 people can be accommodated on the outside terrace. Enjoy your ceremony outside on the terrace, surrounded by a small pool of water and some stepping stones. From there, make your way inside for the dinner style of your choice.
Services Offered Many event items are provided at this venue. That includes chairs, tables, linens, flatware, China, centerpieces, and tents. All set up and clean up of the catering services is handled by Gertrude’s Restaurant staff. Bar services include bartenders, a limited or an open bar, house beer, house wine, house liquor, specialty beer, specialty wine, specialty liquor, and a signature drink of your choice. Pricing is based on the bar being open for four hours.
Cuisine Gertrude’s Restaurant specializes in fine Chesapeake cuisine. All menus are custom-designed to your wants and needs. Maybe you’re interested in the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Crab” vegan crab cakes or Gertie’s Seafood Gumbo. One thing’s for sure, you will enjoy local dishes made famous by the Chesapeake Bay.
Other Facilities Gertrude’s Restaurant offers other facilities. Those include:
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Gertrude's itself such a great venue, and big part of the Baltimore food and culture scenes, and the BMA is so fantastic, it couldn't help but make for an incredible place to get married, but Emily, Jay, and the entire team at Gertrude's made the whole experience, from first consideration to closing down at the end of the big day, absolutely wonderful. Emily was crucial in planning and organizing the whole shebang, and things would have been a lot harder and way more stressful without her!
The food was outstanding; the chefs were able to make our concept a reality, and Emily helped shape it into something that made a bit more sense on the plate.
If you're not convinced by the beauty of the garden by day, let me tell you, it becomes utterly magical in the moonlight.
All in all, Gertrude's was a perfect venue, and we'd do it again there in a heartbeat. It's an amazing space, and the people are even more so.
Sent on 11/05/2019
Samantha Walters
· Married on 10/12/2019
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Exceeded our high expectations
From start to finish, the people at Gertrude's were a joy to work with. The coordinator, Emily, is always quick to respond, super helpful in answering questions, and will keep things running smoothly on the day of the event. The sculpture garden was the perfect setting for our fall wedding, and dinner was just as good as the food at Gertrude's is every other time we've eaten there (aka it was freaking delicious). Our personal attendant for the night was so sweet and even knew my drink preferences before meeting me! My only hesitation when we booked was that I did not love the look of the dining room and thought the colors/upholstery might be distracting. I could not have been more wrong. In the candlelight, the space was completely transformed. It was a truly beautiful setting for our reception.
One thing to note is that ceremonies at Gertrude's are held over the fountain. Because of the long train on my dress and our preference for a longer/straight aisle, we chose to rent an adjacent space in the sculpture garden from the BMA for our ceremony, and Gertrude's still handled the setup. Perfect!
Basically, Gertrude's is probably the best bang-for-your-buck wedding venue in Baltimore, and definitely offers the best wedding food available. I cannot recommend them enough!
Sent on 01/15/2020
Lily Dantona
· Married on 10/05/2019
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Elegant and Tasteful
We had such a wonderful wedding on Saturday! Everything about the wedding was perfect! Every guest of our wedding praised the delicious food, the beautiful place and the attentive service. We will keep our wonderful wedding in our memory forever!
