Pit beef face-off: In favor of Roseda (above) are sandwiches made from the farm's own dry-aged black angus, and picnic tables with a farmland view. In favor of Chaps (below) are longer hours, all-weather seating, and — after unpedigreed but tender and tasty beef — banana pudding.
Roseda Farm
15317 Carroll Road, Monkton, Maryland
410-472-2697
www.RosedaBeef.com
Lunch on Friday and Saturday only (call to confirm); farm store open Tuesday through Saturday
Chaps Pit Beef
581 Pulaski Hwy. (at Mapleton Ave.), Baltimore
(one of several locations)
410-483-2379
www.ChapsPitBeef.com
(From a July 2018 visit)
