Looking For An Unusual MD Dining Experience? Check Out This Place

Dinner and a show? How about dinner and a sideshow? You’ll find one of the best in Maryland, according to a ranking of the country’s most unusual restaurant experiences.

The food and travel website Lovefood ranked restaurant experiences in all 50 states from the weirdest to the least weird, but they’re all places where the setting may be as memorable as the food.

Ranked 38th in the country is a Brunswick, Maryland, eatery called Beans in the Belfry.

This cafe is located in an old converted church built in 1910 that retains its original stained-glass windows. The eatery offers live folk, bluegrass and Celtic music as part of the dining experience, along with couches, antique church pews and table seating. There's a kids' corner for pint-sized patrons, shaded seating out on the sidewalk and in the garden, and space to rent for private events.

The breakfast, lunch and dinner menu is available all day, seven days a week, and includes light fare like salads and sandwiches to bagels and quiche, as well as home-cooked meals such as biscuits and gravy.

Beans in the Belfry also prides itself on its organic fair trade coffees and teas, espresso specialty drinks, freshly prepared food and baked goods. The adult beverages range from mimosas to wines and craft beers. The cafe also offers a traditional English afternoon tea service.

Beans in the Belfry is located at 122 West Potomac St. and is open 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

The top five most unusual restaurant experiences in the country, according to Lovefood, are:

1. The Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar in San Francisco, a tiki-themed restaurant in San Francisco with a huge central lagoon and floating stage where simulated tropical storms roll through between courses.

2. The Yurt at Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah, where guests have to snowshoe through a moonlight forest to the yurt, where a chef will prepare a meal at their table(this spot is open only seasonally, from December through April).

3. The Airplane Restaurant in Colorado Springs, which is housed in a Boeing KC-97 tanker built in 1953. The plane flew all over the world before being decommissioned in 2002.

4. Catacombs at Bube’s Brewery in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, where guests descend 43 feet for a candlelight dinner in the brewery’s old stone aging cellars.

5. Enoteca Maria, a Staten Island eatery that doesn’t have a regular chef but hires “Nonnas of the World” — grandmothers from around the globe — to cook their best dishes for a menu that changes daily. The cuisine is so good it has earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand label.