I've eaten at every one of these restaurants.

There is not a bad one among them.

I think Raskeller and The Food Market are outstanding

Tino's definitely. The Food Market is amazing. Those are the only ones I'm familiar with. LaPalapa is not on the list, but it's one of our favorites, if you want to check it out.

Iron Bridge. Always good, but their restaurant week deal is a steal.

Victoria Gastro Pub, specifically for the duck fat fries

I wish they would fix this website. It's always such a terrible design.

Love Cured and Iron Bridge!

Lāk is not worth it - service was terrible, prices are outrageous and everything tasted like it was frozen and had been microwaved.

The best food for both price and quality that you can find in howard county is generally gonna be the tiny ass immigrant run places. Go to Manila mart, Tigi's ethiopian, any of the korean/chinese restaurants on rt 40 (or just go to the food court in lotte if you're lazy), check out the salvadoran and mexican places all up and down rt 1 (i highly recommend los primos taqueria), try grille chick'n pollo in the hickory ridge village center, or nari sushi in the kings contrivance village center.

I think these lists tend to skew way too hard towards euro-american fine dining type restaurants

The Food Market is fantastic!!! You can't go wrong with Victoria, Manor Hill, and White Oak either.

Went to the food market and it was solid. Food took an age to get out but was tasty.

Chinese restaurants in Howard county are very lame. I agree with the Korean ones and the food courts.

I really wish those types of restaurants did more marketing / we're more approachable. I know it's giga hard to break into new demographics, but I want to try these places but it's difficult sometimes.

The real wish is i wish I had more knowledge about these tiny places and what was good to order there and the best way to do it.

I will try all these places you mentioned though on the yolo principle.

They are so good. I will have to look to see if they are doing a deal for this week.

every place i mentioned is somewhere i went to, and liked. The way I find them is usually just getting in the mood for something and looking up "[blank] food columbia", or sometimes I just drive past a place and go "that looks interesting, i should go try it sometime". If you want a staggering amount of really delicious and varied asian restaurants I highly recommend literally just driving down rt 40, theres a toooon of places tucked into random strip malls or shopping centers.

Also the main reason these places dont do marketing is because they dont make that much money and the owners often dont speak english very well, but if you look for them they all have some type of website at least.

there's a pretty good chinese restaurant called "pepper house" off of rt 40 in ellicott city, they have some nice sichuan style cuisine there

Elkridge Furnace Inn is a nice restaurant, the food was top notch for my wedding a few years ago. A bit overpriced but part of the deal is the historic building (its also nice and scenic outside during the spring/summer.) I think they have built residential houses around it but still a nice little place to eat.

The Food Market and Victorias are both solid places. Those are our go to “date night” spots.

Omg you are so right about Iron Bridge. The food absolutely slapped.

There are some good ones on the list. Klobes is great during the week, on the weekend I've gotten done dry BBQ. If you like bread pudding, this is THE place to go for dessert, with several varieties available (Bourbon Rum is really good).