
Cured Table & Tap: approaches the familiar concept of the neighborhood corner bar from a fresh perspective. Featuring humble takes on classic comfort foods and a bar program where craft cocktails and craft beer are easy and approachable. 18th & 21st: is the other side of the coin. This is the prohibition era supper club reimagined with live music, elevated dining, and speakeasy inspired cocktails. Unlike anything else in Columbia, 18th & 21st promises to be an exciting addition to the area nightlife.
Upmarket American cuisine served in a stylish bistro & a sophisticated lounge that share an address.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 10980 Grantchester Wy #110, Columbia, MD 21044
Phone: (667) 786-7111
Website: http://cured1821.com/
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Reviews
We made a last-minute decision to try for some of the nightly jazz (except Monday) at 18th & 21st on a Friday evening (Oct 2025), hip-ly named for the prohibition amendment and repeal 🙂 There’s a free parking garage right across from the entrance of the building they share with a sister restaurant, Cured.
We arrived in the bright seasonally-decorated welcoming lobby about 7:50pm. We ought to have made reservations, but in under 10min, the reception staff took us to the more intimate room towards the back where we were seated at at the bar, which is really what we wanted.
When we arrived, the 6pm jazz band had just gone on break, so we felt free to chat with friendly regulars and with the bar staff. They have a changing list of ten craft beers from $6 to $21, plus one $6 non-alcoholic brew. Five of the $14-$35 per-glass vintage wines from their list of 17 are preserved with the “corovin” system that keeps air out, so they are never “corked”. We focussed on their list of 11 crafted $13-$22 cocktails plus 5 non-alcoholic ones, all made with quality ingredients, each naming the staff member(s) (and guests) who formulated the recipe!
We found Alex’s $16 Fernetinez sublimely sweet: of bitter fernet amaro, Frederick-based locally-sourced award-winning McClintock One Last Time gin (exclusive for 18th&21st), smooth Luxardo liqueur, and a sweet vermouth. We loved the aroma and flavor of the classic Smoked Old Fashioned of bourbon from Kentucky’s 10th-oldest distillery, Green River, moved to a mild well-rounded sweetness by brown sugar simple syrup, smoked in front of me by Mike (if i remember), with added richness from smoky bitters.
They have a creative menu of $30 to $65 entrees, plus salads, small plates, apps, and sides, and they have a changing menu of small plates. We really hadn’t planned on eating, but we couldn’t resist. The $17 duck bao buns had thin tender filets with a sweet lightly-salty apricot-soy glaze and a tangy crunchy pickled cucumber slaw on a soft folded yeasted slightly-sweet white-flour bun. The $12 pair of fried fresh-tasting oysters were sweet and juicy with a light-flavored crunchy crust. They were so yummy, and easy to enjoy with our cocktails.
Rodney Kelly’s jazz band was excellent, playing with spirit, joking with each other and the audience, even staging a song or two with a skilled member of the restaurant staff. Afterwards we had brief moments with some of the band members, like an intimate jazz club.
Later in the evening, i also had a Turkish Sunset, a Manhattan-variation created in a collaboration among the staff and a guest (Well-done Ozzie!). I love Elijah Craig, and wanted to try their dry toasted rye, with housemade allspice dram syrup, Small Hands grenadine, and bitters. By now, i felt very much at home with the staff, and when i learned that one of them had helped formulate this beverage, i confided that its amazing complexity was, for me, just a touch too dry. Alex (if i remember) considered the ingredients and the target flavors, and added just a touch of a sweet lemony liqueur, perfectly complimenting the recipe’s flavors! Real-time crafting goes above and beyond, Thank you! (And when they next update the menu, maybe they’ll have a custom option named for me 🙂
We didn’t have a reservation but staff got us a table within 10 min, I guess we got lucky. It was a fancy and relaxing atmosphere with live music (Friday evening). Everything we ordered was delicious. I would come back again!
The drinks were very good.
The vibe was smooth.
The presentation of the plates were very fancy.
The taste of the food was not in accordance with the price. A New York steak was $58 and the flavor was like an Outback steak. For that price I was expecting more like a Ruth’s Chris flavor. For the price we pay I prefer a more quality flavor place. I would not repeat the spot.
We were greeted by the hostess and she took us back to bar area for seating. Live jazz duo was in action as well as a dozen customers in a nearby table. Not my choice. Our son had made the reservations.
The dining area is nicely decorated with a painting depicting several well known skyscrapers from Chicago on the ceiling.
I saw fried oysters on the menu and haddock too. Only 2 oysters per plate or $10 a piece. My bad. I do not recommend them. They were all over fried and hard as a rock.
My Caesar salad was a kit, that is, assembly is required. A very messy thing to do when served on a small flat plate. The haddock was ok but covered in a tasteless sauce with waffled potato chip which weren’t crispy since the sauce had been soaked up by them. Our waitress was attentive but mia a few times.
Based on the parking, cost, and food, I won’t be back.