High 5: Tolerable tourist traps

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Actually, we love each of these places; it's the damn Yankees and Red Sox fans that we hate. Now that school's out, we urge you—stay away, stay far, far away from the Inner Harbor. We don't have time to dodge strollers, leashed children and throngs of conventioneers still wearing laminated name tags—there's summertime drinking to do. But still, a few venturing and street-smart tourists will manage to make their way beyond Harborplace & The Gallery and onto some of our favorite barstools and booths in the city—and hell, if they were smart enough to make it out of the Inner Harbor, we don't mind sharing our not-so-secret places with them. Metromix says, "Welcome to Baltimore's most tolerable tourist traps, hon."