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The Windup Space might just be the most smartly planned DIY venture to hit the bar circuit in Baltimore since, well, we really have no idea. Even if it didn't double, awesomely, as a multifarious art space--regularly featuring homegrown art, music, and film--this large, unselfconsciously cool bar would have hold of our boozing hearts with its friendly vibe, topnotch unassuming service--frequently at the hands of owner and local scene vet Russell de Ocampo--an open, mingle-inducing floor plan, a comfortable, populist, and inexpensive beer and liquor selection, and a crowd that consistently seems to be more about enjoying and socializing than posing and blackout drinking. Add all of that to the Windup's rather bold, and so far successful, stab at one of the grimier blocks in Station North, and this one was easy. 

Baltimore's got a lot of there's no way there's a bar here bars, and, of them, there's a subcategory: hidden in plain sight bars. Enter t ...