In Baltimore visit, Katy Perry dines at Charleston, shops at Petco

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Katy Perry attends the 10th annual DVF Awards at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, April 11, 2019, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
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The Obamas weren't the only notables dining in Baltimore the night of the Beyonce concert. The ESPN personality ate at the Horseshoe Casino restaurant with a group of friends after the concert.
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The actress, who plays Claire Underwood on "House of Cards," visited the Little Italy restaurant in April 2015 and got a half order of pasta carbonara for carryout.
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The billionaire media magnate, whose career took off after a stint as an anchor on WJZ in Baltimore, came back to the city in 2014 for a dinner of crabs and crab cakes in a private dining area of Captain James Landing in Canton.
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The acclaimed farm-to-table restaurant has a policy against discussing celebrity guests, but that didn't stop social media from buzzing when first lady Michelle Obama and her oldest daughter, Malia, were spotted eating dinner there before a Beyonce concert in June 2016.
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The comedian stopped by the Catonsville barbecue restaurant, owner Mark Wieland said, a day before making several campaign stops for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous. He praised the restaurant's beans as being "off the chart," Wieland said.
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The radio host stopped by the Pikesville restaurant for brunch and posed for pictures with the owners.
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While in town for a performance at the Hippodrome, the comedian and television host spent New Year's Eve at Hersh's, where he ordered the "il muffaletta" pizza. He went to Alexander's Tavern for brunch New Year's Day and even signed a menu.
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NBC's Bob Costas and several members of the NBC production crew had their post-Preakness dinner at Aldo's in Little Italy in 2016.
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Katy Perry dined out at Charleston in Harbor East in September 2019, and then made a pit stop at Petco in Canton, according to the Canton Neighbors Facebook page.
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Kanye West stopped in at the Oxford restaurant in September 2020. He had a hot roast beef sandwich topped with cheddar cheese and crispy onion rings, as well as fish and chips, owner Gretchen Gordon said.
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Trainer Bob Baffert, in Baltimore for the 145th running of the Preakness Stakes, was seen at Aldo's Ristorante Italiano in Little Italy the night of Oct. 2, 2020.
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The Canadian rapper dropped in with a group of friends last July. He requested the lychee martini, the Maryland signature roll, and the A-5 Wagyu ribeye — along with a soundtrack of Jay-Z's "4:44" album.

PUBLISHED: September 12, 2019 at 12:37 p.m. | UPDATED: September 12, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.

Apparently it wasn’t a dream, teenage or otherwise. Katy Perry has touched down in Baltimore.

Wednesday night, chef Cindy Wolf posted a photo on Instagram, showing herself and the singer cheek-to-cheek at her Charleston restaurant. “The amazing @katyperry had dinner with us tonight – what a bright spirit and beautiful person she is !!! We were honored to cook for you!!!” Wolf wrote.

And Thursday morning, Jack Boger posted on the Canton Neighbors Facebook group about a chance encounter with Perry at the Petco in Canton Crossing. “We rolled up to Petco and we noticed an Escalade pull up and entourage come out and we thought it was maybe a political figure and ignored it,” Boger wrote. Boger goes on to say that his boyfriend recognized Perry, and that as the singer was leaving, he said “bye Katy and she smiled.”

“I got a pic of her back,” he adds at the end of his post, “cause I was too scared to get a pic with her.”

As Boger noted in his post, Perry was at the QVC Studios in West Chester, Pa., to promote her shoe line. Perry posted a photo in advance of her appearance on her Instagram account. Not impossible that she was staying in Baltimore for the night.

Wolf has not returned requests for comment. A representative for Perry’s agent declined to comment.