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It’s impossible to overstate how important Louie’s Bookstore Café was to your life if you lived in Baltimore City during the ’80s and ’90s.

This was before Donna’s.

Yelpers report this location has closed.

Louie's the Bookstore Cafe, Baltimore This is a place for former Louie's employees and customers to gather, keep in touch, and reminisce.

Opened one year after Harborplace did, Louie's was an alternative to the Inner Harbor pavilions, a place where locals could feel comfortable.

Louie's Bookstore Cafe is having a reunion.

Baltimoreans also have fond memories of Louie's Bookstore Cafe and Gampy's, both once in Mount Vernon.

Before Starbucks. Hell, before Amazon. Louie’s was a place to have a drink, have a meal, look at some local art on the walls, listen to some Peabody students gigging in the corner, and, yes, buy a book. Beyond that, it seemed to be the center of everything: first dates, breakups, celebrity sightings.

Restaurants come and go in Baltimore at a rapid pace, but Louie’s will never be forgotten.

Louie's Bookstore and Cafe was the first of it's kind when it opened in Many established Baltimore artists exhibited their work there until its closing.

And now the restaurant that closed more than 20 years ago is having a reunion.

The popular dining spot, which was open on Charles Street from to , is the subject of a pair of art exhibits at the Creative Alliance that will run from March 16 to April 13, providing former patrons and employees an opportunity to get together again.

The first one, in the main gallery downstairs, will be “Ji