. >>> i'm ron matz at the hippodrome theater. it's fun and it's fantastic. it's the foody experience. the story coming up here on wjz. >>> i'm bob turk. in the first warning weather center. will this perfect weather last all weekend? i'll have the exclusive first i'll have the exclusive first warning five-day forecast. ,,,,, >>> it's become one of baltimore's hottest tickets. and it happens tomorrow. ron matz reports. the third annual foody experience is happening at the hippodrome. >> hi, christine. >> hi, ron. good to see you. >> reporter: christine richardson will bring her ice dem cup cakes to saturday's foody experience at the hippodrome. >> tomorrow, we're going to be sampling the french toast with bacon. because it's such a good cupcake. and a few other flair flavors. >> reporter: the experience includes samplings from 35 other restaurants. including the waterfront kitchen. >> this is like a savory little take on an italian dessert. >> reporter: the travel channel's andrew zinern. and they will close to make way for baltimore's best food trucks. >> you

the huge train shed. that train shed was used first by p.t. barnum for his hippodrome theater and can the equestrian society of new york took it over for their upscale horse show. the horses may have been upscale and the equestrians may have been upscale but a rusty old train shed is not upscale. they decided in the late 1880s to demolish that and hired mccumbee and white to do this multi-entertainment complex and the madison avenue end of it had several theaters including a 1,500 seat music hall the size of today's town hall and a 1200 seat theater for shows and plays and that's the equivalent of a large broadway theater today, new york's largest restaurant and some people say it had a billiards room which would be very typical of those days, that was a very upscale indoor sport and had a beautiful arcade at madison, 26th and 27th so when you alighted from your carriage, taxi, whatever it was, you were sheltered from the wind, the rain, the sun, whatever was going on out there. the top of that multi-entertainment complex behind the colonnades and an outdoor roof garde