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July 27, 2012

A Feast for the Eyes

Any chef worth his sea salt tantalizes taste buds by first tempting the eyes. The aesthetic characteristic of a plate of food is the last part of food preparation, and...

And the winner is …

It seems that every time we run this column, we start off with Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. Well, here we are again and the Jeni juggernaut just can’t be stopped. In the past...

Mobile Munching

These days there seems to be hundreds of new street food ventures popping up overnight in Columbus. The proliferation of colored umbrellas, converted carnival trailers and...

Runaround Sous

Getting ahead in any profession takes perseverance – there are dues to be paid. Doctors have to go through residency. Baseball players: the minor leagues. Some people shoot...

Amuse-Bouche

One of my stock conversation starters is, “What is your first food memory?” You know, that time when a meal went beyond just marking minutes at the dinner table and caused...

Meet the Tastemaker: John Dornback

Background: 15 years working in kitchens in New York, including three years as Executive Chef of the Bryant Park Grill Education: French Culinary Institute, New York...

Meet the Tastemaker: Mary Martineau

Background: Owner of Transformations in the Short North, former Short North Business Association President Education: Miami University, Marketing and International...

Meet the Tastemaker: Adrienne Hasty

Background: Author/self-taught chef Education: The Ohio State University, Medical Technology Guilty Pleasure: Sweet potato fries – they are my favorite food ever; and...

Breakfast with Nick

Be it burrito, biscuit or bacon-egg-and-cheese, Nick Dekker is your any-morning guide to the best breakfast in the city. Burritos Quick history lesson: the breakfast burrito...

The Bottle and the Barbie

All Ohioans know the summer sun is capable of slowing time to a standstill. The air moves in waves, and the sky turns a bright ashen blue, all the deeper shades burnt out and...

Urban Farming: A Growing Trend

On any given Saturday of the summer, The Clintonville Farmers’ Market is abuzz with vendors and buyers on a mission to find the finest, freshest food available. Local chefs...

Community Gardens Grow

Trish Dehnbostel is a modern day Johnny Appleseed. Inspired by gardening with her grandparents, she now works with Local Matters, a non-profit organization that creates...

Just Desserts

Pâtisserie Lallier (614) 562.3003 www.patisserielallier.com If only there was a French word for street cred; it might as well be translated as Pâtisserie Lallier. Pronounced...

In Season

August August finds the local growing season at its peak – juicy tomatoes, sweet corn and all sorts of bounty are bursting with sun-baked flavor. To celebrate this cornucopia...

The Mad Hoppers

Twelve lawyers are standing around a tree stump pounding nails … This isn’t the start of a joke, but rather the scene at Watershed Distillery during a recent FoodHop tour...

Meet the Tastemaker: Collin Castore

Background: Variety of restaurant gigs, Grateful Dead parking lot start-up, retail shop owner of now-defunct Higher Ground, Former glassblower Education: Ohio State...4

Table Talk

1. Blake Compton Founder, Hudson Street Hooligans Cheap: Johnnies Tavern on Trabue. The only place I go to get my drink on in San Margherita. For a 10 spot, I’ll omnomnom...1

July 1, 2012

Micro Madness

It was a Tuesday night this January when Dan Cochran saw a man pulling up to the back door of his Four String Brewery in Grandview, an Italian gentleman on a 10-speed. The man...5

Rising Beer Tide Lifts All Tuns

When the Anti-Saloon League moved their operations from Oberlin, Ohio, right up the road to Westerville in 1909, they were 11 years away from wrecking the fun for the entire...

Four String Brewing Co.

There were plenty of times when Cochran wondered whether he was crazy. On all the other nights last year, there was no smiling Angelo – only a sweaty warehouse full of used...

Zauber Brewing Co.

“Welcome to the biggest little brewery that could!” The white-walled expanse of Geoff Towne’s Zauber Brewing space on Norton Road may be minimalist, but he’s giving the...3

Seventh Son Brewing

Those bad-old-days of the dilapidated Short North are not-so-distant memories for Collin Castore. When he went to work on the space now inhabited by Bodega, he can remember...

BRU (Brew-On-Premise)

The burst of locally produced spirits in Columbus hasn’t just infused new flavor into the local drinking scene – it’s brought inspiration. Gavin Meyers and Tim Ward were...1

Actual Brewing Company

Perhaps none of the new micro boomers best represent the personality of the craft renaissance than the boys at Actual Brewing Company. Co-founders Fred Lee and Rob Camstra...

Tap Wars

Fifty. One hundred. Fifty again. Sixty-four. Thirty-six. Forty. The number of draft taps lining Columbus bars is proliferating at a nuclear pace. It’s the Cold War all over...