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Asian Food Fest– Saturday and Sunday

May 18, 2012

Miss me? At least I’m coming back with something you really must attend. Asian Food Fest, I insisted last year, would be way more popular if it were downtown. The Donauschwaben, where they were located last year, is remote and kind of hard to find. Mind you, I didn’t actually tell anyone this– well, besides [...]

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Take Your Mom Downtown for Mother’s Day!

May 10, 2012

My mom *loves* to come downtown now. When I first moved downtown, once in 1999 and then in 2007, she thought I was taking my life into my hands. As downtown has grown in leaps and bounds over the past few years, she’s gotten excited too. She loves Senate and Mayberry and Lackman, she talks [...]

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Preview of Taste of Cincinnati

May 7, 2012

I think it’s going to be a good Taste of Cincinnati this year. I was pretty excited to be asked to be on the panel to judge entrees for the Best of Taste of Cincinnati this year. The panel for Best of Taste is mostly members of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, plus a few [...]

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News Roundup: Pho Lang Thang, Tom + Chee, Queen City Cookies, Nada

April 23, 2012

Urban Cincy and Urban Ohio’s forums  have confirmed a rumor that has been circulating around for a while: Pho Lang Thang is opening a new location on Vine Street. Tom + Chee, which appears to be taking over the world (or, fine, the Tri-State area) is opening up a third local (and fourth regional) location on [...]

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Mullane’s Parkside Cafe Evicted

April 12, 2012

According to Mullane’s Facebook page, they were evicted from their space at 1222 Race Street. From Ellen Faeth: “but sadly, after investing in excess of $50,000 of my own money in this venture, today we were evicted because of an error in my calculations about how long I had to pay the rent……I accidentally paid [...]

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Food Trucks In Negotiations Serve at Taste of Cincinnati

March 29, 2012

Corrected:  I spoke with Chris Kemper from the Cincinnati Chamber– the food trucks aren’t finalized yet, but they are in negotiations. Just heard this from Tom Acito, the owner of Cafe de Wheels: The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce is negotiating with food trucks to serve at Taste of Cincinnati. The list of food trucks in [...]

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Vintage Restaurant Menus

March 28, 2012

My friend Monika pointed me out to some really cool menus for sale on eBay– all from landmark Cincinnati restaurants, most of which are now closed. Frisch’s Mt. Vernon Iron Horse Inn in Glendale (looks to be from the 60s) El Greco (I remember my mom talking about going there and I remember their campaign [...]

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Diner en Blanc Coming to Cincinnati This Summer

March 26, 2012

As an unabashed Francophile, I keep up on what is going on in my favorite city– via blogs, friends in Paris, or occasionally coverage in a US publication, like the New York Times. I remembered reading about Diner en Blanc in the Times last year, as they were just about to launch a Diner in [...]

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Only in Cincinnati…

March 21, 2012

  (Courtesy Joe Robb)

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Yelp Helps After School Special

March 21, 2012

Yelp is always doing cool stuff– Yelp Eats, the Yelp Drinks promotion, and lots of other, smaller events around the city. This time, they’re giving back to the community and presenting a pretty cool event that highlights some of the smaller non-profits in the Cincinnati area. Yelp Helps, held at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center [...]

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