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Review: Vito’s Cafe, Ft. Thomas

June 10, 2009

Full disclosure:  I get a lot of emails from PR folks, many of them not quite applicable to the blog (if it’s happening in NYC, I’m not really the target audience…).  Vito’s PR company pitched me on a free meal, and I took them up on it.  The conditions were that the staff didn’t know [...]

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Re-Review: Nicola’s

March 31, 2009

Sometimes The Boyfriend and I get into dining ruts. Our Friday nights go something like this: “What are you thinking, dinner-wise?” “I don’t know, what do you want?” “I don’t know, what do YOU want?” We go ’round and ’round until we end up at one of a few standard places: Morton’s for their super [...]

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Review: Limoncello, Boston (North End)

February 25, 2009

A few other people from my office were in Boston, and after a happy hour, I got dragged (oh, darn) to Limoncello, in the North End.  The warnings I had heard were: if you go to the North End, avoid any place that has the Godfather (theme or music) playing, or that looks like a [...]

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Review: Nicola’s

January 19, 2009

Review: Nicola’s Ristorante Nicola’s, run by the Pietoso family, who also run Via Vite on Fountain Square, is a staple of Cincinnati cuisine.  Known for its fine Italian cuisine, it’s won countless awards from Cincinnati Magazine, Zagat’s, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and Mobil.  The building itself is on Sycamore Street in Over-the-Rhine, which formerly housed railcars [...]

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Review: Trattoria Roma

September 26, 2008

Do you guys ever watch Kitchen Nightmares? I love that show. It would be fun to make a drinking game from it: every time Gordon drops the f-bomb, drink a tequila shot. I’d be down for the count by the first commercial break. It’s also helped me, in a small way, to become a critical [...]

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