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Mini-Review: Banana Leaf

December 7, 2010

I’m going to call this a mini-review because I had lunch here with a coworker and we both got the same thing, so not really a big, comprehensive review, but a review all the same. Do you remember Chokolat Morel? I actually went to a tasting for the Enquirer there in 2003 with Chuck Martin [...]

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Review: Sichuan Bistro

March 4, 2010

Whenever I’ve discussed authentic Chinese food– not the Americanized stuff that 90% of local restaurants produce– the universal response has been: “Go to Sichuan Bistro”– yet I never had.  When I discovered that it was but a few minutes from my office I felt pretty stupid– this supposedly great place is so darn close?  When [...]

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Review: Kyojin, Mason (Lunch)

January 28, 2010

It’s a well-known fact that I hate buffets.  I really don’t like Las Vegas-style buffets.  Indian buffets I tolerate, since they’re often the only Indian lunch option I have.  Breakfast buffets, unless it’s one like the one at Orchid’s, are really not my cup of tea.  Sushi just never seems like something that would be [...]

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Review: Wildflower Cafe, Mason

September 8, 2009

Three times in one week.  I suppose that if I was trying to be a professional restaurant reviewer, every restaurant I’d go to would be visited a minimum of twice before I wrote about it.  Sometimes that happens, sometimes it doesn’t, but three four times is unprecedented.  It was entirely worth it. (Ed note– had [...]

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Mini-Review: Chick-Fil-A

May 23, 2009

OK, I know, I know, I don’t review chains. But this one I have nearly a personal interest in. Nearly. Outside my office, on Mason-Montgomery Road, I’ve watched the old Amor de Brasil be torn down and the lot rebuilt over the past few months. It’s actually been kind of cool to watch the daily [...]

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Mini-Review: McCauley’s Pub

May 19, 2009

I went out to lunch (a “working lunch”, so no pictures) at a place I’d never tried before– McCauley’s Pub, which is on Fields Ertel (towards Maineville). I’m having a heck of a time finding it listed anywhere– but it’s great! Very hole-in-the wall, with a great burger. Tuesday is their Burger Day, where you [...]

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Review: Hi, Bombay!

May 5, 2009

What a cheery name, isn’t it?  “Hi, Bombay!  Give me some great Indian food!’ “Hi Bombay” is an Indian buffet in the area near Kings Automall on Fields Ertel in Mason.  It is probably the closest Indian food to my office, so if I have a craving for Indian, that’s where I head.  The buffet [...]

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Relish, revisited

December 4, 2008

My friend Rose and I had lunch (to talk about her doing a blog, yay!) at Relish this afternoon.  A few things have changed since my last visit, and for the better.  First, I won’t be so cocky as to think that they read the blog, but two of my biggest complaints were fixed:  the [...]

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Review: Taz, Mason

September 30, 2008

My friend Dave IMd me the other night. “Have you tried Taz?” he asked. “Nope. Where is it?” “Mason,” he replied. “And it’s better than Mythos.” Mythos, as many of you know, is the gold standard when it comes to gyros for a lot of people in Cincinnati. Me, I’ve always been a loyal Sebastian’s [...]

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