nada

this was almost a post about terry’s turf club, but we had been advised to get there around 5:30 if we wanted a seat and we did not heed that advice. so when we showed up, friends in tow, at 7:30 the place was PACKED and the wait was long and we thought perhaps it [...]

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photo phriday

 

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this is not a post about beluga…

…nor is it a post about the pike, although a week ago we had high hopes of posting about both, when we had an evening planned that began in the vineyard cafe at ended with drinks & dancing at the pike. but factor in the loss of an infant-prepared babysitter and our desire not to [...]

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tink you sir may i have another?

recently we secured a babysitter and made our way out for an evening of holiday merry-making. our plan? grab a dinner out and head to a holiday party. once we recovered from the vertigo of not having children in our arms (or on our hips or heads or knees), we headed on a lark and several [...]

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i go, you go, we all go to hugo

it is hard to pass up shrimp and grits, and so it was hard for me to continue passing by hugo without stopping in. we tried to drop in one evening but it was during the summer, we felt a little sweatily under-dressed, and we had a fussy toddler in tow. so we made a [...]

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teak thai

clinging to the slope of st. gregory st. in mt. adams, teak thai is one of those places that numerous folks have told us to check out. it’s a cool space: its entrance was formerly the space between two buildings, now roofed over and flooded with natural light. the bar (1st floor) and restaurant (1st [...]

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sunday evening at slim’s

we’ve touched on the joy that is slim’s previously, and i don’t want to get into the habit of repetition. but on a return visit there this past sunday, i found myself thanking my lucky stars that cincinnati has a restaurant like this. plus, the experience was very different than our previous visit. earlier, we’d [...]

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l-a-v-omatic

(with apologies to prince)
okay, first things first: the menu really is tiny, and the food is (or was on friday) uneven.
we’re a little late on blogging lavomatic — everybody’s been there, with mixed responses to the food, the service, and the atmosphere.
rather than cover everything in great detail, let me say that if you want to go [...]

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al fresco! amore! (but not amore al fresco)

if, say, you were a jealous lover, and suspected your beloved of stepping out with another, and, say, were hoping to follow your beloved of an evening in the hopes that you could catch said beloved whispering sweet nothings to that other, and you saw your beloved head into Arthur’s Cafe and request a seat in [...]

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eat slow. stay slim.

what little i know about the slow-food movement can be captured in fewer words than it has taken to write this sentence. it’s italian in origin. it’s good for you.
and now i know it makes some damn fine eats.
it’s not hard to guess at that last piece, since almost anything that any sentient person makes [...]

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