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Columbus, One Bite at a Time

Where to eat, what to cook, and what's happening around the city. Straight from the team that has been touring Columbus kitchens since 2010.

April 13, 2020

Trust Fall

Trust Fall from Columbus Food Adventures. A mystery meal delivered to your door.

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April 7, 2020

Columbus Easter Food Guide 2020

Easter carry out food and ingredients Columbus 2020

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August 2, 2018

So Long CBC Restaurant (1997 to July 29th, 2018)

If you joined us on a tour over that last five years, there is a 50% or greater chance your launch point with us was at Columbus Brewing Company Restaurant, later CBC Restaurant. Since September of 2013, we ran over 350 tours originating from this craft beer destination. Most of the tours were our Downtown

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June 11, 2018

Barleys Makes a Big SPL(m)ASH with Batch 2000 and 2001

We visit Barleys most Saturdays on our Downtown Brewery Tour and we drop in doing private tours and coordinating special events as well. After over 200 visits since we started in 2013 we still find there is something to learn and something new going on. Some of our guests are a bit dismissive when they

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December 24, 2017

It Takes a Village: Being Part of the Craft Community

Running a tour company featuring craft breweries in Central Ohio involves a lot more than drinking beer. To understand and engage the community, we look for ways to become part of it. That means between tours, we are spending a lot of time at breweries asking questions, finding out what is new, etc., and sometimes

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November 9, 2017

How to Win at Thanksgiving in Columbus

10 ways to make your Columbus, Ohio Thanksgiving preparations easier from pies to wine pairings.

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October 25, 2017

Apples Galore

It finally feels like fall and, and fall means Ohio apples. There are over 50 varieties of heirloom and traditional apples to discover at local pick-your-own farms and farmers markets, from Melrose to Rome Beauty. We’re not the only ones enjoying apples this season, though; Columbus chefs, bakers, and mixologists are having plenty of fun

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September 28, 2017

We are BIG on Wolf's Ridge Barrel Aged Beers

Four Septembers ago Wolf’s Ridge Brewing opened this doors to their restaurant and brewery and we ran our first public tour. In the following months we made a lot of trips to Wolf’s Ridge and watched a weekly evolution of the business and their approach to the craft of beer. No one at Wolf’s Ridge

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September 26, 2017

Restaurants Are Like Buses

Lots of exciting new restaurants opening in Columbus this Fall.

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July 29, 2017

We are Sweet on Sours from Wolf's Ridge Brewing

We have a lot of history with Wolf’s Ridge Brewing. We both launched in the same month and year (September 2013) to a soon to explode craft beer scene in Columbus. In our early days, we ran nearly weekly tours there. In 2015, we created a new tour with a goal of focusing on some

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July 13, 2017

Wing It with CBA: Homestead Beer Co. Wing Wars, August 13th

Since the inception of Columbus Brew Adventures, we wanted to find more ways to facilitate fans experiencing new craft beer festivals, events and destinations in Central Ohio. We decided to set our bar high for our first foray as a non tour trip to offer an event shuttle to the 3rd Annual Wing Wars at

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May 14, 2017

Four String Brewing Co. offering a "Gateway" Porch Pounder

One of the fun aspects of touring breweries on a regular basis is seeing the evolution of these businesses and their ideas over time. We heard rumors of a special lager Four String was working on months ago. The debut of Hilltop Heritage Lager is the realization of a beer to fill a void. It

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March 26, 2017

Seventh Son - A Sign

Seventh Son Brewing has some stealthy advertising that many are just starting to notice. As a brewery commonly featured on our Downtown Brewery Tour, we just had our first group of guests notice this billboard sign across the street from the brewery without pointing it out to them this week. The sign first appeared in

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August 4, 2016

On the Road Again: Delaware & Powell Craft Beer Tour

There is a lot brewing north of I 270 and we are taking you to explore all of it. Most of these spots have been open less than 2 years but their brews are already getting a lot of attention. August 20th will be our inaugural run for this season. Our first stop is the

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July 27, 2016

CRIS Fundraiser Tours Return

After the heartwarmingly positive reception to last year’s special event tour, Columbus Food Adventures is once again pleased to partner with Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) on a unique fundraiser featuring restaurant favorites of the local immigrant and refugee communities. Last year, we raised over $1,800 for the CRIS, and hope exceed that this year. On

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April 30, 2016

Tales of the Columbus Ale Trail

Over the course of the past year Columbus Brew Adventures has passed out almost 2000 Ale Trail books to people on our tours. I’ve spoken with over 100 people using the books as I have crossed paths with them at breweries all over Central Ohio. The consistent message is: This is great! I can’t say

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April 8, 2016

Tour Guide Openings

Would you like to be part of our team? Columbus Food Adventures is looking for outgoing and passionate tour guides to lead 3-4 hour guided walking food tours and van based food tours. The tours combines history and culture with stops at multiple restaurants, giving guests the flavor of a neighborhood and its native cuisines.

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January 14, 2016

New Americans

All of WOSU’s Columbus Neighborhoods documentaries have been very good, but the final installment – ‘New Americans’, which focuses on our city’s refugee and immigrant communities – was truly exceptional. We attended the preview showing last night, and came away stunned – it was honest, compassionate, impressively comprehensive, moving, well structured, and just smart, smart,

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October 27, 2015

4 String Brewing: Four Years and a Beer

For the last four years, October has been a big month for Four String Brewing’s Dan Cochran. In October 2011, after months rehabbing an old machine shop, Four String was born just ahead of the Columbus Craft Beer Boom 2.0. In 2012, the space was taking shape with some retail customers including the BW-3 (Buffalo

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July 30, 2015

Making Cider at Mad Moon

One of the best things about Columbus Brew Adventures is the diversity of people I get to work with and learn from. Several months ago I met Peter Moon, one of the owners of Mad Moon Cider at a tasting. After trying his products and hearing a bit of his story, I knew I had

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July 2, 2015

Fifth Anniversary

Help Columbus Food Adventures celebrate our fifth anniversary by donating money to a good cause and entering to win an omakase dinner for two with Andy and Bethia.

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June 22, 2015

CRIS Immigrant Restaurant Tour

Columbus Food Adventures is pleased to partner with Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) on a unique fundraiser tour featuring restaurant favorites of the local immigrant and refugee communities.

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March 19, 2015

Brewing Terms that make our Guests Giggle

After guiding several tours, guides start to develop a sixth sense for when someone is about to break the collective train of thought with a laugh (maybe even a snort) from out of the blue. While new to us guides, this is something that our brewing pals have known for years. To the outside world,

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September 8, 2014

One Year of Adventures: Thoughts on our first year of tours

Columbus Brew Adventures offered our first tour to the public on September 7th 2013. You can see scenes from that tour in this -> video by the very talented Mike Beaumont from Spacejunk Media. We have sold out the downtown tour almost every Saturday since then. It was exciting to have people passionate about joining

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