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.
Columbus has a wealth of restaurant weeks and lucky for us because there are so many wonderful restaurants to try. Dine Originals is a group of fifty plus independently owned local restaurants and their two annual restaurant weeks offer a wonderful opportunity to sample their wares. Spread over the fifty plus menus for Dine Originals
Read moreWe’ve blogged previously about our brush with tornado weather, and now we’re back to report on our encounter with a hurricane – hurricane Molly. A veritable whirlwind of charm, enthusiasm, curiosity, energy, intellect and good cheer, Molly O’Neill – food writer extraordinaire and Columbus native made good – blew us away with her insatiable interest
Read moreEach winter, the Ohio Department of Tourism invites a group of people in the tourism industry to join them in New York City and pitch Ohio-related story ideas to national newspapers, magazines and travel guides. This year they invited me (and I happily accepted) to represent Columbus Food Adventures and, more broadly, Columbus’ culinary scene.
Read moreFairy Goodmothers will hold their first annual Sparkles & Spurs Cocktails and Tasting event this Sunday, February 20 from 5:30-8:30pm at the Park Street Saloon. The event features one-of-a-kind dishes from some of Central Ohio’s most popular restaurants and chefs, a silent auction, and live entertainment from Alex White & Friends. Tickets are $25 per
Read moreFaith Durand, Columbus based managing editor of the popular website The Kitchn has written a great new cookbook. Not Your Mother’s Casseroles is a new look at the one-dish baked meal and as well as easy dinners it also contains a lot of tempting breakfast casseroles. There are lots of new takes on traditional casseroles,
Read moreIf you think that our dessert tour is for people with a sweet tooth, then this is going to blow your mind. Luckily we have two free tickets to give away! The Hills Market is offering a chance to taste 17 of the best desserts Ohio has to offer paired with some of their favorite
Read moreSaturday January 29th is the 2011 Columbus Young Professionals ‘A Date to Remember‘. As a sponsor of the event we have been given two VIP tickets to give away to our readers. Last year A Date to Remember raised over $35,000 for charity and this year they are raising money for A Kid Again and
Read moreWe have two free tickets to give away to the Copper Skillet Competition this Thursday January 6th at 5pm. It's an Iron Chef like competition run by the International Association of Conference Centers and The Conference Center at NorthPointe was chosen to host this year's 8th annual competition. If you would like to enter please leave a comment. The winner will be chosen at noon on Tuesday January 4th and notified by email.
Read moreShabu shabu is the Japanese name for a type of ‘hot pot’, an Asian dish cooked and eaten at the table. It’s a shared dish, not unlike fondue, in which you dip meat (traditionally beef) and vegetables into hot broth to cook them. Shabu shabu translates as ‘swish swish’, and describes the sound of your
Read moreA strip mall is usually the last place I want to be on Christmas Eve, but I'd heard enough good things about Meadowlark to want to try it. I had a list of food places that I had been wanting to try in Dayton and so with some willing accomplices we embarked on a little food tour of Dayton.
Read moreIf, like me, you are still looking for last minute gift ideas, here are some ideas for the food lovers in your life. These suggestions are Columbus based but might give inspiration to those of you living elsewhere. Gift Certificates Gift certificates are available for many Columbus restaurants. If you don’t want to pick a
Read moreColumbus has many annual food events. This week saw a fantastic new event that I hope will become an annual tradition. Splendid Holiday was held in the North Market’s Dispatch kitchen and was masterminded by Jeni’s Ice Creams. As well as being a benefit for local non-profit Local Matters it was an opportunity to try
Read more‘Tis the season of good cheer, and parties and sparkles, so what better time to indulge in a cocktail or two? Columbus has seen a resurgence of interest in classic cocktails this year and that, combined with some creative and talented mixologists, means that there is no shortage of interesting places to imbibe. This list is by no means exhaustive but includes some of my favorite places to sip on a mixed drink.
Read moreA respected friend of ours joined a friend of his on a tour of the best restaurants in Ohio. Upon return, we couldn’t resist asking him which was their favorite. Fully expecting the sort of discussion, debate, and equivocating that might reasonably meet such an overly simplistic question, we instead got this response: “Revolver.” Huh?
Read moreI have been familiar with the work of the Mid-Ohio Food Bank for sometime, but it was only recently that I discovered that we have a food pantry in our neighborhood. NNEMAP is short for Near Northside Emergency Material Assistance Program. It was founded in 1969 in the days before the neighborhood was known as
Read moreCongratulations to our friends Ryan and Brady at Middle West Spirits. Their OYO vodka just won a gold medal in the Beverage Testing Institute’s 2010 international competition. OYO vodka scored 92 points and placed 7th in the unflavored vodka category out of 128 entrants. This fantastic local product is made at their micro-distillery in the
Read moreNext week (November 8th-14th) is Dine Originals Week in Columbus. That means fantastic deals at 53 restaurants in Columbus, and with set menus priced at $10, $20 and $30 there’s something for every budget. This is a wonderful opportunity to try some new restaurants or to revisit an old favorite. We are proud that many
Read moreRegular Hungrywoolf readers and the beady eyed among you may have noticed a change this week. The Hungrywoolf blog is now redirecting to our Columbus Food Adventures blog. We have also transferred the entire Hungrywoolf archive over to Columbus Food Adventures. We decided that five blogs was one too many, and while taco trucks Columbus,
Read moreThe Manhattan Project – a guest post by Bear A few of us have recently been inspired by the CMH Gourmand to turn a recreational evening or two into a quest for quality cocktails. The Gourmand’s evening of Mojito Madness, while fun, got very confusing in the face of countless variations, so we decided to
Read moreThe Italian Festival got me thinking about Italian food in Columbus and musing on ideas for a tour. While Columbus doesn’t have a Little Italy we do have some great Italian restaurants and food purveyors scattered around the city. Our tour would start, appropriately in Italian Village with an espresso or a cappuccino at Cafe
Read moreIf you missed the event at the Ohio Historical Event last night, don’t worry you still have another opportunity to sample a range of Columbus’ street food. Sunday from 4-7pm at the old Wonder bread factory in Italian Village. My advice – get there early, be prepared to wait in line and make sure you
Read moreTomorrow is the Ohio Historical Society Food Truck-a-Palooza from 4-7PM! Admission to the event is FREE, and admission to the Historical Center is FREE! The event will take place on the plaza level, so stop by on your way home to pick up dinner or have your friends and family meet you here! They have
Read moreIt’s really exciting how much buzz there is about local food in Columbus at the moment: farmer’s markets, Edible Columbus, new restaurants committed to local sourcing like Skillet and Knead, field to table dinners and the cow to cone marketing at Jeni’s. We are lucky to live in an agricultural state and have so much
Read moreColumbus Underground, our city’s premier online forum for discussion of all things Columbus, has lately been abuzz about the growing mobile food vending scene. Never one to miss a trend, Walker Evans, the site’s owner and operator, took a poll asking the CU brain trust to share their favorite food carts and/or trucks. The results
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