The best part about last summer was getting to work with my friend Stepf Romine. Stepf, if you don’t know her, is the editor at SparkPeople. I’ve known her since she wrote the food blog for the Enquirer back in 2007, and we’ve stayed in […]

One of my best friends just came back from a trip to Bangkok and Dubai. She was incredibly inspired by Thai cooking (how can you not be?) and we had dinner the other night to celebrate her return and talk about her trip. You can […]

In case you watched Fox 19 this morning, here’s my list of best bets: Veal meatballs from Via Vite Anything from the Taste Experience (the photo below is of Daveed’s Next’s chilled shrimp flatbread) Pit to Plate rib tips Street Corn from M Wood Fire […]

The number one complaint I’ve heard year after year: “Why isn’t X restaurant at Taste of Cincinnati?” That restaurant is usually something small and chef-owned. The problem is– these chefs are generally not equipped to serve the 500,000 people (or so) who take in Taste– […]

As an UC alumna, I have no idea how I never made it to Thai Express in college.  It has all of the things a college student (and, let’s face it, the rest of us) likes:  cheap, delicious food with enough for leftovers the next […]

I spent most of Saturday judging a wing contest at Sawyer Point.  My lips have finally regained feeling in them after the “hottest wing” competition, and I got to know Jessica Brown from Fox 19, a fellow judge. Color me surprised when I get a […]

Northside is the epicenter of the Cincinnati Tacosphere. Fact. You have Tacocracy, the hard-to-pronounce, anti-establishment taco joint, that fills their tacos with potatoes and very un-taco-like fillings, surrounded by old airplane doodads in an old goth bar. Then, you have Django Western Taco, with its […]