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Columbus Tastemakers: The Coop's Angie Theado

ANGIE THEADO Owner/chef, The Coop Story by Jill Moorhead // Photo by Alysia Burton Angie Theado spends her days cooped up--literally--in The Coop, perched in a parking lot adjacent to Glen Echo Ravine. Her daily offerings featuring a variation of poultry or egg stretch the definition of food truck fare in Columbus. With a culinary degree from Columbus State and nearly three years at Alana's Foo...See more

First Look: Curio at Harvest

On a recent trip to NYC, I went to a speakeasy that serves cocktails so amazing, people are willing to do crazy things to drink them. Like knocking on a door and putting their name on a list and then waiting for hours for a text that may or may not ever come just to get inside the door. And after getting inside, being ushered straight into the kitchen to hang out for a while and watch the barte...See more

posted by Shelley Mann | Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:59 PM EDT

Surf & Truck Tuesdays at The Hills

Love, love, love this new summer promotion at The Hills Market. The deal is every Tuesday all summer long, you can feast on buckets full of peel-and-eat shrimp out on the Veranda. Pair your seafood with a cheap, cold beer and some grub from a rotating cast of mobile food vendors stationed in the parking lot and you've got yourself a perfect summer meal. These shrimp buckets are super-cheap, too...See more

posted by Shelley Mann | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:21 AM EDT

Columbus Tastemakers: Sage American Bistro's Mike Gadd

MIKE GADD Cook, Sage American Bistro Story by Shelley Mann // Photo by Jodi Miller Toward the end of a three-and-a-half-year stint as sous chef at L'Antibes--an unusually long tenure in the restaurant business--Mike Gadd was creating his own multicourse tasting menus and pulling off entire wine dinners. Gadd has big ambitions that include eventually opening his own restaurant, but he isn't abov...See more

Bodega's new menu highlights

You caught our Columbus Tastemakers feature on Bodega's new chef Marcus Meacham, right? Well, go read it and then make plans to go try some of his inventive dishes. The Short North bar gets super packed by happy hour and remains so well into the evening, but I find Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons are the perfect times to go in and feast. The small plates section of the revamped menu ha...See more

posted by Shelley Mann | Monday, May 14, 2012 3:07 PM EDT