Best Restaurants in Columbus

Living downtown certainly has it advantages: Places of business are open past 8:00pm, there are multiple things to do every night of the week, and you can usually find something fun and  free/close to free to do. It seems like I run into people who are "new to Columbus" (or people who live in the suburbs who are afraid of traveling inside 270) fairly often.  I always am offering suggestions on places to go, so I figured I would write them out so I have a quick reference for the next time I am asked.

Best Pizza:
1. Hounddogs - Fun Fact: They are open 24hours
2. Fabians
3. Adriaticos
4. Carsonie's - Although technically it's Stromboli/calzones. . . but it's still pizza related

Best Burgers:
1. Thurman Cafe Fun Fact: Be prepared to wait over an hour . . .it's worth it!
2. Brazenhead - Fun Fact: $3 burgers on wed. nights
3. Little Palace
4. Ted's Montana Grill - Fun Fact: All burgers come in beef or bison
5. Max & Erma's - Erma Combo

Best Fine Dining:
1. Lindy's
2. Any Cameron Mitchell Restaurant - Particularly Cameron's and M
3. Eddie Merlot's
4. Barcelona - Fun Fact: We went here the night we got engaged
5. The Top Steakhouse

Best Mid-Priced Dining
1. B.J.'s Brewhouse
2. Schmidt's - German Sausage House (or Haus)
3. Milestone 229
4. Rusty Bucket
    4.a.) Old Bag of Nails - these are basically the same restaurant, but still delicious!
5. Easy Street Cafe - for when you can't get into Thurman's!

Best Cheap Eats
1. Tai's Asian Bistro - Honey Chicken is where it's at!
2. Chef-O-Nette
3. Jason's Deli - This is a chain restaurant, but still wonderful.
4. Johnny Buccelli's
5. Graffiti Bruger

Best Specialty Restaurants
1. Dirty Frank's Hot Dog Palace - Hot Dogs
2. Gooeyz - Grilled Cheese
3. Jack and Benny's - Best Breakfast in Columbus
4. Hal and Al's - Vegetarian/Vegan plus Huge beer selection
5. Mickey's Late Night Slice - pizza by the slice

Best Bars/Bar Food (For Girls)
1. Mac's Cafe
2. Club 185 - Delicious Chips and Dip
3. Plank's Bier Garten
    3.a.) Plank's Cafe and Pizzeria
4. Gresso's - Fun Fact: Killer patio in the spring/summer

Best Bars (For Boys)
1. Park Street Tavern
2. Beck Tavern
3. Blue Danube

Best Sandwiches
1. Ohio Deli and Restaurant - Fun Fact: If you attempt to eat the dagwood, you will puke
2. Kazinger's Deli - Super expensive, but definitely worth the try
3. Brown Bag Deli

Places we still want to try:
1. Flatiron
2. Village Coney
3. Deep Wood
4. River Club Restaurant at Confluence Park
5. Giuseppe's Ritrovo
6. Buckeye Hall of Fame Grill

Any other suggestions????????

This is genius

This is absolute genius. I google all day, everyday:

my camera broke

So. . . my camera broke, which makes blogging a lot less fun. So while I haven't been taking pictures, I did these things:

Made Skinny Taste Chipotle Rice (also, learned how to cook rice, also learned what Basmati rice is)


Rearranged the living room.
Commissioned Sam to make me something like this


Pinned this for Joe to build


listened to this sermon
and then saw this picture and laughed harder then I have ever laughed before



So, at least I've been keeping myself busy. Hopefully I will get a new camera soon.

Ear Candy

I like exactly one (and only one) Christmas song. Here it is in all it's glory as performed by Josh Groban (this really is the best one)

Here it is again performed by Celine Dion

Here it is again performed by Celtic Woman

 

Here it is again performed by Mariah Carey

And one more time by the Glee Cast

I think it is perfectly acceptable to judge a singers ability to sing by the line "Fall on your knees. . . " It really makes or breaks the song.

Harry Potter

Last night we watched harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2. I love it! If I didn't already have very many books waiting in my ibooks queue to read, I would totally re-read book 7. Then, this morning I came across these (via pinterest). Which I of course loved (and could totally DIY).

So that made me want to re-watch this:

Marcell

You will be quoting this, I promise

Marcell the Shell with shoes on, pt. 1:

Marcell the Shell with shoes on, pt. 2:

Christmas Spirit

Working in retail, you often have to get into the Christmas spirit a littler earlier (like July) than most other people who have normal jobs and work at banks and law offices and hospitals. This usually leads to a deep depression come December because you are way Christmas-ed out.

BUT NOT THIS YEAR! Christmas Spirit Comin' At Ya . . .

You probably can't tell from the picture, but all of these presents have Joe's name on them. . . I'm hoping a few show up for me!

Joe's stocking is also the only one that has any stocking stuffers in it too :( Rowdy, Batman and I have high expectations that some good stuff is headed our way!

Here's a sad story for you: There was a package of Cheryl's on our doorstep Tuesday night. I got SUPER excited (because I love Cheryl's, and who doesn't love getting unexpected packages) but upon further investigation, we found out that the Cheryl's were for the previous owner of our house.  So then the dilemma arose, what should we do with them? Can you return perishable items? Should we keep (finders keepers after all)? After much deliberation and input from our community group, we ended up giving them to a neighbor who is still in contact with the previous owner. Now I am back to having no Cheryl's :(

Christmas Sweaters!

This picture of our tree makes me feel crazy

Merry Christmas!