Finerepast, et al., visited Cardone’s about a year ago and reported a pleasurable overall experience. Finding ourselves in the neighborhood again and given Westerville’s seemingly small selection of places to eat, we decided to revisit Cardone’s for a second go round. Guest reviewer, luvs2dine, reports: My main inability to enjoy this meal rested upon being [...]

La Tavola’s famous liver and onions – Alas, no more. A call over to La Tavola was greeted by a recording, “Thank you for calling La Tavola. Unfortunately, we are closed for business.” That’s too bad. I thought they had a great thing going. I wouldn’t be surprised if in these economic times, business just [...]

Finerepast, et al., headed up to Cleveland’s Little Italy for some more fine Italian dining. Here’s a couple street shots of Little Italy. It was significantly colder in Cleveburg than it was down in Columbus. And is there any easy way out of Cleveland? Trying to get to 71 South is always a pain in [...]

FineRepast, et al., made a run out to Trattoria La Tavola, no longer in Powell, but in Dublin or maybe Columbus or somewhere off of Riverside Drive. It was a fairly popular place this recent Friday night as there were few tables available. It seems that La Tavola no longer has valet parking which is [...]

Who would have thought you could find good but reasonably priced food in Old Worthington. Certainly not finerepast, et al., especially given our string of disappointments with the ol’ Bag of Nails. Our recent discovery of House Wine led us to Caffe Daniela – just next door and Daniela didn’t disappoint. You can have a [...]

Caprese Salad at Cardone’s After all the hype in the Columbus Dishrag, err, uhh, I mean Dispatch, I had to head on over to Cardone’s at 377 W. Main St. in Westerville, Ohio. Apparently, many other customers were there as a result of the Dispatch review as well. It looks like Jared R from Nothing [...]

Continuing my “That’s Italian” week, I headed over to Luce Cafe in Sweet Home, Powell, Ohio. Luce Cafe is on the Northeast corner of Seldom Seen Road and Sawmill Parkway. Luce is a shoot-off of La Scala, and I’ve always been fond of La Scala (the scale). While I’m translating Italian, Lucé just means “light” [...]

Giuseppe’s Cipolle Pizza Giuseppe’s is becoming a real hit with me. I admit that I may have been a little harsh on the first go round but sometimes life, and finerepast.com, offer us second chances. After having visited Giuseppe’s several times, it wasn’t til this last visit that the authentic Italian flavors really hit me [...]

We went and visited Marcella’s Ristorante in Polaris. We wanted to go to the Short North location but our choices for the third time in a row were before 5 pm or after 9 pm or something like that. This inability to make reservations only heightened our interest in visiting Marcella’s plus my buddy and [...]

I should have known what I was in for after I had the fried calamari. It was going to be a long night at Buca di Beppo in Worthington, Ohio. In short, way too much salt and way too much garlic and a bit overcooked. Don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of garlic [...]