Daily Crave Blog | Columbus Restaurants & Bars

Searching for the best burgers in Columbus

I'm on an ongoing quest to find the very best burgers in Columbus, and I've had a few great ones recently. Over the weekend I made it out to Jury Room's brunch for the first time and was wowed by the Breakfast Burger. It's the Jury Burger (all-beef burger with provolone, arugula, tomato, onions) with the addition of a fried egg, bacon and a spicy aioli. Fantastic. One of the many great thing...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:53 PM EST

Chickens and eggs at The Coop

I wrote about The Coop, the newish food truck in Clintonville, for today's Dispatch, but I can't say enough good things about it. So I'm going to say some more. For starters, just look at how pretty that egg is in the photo above. There's an egg incorporated in just about every dish at The Coop (this is a great ham and black-eyed-pea stew topped with a fried egg) and they're some of the best-qu...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:29 PM EST

Vegetarian-friendly dining in Columbus

While labeling a bunch of food photos today, I realized an awful lot of them were "veggie" such and such. I'm not a vegetarian by any means, not even close, but I've just been in a meat-free mood lately it seems. Here's a look at some of the veggie-heavy meals I've enjoyed in the past few weeks. Up top is a yummy dish from the lunch and dinner menus at Explorers Club: Pan Seared Vegetables with...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:55 PM EST

Yellow Brick's wine list

Yellow Brick Pizza is well known for its vast beer selection (100 bottles and cans plus a rotating selection of great draft options), and now the cozy Olde Towne East spot has added a short and sweet wine list to the mix. I'm usually a pizza-and-beer person, but I stopped in recently to try out a few of the new wines. (Watch for my story in this week's Alive on which of these wines pair best wi...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:29 PM EST

Ultimate Mac & Cheese at the Dube

I've mentioned before that when a menu describes something as "the ultimate," I pretty much have to order it. So on a recent trip to my beloved college hangout the Blue Danube, I was obligated to try the Ultimate Mac & Cheese Dinner, $8.49. (Side note, it's part of the amusing "Dinners from Around the World" section of the menu, under the "From the States" header. The Dube menu hasn't alway...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:17 PM EST