Daily Crave Blog | Columbus Restaurants & Bars

First Look: Till

Till, the revamped restaurant formerly known as Dragonfly, has been on my must-try list ever since it opened last month. I finally made it there for lunch today, and I'm already planning return visits for happy hours and dinners and brunches. I'm pleased with all the changes owners Magdiale Wolmark and Cristin Austin have made, from incorporating meat onto the menu (Dragonfly was 100% vegan, ...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:15 PM EST

First look: Element Pizza

Another week, another new pizza place. Element Pizza opened yesterday on a fairly desolate stretch of Third Street Downtown, so this place definitely has its work cut out in terms of building a customer base. Element is located in the building that used to house the Plugged Nickel, and I'm glad the new owners kept the feel of the building's former tenant by replicated the frontier-like font on...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Tuesday, August 2, 2011 9:41 AM EDT

First look: Harvest Pizzeria

The hype around the new Harvest Pizzeria in German Village has been incredible. I've heard nothing but good things, and mostly things like "best pizza ever in Columbus ever." Well, it lived up to the hype. Every single person sitting at my table at lunch today groaned in pleasure after taking the first bite of our Fennel Sausage pizza. Yes, it's that good. This is wood-fired until charred (but...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:48 PM EDT

First look: Milestone 229

Stopped into Milestone 229, the new restaurant on the Scioto Mile, for a preview lunch this week and was duly impressed. First things first, how adorable is this calamari appetizer, served with chopsticks and spillng out of a Chinese takeout container? Saw a bunch of people ordering these. The food's great, but I think most people are going to be more blown away by the looks. The stunning circu...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Thursday, July 7, 2011 7:32 PM EDT

Photos: Weenies hot dogs

Checked out the new hot dog place on Campus, Weenies, for lunch today with some coworkers. They're really talking up their Ohio-made meats, which are admittedly quite tasty. The deal is you pick a dog (classic all-beef, Hottie Spicy Pork & Beef, all-beef brat, all-beef cheese brat, chicken dog, veggie dog or 1-pound dog) and then pick your toppings. For today's lunch, I got: Cheese brat wit...See More

posted by Shelley Mann | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:53 PM EDT