Columbus Underground’s restaurant reviews are written by Miriam Bowers Abbott, our official Restaurant & Food Critic. We hope to share with you the good, bad and the honest about our local dining scene in an unbiased fashion. Review recommendations can be emailed to food@columbusunderground.com.
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / June 19, 2013 8:00 am
Everyone already knows that The Pearl does oysters. And it serves water from mason jars: everyone knows that too. And since The Pearl is a Cameron Mitchell restaurant, everyone knows to expect a polished dining experience, complete with confident servers… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / June 12, 2013 11:00 am
Note from Walker: The following review was completed possibly on the final night of operation at McCasky’s Grille. Last week it was brought to our attention that they seemed to have closed up. Their website and Facebook pages have been… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / June 12, 2013 8:00 am
R&P Deli is a little off-the-beaten path. It didn’t set up shop in a hotbed zone of cool restaurants and stores. Instead, the eatery has based itself on Wilson Bridge Road – on a stretch that’s part strip mall, and… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / June 5, 2013 10:00 am
As a perennial top-tenner on the best-of lists, Barcelona Restaurant & Bar is a long-standing culinary institution in Columbus. Still, in spite of the restaurant’s long, proud history, it’s also eternally new. While common sense says not to mess with… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / May 31, 2013 8:00 am
Alright fancypants, let’s check out Gallerie Bar & Bistro. It’s the restaurant inside of the new downtown Hilton. First, there’s the Gallerie/Gallery part. Throughout the hotel floor that houses the bistro, there are giant, gorgeous murals hanging on the walls…. [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / May 22, 2013 10:00 am
The Crest Gastropub is swarming with customers. They’re everywhere, sitting at the bar, perched on the patio, standing around… standing in the parking lot waiting to get inside the joint. You can’t blame them, really. It’s a beautiful island on… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / May 15, 2013 10:00 am
Portia’s Café is the perfect place to take your most neurotic control-freak-friends. It’s organic, vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, plus it serves lots of stuff for raw-food-only-eaters. Portia’s accommodates every possible food fear –and it does so in a cute, fun way…. [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / May 8, 2013 10:00 am
A place with the moniker “Manifesto” sounds really serious. And when veteran customers mention that there are profound quotations written on the walls of the establishment, it reinforces expectations of seriousness. Someone needs to point out that the biggest quotation… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / May 1, 2013 10:00 am
Hey Hey is nice little neighborhood hangout on Whittier. It’s almost kitch, but not in any deliberate fashion that would inspire eye-rolling nausea. And now that Hey Hey has teamed up with The Coop, a much beloved local food truck,… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / April 24, 2013 10:00 am
Gosh, who wouldn’t want to visit a Chinese restaurant that sets up shop in the shell of a former strip joint? With a history like that, how could Helen’s Asian Kitchen not be interesting? Online reviews do forewarn of lots… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / April 17, 2013 10:00 am
The Clintonville/Beechwold area is often described as a “dry” neighborhood. It’s a misleading catch-all to describe a community that has restrictive liquor laws. There are plenty of Clintonville/Beechwold spots that sell and serve alcohol, but the zoning that permits those… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / April 10, 2013 10:00 am
The shopping center at the corner of Dublin Granville Road and Riverside Drive looks something like a mini-Easton. It’s a big enclave with lots of brick buildings and joints like Ann Taylor, Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Montgomery Inn and now… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / April 3, 2013 10:00 am
Gordon’s Gourmet is one of those downtown eateries that’s built right into the first floor of an office building. Just east of the hot-spot stretch of Gay Street, the cafe is easy to overlook when lunchtime comes around. It’s easy… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / March 27, 2013 10:30 am
It had to happen eventually. The Chipotle assembly-line BYOB (build your own burrito) style has invaded practically every eating genre: pizza, pasta, salads and stir-fry… And now the South Campus Gateway has added a restaurant called Fusian, it serves assembly-line… [Read More]
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Miriam Bowers Abbott / March 20, 2013 10:00 am
It’s probably not the best idea to take a field trip to a newish Polaris restaurant during Cabela’s Grand Opening week. It adds about an hour to the drive time, and the road is clogged with angry people driving pickup… [Read More]
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