I arranged a foodie tour of Columbus for our neighbhorhood foodie group. What better time to make the two-hour trek but during Restaurant Week. Eat good food, buy good food. What could be better?
I'm happy to report that all participants had a great time. It was just a fabulous weekend despite the rain on Sunday. There were six of us all together, so I though packing a 5day cooler, a insulated bag, a 24 can cooler and a rolling cooler that we'd have enough space for our frozen and refigerated items. Well just barely. Next time we'll need to bring more coolers. I also thought that since we had the entire bed of Avalanche, we cleared out all our regular stuff, and just had 2 small and one medium-size suitcases and a bag (my friend Leslie packs light making up for my husbands tendency to overpack), that there would be plenty of room for our non-pershible food finds. Well, just barely. We ended up moving all the suitcases to the accompanying vehicle's backseat. On the drive home as we looked in the rearview mirror we could see that they couldn't see out their rearview mirror since at the the last stop rearrangement of our shopping finds made the items rise to the top of the rear window occluding their view. We shopped till we dropped and have the stuff to prove it.
CAB Natural brand beef ...vegetarian feed, antibiotic free and minimally processed, in-house smoked trout and salmon, sustainable fish, natural and organic cheese, hand-made pastas, organic small-batch citrus-infused olive oil, cardamon, lentils, ghee, and masala mixes from the Indian market, steamed bbq pork buns from the Japanese bakery, dolce Gorgonzola from the cheese shop, ground ancho chili, five types of curry powder, saffron, and many other items were some of the wonderful things we brought back.
We had a wonderful bottle of wine at the hotel bar then headed to dinner at Luce Enoteca in Powell. The price fix menu was $19.00 and everything was absolutely wonderful. I had the lamb lollipops with a cherry marmalade...delish and perfectly cooked. Others had the pasta with mussels and chorizo, and beef short ribs. All the plates were practically licked clean. We had a Ferrari Carano Zin for $30 that I saw at Whole Foods for $24...great value and nice to see a restaurant that not's doubling the retail price of wine very refreshing. We will definitely be making more trips to Luce.
Another high spot was the Northstar diner for breakfast on Sunday. The one on High street was very busy, but as we drove by two other locations that were not so busy, we might try them next. The Sweet Potato Turkey hash was outstanding as well as the Mushroom Fritatta.
Can't wait to do it again.
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