Allons, Enfants: Bastille Day at Jean-Robert’s Table
I guess you could call Bastille Day the French 4th of July. (Though that would be wholly inaccurate and make French people mad.) It’s the celebration of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, during the French Revolution, and a celebration of that...
Posted: 7/7/2011 5:11 PM in Campbell’s Scoop
Skyline Chili All-Star Coney Challenge
One of the best things about Cincinnati chili parlors is how fast they are. You order a few coneys, and they’re lined up, filled, mustarded, topped and served before you’ve barely started your chili crackers. The people who make coneys don’t mess around....
Posted: 7/7/2011 4:12 PM in Campbell’s Scoop
Celebrating Goetta
Glier’s Goettafest August 5, 6 and 7. This festival (the second of two goetta fests in Northern Kentucky) is in the same place as the Queen City Festival: the riverfront just below the Aquarium. The main attraction here is over 40 nowhere-but-Cincinnati...
Posted: 7/7/2011 4:00 PM in Campbell’s Scoop
Celebrating Sausage
Queen City Sausage is throwing its first festival this year, celebrating brats, metts, smoked sausages, goetta and other Cincinnati-style sausages. It will be held on the Riverfront Levee, just below the Aquarium, July 15, 16, and 17. There will be over...
Posted: 7/7/2011 3:54 PM in Campbell’s Scoop
Did You See Nick Lachey Today?
Our City Hall reporter Jane Prendergast did today… She’s sure she saw Nick and a young brunette thought to be Vanessa Minnillo, followed by a film crew, coming out of Covenant-First Presbyterian Church, 717 Elm Street, this afternoon. More fuel for the...
Posted: 7/7/2011 3:30 PM in TV and Media Blog
Solid Sound Festival 2011 Recap
A veteran of both the MusicNOW festival and MPMF in Cincinnati, I ventured to western Massachusetts to catch a portion of the Solid Sound Festival in late June. The site, MassMOCA is in North Adams, a half day’s ride from Boston via bus. The venue, like...
Posted: 7/7/2011 2:50 PM in Each Note Secure
Summer Cooking Classes
The Midwest Culinary Institute at Cincinnati State has a full line-up of cooking classes this summer taught by chefs and catereres and cooking teachers. You can learn how to make sushi, how to handle seafood, make ice cream and mix and drink. Here’s the...
Posted: 7/7/2011 2:25 PM in Campbell’s Scoop
Keystone Bar in old Hyde Park Grill
This on Laura Baverman/Lisa Bernard Kuhn’s blog: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/developingnow/2011/07/07/keystone-bar-coming-to-hyde-park/ Make sense to me: I think Keystone has about the right menu for that location, and that location should be a good place...
Posted: 7/7/2011 12:56 PM in Campbell’s Scoop