Italian Sausage and Peppers at Cardone’s

After all the hype in the Columbus Dishrag, err, uhh, I mean Dispatch, I had to head on over to Cardone’s at 377 W. Main St. in Westerville, Ohio. Apparently, many other customers were there as a result of the Dispatch review as well. It looks like Jared R from Nothing Better to Do beat me to Cardone’s. I got scooped! He must have read the Dispatch review as well. Why go Italian and eat vegetarian? That seem like a conflict of interest to me, Jared. It’s like going to a bar and drinking O’Doul’s. Relax man, it’s all in good fun.

Hey, even the Dishrag took its sweet time in getting this story. Cardone’s has been open since February. By the way, did I mention that finerepast.com is so famous that it was the subject of a bandwidth attack today? I’ve blocked (probably only temporarily) the perpetrators. They were trying to take finerepast.com down but they didn’t know who they were messin’ with. Probably some punks from Smith & Wollensky’s or Buca di Crappo or Bag O’Nails (btw, bring a flippin’ sandwich).

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Pork Dumplings at Ying’s Teahouse and Yum Yum

FineRepast finally made it over to Ying’s Teahouse and Yum Yum in Clintonville, Ohio. Ying asked me what I wanted and I said – “Only the best!” She said that many Americans like to order General Tso’s chicken. I replied that I wasn’t interested in Americanized Chinese Food. So she served me up the Pork Dumplings with Won Ton soup. I have to admit that I’m a huge fan of the dumplings at Spring of China, so I was interested to see how Ying’s homemade stacked up against some of the finest dumplings that I had had.
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I recently made my first trip over to Colin’s Coffee in Upper Arlington. I hadn’t been there since it was originally Brewster’s. I was greeted by the man, himself, Colin Gowel. Colin served me up a cup of their coffee of the day, Veritas Dark. I was intrigued by the latin name and the java lived up to its moniker.

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I kid you not. This spider was as big as a quarter. It was dead. And it was in my wife’s iced tea. And lucky for the restaurant, they comped her meal, gave us free desert and gave us $10 off our next meal. Otherwise, I might have said what restaurant it was in this post. Of course they could have comped my meal as well. But what they gave us was about $40 in comps. So I’m not complaining.

Really, I have to compliment the management at this establishment. They acted quickly. And didn’t try to make excuses. We’ll definitely go back.

Now this is a Mojito (a la Alma de Cuba), Columbus!

Fine Repast traveled to Philadelphia for some fine dining and we found it at Alma de Cuba. Above is pictured a Mojito like you won’t find anywhere in Columbus. This Mojito is called El Jefe which means the boss. And this was definitely the Boss!

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