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Chosen pizza: High Street Grill's Truffle Chicken

By G.A. Benton — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:59:13 GMT

Inside the lavish and resplendent 18th-century architectural treasure now called the "Historic Westin Columbus" (but forever known to most locals as the Great Southern Hotel) is a modern if modest restaurant with the low-falutin' name of High Street Grill. This midsized, business-casual eatery might fly a bit under the radar, but it whips up some interesting contemporary American food. And you cannot beat its location.

Chosen pizza: La Chatelaine's Paris Flamekuch

By G.A. Benton — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:59:13 GMT

From stunning French breads and dreamy pastries to bargain-binworkday lunch deals featuring homemade soups, salads and rich little sandwichestofull sit-down dinner menus of hearty French classics, the threeLa Chatelaines have for many years sustained theirstatus as Columbus' go-to casual French eateries.

Chosen pizza: Six unusual pies

By G.A. Benton — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:59:11 GMT

Six delicious and unusual pies that show variety is the spice of Columbus restaurants

Chosen pizza: Cafe Istanbul's Lamacun

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:59:11 GMT

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Chosen pizza: Whole World's Herb and Guacamole Pizza

By G.A. Benton — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:59:10 GMT

For over three decades, the Whole World Bakery and Restaurant has been hand-making the kind of classic vegetarian fare popularized in America during the hippie-heavy '60s and '70s. It's hard to argue with well-earned longevity like that, especially when Whole World's hearty, homebaked goodies are so healthy and crave-tastic.

Chosen pizza: Columbus Brewing Company's Philly Cheesesteak

By G.A. Benton — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:59:07 GMT

Too many microbrewpubs view food service as a going-through-the-motions excuse to provide nondescript solids to help soak up the high-class suds. Not CBC. With a wide-ranging and accomplished menu presented in a fun and thoroughly modern space, this always-lively place is nearly as renowned for its cheffy pub grub as it is for its superior homemade beers.

Chosen pizza: Matt the Miller's Chipotle Shrimp Flatbread

By G.A. Benton — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:59:06 GMT

The super casual, semi-upscale sportspub setting at Matt the Miller's belies the serious food its kitchen shoots out. And from sushi-style ahi tuna nachos with a Guinness/soy glaze and wasabi aioli to expertly seared steaks and locally raised chicken and juicy pork, MTM's portions are as big as its well-honed flavors.

Food Fight: Chicago-style deep-dish pizza

By Heather Gross — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:42:51 GMT

It's inevitable: If you live in Chicago, you regularly crave deep-dish pizza. You try out all the famous places until you find the sauce-on-top, overwhelmed-by-cheese pie that best suits your taste. You eat that pizza often, and it's heaven.

Wine: Pairings with pizza

By Brittany Kress — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:52:23 GMT

Dreaming up wines to pair with pizzas is a fun undertaking. But Tutto Vino wine shop and bistro in Dublin takes the task seriously.

What are your go-to pizza toppings?

Mon, 17 May 2010 20:04:08 GMT

Lucky $13: BonoToGo

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:00:44 GMT

Lucky $13: Clever Crow

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:59:40 GMT

Pick-up Artist: Bucci's Pizzeria

G.A. Benton — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:00:51 GMT

"Whenever we wanted to celebrate, it was always Mama Bucci's," said a good friend of mine with a longing, far-off look in his eyes.

First Bite: Yellow Brick Pizza

G.A. Benton — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:30:20 GMT

In The Wizard of Oz, following a yellow brick road led to some dodgy adventures and, ultimately, a fake wizard. In Olde Towne East, driving past stately old homes led to a dodgy end of the street and, ultimately, the real deal at Yellow Brick Pizza. Who'da thunk it?

Taste Test: Domino's New Pizza

G.A. Benton — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:40:20 GMT

Over the weekend, while watching NFL football, I was absolutely floored by a new commercial.

Menu: The year in dining

G.A. Benton — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:22:19 GMT

As 2009 prepares to hang the "closed" sign on its 365-day notched door and 2010 gets ready to open up shop, I thought it was an appropriate time to take a mini-inventory of some of last year's more prominent restaurant openings and closings. What follows is not an exhaustive list, but it did make me feel exhausted just looking over all the terrific new food I tried and all the old friends I'll surely miss.

Pick-Up Artist: Gatto's Pizza

G.A. Benton — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:28:59 GMT

I've gotta admit, I take Gatto's for granted. I mean, I've been nonchalantly sucking back deeply satisfying pizzas from that dinky Clintonville shop for a long time now, but only recently did I realize I've never actually written about it. How could that be?

First Bite: Bono Pizza

G.A. Benton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:05:20 GMT

Bill Yerkes - oh hell, let's just call him Wild Bill - is standing outside a convenience store on a chilly November night, wearing a T-shirt, a pesto-stained apron and a captain's hat.

First Bite: Clever Crow pizza at Circus

G.A. Benton — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:40:19 GMT

This is not a review, it's a public service announcement. You see, as I was following up on a recent rave of a hot pizza tip, I discovered that the artisanal piemaker in question had connections at the very top of the food chain. That's right, the pie guy was pals with our nationally famous ice cream queen.

A la Carte: Sarefino's Pizzeria

G.A. Benton — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:22:18 GMT

If you like pizza - and of course you do, you're human - then the top-shelf Sarefino's stall in the North Market will give it to you any way you like it.

Bar profile: Plank's Cafe

John Ross — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:47:15 GMT

When it opened in 1939, in a bustling residential neighborhood south of Downtown, Plank's Cafe was little more than a local saloon selling what people needed after Prohibition and during a depression: tobacco by the pouch, beer by the pint.

Menu: Dewey's Pizza

G.A. Benton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:22:17 GMT

Perusing Dewey's Pizza's website, you can click onto a radio tower that allows you to tune into Dewey's Radio - which transmits tracks from the likes of Built to Spill and Coldplay.

Menu: Mellow Mushroom

G.A. Benton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:27:15 GMT

About a month ago, I received a press release relating how a restaurant-in-waiting expended a year "to develop a location that represents the easygoing attitude of Columbus, while maintaining the 'bohemian chic' atmosphere ... synonymous with the Mellow Mushroom name."

Taste Test: Pizza Hut's The Natural

G.A. Benton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:32:18 GMT

Currently playing the La-Z-Boy circuit of commercials geared toward a captive, football-obsessed television audience is an ad that uses that oldie-but-goldie technique of the hidden camera.

Taste Test: Donotos' meatball pizza

G.A. Benton — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:17:15 GMT

In a TV commercial currently in high rotation, an annoyingly energetic guy - let's call him Dude Buttinski - rudely intrudes on a perfectly innocent, minding-their-own-business family of four who're eating a pizza in a Donatos restaurant.

Mixologist: Boston's The Gourmet Pizza

Brittany Kress — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:06:03 GMT

A chef is to food as a bartender is to drinks. Makes sense, right? "The chef's in the kitchen creating food - I like to create drinks," said Jason Roberts, who bartends at Boston's The Gourmet Pizza. "I think it's kind of like a chef on the front-of-the-house side."

Menu: Z Pizza

G.A. Benton — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:54:17 GMT

By the power vested in me by the state of gluttony, I hereby pronounce the little span of High Street from Second Avenue to Russell Street "Pizza Parkway." I do so because there simply is no slice of land in town richer in better pizzas.

Mixologist: Kingy's Pizza Pub

Brittany Kress — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:25:55 GMT

Carrie DeGraff started at Kingy's Pizza Pub more than 13 years ago, a nursing student looking to pay her way through school.