The empty dining room at Razzberry's on two different visits (a Sunday evening first time out, followed by a Saturday night) made me ponder the many variables that can affect a restaurant's success:
Open the front door of this sky blue building, and you feel as if you just stepped into someone's home -- with a few extra tables set up in the front rooms, waiting for family, friends or the unexpe
Opened in 1982 by Sylvia Krull, a flamboyant Mexican-American ex-stripper known for her snake-charming abilities, Sylvia's Mexican Restaurant enjoyed the next several years as a popular hang-out for
Sandwiched between Debbie's Destiny Lounge and a 99 Cent Store, Song Phung is the typical Asian-American restaurant that could be plucked from its strip mall location in Forest Park and set down in
He's the personal ad that most men would like to write and few women would believe: Intelligent, successful, warm, passionate, witty, very talented and very, very French. Indeed, after an evening
You know the kind of neighborhood dive where it's a bit on the dumpy side, but you could care less because the food is forget-the-diet rockin'? Unfortunately, Habit's is not one of those. The Sce
Jim Tarbell is known to many of us as the champion of the Ball Park That Never Was -- Broadway Commons -- and as the top-hat-and-tails member of Cincinnati City Council with a fierce dedication to
Drive down Ludlow Avenue in Clifton on most evenings, and you'll see a crowd gathered on the sidewalk outside Ambar India Restaurant. Not 'Fish Have Mothers, Too!' activists or unbridled skateboarde
Urban establishments like the Brew House illustrate the diverse brotherhood of man. In the current local climate of racial issues as the conversation du jour, a Tuesday evening in this 34-year-old w
My metamorphosis from a meat-centered diet to a vegetarian one occurred 30 years ago at the impressionable age of 17. I had always been an animal lover as a kid, and my family will tell you I brou