I just realized I had some blog-ready photos of some of Bodega's food whose pictures and/or fuller descriptions didn't make it into my Alive article. Since I hate wasting food, here they are.

Latitude 41 seems to get better each time I dine there lately. Case in point: Last Friday, as part of a very successful attempt to stretch their birthday celebrations into weeklong Bacchanals, two shameless celebrants in our party picked Lat 41 for their last (last, I tell you!) B-day blowout, and everything was terrific .

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Last week, Ace of Cups was the scene for a terrific mini pop-up restaurant event. The occasion was a shared birthday party for a few AoC mainstays who suddenly realized they'd been born on the very same day. Crazy, huh?

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Restaurant consistency is a prickly issue. Sometimes I think eating out is like spinning a roulette wheel: Which version of of that dish, heck, that entire eatery will show up this time? Because I can say with certainty that I’ve experienced major service glitches and off-dishes in all of the very best restaurants in town save for Kihachi and The Refectory.

Where am I going with this? Well I just read a less-than-favorable review of a new place—Ella—that I favorably reviewed this week (considering I work for the same company but work completely independently from the other reviewer, I guess it’s that great roulette wheel in the sky spinning away again).

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Till refers to a passage of time and what you do to soil and, now, an edgy and potentially game-changing Columbus restaurant. My first taste of Till the restaurant—Magdiale Wolmark’s (i.e. the mad scientist/vanguard artist and restlessly creative chef at the former Dragonfly) new project— was a cocktail called “The Village Cobbler.” It was fairly emblematic of what Till is getting at: The new new is the old old.

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