Monco Pets & People Help Those with Disabilities while Keeping our Dogs Happy By Tom Baker When I was asked about doing a piece for our pet issue this summer, I had just been to Belmont Party Supply in Dayton and noticed a small display of dog treats at the counter. I was familiar with [...]
Neil’s Heritage House Mixes Tradition with New Offerings By Tom Baker First, I have to point out that I’d never been to Neil’s until recently. After closing in 2006, Neil’s was reopened in late 2011 by Eric and Serena Leventhal. Seeing as Neil’s had been around since just after World War II, I wanted to [...]
Big City Flavor, Small Town Roots By Tom Baker Next time you’re trying to get the kids to sleep or checking your work email from home and can’t remember when you last had a date night, consider taking a leisurely 25 minute drive up to Tipp City and visiting the Coldwater Café. Run by a [...]
Blueberry Café Serves Up A Plateful By Tom Baker One thing the Midwest has going for it is the fact that you’ll often get more than you can eat in one sitting. In fact, you’ll probably end up with two meals, or at least one meal and a substantial snack for later. Bellbrook’s Blueberry Café [...]
Oakwood’s French Connection By Tom Baker Since my last experience at C’est Tout, I’ve seen Dayton’s restaurant scene expand — the Greene and Dayton Mall introduced several new independents and chains alone — and shrink. One of the most recent and notable examples is the once Mobil-starred L’Auberge in Kettering, which has closed. Upon hearing [...]
Vietnamese, Pho Real By Tom Baker Before we break down the dining experience at Pho Mi (pronounced like “duh”), let’s talk briefly about comfort food. These are traditional, nostalgia evoking items: For me it’s buttered noodles, mashed potatoes, casseroles and most anything my grandmother made me. It’s richness of flavors, textures and histories, and I [...]
A Lebanese Festival, Seven Days a Week By Tom Baker As a recovering vegetarian I can tell you just how disappointing it is to walk into a restaurant, open the menu, and hope and pray that there is a 1) grilled cheese, 2) salad w/o bacon, or 3) an appetizer or pasta from which the [...]
Dayton Sushi Bar Reigns Supreme By Tom Baker On a recent visit to Akashi in Riverside, it dawned on me just how different dining experiences can be for different cultures. Here in the Midwest, we are more accustomed to informal dining, especially as the U.S. overall has been trending to a more casual style. However, [...]
Exploring an American Classic By Tom Baker As Jack Donaghy of 30 Rock points out, you “never badmouth synergy.” This “whole greater than the sum of its parts” thinking is exactly what makes a great burger. Sure, you can have free range beef, slaughtered an hour ago, cooked a perfect medium rare, but if the [...]
No. Asequible, sabroso, y amigable? Sin reserva. By Tom Baker After arriving in Dayton in the early ‘90s from Texas, it was clear that the Midwest was no Mexican food Mecca. Disappointed, it would be almost a decade before I ended up in Chicago, where real Mexican food and I were reunited. I was spoiled [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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