Shop Talk: Bonnie Lynn Bakery and Restaurant

It’s best we not tell all those executives in Blue Ash that Bonnie Lynn Bakery and Restaurant is here. If they knew that after getting reamed in a meeting they could take solace in a bowl of grandma-like vegetable soup in the restaurant or get a caramel long john served up with a grandma-like smile in the bakery, Cornell Road would be backed up for miles.

Local Flavor

News you can digest: The Party Source is expanding, panel discussions and special events, a new food truck in town.

Keegan’s Seafood

Keegan’s Specialty Seafood Market, an unassuming Salem Road storefront, is like a time-space portal whose other end opens on a dock somewhere along the New England coast.

All I Want For Christmas Is Food

A few gift ideas for the epicureans in your life, wrapped up in local love.

Candy Cane Cookies

As a child I made these every Christmas with my grandmother, Millie. She would roll the white dough into pencil-thin strips, I would roll the red, and then we’d race to see who could twist the two colors into the most candy canes. She always let me win.

Sweet Tradition

As a child I made Candy Cane Cookies every Christmas with my grandmother, Millie. She would roll the white dough into pencil-thin strips, I would roll the red, and then we’d race to see who could twist the two colors into the most candy canes. She always let me win.

Local Flavor

New restaurant openings: Django Western Taco in Northside, JimmyG's downtown, Dutch's Larder in Hyde Park, and Eli's BBQ in Columbia Tusculum,

Happy Hour

A few months ago, I was sitting in the back row at the Ensemble Theatre, waiting for a play to start. My wife was talking, but I tuned her out to eavesdrop on the rich-looking 60-somethings in the row in front of us. A lady was raving about this hip cocktail bar she had discovered before the show, The Righteous Room.

Road Food

Indiana food trails satisfy an appetite for travel.

Jolly Old Ales

When the weather turns frigid, beer drinkers turn to darker libations like stouts or brown ales. One beer type in particular helps keep the cold at bay: winter warmers.