Cincy Dad

The meatballs, were (are) great, they offerred a coffee mug which gave the owner a free coffee for life ( total savings..... 50 cents per visit ) as well. They did mess with the potato offerring as they have switched out the boiled red potatoes for mashed. The cook did not seem to think this was a temporary thing either.

Don't forget the .99 cent breakfast which is no joke. :wink:

crazy weird small world!

I think I was at the same wedding, was it the Brate wedding?

We did a drive by of Polaris in Columbus yesterday and, well, IKEA would have looked sweet there right in front of I-71. Maybe someone is reserving it for them should the West Chester store go really well. And regarding all this fuss over the meatballs, they really are good but its the price, I think you can get a whole dinner of them with potatoes and a roll and salad and that lingonberry sauce for around $6.00 that is the killer deal. We went to the IKEA restaurant in Saltzburg Austria and they basically had the same exact cafeteria with the same menu items. So they really don't change anything to "Americanize" any of the stores. (I do thing breakfast is different though).

Another reason for mass deforestation especially along the Ohio River banks was that wood was a primary source for fuel in the boilers of early steamships that ran up and down the river. My late Grandfather said that he remembered a time when the hillsides along the river were basically void of any trees. Now look at them, it is very rare to see any clearings in the hills especially as you drive east away from Cincinnati towards Ripley, Ohio and Maysville Kentucky.

3. Spring Grove Cemetery is considered a "masterpiece" landscape 4. Hathaways in the Carew Tower Arcade is about the only thing left from the good old days of coming downtown to spend the day shopping. 5. Hofbrau Haus beers as big as your head is enuff said 6. Findlay Market Farmer's Market in the summer 7. Aunt Floras Peach Cobblers at Findlay Market and Miss Helen's Mac n Cheese, I think the common ingredient there would be butter. 8. Northside is our little slice of Bohemia 9. The Comet in Northside and their better than Chipotle's burritos 10. Kings Island and The Beast 11 Eden Park especially the Overlook 12 The Blind Lemon, closest thing to a European bar I've been to here. 13 Shanghai Mama's their flat bread etc is soo delicious 14 The Ohio River in august when it turns that beautiful turquoise color 15 Our Skyline and how it swallows you whole. It is so much more than just skyscrapers, there's Mt. Adams, the river, the bridges, the steeples, the stadiums, the surrounding hillsides. It all comes together and almost overwhelms the senses. The only other city I've been to that I can say truly matches ( and I admit is better than ours ) would be San Francisco My Two Cents Sorry about the double post as I am a bad typist and hit the tab button and my unfinished post posted. I'm usually just a lurker but the topic was too irresistable.

1. Old Coney, worlds largest circulating pool, moonlite gardens, etc nothing else like it. 2. Columbia Parkway coming into the city from the Beechmont Levee and then back out again is a beautiful urban expressway tourist worthy. 3.

Don't be dissing my Ikea. Stay away if you like, but Ikea is one of the best things to happen to this region retail wise for quite some time. I will be one to rarely visit the outlets because I don't see the perceived value they are supposed to offer.

I'm just a little excited that supposedly Fifth Third approached the Playhouse people about doing something. What are they actually thinking as far as big picture for the development.

Ok,I was not able to log in using what I thought was my password so I did the thingy where you enter your username and urban Ohio sends a way to change your password through your email. Well I hit the link to change my password and I get sent to the original change password screen that sends a link to my email with my username. What am I doing wrong? In a prior life I was known as cincymarkertman (yes I misspelled market but could never figure out how to fix :oops: :oops: :oops: )