Miriam Bowers Abbott

Columbus

Contributing Writer at Columbus Underground

Freelance Writer at Freelance

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Restaurant Review: Shellfish and Grits at Ridiculous Eatz

1 week ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

It’s easy to overlook Ridiculous Eatz. Despite its attention-getting name and an address on Henderson Road’s main thoroughfare, its location around a bend puts it just outside the limelight. If the joint’s name suggests a casual destination where you might score a sandwich or burger and fries, that’d be a fair expectation. That said, Ridiculous Eatz has a menu that also features gumbo, grits, fried fish, and fried chicken.
Restaurant Review: Sweet Cinnamon Rolls and Diner Classics at Hilliard's Olympic Diner

2 weeks ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

The call of the cinnamon roll at Hilliard’s Olympic Diner cannot be ignored. Its soft layers of tender pastry are covered, and I mean all covered, in sweet sugary icing that runs down the sides and dribbles into the crevices where it oozes, merging with the roll’s glistening mahogany cinnamon filling. Are you picking up what we’re putting down here?
Restaurant Review: Tender and Juicy Meat at Texas Steele BBQ

4 weeks ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

Now that winter is well behind us, food trucks are back out in full force. That means it’s time for some Texas Steele BBQ. A barbecue primer is helpful here, as people tend to have strong feelings about the genre based on their background. In terms of regional barbecue styles, the United States is home to several distinctive traditions. The southeast US is famous for its complex seasoning rubs and whole hog events.
Restaurant Review: Vietnamese Cuisine at Pho Chef

1 month ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

Pho Chef has developed a sterling reputation for good Vietnamese food on Dublin Granville Road. This year, it branched out and opened a new spin-off in the Kenny Centre Mall. Prior to Pho Chef’s arrival, the little strip mall already boasted an incredibly dense ratio of international restaurants per square inch. Its line-up has long included classic Chinese, an acclaimed sushi restaurant, Japanese bakery (Belle’s), mochi donuts, and modern glitzed-out corndogs. But Pho?
Restaurant Review: Real Deal Sandwiches at Buck City

1 month ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

The sandwich scene at the East Market is real. The big local food court has all sorts of options for serious sandwich fans. There’s the Meatball Mountain sandwich from Yellowbrick, built on quality house-made meatballs. There’s the loaded-up Po’ Boys with a defined Cajun accent from Creole to Geaux. In the same building, you’ll also find chicken sandwiches and Mediterranean gyros built on pita. Meanwhile, Buck City Sammies is holding down the deli scene.
Restaurant Review: Brisket and Texas Twinkies at Smoked Lick BBQ

1 month ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

The weather’s warming up, and that means barbecue season is upon us. True, barbecue is good any time of the year, especially when someone else is doing the outdoor labor. That said, the genre is strongly associated with summer celebrations: Memorial Day, Father’s Day, 4th of July and Labor Day; it’s one long seasonal celebration of barbecue food. Smoked Lick BBQ is ready for it. With a historical foundation in catering, Smoked Lick made its debut as a casual eatery in Hilliard back in January.
Restaurant Review: Salvadoran Fare at Calero's Bar & Grill

1 month ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

For years now, Morse and Bethel Roads have built stellar reputations for being international foodie havens. It’s not just an international scene on those byways, it’s a local international scene. That is, there is an abundance of small joints that are owned by local representatives of world cuisines. Bethel has representation that primarily reaches from Asia to the Mediterranean.
Restaurant Review: Slurp-Worthy Ramen and Savory Sushi at Kirin Noodle Bar

2 months ago | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

Kirin Noodle Bar’s restaurant origin story is a little different from most. In a majority of cases, a restaurant’s opening involves an announcement, lots of coming-soon signs, and then a splashy grand opening celebration. Kirin took another route. Its arrival on the local scene was more of an evolution than a formal opening. But this project was originally a Chatime, serving as a franchise of a Taiwan-based bubble tea chain.
Unusual Eats: Graeter's Skyline Spice

Feb 5, 2025 | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

Chili is winter food. Ice cream is summer food. And together? Chili-flavored ice cream? That is . . . an interesting idea. When Cincinnati’s Graeter’s Ice Cream announced the release of its newest treat featuring the flavor profile of another Cincinnati rockstar (Skyline Chili), the news was both horrifying and intriguing. And given the extra bonus of Oyster crackers added to the ice cream mix, the concept grew more troubling. How would that work?
Restaurant Review: Burgers and Apps at Nocterra

Jan 31, 2025 | columbusunderground.com | Miriam Bowers Abbott

In the beginning, the Nocterra Brewery started up in Powell inside a former train depot back in 2019. While its iconic moth logo suggests that the operation is named for an exotic winged insect species along the lines of Lepidoptera or Aglossata, that would be a misguided conclusion. Instead, the brewery’s name is an amalgam that expresses its values, one value being a preference for the night (noct, as in nocturnal) and the other for being into the environment, as in the earth (terra).