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This Charlotte, NC based chain is now serving up brunch on Saturday & Sunday from 11am – 2pm at the Austin Landing location. According to the manager, this Saturday will be their first brunch service and they are excited to be offering this new menu features a Steak & Egg Bowl, Shrimp & Grits and an Avocado Toast Salad as well as $6 brunch cocktails. Reservations are accepted and can be made online.
Steak & Egg Bowl* – $19.95
Wood grilled tenderloin and poached egg served with roasted potatoes, mushrooms and tomatoes with a creamy horseradish sauce
Grilled Salmon Benedict* – $18.95
Wood grilled salmon served on toasted focaccia with sautéed spinach, topped with poached egg and lobster fondue, served with roasted breakfast potatoes
Brunch Burger* – $15.25
Wood grilled burger with sharp cheddar, applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, fried egg and bacon jam, with choice of side
Avocado Toast Salad* – $15.25
Toasted brioche with smashed avocados and a salad of spring mix, ripe tomatoes, pickled red onions, cucumber, feta cheese in a cilantro lime vinaigrette
Bacon & Egg Brioche – $13.50
Toasted brioche with tangy cilantro mayo, spring mix, tomato, avocado, applewood-smoked bacon and fried eggs, with choice of side
Shrimp & Grits – $17.95
Shrimp served over stone-ground cheddar grits with andouille sausage and finished with Cajun gravy
Mimosa – $6
Bloody Mary – $6
Paloma Mimosa – $9
El Jimador Blanco Tquila, fresh squeezed grapefruit and lime juices topped with rose prosecco and a salted rim
The Hail Mary – $10
Absolute Pepper Vodka with housemade bloody Mary mix and a top-shelf garnish featuring candied bacon
Lemonade Sparkler – $9
Alex’s Lemonade and vodka topped with La Marca prosecco
Skrewed Up Iced Coffee – $9
Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey, cinnamon elixir, coffee and milk
Austin Landing
3500 Rigby Road,
Miamisburg, OH 45342
(937) 865-9355
Join the party as we celebrate FAT TUESDAY 2022!! FREE taco bar- Margarita specials- QOH drawing and live music! Come…
It’s time to throw on some purple and gold and let the good times roll! We’re celebrating Fat Tuesday in…
Tues, March 1 4-10pm
Muffuletta, Jambalaya with rice, Fried Catfish, Crispy Fried Shrimp, Boudin Balls, Dirty Rice
Country Green Beans, Cole slaw, Creole Potato Salad, Mixed Greens Salad, Coca-Cola Cake
Tuesday, March 1st H 5 – 8pm
Block party with Dayton Mobile DJ and food trucks: McNasty’s, Claybourne Grille, Cumberland Kettle Corn, and Billie Gold Bubble Tea. Mardi Gras masks, beads and King “cup”cakes will be offered.
m City Mardi Gras ThreauxdownDayton’s own MARDI GRAS Celebration is BACK!! ***Don’t Miss Out and Get Your Tickets Now! *** Featuring Live New Orleans…
Doors open at 5:30pm. Live Music: TBD! Stay Tuned! Our very own New Orleans inspired HVO Dinner Buffet will open…
Join Wine Director and sommelier Lauren Gay for a celebration of the ladies leading the charge in the Italian wine scene. Three wines, all from female winemakers, will be paired with a cheese and charcuterie board.
Pettibone Coffee began as a coffee roastery business in 2017, run by mother and son duo Jonathan and Marci Purcey. They announced the opening of the cafe in 2020, but covid delays forced the opening to Feb 27th of 2021.
“Pettibone Coffee was born out of a deep passion for coffee, all of its processes, and the sometimes evasive quiet moments in life,” the Purcey’s said via the Pettibone Coffee webpage. “As coffee lovers ourselves it’s our commitment to you to make sure we never fail to deliver perfect coffee that has all of the love we have to offer in each and every bean.”
They offer breakfast sandwiches on ciabatta or croissants and avocado toast, and for lunch you can choose from a turkey club, hot honey grilled cheese, or a chicken pesto sandwich. They even have gluten free bread options. Not a coffee fan? Check the cooler for Peach Blossom, Ginger or Pomegranate Kombucha, Coconut Water or other chilled drinks. Their bakery counter is always stocked with chocolate chip cookies and blueberry muffins.
Pettibone Coffee Roastery & Cafe
215 Woodman Dr
Riverside, OH 45431
Mon-Fri 6am-7pm
Sat-Sun 7am-7pm
Kitchen is open until 3pm daily
Want to learn more about beer while drinking beer? Come join us in learning about Beer Off-Flavors led by our very own Head Brewer and Level II Cicerone, John Loose. The event will include 6 4oz beers spiked with the most common off flavors found in beer along with a control beer. The event will go through each off-flavor profiles, causes in the brewing process, and have an open discussion on how each individual perceives the profile on their own pallet.
A new dessert cafe, Me’Yanna Berry Co., will officially open to the public this Friday. They are a family owned one of kind dessert café located in the heart of the city of Dayton with Positive Vibes & DOPE (Delicious On Purpose Every-time) Desserts. Their specialties are gourmet cupcakes, desserts, and novelties.
Me’Yanna Berry Co. is located in the newly renovated Biltmore Building at 15 E. First St. Owner Kia Wilson considers herself a buttercream and dessert artist, and will have an assortment of homemade desserts for sale. Owner Kia Wilson, a Dayton native and former school teacher began baking in her home kitchen and selling her sweet treats as “Kia Cake and Co.”
Me’Yanna Berry Co. will also offer carry-out gourmet wines, apparel, prayer candles, and other gifts and accessories. The treat shop will be open for its first day from noon-6 pm on Friday, Feb. 25. Regular business hours will then be Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 am.-3:30 pm, Fridays 10 am-6 pm, and Saturdays 9 am-1 pm.
Me’ Yanna Berry Co.15 E. First Street
Dayton, OH 45402
(937) 723-6928
If you’re a Vegan foodie, or just a foodie who loves plant-based cuisine, you’ll want to know that the first Vegan Foodie Choice Awards (VFCA) are coming this May. Mother of Eden Founder, Jenn ‘A’nat’ Gordley created this event out of her deep commitment to creating a platform for members of the vegan/plant-based community to celebrate the foods they love. The purpose of this event is to give the vegan/plant based community, (or all who enjoy vegan food) a chance to have a great time while celebrating the foods we love.
Finalists have been announced and voting is now open.
Best Vegan Cuisine
Best Vegan Options
Best Vegan Desserts
There are also categories for Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland and Indianapolis. Check the website for more info on the nominees for these cities.
The semi-formal event will feature music, delicious vegan cuisine, and lots of fun and excitement, with the meals carefully planned with special dietary needs in mind. Purchase tickets online.
To find out the results, plan on attending the event on May 7th, 2022 at the Dayton Convention Center at 7pm. Mother of Eden Founder, Jenn ‘A’nat’ Gordley created the event out of her deep commitment to creating a platform for members of the vegan/plant-based community to celebrate the foods they love. The event will feature music, delicious vegan cuisine, and lots of fun and excitement, with the meals carefully planned with special dietary needs in mind.
For more information about the Vegan Foodie Choice AwardsTM and how to be a part of the movement, visit – veganfoodiechoiceawards.com and across social media, including Instagram and Facebook.
Every year just before Mardi Gras — also known as Fat Tuesday, the day of feasting before the Christian fast known as Lent — people begin clamoring for jelly doughnuts. The tradition is Polish, but it’s honored in many different communities. In some neighborhoods the Thursday before Mardi Gras is Paczki Day, in others it’s Fat Tuesday, but Poland’s famous doughnuts can be enjoyed year-round.
The folks at Evans Bakery have been making paczki for years and say they sell out paczki quickly on Paczki Day and they taking pre-order for paczki and the cut off time to preorder is 3:00 this Saturday. The flavors they are offering are: apple, apricot, blueberry, cherry, strawberry, lemon, raspberry, custard, or cream. You can have them glazed, sugared, or powdered.
How do you pronounce this pastry? We went to Youtube for the answer:
Bellbrook’s favorite breakfast spot, The Blue Berry Cafe, now has a private room that can be booked for parties of up to 20. You can host a breakfast or lunch, a business meeting or even a baby or wedding shower.
The “Blue” Room as they are calling it can be booked by calling the Cafe at 937-848-5900. We bet you can even ask for the Muffin Man to make an appearance at your event!
Here are the booking details:
The Beavercreek Pizza Dive is for sale. Located at 4021 Dayton Xenia Road at Grange Hall just announced that the owners are ready to retire. Here’s what they shared in an email to their subscribers:
“We’d love to see it go to someone who will continue to invest in our team and this community, while bringing renewed energy and fresh ideas that will take the shop into an even better future.
The pizza life is a great life and we highly recommend it. But maybe not if you’re our age–where you’re ready to slow down and travel and spend more time with your grandchildren.
In the meantime (which might be a long time), we hope you’ll continue to support us and our team with your orders and your generous tips. ”
If you’d be interested in finding out more about buying the store, please drop an email to [email protected].
Serious, qualified inquiries only, please.
Bessies Homemade Noodles have been a staple at area festivals for years. Do you recognize this booth set up from OktoberFest, Celtic Fest, or the Beavercreek Popcorn Festival?
Or maybe you’ve picked them up in the frozen cases at Kroger or Dorothy Lane Market or your local grocery store. Bessie was owner Monica Easterling’s great-grandmother. She passed away more than a 35 years ago, but she remembers learning to make the egg noodles by her side using the simple recipe of flour, water, eggs and “foo-foo dust,” as Monica calls the secret seasoning that makes Bessie’s so popular.
But now they are launching something completely new- a deli! Now in the soft opening stage, you can pop into their store on Broad Street in Fairborn from 9am – 3pm this week. Then they will evaluate their process and set up, tweak anything that needs improving and announce their grand opening. Owner Monica Easterling and her husband bought the building two years ago to use for manufacturing, but the front had previously been set up as a butcher shop and kept thinking about opening the shop, but Covid slowed the process.
The deli will feature Amish Farms Chicken, Walnut Creek Amish meats like pork chops strip steaks and crab cakes. Bowman and Landes turkey products, Bake House breads, and house made dips, and salads and Boston Stoker Coffee beans.
For those with a sweet tooth, you’ll be able to get Killer Brownies and Hershey’s hand dipped ice cream. Fresh local honey, Mrs. Miller’s Homemade Jams and so many other goodies.
This truly is a family business with owners Matt and Monica are hands on and their daughter actually work in the business with Monica’s mom handles much of the labeling.
1476 N Broad St.
Fairborn, OH 45324
(937) 307-7085
The deli is for pick up and carry out and is not set up for any dining.
The Silver Slipper describe themselves as “a natural-focused wine bar with small plates, booze, and Miller Lite, always.” It’s been a long time coming for this Wayne Ave spot. Lorelei Fink and Simon Gifford took over the building in 2019 doing extensive renovations. They held a few private dinners and pop-up oysterfests in the parking lot and then COVID. But they are finally ready to open the doors and welcome that masses!
They’ll be open Thursday- Sunday from 5pm – 1am serving up fine wines, oysters and house marinated olives, with plans to add charcuterie, salads and even some fish dishes to the menu. According to the website wines are $7/glass and they have mocktails and Miller Lite. We’re not sure what the affection for Miller Lite is, but it seems to recur frequently in their promotional posts on social media.
Should have taken the picture before the oysters were eaten.
No reservations are taken and nor is their a dress code, they stress they are a really casual bar. So plan on bellying up to the bar, enjoy some wine or bubbly with your oysters and tell them DaytonDining sent you!
Money Inc recently released a list of The 20 Best Restaurants in All of Ohio. As author Liz Flynn explained, “over the last decade or so, Ohio’s food scene has exploded, with an ever-increasing number of restaurants hitting the streets of both its biggest cities and sleepiest suburbs. Regardless of whether you prefer fine dining experiences, all-you-can-eat BBQ joints, or chic little bistros, you’ll have no problem finding something to suit. If you’re ready to tap into the region’s bountiful offerings and enjoy some scrumptious food, these are the 20 best restaurants in Ohio to check out.”
Named one of the best restaurants in Dayton by vacationidea.com, Amber Rose Restaurant is the place to go for some made from scratch European cuisine. Expect a culinary tour of the continent with dishes like Lithuanian Cabbage Rolls, Beef Stroganoff, Warsaw Medley, Hungarian Chicken Paprika, and Hunter Schnitzel. With its cozy ambiance, elegant decor and exquisite collection of global wines, craft beers, and handcrafted cocktails, it’s a lovely place to while away a few hours over a leisurely lunch or dinner.
If you haven’t got a reason to visit Lebanon, make one up. Once you arrive, head straight for The Golden Lamb. Set in the town’s oldest continuously operated hotel (a place where everyone from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charles Dickens and Mark Twain to Neil Armstrong has bedded down for the night), the only thing the restaurant has in greater abundance than history is exceptional food. Key dishes not to miss include a slow-roasted beef tenderloin sliced and served with crushed red potatoes with leeks, bacon & aged cheddar, a classic parmesan tomato garnish and cabernet jus and, for something extra comforting on a cold day, the Ohio Fried Chicken Dinner served with skillet gravy, mashed potatoes, and fresh seasonal vegetables.
Whoever chose the name for this Sidney hotspot couldn’t have picked a more appropriate name if they’d tried. The Spot To Eat started out as a check wagon over 100 years back, but has since evolved into the kind of classic, 50’s style diner where you wouldn’t be surprised to find the Foz chugging down a milkshake at the bar. It’s not fancy, but it is fun, sporting a tempting range of homemade soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, and an old-fashioned creme pie you’d happily bathe in.
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Get you toasts ready, the winner of the Great Guinness Toast will become out Toastmaster for 2022 and win a pint of Guinness a day for a year. The toast competition begins at 10pm, and the Great Guinness Toast will take place at 11pm while we toast with pubs all across the country at the same time.
