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Happy birthday to Cincinnati’s Union Terminal!

A very happy birthday to Cincinnati’s Union Terminal and all our friends over at Cincinnati Museum Center. Work started on Union Terminal all the way back in August of 1929. It was completed and officially opened to the public 83 years ago today!

Remember when Genifer and I got to go on a behind the scenes tour of Union Terminal? And all the #VoteYESon8 #VoteYesUT support to get Union Terminal the restoration help it so desperately needs?

Happy birthday to a historic Cincinnati treasure. Here’s to another 83 years! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 31, 2016 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on March 31, 2016

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Dinner at Sotto.

We’ve been to Sotto a few times. Drinks here and some shared plates there. But for whatever reason, we’ve never gone to Sotto for a full-blown dinner. Maybe it was that there wasn’t an occasion that felt special enough. Maybe it was we just didn’t know what we were missing. With it being a month to the day since we were married in Jamaica, we finally felt like we had an occasion special enough to have dinner at Sotto. And finally use the gift card my sister, Shannon gave us a little while ago…

We started with the goat cheese & hazelnut honey bruschetta…

We shared a prosciutto arugula salad with parmigiano & lemon oil for the antipasta course. And wouldn’t you know, I completely forgot to take a photo of it. Then moved on to main event, the primi… (from the upper left) short rib cappellacci with shallot, amish butter and thyme, tonnarelli cacio e pepe with black pepper and pecorino, and finally, gnocchi alla romana with béchamel, sausage ragu & pecorino…

Unbelievable stuff. Luckily, I didn’t have to try to pronounce any of it. I just pointed. My Italian… she’s a not so good. Our favorite dish was the gnocchi and then the short rib cappellacci. The tonnarelli was delicious as well. It’s just that the other two were just, WOW! Everything had such great flavors. For dessert, we ordered the incredible little ricotta doughnuts that everyone raves about. They came with chocolate, pistachio and salted caramel dipping sauces …

Those things lived up to the hype. They were outstanding. The last amazing little donut…

After dinner, we had a drink at the bar…

What an amazing way to celebrate our first mini wedding anniversary. Thank you, Sotto! And thank you Shannon for the Sotto gift card! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 27, 2016 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on March 27, 2016

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Weston Art Gallery.

After checking out the Canstruction at Weston Art Gallery, I wandered downstairs to check out the latest exhibitions. 20 x 20 x 20 and Salli LoveLarkin: Artist, two new exhibitions that celebrate the twenty-year history of the Weston Art Gallery and its creation within the Aronoff Center for the Arts…

Another really interesting show. And definitely worth checking out if you’re downtown.

Click to see all the photos I’ve taken at Weston Art Gallery. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 22, 2016 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on March 22, 2016

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It’s a sign.

We picked up some Shanghai Mama’s for dinner tonight. It’s always such good stuff!

🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 21, 2016 • Permalink

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And now for something completely different.

We go over to Americano Burger Bar all the time for burgers. All the time. But tonight, we decided to try something completely different. Well, a little bit different, at least. We decided to try Americano’s Melting-Pot Nachos Supreme…

And those nachos are some really delicious stuff! Viva la Velvita queso, housemade chili, black beans, olives, jalapeños, pico de gallo, sour cream, cilantro, lettuce, and of course, we just had to Rafa’s guac to our nachos! They were definitely big enough to share. But we didn’t stop there. We also had to get some of Americano’s incredible wings with the house rub…

And… some of Americano’s hand-battered, golden and crispy amazing onion rings…

I washed it all down with a Miller High Life draft. Genifer had a sangria…

Delicious stuff, as always. We’ll have to start heading over to Americano on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings…

Americano Burger Bar, not just for amazing burgers any more. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 19, 2016 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on March 19, 2016

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St. Patrick’s Day parade.

One of many fun parts of living in our building is that for the last few years the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade route was literally right outside our front door as it marched down Sycamore Street and weaved through downtown Cincinnati. It’s pretty cool to walk outside and have a parade right there. We weren’t sure what route the parade took last year because we were in Arizona for Spring Training but we thought it wouldn’t be any different than 2014 or 2013, especially when we looked outside and saw people tailgating at 10:45 in the morning…

So we threw on some green and started to head out…

It turns out that this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade route was down in The Banks. So we grabbed Oscar and walked down to there to watch this year’s parade…

This year the parade celebrated its 50th anniversary…

My favorite part of the St. Patrick’s Day parade is always the bagpipers…

It started to get really warm so started to head for home…

If you’ve seen one St. Patrick’s Day parade, you’ve kind of seen them all. But they’re still pretty fun to go watch. Even if you just go to see the bagpipers like me. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 12, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Downtown, Holidays, March, Ohio, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day parade, The Banks

Posted by Thadd F. on March 12, 2016

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Constructing Cincinnati.

After being out of town for a week and half, it was interesting to see the progress they made on some of the projects going on around us in our little corner of downtown Cincinnati. The Holiday Inn at Broadway and Seventh Streets was showing signs of progress being made…