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They have phenomenal deals all the time. They every kind of gadget you could want and every model of that type of gadget. A big Apple selection. And all kinds of little things, far too many to mention or even categorize. As you walk through the store you see countless little things for $10 or $15 that you need and/or want. Since it's so cheap it's easy to walk out of there blowing over $100 and never making a big purchase.
They've recently renovated this store and put in a knowledge bar like the Apple store genius bar. They expanded the tv section, and next year they're going to start selling smartphones.
Columbus, OH 43026
(614) 876-7000
Mikado Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi
Category:
Japanese
We went in for our usual visit and the new waiter sat us down, got us our drinks and never came back. He forgot we were over there in the sushi bar. The sushi chef just ignored us. He was too busy to notice that two people had come in and not been given a menu or any food. I finally had to go and ask Ellen to get someone to wait on us and she ended up doing it herself. Then the sushi chef didn't quite get the order right, didn't quite understand Ellen's instructions, charged us for things Ben didn't, didn't make my son's sushi the way he likes it; it just wasn't a good experience. The food was still delicious and the ambiance is nice, but the experience just wasn't the same. I think I'm going to try the other sushi bar in town.
This is what happens when you have employees who get it, but managers who don't.
1 Previous Review:
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8/20/2011
I tasted sushi here so incredibly delicious, I wanted to weep with joy as my tongue had finally met its soul mate.
It had been a few years since I had real sushi in a sushi bar and I'm glad my first return was to this place. The decor is beautiful inside and the staff very professional and friendly. I didn't go to the hibachi part but I'll update this when I do.
The sushi you get at the supermarket isn't even real sushi. It's good but it's like comparing a McDonalds cheeseburger to one made of ground filet mignon and topped with garden fresh vegetables and fresh baked bread and diamonds sprinkled on it. The supermarket sushi is cold, the rice is chewy, the vegetables less than fresh. At micado it's room temperature, light fluffy rice, fresh crisp vegetables. Even the soy sauce is some Asian brand you can't buy at the supermarket here and it was the best soy sauce I ever had. Not too salty, not to sweet, just perfect.
I had an Autumn Roll, which was a special. It was tempura crawfish, snow crab, shrimp, crab stick and topped with two sauces, eel sauce and spicy mayonaise (which isn't terribly spicy and very delicious). It was just incredible. I also Boston Roll and Shrimp tempura roll. If you've never had tempura, it's fried in a breading so light and delicate, it makes Raising Cane's breading seem ordinary. And this was exceptionally good tempura. It had some kind of a sauce on it that tasted like teriyaki soy sauce kind of. It might've been the eel sauce. I also had a side of this sweet sauce. I forgot what he said it was called but it sounded like tahini sauce, though it's not tahini sauce. I'd never had that before, or crawfish, or snow crab, or their spicy mayonnaise. All of it was mouthwatering.
The sushi chef was funny and he was nice to my little boy. I had forgotten the one important thing the uninitiated don't understand about sushi: half of it is the experience. And at Mikado, it's like a food amusement park.
We've become regulars here and everybody knows my son by name and they all come over to talk to him when we come in. He loves it there. I finally tried the hibachi and it was expensive but a fun experience definitely worth having at least once. The food was mouthwatering as expected. Everything had a charbroiled taste to it. The steak was tender as butter.
Hilliard, OH 43228
(614) 870-3535
Hot Head Burritos
Categories:
American (New),
Mexican
First of all, I have to make the obvious comparison. It's the same experience as Chipotle. You pick what you want: burrito, taco, bowl, etc., then pick from essentially the same ingredients Chipotle offers and go down the line till you have have a big pile of stuff wrapped precariously in a sticky tortilla that will fall apart as soon as you start eating it so you take a fork anyway and you wonder why you didn't just get a bowl.
The reasons it's better are because it has a lot more choices, and you can actually get it mild if you're one of the few people left in this world who aren't masochistic lovers of mouth pain. I love Chipotle but what has always kept me away is the stuff is just too damn hot. I know that's the fad now but not everybody likes pain. At Hot Head I can get it however I want it.
There are a few additional toppings like onions and peppers or taco meat but it's essentially all the same as Chipotle. But you can get it on nachos or a quesadilla too and there's about a dozen different sauces you can put on it ranging from mild as baby food to flaming hot. You can even get the tortilla flavored.
The chips aren't quite as good as the lime salted chips at Chipotle but they do have a white cheese dip like what you get at El Vaquero and it's delicious. No yellow melted Cheez Wiz here, this is real cheese and it's so good, you'll be looking for other things to dunk in it.
I will say the meat doesn't have that smokey juicy delicious taste that Chipotle's meat does but at least my mouth isn't on fire after and it's still good enough.
So all in all, Chipotle has its strengths and so does Hot Head. It's hard to say which one is really better, but I'm going to Hot Head from now on. It'll be a while before I've tried all the different combinations so I won't get tired of it any time soon.
Columbus, OH 43228
(614) 279-7750
White Castle
Category:
Burgers
Neighborhood: Hilltop
Hilliard, OH 43026
(614) 870-8030
Five Guys Burgers and Fries
Category:
Burgers
The burgers are big, messy, and there's a ton of choices for toppings. It's definitely a good place to go if you like the kind of burger that you can't eat with your hands. But there's really nothing special about the burgers. It's just like what I would make at home. No flame broiled taste, no special beef, no anything to set it apart from every other hamburger out there. And personally I like to eat my hamburger with my hands. If I have to eat it in pieces or with a fork and knife, that's not a hamburger, that's a pile of ground beef and a bunch of other stuff. When it's like that you can't taste everything together. It ends up not a hamburger with this topping and that topping, it's a bite of this topping, then a bite of that topping, then a bite of just beef. It kind of defeats the purpose of putting toppings on your hamburger.
The decor here is kind of like a ghetto mall food court: tiles on every wall and floor surface, and cheap tables and chairs you can barely fit your fat ass into. What is kind of cool about it is that you get a tray of peanuts in the shell when you go in. It gives you something to do while you wait for your food. It's pointless and I think just a gimmick to emphasize that they use the non-artery clogging peanut oil (which I think is the law now anyway). But it's at least something different.
This place is a little bit pricey but you get a huge amount of food. It's not a place I would frequent but definitely my go-to place when I want some fries and a few extra pounds of fat hanging over my belt.
Today I went in there and paid ten dollars for a half a puny sandwich, a cookie, a shot of orange juice and a cup of coffee. The sandwich was good but it was half of a sandwich on very small bread for $4. Then the coffee was another $2. Think what you can get for that money anywhere else.
I got my son some orange juice. Two dollars for probably 5 oz. I can get a half gallon for around that at the store or a full size cup for less at McDonalds (where I almost went and should have).
The food is good but the portion sizes are so ridiculously small it's insulting. And the prices are outrageous.
1 Previous Review:
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3/14/2011
The best breakfast sandwiches I ever had, good coffee and chai, comfortable homey atmosphere, wifi, a fireplace, a great hang out place or a gathering/meeting place.
They are a bit too expensive though so I haven't been here as much as I'd like. You'll get small portions for a full size price. But, everything I've had here has been exquisite.
If you can afford it, I highly recommend it.
It's convenient that it's right inside Walmart. It's good that they have those $5 foot longs because that's all they're really worth. They do have Fuze tea, which is good. But really you have to stay away from any sub here that uses cold cuts because all you'll get is a paper thin layer of said meat with a big handfull of lettuce on top, with paper thin tomato slices. You have to put a lot of toppings on it to get any substance but then it's just a salad.
So only eat here if you really have to and get something that has bigger meat in it like a meatball, chicken cutlet, or other such grinder (where I'm from we call them grinders). And make sure you ask for napkins, silverware or whatever else you need because they don't put them out for you.
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Hilliard, OH
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I've never had Korean and I love trying new cuisines. Korean food turned out to be about as different from anything I've had as I could have hoped. It's nothing at all like any other Asian cuisine.
What's interesting is you get nine little dishes with different little snacks or appetizers, whatever you want to call them. There were the aforementioned pickled vegetables, dried seaweed, fish cakes and bean sprouts. A lot of it was spicy, about at the limit I can handle. The fish cakes were very fishy, as was the pickled seaweed. Clearly they live and die by the sea and its contents. The dried seaweed was my favorite. It had a salty sweet taste and a fluffy, hairy, papery texture. The pickled tofu was good, the bean sprouts, the turnips. Most of it was very good, though I don't really like spicy stuff. I like fish but I don't like fishy stuff so I didn't like the fish cakes and wasn't crazy about the pickled seaweed.
I forgot the name of the main dish I picked. It was noodles made with sweet potatoes, stir fried with vegetables and beef. It needed no condiments as it was cooked in a sauce that resembled teriyaki or soy sauce. The noodles were sort of clear and very squishy, almost gelatinous. When I bumped the plate, it all jiggled like a pair of surgically enlarged boobs. It was like shredded silicone breast implants or maybe jelly fish tentacles. It was very good but the texture was weird.
I can't say I loved the food here enough to be a regular but it was good and an experience I'm glad I had. I've never had any other Korean food to compare it to but the food was very well made so I highly recommend it.