For more than fifty years, John Marx has been affectionately known as “the Bagel Man.” The Chicago owned and operated Marx Hot Bagels locally before retiring in 2019. Now, Marx is back at a counter as the general manager of Point Perk in downtown Covington, the nonprofit cafe operated by the Point/Arc, an organization serving […]
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Cork N Crust to Bring Pizza and Wine to Bellevue
Get ready to fire up the pizza oven and pop open the wine to celebrate. Bellevue is getting a new pizza place called Cork N Crust. The restaurant is set to open soon at 710 Fairfield Ave., formerly home to Virgil’s Cafe. “Bill (Hill) and I started thinking about opening a restaurant about two years […]
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Waffle House Out, Taco Bell In: Bellevue Prepares for New Restaurants
There will be no new Waffle House in Bellevue, after all. At least not as originally planned. The popular national chain was the catalyst for tearing down an old self-serve car wash on Donnermeyer Drive near the Kroger store, but the land has sat vacant for years with occasional updates from the city that Waffle […]
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New Mainstrasse Receptacles Designed to Collect Pizza Boxes for Recycling
To address a problem in Mainstrasse Village, the City of Covington announced a partnership to place three special receptacles for discarded pizza boxes. Often, because pizza boxes are too large for the regular garbage cans in the popular Covington entertainment district, the boxes are strewn about or stacked and left behind on tables. Or, they […]
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Midway Café Named One of Year’s Best Bourbon Bars by The Bourbon Review
Midway Cafe owners, Erika Kraus and Staci Edmonds. Phil Armstrong, Fort Thomas Matters. Does this story bring some value to you? Please consider a small donation to help fund our content. We rely solely on support from our advertising partners, providing our content for free. Any amount helps. Click here to donate! Midway Café […]
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Bourbon House Pizza Opening Newport Location
Bourbon House Pizza announced Wednesday that it is adding a second location in Newport. The original spot operates in Florence. The new one will be in the street-level retail space at the Newport apartment community Aqua on the Levee. Mary Brandstetter founded Bourbon House in 2007, serving deep-dish Chicago-style pizza. A Chicago Native, Brandstetter drew […]
