Discovering City Barbeque

Chefdruck's Tasty Tuesday
Our last week in Columbus was mostly a blur. Hanging out with three small children in a new city threw our carefully scheduled lives out the window. I would pull out of our hotel parking lot, planning on squeezing in an errand before a twelve o'clock lunch and suddenly it would be 1:30 and all the kids would be crying from hunger as I drove desperately down an impossibly large highway, searching for anyplace to eat.

As a result, our meals filled our bellies but were low on originality. When we weren't hitting a McDonald's, we were eating at nationwide chains like TGI Friday's or Ruby Tuesday's.

Don't get me wrong, I've had plenty of great meals at chain restaurants, but I was hoping to get a sense of the local restaurant scene, a preview of what we would be discovering in Ohio.

The last place I expected to have a good meal was at a baseball stadium, but that's just where I experienced my most memorable meal of the trip: a sweet and tangy pulled pork sandwich with some smoky baked beans and creamy cole slaw with just a hint of pepper. I washed it all down with an ice cold root beer and finally felt not only full, but thoroughly satiated.

City Barbeque is a chain, but it's an Ohio chain, with 13 locations throughout the state. I can't wait to see what else they offer at one of their full restaurants. I wonder what other surprises the Columbus restaurant scene has in store for us.

This Tasty Tuesday doesn't have a recipe because we've been pretty much living out of our suitcases these last few weeks. I'm craving my own cooking more that anything right now... and really looking forward to breaking in our new kitchen in Ohio.