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We launched Food Friday to learn more about our readers' favorite restaurants. Some of our most-read stories are restaurant news, and business leaders are always looking for the best restaurants to take their clients, prospects or job candidates to. We're here to help. Last week we learned about readers' favorite Greek restaurants.

In honor of summer, this week's results spotlight our readers' favorite ice cream shops around town. Some are chain spots that faithfully serve up the scoops and others…

Tom Colicchio, a James Beard Award-winning chef, founder of Crafted Hospitality and “Top Chef” judge, talks about his vision for the Mission Gateway food hall — his first food hall concept.

Hawaii-based Shaka Tea won a spot in the latest Burt’s Bees grant program for women health and well-being entrepreneurs.

The spot in Burt’s Bees’ Natural Launchpad Cohort comes with a $10,000 grant and two days of coaching at the personal care products company’s headquarters in Durham, North Carolina at the end of October.

“The emphasis Burt's Bees has always had on sustainability, producing clean-label, natural products and practicing, honest, good business, even as they've grown into…

Companies that offer off-site catering in the Buffalo area say bring the party to a customer is loaded with challenges. But customers should know, they said, that most any wish can be granted.

The episode of “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell and Back” filmed in December at Sacramento’s original downtown barbecue restaurant Sandra Dee’s BBQ & Seafood is expected to air later this month on Fox 40.

The website for Fox confirms the locally filmed episode will not air Aug. 8. That means it will presumably air Aug. 15, though the network has not confirmed the air date.

Sandra Dee Johnson has run her namesake downtown restaurant with family members for 20 years.

In the show, celebrity…

I get it: August has arrived, and you can't stop obsessing over the opening date for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. (Let me know if you've tattooed “Aug. 20” on your forehead.)

But let's take a moment and revisit July's major headlines on the local food and drink scene. I've rounded up some highlights in the slideshow that accompanies this story.

What's on tap for this month? I imagine there will be headlines beyond Cracker Barrel.

For starters, Burger Lounge is expected to open Aug. 9…

Principals all over have been sending out announcements to parents and guardians asking them to “Please get dressed before you drop your children off at school.”

This has become an issue across the U.S. and in other countries as well. Teachers and administrators are imploring parents to take the time to dress appropriately before coming into school.

Parents, mothers in particular, are outraged. Responses include “I’m an adult and I can do what I want. Who are you- the fashion police? I’m…

“We don't want to be coming in and trying to get rid of it. We'd love for it to be part of what we're trying to do,” developer says in an exclusive interview.

Got a to-do list a million miles long this weekend?

Lunch dates, movie times, a book you have to finish?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down.

Non-stop leisure-time activity is not the path to happiness, a new study from Ohio State University and Rutgers University found, especially when we schedule down to the minute.

What we really need to do is learn to bring the “free” back to free time, researchers said.

When our leisure activities are planned rather than spontaneous, they become more…

This week in our video series The Wrap, Columbus Business First Editor Doug Buchanan and I each picked five big business headlines for the week, compared notes and decided to dive right into Ohio State and football coach Urban Meyer, who was placed on paid administrative leave Wednesday night.

That's pretty big news, no?

Our combined list this week of top headlines also includes Bob Evans' terrible timing, Swensons' plans for a third Central Ohio restaurant, a number of restaurant closings…