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Horse race fashion can be tricky. Here's how to dress your best at the Preakness.

Fast-selling houses, high-price condos, car washes, arcades and ax-throwing are in the news this week at Columbus Business First.

This week in The Wrap, Business First Editor Doug Buchanan and Managing Editor Mark Somerson talk about Moo Moo Express getting an infusion of cash to expand, where homes are selling like hotcakes in Columbus, how 16-Bit and Pins Mechanical will take over the world and how Columbus is now home to two ax-throwing venues.

We also talk about how the latest condos in…

Reisterstown's Main Street corridor will gain an outdoor beer garden next month as summer inches ever closer.

Italian eatery Ristorante Firenze plans to launch its new Peroni Beer Garden with a grand opening celebration featuring drink specials, live music and food trucks May 4.

The space, which can accommodate 75 people, will be decked out with Adirondack chairs, picnic tables, wooden benches, string lights and a fire pit. Visitors can order from Firenze's regular menu or from a new selection…

Breakfast — it's the most important meal of the day. And we've compiled some 'eggs'cellent breakfast spot for you to check out if you haven't already.

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 place to get a burger.

This week,…

Cocina Azul is taking over the former Applebee's location near the Paseo Del Norte and Interstate 25 intersection.

Restaurant representatives confirmed that it expects to open at that location by “Cinco de Mayo” (May 5), with a soft opening shortly before. The popular local restaurant has two existing locations, 1134 Mountain Road NW and 4243 Montgomery Blvd NE. The restaurant will lease the 5,000-square-foot property. A liquor license notice is posted on the building, with Cocina Azul listed as…

Dr. Cesar Angeletti filed plans for a new two story building with a basement to house a restaurant, which he said could be “an Argentinian-oriented restaurant with a woodfire grill as its centerpiece.”

Atlanta has become an epicenter of refined food and drink, which is good news for the movers and shakers in the city's business community.

Atlanta Business Chronicle regularly highlights some of the Big Peach's top sommeliers, chefs and fine-dining establishments.

The adjacent slideshow provides a behind-the-menu glimpse, plus recommendations on what/where to eat and drink in the city. Check back each Friday for updates.

The new majority owner of NPC International Inc. is tied to some big names, including two owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers as well as the team's CFO.

A controlling interest in the giant Overland Park, Kansas-based restaurant franchisee reportedly was sold for more than $1 billion to a consortium of two family offices.

NPC ranks as the world's largest Pizza Hut franchisee, with more than 1,100 units. It's also the nation's largest Wendy's franchisee, with 386 stores.

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