Post #783064 by tikiskip on Fri, Jan 12, 2018 4:34 PM

“I saw the Kahiki book and wondered if you'd had any involvement in it.”

Well I know and like jeff, so that’s why I kinda say nothing.
But no I did not work on the Kahiki book.
But the "local historian” is just not a good writer and he left out some great restaurants in "Lost Restaurants" Of central Ohio and Columbus my family’s being four of them full discloser.

But even still my family's restaurant's were around since 1942 and one is still open today so that says something.
In fact it’s one of the oldest restaurants in Columbus.

I am just getting pissed at these “authors” deciding who is and who isn’t and it’s time to say hay that sucks.

This “local historian” who wrote this book has like three pages for a newer not great restaurant that he knew the girl who owned it.
And there are other places in his book that fit this category.

Great places get half a page.

Sick of the politics and who you know being what gets you “in”

I’m not a good a$$ kisser and that is a big part of the problem.

One more thing, the Kahiki and many of the old restaurants in town were not well loved by the city as in the govt in say the 1990s on.
They wanted new young "Chefs" with hip new restaurants while giving very little to the old places that for so many years had kept open, paid taxes, in some very bad times.
The new places got all the perks.

These new restaurateurs were not selling food they were selling restaurants.
As in they would get perks from the city and then sell shares to the restaurant and you could be part owner at ten thousand dollars a pop this got you a table when they were busy but not many got money back.

NOW the Kahiki closes and all the sudden people LOVED the Kahiki, just a year before they would say the food sucks I don't go there.

Told so many people to go to the Kahiki before it closed You gotta see it just once!
Nobody went.