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This Cincinnati Soul Food Counter Is Back Frying Crispy Chicken And Catfish, And Ohio Locals Are Glad It’s Back
Some places close their doors and quietly fade from memory. Others leave a hole in the neighborhood that people keep talking about for months. In Cincinnati’s West End, one small counter-serve spot fell into that second group, and now it is open again and frying crispy chicken and catfish for a city that never stopped asking about it. The comeback has brought back long lines, big portions, homemade desserts, and plenty of happy regulars who say they are simply glad it returned.
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San Marino Italian Restaurant is an Old World feast | Local Flavor
Our advice? Bring an appetite. The portions are huge at San Marino Italian Restaurant . If you can make it through an entire plate of food in one sitting, you are remarkable. We didn’t even come close. My wife, Susie, and I had a feast on our first visit to the restaurant at 3071 Albrecht Ave. in Springfield Township on the outskirts of Ellet in Akron. Brothers Bill and Perry Thompson are the chefs and owners of the restaurant, which opened in 2024 at the former Eldorado’s Pizza & Sports Bar. If the architecture looks familiar, the building began in the 1960s as a Lawson’s convenience store and later served as a Dairy Mart. The chefs use Northern Italian recipes passed down for five generations in the DeNisi and Marinucci families. That includes their mother’s meatballs and their grandmother’s Italian wedding soup. Their uncle Perry “Butch” DeNisi owned Perry’s Pizza in Los Angeles, which had more than 30 locations in California and Hawaii. The restaurant appeared in the 1982 movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” The brothers pride themselves on authentic cuisine carefully prepared with fresh ingredients and scratch-made sauces and dressings. The YouTube series “America’s Best Restaurants” paid a