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We went to Q2 Bistro an Asian restaurant at Polaris for the first time last Friday. We wondered if Q2 Bistro had just been open a couple of months… business was not booming Friday night but it was about 8:00. Maybe Q2 Bistro had an early dinner crowd.

No grand opening signs… so we guessed Q2 Bistro had been open three months or more… I guess not according to the Columbus Dispatch,  Q2 had their first Anniversary in January 2008.  I read that in the Columbus Dispatch “Cantonese cuisine an old-school treat” after eating at Q2.

Q1 is not all Cantonese. I like Cantonese although I started out eating just Hunan and Szechuan food, when I fell in love with Chinese food.   At Q2 Bistro I had Szechuan Shrimp.  It was tasty.  I wish I had paid more attention to the ingredients (vegtables) I might have gone with the Hunan version instead.  My dish was spicy.

The food was gorgeous, if I was a food blogger there’d be images here.  I think my plate was mostly clean before I remembered I could take a photo with my phone.  Duh.  Or maybe I was hungry.  The restaurant is gorgeous.  Very simple and contemporary.

How could I not know the restaurant was there almost two years now?  I don’t eat “Chinese” food much… and the stretch of Polaris Parkway east of Cleveland Avenue is a stretch I seldom travel. Q2 Asian Bistro is at 472 Polaris Parkway, Westerville, Ohio. Phone is 614-898-1988… in case you want to call ahead for a table… or for carry-out.  People came in for carry-out while we were there.

From The Huffington Post nationally 600 Starbucks are closing … tweeted or retweeted by SoldierAnt in Columbus…

I know when I was watching TV News (Channel 10 local TV news I think)  the other night they were going to say which Central Ohio Starbucks locations were closing…  During the commercial we discussed where Starbucks locations in striking distance (the north outer-belt area between Polaris and Worthington) were.  The breaking news of which Starbucks were closing must have been not stimulating enough to keep me awake because I nodded off during the commercial or before the news got to which local Starbucks are closing.

These are all Ohio Starbucks that are closing… not just those in Central Ohio.

“OHIO

2525 1505 FIFTH AVE 1505 W FIFTH AVE COLUMBUS OH
11856 YUKON BUILDING 601 N HIGH ST COLUMBUS OH
14056 REYNOLDSBURG 6144 E MAIN ST COLUMBUS OH
13859 DUBLIN, SAWMILL & HARD 7561 SAWMILL RD DUBLIN OH
14170 THE SHOPS AT FALLEN TIMBERS 3100 MAIN ST MAUMEE OH
2389 RICHMOND TOWN SQUARE 691 RICHMOND RD RICHMOND HEIGHTS OH
10399 OHIO VALLEY MALL 67800 MALL RD ST. CLAIRSVILLE OH
11883 MAXTOWN 925 N. STATE ST WESTERVILLE OH
2792 HIGH ST 530 N HIGH ST WORTHINGTON OH “

Does that nean 2792 N. High St. Worthigton? That is almost down to Dodridge.  That’s in the 43202 ZIP Code,  I think.

530 High St.  Worthigton (the Starbucks that was fire bombed a few years ago?) corner of High St. and South St.?  Used to be a Friendly’s Restaurant?

43085 and nearby Starbucks according to Google maps

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This is just the 43085 ZIP code. Click on the Large Map to see the location of the Starbucks up in Crosswoods, the one on Sawmill… the Starbucks at Graceland, those in Westerville and more.

I am not a big Starbucks fan… I liked Starbucks coffee when I first tasted it out in California in the 90’s… but it is not my favorite coffee.  We visited a Starbucks in Westerville a number of times last summer when I had a Starbucks gift card (free coffee) and we were putting up  open house signs in the area after church on Sunday.

Beggars Night is on Halloween for the first time in many years in most Central Ohio communities.  According to the Columbus Dispatch Beggars night being before Halloween was because Columbus historically had a Halloween Party on October 31!

Columbus

Dublin

Hilliard

Powell

Riverlea

Westerville

Worthington

According to the Columbus Dispatch, the Columbus Halloween party was discontinued in the 1950’s because it got out of hand!

An Irish Blessing for Halloween

At all Hallow’s Tide, God keep you safe
From goblin and pooka and black-hearted stranger,
From harm of the water and hurt of the fire,
From thorns of the bramble, from all other danger,
From Will O’ The Wisp haunting the mire;
From stumbles and tumbles
and tricksters to vex you,
May God in His mercy, this week protect you.

Celebrating Halloween comes from the Celts who lived in Ireland long ago.

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