Ringside Cafe is a historical landmark in Columbus' Culinary landscape, there are piles of interesting historical footnotes and oodles of atmosphere to the place, you can feel the ghosts of diners past crowding the small but quaint space, but that isn't what this blog cares fuck all about. I'm here for the food.
The menu is a scant sixteen items, all of which are prepared from high quality ingredients in time honored and well honed methods, that don't mean a damn thing when the cooks don't bother to season anything. Top quality beef burgers grilled over an open flame? Still bland without Salt. Beer Battered Onion Rings fried golden brown in good oil? Still bland without Salt. Flame Grilled Portabella Mushroom with all the fixin's on a nice Rosemary Focaccia? STILL bland without the Salt.
I am left in a quandary over how to rate this place, the whole experience was highly satisfying, the atmosphere was fun and heavy with the weight of the pleasure of generations before us, the food was all made from the kinds of ingredients I try to use at home when money allows, but, for fucks sake, no Salt and Pepper?
Final Ranking: B (I'm going to wait a couple months and go back, hopefully they were just having some issues when we went....)
