Date Night...With Mom and Dad

My parents came to visit this weekend.  And while my dad could eat at the Olive Garden for the rest of eternity and not get tired of it, I always feel pressured to find a good restaurant when they come to town.  Something with local flavor, fair prices and food tasty enough that my parents will like it.  Tonight I decided to try the York Street Cafe over in Newport, KY with them. 

It rocked.  My parents loved it.  But honestly, this place has so much charachter (leg lamp in the lobby) that it's much more suited as a first date place.  If I were a guy in Cincy, I would do a little tap dance once I found this place.  It's the ideal place to take any girl worth dating.  The food is simple and well-prepared, the atmosphere can spark much conversation, and it's just enough out of the way that it would look like you put some thought into where to go.  Are you listening boys?  This is the place to take your lady to. 

But me, if there are any restaurants left by the time the time the CDC gets around to the B's, then I'll suggest this place.  Oh and the CDC, that's the Sussman-inspired Cincinnati Dinner Club.  Basicallly it's our way of trying new restaurants in Cincinnati with the dual purpose of becoming a nuisance to everyone else who is dining at the restaurant that evening.  The inaugaral CDC was at Jo-An, which I totally need to write about it. Toyota quality Sushi.  The second was at Wild Ginger, another of the not-worth-writing-home-about Thai restaurants in the city.  

And now that I think about it, how in the world can Cincinnati host a Thai restaurant every half-mile, but you'd have to force a thai person at gunpoint (if you could find one) to make pad thai for you in JCMO? That may explain my pad-thai crush from earlier in the year.

Is this that place?  B's review:

Chillness:  1970's "Chistmas Story" Chill  

Price:  Too pricey to take my sister to if I were paying

Food Quality:  Hearty, Homey and Wholesome