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Chicken and flatbread to be made in clay oven at Chapel Hill eatery
By Lisa Abraham
Beacon Journal food writer
Published on Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008
Tandoori Bites, a fast-food Indian restaurant, has opened in the food court at Chapel Hill Mall on Brittain Road.
Akron resident Umesh Gupta is the owner. He has operated various mall stores over the past 25 years and said he's always wanted to bring his native food into the mainstream, where people could learn to appreciate it at a reasonable price.
''All of our food is made fresh every day,'' Gupta said.
The menu offers authentic foods such as tandoori chicken, lamb curry and vegetable korma. The eatery is outfitted with a clay tandoor oven for making chicken and traditional Indian flatbread, naan.
Prices range from $2.99 for side dishes to $11.99 for complete platter meals.
Once his first restaurant gets established, Gupta is hoping to open up in other area malls, with an ultimate goal of franchising.
Tandoori Bites is open during mall hours from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Pizza Vino
Pizza Vino, the creation of Cuyahoga Falls resident Joe Zaucha's JZ Wine Co., got a nice shout-out in the new cookbook from Food Network star George Duran.
Duran's Take This Dish and Twist It, released this month, recommends Pizza Vino to pair with his recipe for Pepperoni Pizza Soup.
Duran is host of Food Network's Ham on the Street and The Secret Life of . . . programs.
Zaucha started bottling Pizza Vino in 2006. His wines include a pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon and pinot grigio.
Students run restaurant
Students at Jackson High School have opened their own restaurant, the Bear's Den, inside the school.
The eatery was scheduled to open to the public this week, as a forum for students to learn about the restaurant business, including wait service, food preparation and presentation, and business operations.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.
To schedule a large group luncheon, call 330-837-3501, Ext. 1435.
Still time to get pink
There are several ways to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month before it's over.
On Sunday, Downtown 140 restaurant in Hudson will host a Passionately Pink for the Cure benefit for the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation and the Northeast Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The event, from 5 to 10 p.m., costs $125 and features jazz, appetizers, desserts and drinks, as well as the chance to bid on silent auction items.
Meanwhile, Velvet Ice Cream, from Utica, is producing its Vanilla Lovers Trio in a pink carton adorned with ribbons during October to raise money for the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
Velvet, which is available at local grocery stores, will donate a portion of the proceeds from each carton sold to the Spielman fund.
Zip in for a meal
Culinary students in the University of Akron's Hospitality Club will be hosting a Fall Harvest Brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday in the Crystal Dining Room in Gallucci Hall.
The menu is breakfast and luncheon food, including carved roast beef, omelets, chicken piccata and a variety of salads and desserts.
The brunch is $12.95; $9.95 for senior citizens and UA students; and $5.95 for children ages 3 to 10. Children under 3 are free.
For information or reservations, call 330-972-6615. Reservations are appreciated but not required.
In addition, the club's Talk of the Town dinner series is in full swing. The dinners are every Thursday from 5:30 to 7:15 p.m. at the Crystal Room, from now until Dec. 4, except for Nov. 20 and 27. The closing dinner on Dec. 4 is a winter buffet.
The menu changes from week to week, but most of the four-course meals are priced between $15.95 and $19.95.
What's Cooking
The third annual What's Cooking Tasting Tour is being held in Hudson on Nov. 2.
This year's tour includes stops at six homes in Hudson, where participants enjoy food from area restaurants, including Blue Canyon of Twinsburg; Gamekeepers Tavern of Chagrin Falls; Moe's of Cuyahoga Falls; and Downtown 140, Leo's Reserve Inn, Main Street Cupcakes and the Vue, all of Hudson.
Along the way, there will be cooking demonstrations, entertaining tips and advice on selecting wines for entertaining.
The tour runs from noon to 4 p.m. and is sponsored by the Women's Guild of St. Mary's Church in Hudson.
Tickets are $45 and must be purchased in advance at either the Acme Fresh Market in the Streetsboro Road Plaza or the Learned Owl Book Shop on Main Street in Hudson by Nov. 1. Only 400 tickets will be sold.
Proceeds from the tour enable the women's guild to support local, national and international charities.
Slow Foodies go to Italy
Local-foods proponents from the Akron area are heading to Turin, Italy, for the annual Terra Madre meeting, which brings together food communities, cooks, academics and youth delegates from around the world to work toward increasing small-scale, traditional and sustainable food production.
Those from the area selected as delegates for the conference are Cindy and Terry Smith of Goatfeathers Point Farm near Peninsula, Abbe Turner of Lucky Penny Farm in Garrettsville, chef David Uecke of Anthe's on the Lakes in New Franklin, and Rachel McKinney, a teacher at the Hershey Montessori Farm School in Concord Township. They will represent Slow Food Northern Ohio.
The Slow Food movement was founded in Rome in 1989 and is operating in 131 countries, with 16,000 members in the United States in 200 local chapters in 47 states. Slow Food promotes the belief that food is a common language and a universal right, and it fosters an appreciation for slowing down and savoring the convivial traditions of the table.
Brownie queen has news
Bev Shaffer, author of BROWNIES to Die For! and cooking school director for the Mustard Seed Market & Cafe in Bath and Solon, has started a biweekly e-mail newsletter entitled Bite This!
To sign up for it, e-mail Shaffer at askbevculinaryquestion@yahoo.com, or visit her Web site at http://www.bevshaffer.com.
Contest time
It's time for one of the area's favorite cooking contests — Acme Fresh Markets is sponsoring its annual Meals and Memories Recipe Contests.
Entrants must submit a family recipe for a casserole, soup or chowder, accompanied by a story on why that recipe is special to the family. Entrants are in two categories: adults 20 and older or teens 13 to 19.
Deadline for entering is Oct. 31. Entry forms are available at all Acme stores or online at http://www.acmestores.com.
The company will select finalists, who will compete for judging on Nov. 15.
First prize in the adult category is a $1,500 Acme gift card. First prize for teens is a laptop computer valued at $800.
Lisa A. Abraham can be reached at 330-996-3737 or labraham@thebeaconjournal.com.
Tandoori Bites, a fast-food Indian restaurant, has opened in the food court at Chapel Hill Mall on Brittain Road.
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