Walnut Street’s biggest crowd-pleaser so far? The homemade biscuits topped with chicken, a lunch take on the dinnertime best-seller, Chicken Potpie. (Anne Mitchell)
CityBeat: What’s the best meal you’ve eaten recently and where did you eat it?
Bawe Shinholster: Dinner at (downtown’s)
Sung Korean Bistro! I go there regularly and they know I like to start
off with a dish of rice topped with two fried eggs over medium, with
that good spicy bean paste sauce (Go-chu-jang).
I break the yolks and
stir the sauce in — I love that. And then the pork short ribs. They’re
spicy, too, but sweet and tangy, and you just pick ’em up and eat ’em —
just dig in. They’re so good. They come with all the sides, the banchan
and then a bowl of Kimchi Jigae stew, with beef and tofu. It’s
excellent.
CB: Any update on The
Waterfront (the Covington Ruby restaurant on the Ohio River broke free
of its moorings during high water in March)?
BS: We’re still waiting and talking with
the city of Covington. We want to keep the boat where it is now, at
Covington Landing, so we’re working with the city engineers. It has to
be able to withstand floods — to stay in place no matter how high the
river rises — like it did this year and that’s expensive. For a
timeline, I have to say we’re playing it by ear, but we’d like to be
open this year, maybe for the holidays. That would be nice.
