Icon Restaurant Review:
Viva Maria 124 E. Buckeye St., Ada 567-940-8482 Reviewer: Liz Gordon-Hancock
Before walking through the door of Viva Maria, all I knew about the place was that it was an Italian restaurant with big portions and huge support from both the local community and ONU campus crowd. My husband and I walked up to the restaurant around 8 p.m. on a weeknight.
Jeanne Previte announced on Facebook that Friday, Feb. 9, is her "retirement night" from Jeanne's Kitchen, 112 Vine St., Bluffton.
The evening's menu is appropriately Italian.
"We will have Italian antipasto appetizers, Italian wedding soup, Italian vegetable
salad, lasagna or cheese ravioli, Pete's sausage peppers and onions and home dessert," she said.
Dinner hours are 5 to 7:30 p.m. Reservations are suggested by calling 419-234-8650.
The restaurant will continue under new management. Watch the Icon for an announcement.
“I’m not a title guy. I just like to cook,” Vasko Vasileski, the new head chef at Mustard Seed Café told us as he described his restaurant background in a chat earlier this week.
Vasko joined Mustard Seed, at 562 N. Main St., Bluffton, this past fall and he is slowly putting his own chef stamp on the local restaurant.
Originally from Macedonia, how did he land in Bluffton? Vasko’s wife is in a post-doctorate study and is an Ohio Northern University law professor. The couple, with their two children, live in Ada.
Thanks, Marlin Gerber. The Icon and half of Bluffton now has lots of blueberries in the freezer.
We don’t know Marlin’s favorite blueberry pie recipe, so we made one up in his honor. It’s pretty easy to create. Here's what you do:
• Turn over to 400 degrees
• Pie crust (buy it or make it – your call)
1 ½ cup yogurt
¼ cup sugar
1 teaspoon corn starch
1 egg
2 teaspoons lime juice (okay, lemon if you must)
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups of blueberries (depends upon the size of your pie dish)
