Worthington real estate

Chutnys is an Indian restaurant in the Crosswoods area just north of 270.  The Crosswoods area is in the City of Columbus in the Worthington area. 

Chutnys is at  195 E. Campusview Blvd., Columbus OH 43235 - Map

I wrote about Chutnys in March 2009.  It seems longer ago than that.   Crosswoods coming soon

We finally ate at  Chutnys last weekend. 

Chutnys is the site of my former favorite Central Ohio Indian restaurant, Tandoori Palace.  Tandoori Palace is where I fell in love with Indian food locally.  Sadly it closed after only a few years.

Chutnys at Crosswoods - Food

The sign at Chutnys says it is an "Authentic Indian Restaurant."   The menu said they make northern and southern Indian dishes.

We ate two dishes.  A lamb dish and a vegetarian dish.  The vegetarian dish is my old standby spinach and cheese.  Palak paneer?  I can not find a site for the restaurant online so I don't have access to their menu but I believe in some of the Indian Restaurants that is what my favorite dish (I think of it as Green Goo) is named.  

The food at Chutnys was spicier than I would usually eat.  Good but spicy.  The waiter had not asked us if we wanted "mild, medium or hot" as we are used to in some of the Columbus Indian restaurants we frequent.

The lamb dish ... I wish I could tell you the name.

We did not order dosas but that is one of Chutnys' specialities.  I could not have eaten anyway but most everyone around us ordered Chutnys' dosas (crepes.)  I don't remember being aware of dosas at other local Indian restaurants but I recognize now a North-west Columbus restaurant that specializes in dosas, I've heard of it.  Never ate there.... back to Chutnys.  Everytime some one would order a dosa we were hard pressed not to stare. 

Intriguing!

Chutnys at Crosswoods - Service

We originally ordered the same thing, a lamb dish and the waiter was nice enough to come back and get us to reorder.  I don't believe either of us got what we originally ordered either, which is OK.  We ordered something off of the part of their menu that said Bar B Que (or something like that.)  I was very confused because I did not understand what the waiter was saying until our food arrived.

We changed the lamb dish to a similar dish with sauce and ordered my "in a rut" favorite food, the spinach and cheese dish I think is palak paneer.

I think the waiter was trying to get us to order one lamb dish with sauce and one without so we would not have massive quantity of one dish.  Thanks to our waiter for keeping us from making that mistake.

Chutnys at Crosswoods - Restaurant -  The current owners have warmed up the restaurat.  As much as I loved Tandoori Palace the restaurant gave me the chills.  I needed to bundle up to go out to dinner there. Winter, spring, summer or fall, I always felt cold.  The big plate glass window across the front now has some window covering now which really should not do much but the "verticals"  break up that window.  We were seated along the east wall so we were not right at the window which made me happy.

I believe it is more the paint colors and decorating that warms up Chutnys for me.  The present owners of the Crosswoods Indian restaurant have used warmer colors and lots of metal decorations on the wall copper or bronze.  It does not look as crisp and clean as Tandoori Palace did, but it is warmer.

More about the Crosswoods area

Columbus Ohio 43235   - the Crosswoods area is on the far north east side of the ZIP code

Rebirth in the Crosswoods Area   - historic Worthington church moved to the Crosswoods area

Indian Food - in the Polaris area  just right up the road a piece, still in Far North Columbus but in Southern Delaware County

Bayleaf India Bistro is for lovers

Polaris Restaurants, Siriusly It's a Dog Eat Dog World

Compliments of  Maureen McCabe  -  Real Living HER Worthington   - 614-388- 8249

200 Hutchinson Avenue Columbus OH 43235

I did two tic-tac-toe (three rows across,  three columns down)  "Speechless Sunday" posts for Easter Sunday:

Worthington Easter Sunday 2009  the historic St. John's AME Church in Worthington is bottom center.

Columbus  Easter Sunday 2009  the new St. John's AME Church at Crosswoods is top left.

I must have read about it.  Yet I was surprised though when I went to take a photograph of the historic  St. John's AME Church that a new congregation worships there now... I Googled to find where St. John's AME had moved and found their website which gave their new address 7700 Crosswoods.  I was thinking of the area  with the theather, restaurants, hotels...(south of Campusview Blvd.)  I should have looked  at a map, I went to take a photo and realized the new St. John's AME Church is where the old Moose Lodge was....

I still wanted a photo of the old church...  I thought I was able to get to the history on the St. John's AME website earlier this week via the history link on the bottom of their site but this morning I get error messages using both the buttons on the side and the links on the bottom.   The church's website is obviously under construction.  The history of this congregation is fascinating!

The historic St. John's AME Church was at 682 Plymouth St. in the city of Worthington.  The new church is at 7700 Campusview Blvd in the Crosswoods area, which is in the Worthington area.  

This is a flash entry (music, photos)  to their website, adjust your computers speakers according to where you are reading this:

St. John's AME Church - 7700 Crosswoods Blvd.  Columbus Ohio 43235

Compliments of Maureen McCabe - Real Living HER Worthington - 614-388-8249

The Crosswoods area in Columbus is just north of 270 in the Worthington area. 

Last Sunday I tweeted (texted from my phone to Twitter):

The Quizno's at Crosswoods is gone.. Closed.. 4:23 PM Mar 1st from mobile web

Two people from Columbus responded:

OHTom@MoInColumbusOH Lots of empty restaurants at Crosswoods these days!4:57 PM Mar 1st from web in reply to MoInColumbusOH 

solesearching@MoInColumbusOH I'm surprised that Quiznos lasted as long as it did. That whole area is dying a slow painful death... 5:51 PM Mar 1st from Tweetie in reply to MoInColumbusOH

Is Crosswoods dying?  hmmm  I know restaurants open and close there with great regularity... but that's been going on or years.  Who knows maybe the Quiznos has been gone since last summer... I drive by sometimes...  but not always.  I am not a big sub sandwich eater so Quiznos was not a place I would pay a lot of attention to.  I have options, I drive different routes.  We do go to Crosswoods oftent to  eat at El Acapulco Restaurant at Crosswood.  We eat at the Columbus Fish Market at Crosswods occasionally.

We went to two movies in one weekend at the Marcus Cinema recently ... we have options the Rave is just north in the Polaris area but we had a  gift certificate to the Marcus Cinema.  We probably saw as many first run movies that weekend as we saw in 2008.

Crosswoods is not new.  I stayed at the Red Roof in at Crosswoods when we were  moving to Columbus in 1990. We wrote an  offer on a house sitting in the Bob Evans at Crosswoods.   The road did not go through back then...  Campusview Blvd. ended at some point before the rail road crossing.  To get to the Park Road area you came up Worthington Galena or went up to Flint Road.  Less driving options.  

There are lots of offices at Crosswoods.  There are no stores at Crosswoods, just hotels, motels, a movie theater and restaurants.   It was developed that way.

Of course I remember when the Marcus Cinema came to town...

There was not a sign for the theater for awhile as I recall.  When the Marcus Cinema sign went up I thought it was going to post what movies were playing... maybe not what time but what was showing so I would not have to drive back to the theater to see what was showing. Or call on the telephone or whatever it was we did to find out this info back then....

I was suprised that the sign ended up being for the restaurants in the area,  It shows who is there, I think of the sign as the Crosswoods sign, not the Marcus Cinema sign... (now that I look at it... it is ugly) but who am I to judge.   Crosswoods is a tough area, wedged in between the city of Worthington and Polaris the way it is.  I assume it is very important to the smaller restaurants at Crosswoods that people travelling on High Street and Campusview know they are there.

Who is there now?  Who is on the sign?  Starbucks,  Chipolte, Sushi Ko, Panera, Tandoori Palace...  Ooops Tandoori Palace has not been at Crosswoods  in a couple of years.  I am not sure if Crosswoods is dying a slow death or if it is the same as it has been all along.

Crosswoods

Crosswoods Coming Soon

Far North Columbus - Identity Crisis

What to wear at the Columbus Fish Market

Compliments of  Maureen McCabe  -  Real Living HER Worthington   - 614-388-8249

Coming soon

Or coming back?

Chutnys, an Indian restautant in the Crosswoods area of Columbus opened and closed very quickly. I think.   I swear I read in one of the papers that Chutnys opened.  As I recall it said the restaurant was able to come right in because the previous Indian Restaurant in that location, the equipment was still there.   I can not find the article though.  Searching I just find a lot of recipes for different chutnys.

The Crosswoods area in Columbus is north of the city of Worthington and south of Polaris.   It's just north of 270... Crosswoods is all hotels and restaurants and a movie theater..  and a lot of  empty space... kind of a tough area to compete, it seems.

A sign in the window says Chutnys is coming soon and will have new management. 

The signs at the entrance to the Crosswoods area still say Tandoori Palace, which was in the location that Chutnys was and will be in again soon... according to the sign in the window.    

I am a big fan of Indian food but my love affair with Indian food is a relatively recent relationship.  It started at Tandoori Palace ... at this very spot, about four or five years ago.

Chutnys will be at 195 E. Campusview Blvd.  Columbus Ohio Sometimes soon, I hope.

Crosswoods

What to wear at the Columbus Fish Market 

Indian Food

Bayleaf India Bistro is for lovers

Polaris Restaurants, Siriusly It's a Dog Eat Dog World

Compliments of  Maureen McCabe  -  Real Living HER Worthington   - 614-388- 8249

"what to wear at the columbus fish market" was a search that ended up on my ColumbusBestBlog recently but I am going to answer it here.

Columbus is casual... 

We could NOT get into Columbus Fish Market (Music alert!!!) on Valentines Day this year... either location.

We could NOT get into Mortons Columbus on Valentines Day this year... ( I tried to win a Valentines Day dinner...)

Not because we were not dressed right.  We just waited too late to get reservations at lots of great restaurants in Central Ohio. We do most years, we ate at Hoggy's at Polaris a couple of years ago. No tie required.  

We eat at the Columbus Fish Market quite a bit really.  Usually the one at Crosswoods but for more special occasions the one on Olentangy River Road.  I am not sure why driving about 12 minutes more and dressing up a bit more makes it more special than the closer Columbus Fish Market, for me.

We ate at a nice Indian Restaurant, Bayleaf India Bistro in the Polaris area this year for Valentines Day.  We went to a movie first but went home and changed before going out to dinner.  Looking around I would not have been out of place wearing jeans and a sweatshirt.  There were people as dressed up as us, and less dressed up. Valentines Day is a day to get pretty though.

One time long ago we went to the  Columbus Fish Market at Crosswoods on a Friday evening kinda grubby.  Sorry it is so long ago I have no idea what we wore.  I just remember they tried to seat us in the bar.  This was before the smoking ban... so we would not eat in the bar.  They found us a table very quickly in the restaurant. They were not that busy.  I got in a snit so it is seared in my memory and I pay a lot of attention to what people are wearing when we go there. 

"Columbus casual" is true.  We would have dressed up more I am sure to go to a downtown restaurant... I probably wore a dress and heels the one time I ate at Morton's Columbus. I dress up for Hyde Park Grill, Mitchell's Steakhouse...   Usually you don't have to dress up to go out to eat in Columbus.  Come as you are.  You can. If you go out "Columbus Casual" and they try to shove you in the bar, just say no... unless of course you wanna eat in the bar.

Photo Credit.  Ties from the past  is from The County Clerk's Photostream.  The photo is licensed with a Creative Commons License and it is OK to use commercially according to Flikr.