Floyd's Chicken

Saturday May 16

Today was dedicated to The Theater - or Theatre - as produced by our own College Conservatory of Music, which is located just next to the Department offices. In fact, we had a matinee at 2:30 (a seat-of-the-pants recreation of the original 1927 college musical Good News, which was fabulous) and then an evening production (Verdi's Falstaff, also great, especially the title role) at 8 PM. So to make things easy, we didn't bother to go home between them, just hung around the office and walked out to Floyd's for dinner.

Floyd's is a great local secret. It's a tiny place, run by an older Lebanese couple for an older Cincinnati clientele. Though it's directly across from student apartments, we kept seeing groups go flip-flopping right past, doubtless headed for leaden sandwiches at Panera, or burgers and beer at Uncle Woody's, or processed meat at Subway. Never realizing that right there at Floyd's they could get THE BEST SPIT-ROASTED CHICKEN IN THE WORLD. Not to mention the best hummus and baba ghanouj in the world, and that includes Israel and Turkey.
You can get the three together - with fresh pita - as a Floyd's special. Holt had that, and Barbara ordered the other half of the chicken. You can be sure, we wiped the plates with pita, and gnawed every little bone clean.