You can have your King Cake, your paczkis or your beignets next week, but I want a little more on Fat Tuesday.

Following a flurry of openings and closings, Chappell’s Coral Grill seems to have found a permanent home, after a year and a half in Covington Plaza.

Given it is just a block away from The Journal Gazette, many folks here were a little saddened when Downtown Pizza and Ice Cream closed Christmas Eve 2010.

One would expect to read about how fresh the fish was or what the best sushi roll was, but the most impressive things at Sushiya-US Sushi & Steak on DuPont Road were shockers.Ice cream and mashed potatoes.

You could not pick a worse morning to go out for breakfast than a Sunday.And given how packed Cosmos House of Pancakes on St. Joe Center Road near the Marketplace of Canterbury was, I expected the worst.