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Mark Fisher

Food and dining reporter

Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006. He also has written a wine column for the newspaper since 1989. He writes the Taste: Dayton Food and Restaurants and Uncorked blogs for the newspaper's web site. He and his wife Julie, who teaches at Fairmont High School, live in Kettering and have two adult sons who are Fairmont graduates.


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Dayton area’s first HomeGoods store to employ 60

11:15 AM Saturday, February 11, 2012

BEAVERCREEK — The opening of the Dayton area’s first HomeGoods store will have an impact on an already competitive Miami Valley home-furnishings market and will give consumers making purchasing decisions an important new option, industry analysts say.

New York & Company clothing store to close

6:38 PM Friday, February 10, 2012

BEAVERCREEK — The New York & Company store at the Mall at Fairfield Commons has closed — the third specialty clothing store to leave that mall this year, joining The Gap and Express.

L’Auberge seeks invesetors to keep it open

6:34 PM Friday, February 10, 2012

KETTERING — L’Auberge restaurant owner Joseph Reif announced via email to customers Friday that he is seeking investors to keep the restaurant operating beyond Feb.

Express clothing store closes in Mall at Fairfield Commons

11:13 AM Wednesday, February 8, 2012

BEAVERCREEK — The Express clothing store inside the Mall at Fairfield Commons closed Tuesday, Barbara Coleman, director of corporate communications for the Columbus-based clothing company, said this morning.

Home furnishings store opening

9:53 PM Monday, February 6, 2012

BEAVERCREEK — HomeGoods will open its first Dayton-area store on March 11 at 2500 N. Fairfield Road in the Beavercreek Shopping Center, a spokeswoman for HomeGoods said Monday.

New pizza restaurants coming to Dayton area

11:54 PM Friday, February 3, 2012

Several brash upstarts are trying to capture a prime Miami Valley slice of the $35.2 billion-a-year national pizza market.

Warren County vineyard launching own microbrewery

8:25 PM Friday, February 3, 2012

It’s not just grapes that are fermenting at Warren County’s Valley Vineyards.

The winery near Morrow will unveil its new lineup of Cellar Dwellers Brewery craft beers in late February or thereabouts, making it only the second winery in Ohio to add its own line of microbrews, according to Joe Schuchter, director of sales and marketing, a third-generation member of the family that founded Valley Vineyards.

Marion’s Piazza poised to open in Troy

7:16 PM Thursday, January 26, 2012

Marion’s Piazza’s new Troy restaurant — the Dayton-based pizza chain’s first expansion in more than two decades — is scheduled to open on Valentine’s Day, Feb.

Local restaurateur’s hearing on contempt Feb. 2; trial rescheduled

11:17 PM Monday, January 23, 2012

DAYTON — The trial of Boulevard Haus owner Eva Christian, charged with five felony counts accusing her of insurance fraud, has been postponed until April.

Catering decisions have a powerful effect on wedding experience and costs

6:05 PM Sunday, January 22, 2012

The food service and drink choices that couples and parents make as part of their wedding planning can be the single costliest component of a wedding.

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