From the restaurant's website:
"Howard County's award-winning progressive Italian restaurant, Aida Bistro & Wine Bar is located in Columbia, Maryland at Route 175 and 95 on Columbia Gateway Drive. Recognized as the Best Italian Restaurant in Baltimore and in Howard County for the past six years, our family owned and operated restaurant is designed to offer clean, lively and comfortable surroundings with a warm and friendly atmosphere. ... Aida Bistro uses fresh & local products from farms and producers whenever possible. During the summer, all herbs are locally grown either by local farmers or at the owner's house."
Full bar. Serving lunch Wed–Fri, dinner Mon–Sat. Closed Sun. No. 37 on Baltimore magazine's Best 50 Restaurants of 2009.
"Aida brings urban, jazz-inflected sophistication to the most sterile setting imaginable, a suburban office park in Howard County. But owners Joe and Mary Barbera have infused their restaurant with charm and confidence, from the first friendly greeting at the door to the final sip of excellent coffee."
– Baltimore magazine