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Carefully Considering Our Struggles Hello Kathy: I’ve been reading your column for awhile, and sometimes I agree with you and sometimes I don’t. But I felt that this week’s column (“On My Cane,” issue of Oct. 14) was very profound and beautiful. It reminded me of my mom who passed away from MS a few years ago and who was an extraordinary person with the way she dealt with it every single day — first using a cane and then being confi ned to a wheelchair (she fought it every “step” of the way). My mother-in-law is almost blind and uses a cane as well, and I’ve noticed the way people perceive her, too (as you describe in your column). Thank you for making us aware of our shortcomings but in a respectful way. Thank you for your insights!

— Mel Hatch, Westwood

Remembering Aronoff Doubters And the rest of the story: In that ballot issue, Cincinnatians actually voted not to build the Aronoff, but it was a state of Ohio project, and so Ohio just built it anyway. Our city has a curious history of stridently opposing projects that turn out to be very successful — Fort Washington Way, Great American Ball Park, the renovation of Fountain Square and Washington Park. So it will be with the Cincinnati streetcar.

— John Schneider, comment posted at citybeat.com in response to “Twenty Years of the Aronoff,” issue of Oct. 14

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City work crews on Oct. 16 laid the last section of track for Cincinnati’s streetcar. The controversial transit project through Over-the-Rhine and downtown is currently on time and on budget, despite predictions by critics that it would be otherwise. CINCINNATI +1 Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil has proposed putting an 18-bed treatment facility in the county’s justice center to help inmates detoxing from opiates.

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Repeat after me: Wall Street saved Main Street. Wall Street saved Main Street. That’s the mantra of the mainstream press and Wise White Men whom they always quote when events turn sour. “Too big to fail” is the subtext. And then there is “too embedded in campaign finance to prosecute.”

It seems the immunities of Wall Street extend to 5/3 moneylenders. They seem to escape criminal prosecution after defrauding the federal government on more than 1,400 home loans. In a detailed report, the Enquirer described the systematic 5/3 fraud that went on for a decade and contributed to the Great Recession’s collapse of the home mortgage market. That story came days after 5/3 agreed to stop gouging borrowers who took out loans from car dealers.

What I missed in the Enquirer was why no one is being prosecuted; 5/3 employees admitted committing home-loan fraud. The bank agreed to an $85-million civil settlement and said some people were fired. Just like Wall Street.

• And in the wider world of repeat offenders, Volkswagen is a leader. London’s Daily Mail said VW fought for years to suppress a report on the ease with which car thieves can hack digital “keys.” When the Daily Mail — with its casual approach to what most Americans think of as journalism ethics — has an apparent scoop, I don’t ignore it. I check it out. This time, the story was legit.

From Bloomberg: “Thousands of cars from a host of manufacturers have spent years at risk of electronic car-hacking, according to expert research that Volkswagen has spent two years trying to suppress in the courts.”

In “keyless” car theft, Bloomberg explained, “hackers target vulnerabilities in electronic locks and immobilizers” in luxury cars stolen to order. It said digital protections can be hacked by “a technically minded criminal within 60 seconds.”

VW isn’t alone, Bloomberg said. There is a “similar vulnerability in keyless vehicles made by several carmakers. The weakness — which affects the Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) transponder chip used in immobilizers — was discovered in 2012, but carmakers sued the researchers to prevent them from publishing their findings.

• Americans suffer a major shooting incident almost daily, London’s Guardian says. The paper is counting Americans killed by gunfire in a crowd-sourced project, The Count. More recently, it looked at the bigger picture.

The Guardian said Americans had “994 mass shootings in 1,004 days.” It defines “mass shooting” as four or more persons shot, whether wounded or killed, and gives the number killed and wounded along with the dates and locations.

Some had no fatalities. Others had multiple, like Roseburg, Ore., which had nine dead victims plus the dead shooter. London’s Independent reported early this month that the FBI “defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are killed or injured. This year there have already been 294 of them, more than one a day.”

As Republican Jeb Bush put it so inelegantly when asked about the Roseburg killings, “stuff happens.”

• In the Grudging Gratitude Department, the FBI director finds it “ridiculous (and) embarrassing” that the federal government has no better information on police shootings than databases compiled by Guardian US and the Washington Post (see above).

“It is unacceptable that the Washington Post and the Guardian newspaper from the U.K. are becoming the lead source of information about violent encounters between (US) police and civilians. That is not good for anybody,” said the FBI’s James Comey Oct. 7.

“You can get online and figure out how many tickets were sold to (movie) The Martian ... the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) can do the same with the flu,” he continued. “It’s ridiculous — embarrassing and ridiculous — that we can’t talk about crime in the same way, especially in the high-stakes incidents when your officers have to use force.”

The Guardian said 891 deaths so far this year have been recorded by The Counted, its crowdsourced and staff-verified investigative project. The Washington Post, which has a similar project, has documented 758 deaths this year.

• I put “copycat killing” into Google and got 799,000 results. My search was prompted by arguments over whether to name the Umpqua Community College shooter. Would using his name inspire others to emulate him in search of their moment of infamy? Researchers and commentators can’t agree.But it wannabes really did follow the news, they’d realize how few killers’ names are remembered.

Killings are so common that only a mentally ill shooter would imagine he’d be famous for more than a couple news cycles.

So that’s what we have, fantasists with rapid-fire weapons.

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• It’s no secret that different sections of newspapers have different reporting and editing standards. The most demanding are in the hard-news sections and sports.

Features/fashion/women’s pages often don’t even attempt to escape the sense that they are little more than upbeat advertorials or validations of movers and shakers.

A ghastly example came from a Faithful Reader of Curmudgeon Notes. It’s from the NYTimes Style section. I quote the Oct. 8 correction in full: “An article last Thursday (Oct. 1) about Melania Trump and the passive role she has been playing in the presidential campaign of her husband, Donald Trump, misstated her age at the time she was Melania Knauss and posed for a picture in Talk magazine. She was 29, not 26, making her almost a quartercentury younger than her future husband, not more than a quarter-century younger.

“The article also misidentified a presidential debate she attended. She was in the audience at the Fox News debate in Cleveland in August; she was not present for the CNN debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

“In addition, the article misidentified the position in Congress held by Marco Rubio, one of Mr. Trump’s opponents for the Republican presidential nomination.

He is a United States senator from Florida, not a representative.

“The article also misspelled the surname of an editor at The Palm Beach Daily News, who noted that Mrs. Trump is ‘not gossipy at all, not bitchy and just really nice.’ He is Robert Janjigian, not Jangigian.

“And, finally, the article referred imprecisely to Mr. Janjigian’s role at the newspaper.

While he has reported on society, he is in charge of fashion coverage, not society coverage. (Shannon Donnelly is the society editor.)”

Misspelling the names of public figures is bad enough, but for a reporter and editors at the Times to not know who Marco Rubio is or what he does for a living when he’s not running for the GOP presidential nomination is stunning.

Just for the hell of it, I typed Marco Rubio into Google: 63,200,000 hits. The first screen identifies him as a U.S. senator.

Maybe they’d have known him if he’d get a Fashion Week front-row seat or share his recipe for Cuba Libre cocktails.

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Most compelling is this thing a lot of black folks do when the topics of bad black behavior come up: We look around and ask where the noose is for our white counterparts, when the forum, the characters in question and the circumstances are as black as Atlanta.

This is a classic Colored Dodge Move.

(You’re welcome, white people.)

In a black magazine tasked with reflecting and dissecting black life — the shiny and the dark — there isn’t any room or need for white sociopathic behavior because, believe me, we have enough of our own to keep Ebony producing controversial covers until Jesus returns.

What is most pleasantly surprising to me is that Ebony spent decades being full of enough Marshmallow Fluff to give every black American who touched it diabetes.

I was surprised Ebony stayed solvent long enough to find its 21st-century footing and to tackle issues relevant to real black people on the ground and not become merely another empty glossy magazine espousing the lifestyles of the moderately wealthy and those with mediocre talent because, well, there are enough white magazines doing that for all of us.

So what has happened and what, hopefully, will continue to happen is that Ebony has and is remaking itself on the backs of the failings of black Americans and the failings of America to stop killing black Americans.

The magazine no longer solely praises the plethora of network shows cast largely with blacks or produced by blacks; it now features stark, creative covers centered on race, power and black Hollywood, including one called “We Are Trayvon” with a subhead “Save Our Sons,” and another commemorating President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, simply emblazoned with “Mr. President.”

Ebony for years was the black magazine we’d take into the bathroom to flip through the pictures for a quick escape to see pictures of Lena Horne’s house, Sammy Davis, Jr.’s swimming pool, Flip Wilson’s cars or Josephine Baker’s “rainbow tribe” of adopted children.

However, it was a strong outlet during the Civil Rights Movement and all the subsequent assassinations of black leaders and black-friendly white leaders. Then it fell off again, caving to the whims of Johnson, who was clearly burned out. Then

his daughter inherited the magazine and seemed content and dead-set on making it a giant press release of unsigned, praiseheavy “articles” on celebrities to whom she was somehow indebted.

Hey, it was the 1980s and the 1990s, about the time Bill Cosby came along with his factory-sealed family of witty, pithy, pretty kids and his unbelievably accomplished, cool-headed, ageless and long-suffering wife.

Strangely — and this is for the people who cannot sift Bill Cosby from Heathcliff Huxtable — one of Cosby’s most ardent accusers is an actress who had a recurring role as one of Huxtable’s pregnant patients whom he’d always see in that creepy basement office of his.

“Ebony spent decades being full of enough Marshmallow Fluff to give every black American who touched it diabetes.”

To hear her tell it, Cosby once allegedly threw himself on her on that set and later allegedly in his dressing room. So if you’re having a hard time distinguishing fact from fiction in this Shakespearean tale of two warring selves, then use this scenario to make believe that Cosby/Huxtable was cheating on Camille/Claire with his patient/ an actress.

Whatever this Ebony cover and cover story mean to us individually or as community or family members, I will be going out to buy it if for nothing more than as a commemorative keepsake.

I treat a lot of magazines that way: When Whitney Houston died, when Michael Jackson died, when Nelson Mandela died, when Barack Obama was elected to his first term, when Trayvon Martin was murdered, I went out and bought up every single magazine with those people’s images on the front covers.

Why? Because black in America is still treated like a special box that can long go unchecked, so when something extraordinary happens among us or to one of us, we are worthy of collecting so we can look back and say: This happened.

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With a paltry loan from his mother, John H. Johnson started Ebony magazine 70 years ago as a tactile place for black Americans to roost, rest, feel safe, get news and information specific to our American experiences and to mostly see ourselves well-represented in a country that usually — and still sometimes does — renders us invisible.

We are a long way now from all that warm racial sentimentality.

Editor Kierna Mayo recently told CNN she did not get much sleep in the days leading up to the release of the November issue.

That’s because the slaying of sacred cows requires as much mental fortitude as it does physical energy, and when you’re black (and a woman) and you are dismantling a cultural hero and icon, there will be no rest for the weary.

The headline “The Family Issue(s)” accompanies a 1980s-era photograph of the cast of The Cosby Show. They are depicted beneath a pane of shattered glass, the fracturing point — the bull’s eye — directly over Bill Cosby’s face.

The good thing to come out of this is that the folks who needed waking up the most seem to be the ones exhibiting the most anger toward Mayo and the magazine.

The overriding question of the article, according to Mayo, is: Should we or can we ever separate Bill Cosby the alleged serial rapist from Bill Cosby the creator of the Huxtables and all those post-crack dreams of upper-middle class comfort?

Well, if viewers cannot separate fact from fiction — which so many of us surprisingly cannot — then those people should look away from the magazine, all the brouhaha surrounding it and any and all future allegations and lawsuits against Bill Cosby.

On the magazine’s Facebook page, where all real conversations happen these days, folks are taking the magazine to task, mostly missing salient points about sexual deviance, misogyny and the abuse of power in the black family of man.

Facebook commenter Tahani Shanee called the magazine “out of touch, silly and lazy” and “not bold enough to logically attack Cosby the man so you crack the fascade (sic) of this show that meant so much to America.”

Someone or something calling itself Until No More wrote: “Where is 7th Heaven...or Full House? Did you write about Jared of Subway and more. Though your cover is profound, I find it to be also harsh, crass, demeaning and you’ve really left me in a flummoxed state of mind. Wow! Get it together Ebony.”

Until No More seems to be talking to itself at the end when it says “get it together.” The admission of being flummoxed is a telling one.

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On the chilly morning of Oct. 14, nearly 100 activists gathered outside of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals downtown from as far as Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis to support Rasmea Odeh, a 68-year-old Palestinian-American activist who was scheduled to appeal her conviction on immigration fraud charges from a federal court in Detroit in November 2014.

U.S. authorities have convicted Odeh of failing to disclose on both her 1994 application for a green card and her 2004 application for naturalization that she spent 10 years in an Israeli prison for the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket and then failed to correct authorities during her naturalization interview.

Her supporters insist the situation is a politically charged attempt to punish Odeh for her activism in the Palestinian liberation movement.

“For us, it’s a political case. It’s a political arrest. It’s an attempt to criminalize Palestine,” says Hatem Abudayyeh, national spokesman for the Rasmea Odeh Defense Committee and also the executive director of the Arab American Action Network in Chicago.

Odeh came to the U.S. in 1994 to live with her father and brother in Detroit.

She moved to Chicago in 2004, the same year she became a U.S. citizen, where she became a prominent Palestinian activist in the Chicago community. She works alongside Abudayyeh as the associate director of the Arab American Action Network and won an award from the Chicago Cultural Alliance in 2013 for her community leadership just months before she was arrested in October.

She maintains she was wrongly convicted and imprisoned in Israel. In 1969, when she was a 21-year-old university student in Ramallah, she says she was arrested in the middle of the night by Israeli soldiers who raped and tortured her for 45 days, at times in front of her father, into confessing.

After her release in 1979, she testified about her experience in front of the United Nations. According to Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, the Israeli military court that convicted her finds more than 99 percent of Palestinians guilty.

In Detroit, Odeh was sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison for failing to disclose the conviction. She will be stripped of her U.S. citizenship and deported to Jordan once she is released, if her appeal is rejected.

“There’s a political component to this thing,” Abudayyeh says. “It’s what we would call a political show trail — come and try to criminalize this woman and say that she’s a

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terrorist for something that she didn’t even do 45 years ago.”

Abudayyeh believes Odeh’s arrest was part of a larger attack on the Palestinian community going back several years.

In September 2010, the FBI raided the homes and offices of 23 activists in Chicago and Minneapolis and then, a few months later, subpoenaed them to testify before a grand jury for their activism. All refused, and to date no charges have been filed.

Abudayyeh says the FBI started extending its search to their friends, family and colleagues because the activists refused to testify, which is how they found Odeh’s immigration application.

Israelis and Palestinians have been locked in a bitter, bloody battle over the land in Israel since it was created as a new homeland for Jews following the Nazi holocaust of World War II in 1948. The conflict has resulted in decades of violence as the land is considered holy to Jews, Arabs and Christians. The U.S. has heavily sided with Israel, as it considers it to be its more important ally in the Middle East, and has strongly supported its government financially.

In Cincinnati Oct. 14, Odeh’s defense lawyer, Michael Deutsch, argued that Odeh did not receive a fair trial in Detroit on account that she was unable to present a full defense when Federal Judge Paul D. Borman refused to allow Chicago clinical

Rasmea Odeh spent 10 years in an Israeli prison for a crime she says she didn’t commit.

psychologist Mary Fabri and Odeh testify about the torture she endured or her PTSD, but allowed documents from the Israeli court to be presented.

The question comes down to whether Odeh knowingly lied to the U.S. government to obtain her citizenship, not whether she committed the crime in Israel.

Deutsch argued before a panel of three appellate judges that Odeh has such severe post-traumatic stress disorder from her time in an Israeli prison that she blocked it out when filling out the paperwork, which caused her to interpret the question as pertaining to any violations with the law during her time in the U.S. Federal prosecutor Jonathan Tuckel argued that presenting a psychological defense for Odeh’s mental state was not allowed unless she was pleading insanity, which is not the defense’s argument.

“She’s not saying that she didn’t know the truth,” Tuckel said. “She’s saying ‘I knew the truth, but I didn’t answer the truth.’ ” Deutsch maintained Odeh was not insane at the time, but that her PTSD caused an unconscious mental block that caused her to filter out the question and that the insanity statute cited by Tuckel doesn’t specifically limit a psychologist’s testimony to cases of insanity.

“This is not an insanity case,” Deutsch said. “She has a mental disorder — posttraumatic stress.”

Judge Alice Batchelder offered skepticism that Odeh — who has spoken publically about her imprisonment several times in the U.S. and even admitted her imprisonment to a Homeland Security Officer at the border — could have unconsciously filtered the information out when filling out the forms.

“She’s obviously pretty selective in how she filters,” Batchelder said.

Immediately after the hearing, Deutsch told the crowd of activists standing outside the courthouse waving Palestinian flags and carrying “Free Rasmea” signs that he believed they had a good chance of getting her case back to district court.

“I think it went much better than we expected,” Deutsch said. “It doesn’t mean she’s going to win. I think it’s a good sign that the judges were engaged and interested, and all of them asked questions that I thought were favorable to our position.”

Deutsch also thanked the crowd for filling the courtroom.

“It makes a big impact on [the judges],” he said. “It’s very important that you came today and filled the courtroom.”

Odeh’s crowd of supporters included more than just Palestinian liberation

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As election day looms, medicinal and recreational marijuana users in Ohio are mulling cloudy questions around how ResponsibleOhio’s legalization amendment could affect their lifestyle.

While voting to legalize marijuana seems like a smoker’s dream, some triedand-true Ohio marijuana activists three decades into that fight are concerned about what the future holds if the proposed constitutional amendment passes.

The Ohio chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) believes the amendment’s language is ambiguous and limited, and thus ripe for misinterpretation.

The group is concerned that conservative state officials could use ambiguities in the amendment to crack down on the drug in new ways.

“If [Issue 3] passes, there is so much gray area in the amendment there is going to chaos, there are going to be arrests, and people are still going to be in trouble for a plant that is legal,” says Brandy Sheaffer, president of Ohio NORML. “The majority of rules and regulations will be left up to Kasich’s commission, and this is a major concern with our membership.”

If Issue 3 becomes law, Ohio Gov. John Kasich will appoint a seven-member Marijuana Control Commission. According to the amendment’s language, the commission will regulate both industrial and homegrown marijuana production. Kasich has called marijuana a “scourge in this country” and opposes to any form of legalization.

Issue 3 has to pass first. But victory is possible, as a Quinnipiac poll released Oct. 8 shows 90 percent of Ohio voters support legalization for medicinal use and 53 percent support recreational use.

Scheaffer says the 400-plus Ohio NORML membership was asked to weigh in on Issue 3, and their greatest concern is one shared by most of the state’s users — the amendment essentially proposes a marijuana monopoly. A close second was something more personal: Will at-home growers be signing away their Fourth Amendment right protecting them from warrantless searches when they become state certified to grow indoors?

Home growers can have four flowering marijuana plants and possess or share up to eight ounces of marijuana if they hold a valid state license obtained for $50, according to language inserted into the amendment after legalization activists balked at ResponsibleOhio’s original proposal. The current amendment proposal still limits all commercial marijuana growth to 10 farms around the state owned by the group’s investors.

Scheaffer says the Kasich-appointed commission could rule that the state license will come with the condition that home growers be subjected to “inspections,” a stipulation activists say would be tantamount to waiving their Fourth Amendment rights.

The commission could also decide what marijuana strains will be used for medicinal purposes, and what they choose might not be suitable for some patients, she says.

Kasich could also shut down the proposed post-traumatic stress disorder research facility recently proposed for Licking County, she says.

ResponsibleOhio ran a petition drive to put legalization on the Nov. 3 ballot and has ties to political consultancy firm The Strategy Network of Columbus, which helped bring casinos to the state in 2009. The group says Ohio NORML’s suspicions about the Fourth Amendment are absurd.

“The home grow license is no different than the driver’s license we get to drive or the concealed carry we get to carry firearms,” says ResponsibleOhio spokesperson Faith Oltman. “It would be ludicrous to suggest we are signing away our Fourth Amendment rights by obtaining driver’s licenses or concealed carry permits. The same is true for the home grow license under Issue 3.”

But critics say ResponsibleOhio has no affiliation with Gov. Kasich and can’t control how state officials might institute the amendment’s provisions.

Historically, there are many instances where both businesses and individual professionals, after acquiring a necessary state license, had in some cases unknowingly and unwilling relinquished their Fourth Amendment rights.

“Licensed businesses still have Fourth Amendment rights, (but) we are litigating several cases now where acquiring a license subjects you to an inspection that we argue to be unconstitutional,” says Maurice Thompson, executive director of The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law in Columbus, which seeks to advance liberty and limit government and is named after Ohio’s constitutional convention of 1851.

But not everyone is convinced Issue 3 will lead to an erosion of constitutional rights.

Russ Belville, prominent radio personality for 420radio.org and writer for Marijuana Politics, an online marijuana news source, is adamant the paranoia is not warranted, citing experience in states that have legalized the drug.

“I heard these same arguments,” he recently wrote on Marijuana Politics. “If you’re caught with non-store weed you’ll

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activists. It also drew other civil rights organizations like the Puerto Rican Independence movement, the Jewish Voice for Peace and several African-American groups who all spoke out in defense of Odeh and stressed the need to support each other.

“The Palestinians showed up in Ferguson as an act of solidarity, and nobody sent them a telegram,” said Frank Chapman, field organizer and educational director for the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. “They came there because the spirit moved them, and ever since that ever happened, I’ve been saying as a member of the black liberation movement that we have a future together because we fight a common enemy — it’s called U.S. imperialism.”

Brian Taylor of Black Lives Matter Cincinnati says the group found out about Odeh’s case just a few days earlier and made a decision to show its support. For them, it’s also about building solidarity among different civil-rights groups and

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get busted! Never happened. The state will now have marijuana enforcement officers to go after people growing at

seeing the similarities between their causes.

“The way that she is being basically persecuted, made to pay a price for her political activities, sounded very similar to what activists throughout history in the United States have faced,” Taylor says. “And the fight of the Palestinian people and the heavy militarization of the occupied areas, the way that innocent kids — kids in the streets — get brutalized by Israeli defense forces, it just dovetails with our experience in the United States.”

Odeh thanked supporters and acknowledged the diversity of the crowd in front of her.

“I’m lucky to have all of your support,” she said. “I see different people came from different cities here and different ethnicities, but all of us stand together to stand for justice, to stand for freedom.”

The court is expected to release its verdict in one to five months. If Odeh wins her appeal, she will be granted a new trial in federal court in Detroit. ©

home to protect their store revenue! Never happened. In fact, every scare about how awful (marijuana legalization) would be turned out to be utter bullshit.” ©

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Edible Expansions It may seem like the Cincinnati dining scene is exploding — a never-ending expansion of excellent eats — originating with a glut of gourmet in Over-the-Rhine and downtown and bursting into the far-flung suburbs. And that’s because it is.

Good food is everywhere in Cincinnati. OTR might have been one of the first neighborhoods with an award-winning culinary cluster, but now other dining destinations are following suit, with locations like Share: Cheesebar from the owners of C’est Cheese food truck set to open in Pleasant Ridge, O Pie O’s new fullservice sweet-and-savory pie café in East Walnut Hills and all the recent restaurant activity in Covington, with Frida 602 and Son & Soil and the coming-soon Commonwealth Bistro. And you know Holtman’s Donuts started in Loveland, right?

In this year’s Dining Guide, we’re taking a look at some of these edible expansions. First up, literally expanding menus, with

a rundown of some of our favorite chef-prepared multi-course tasting menus. Then, cityslickers who went suburban with new locations — Macaron Bar and Sleepy Bee Café — followed by a piece on Blue Oven Bakery, which is jumping on the both-coasts artisanal toast trend, and a preview of Cincinnati’s first movie theater/gastopub dining experience, Eastgate Brew & View.

Then there are the restaurant listings — delicious details on more than 300 local eateries, from bars and grills and ethnic eats to pizza places and fine dining destinations — something for every craving. Turn to a page, close your eyes and put your finger down at random to pick where to have dinner tonight.

In a city with such a wonderfully saturated dining scene, you’d need to write a book to even begin to cover everything, but at 30 pages, this Dining Guide should be a fine start.

— M A I JA Z U M M O, P R O J EC T E D I T O R

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The five-diamond Orchids at Palm Court offers a rare selection of tasting menus — one for omnivores and one artfully crafted for vegetarians and vegans.

Clockwise from top left: Basque cake with sweet corn ice cream; braised pork belly with roasted plum, ponzu and mint; and baconwrapped monkfish with salsify, pepitas and yuzu.

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Terrific Tastings

Chef-prepared multi-course meals showcase culinary creativity in several formats

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Orchids at Palm Court: The Vegetarian Tasting Menu Chef Todd Kelly of the five-diamond Orchid’s at Palm Court offers not one, but two options for his tasting menu, consisting of either a five- or 10-course grand tasting, and both are available as either vegetarian or vegan. Have no fear: Chef

Kelly hasn’t just taken his regular menu and removed the animal protein — he has designed dishes especially for those who do not eat meat. Dishes such as heirloom carrot salad, herb gnocchi and chanterelle mushroom strudel make the menu just as attractive to omnivores. “On a typical weekend night we’ll do just as many vegetarian or vegan grand tastings as we do traditional,” chef Kelly says. “In fact, it happens all the time when we have couples that are on a date; they’ll each order one of each, eat half, and then switch.”

The five-course chef’s tasting is $70 and $110 with wine pairings. The 10-course grand tasting is $110 and $165 with wine pairings. Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, 35 W. Fifth St., Downtown, 513-421-9100, orchidsatpalmcourt.com.

Vitor’s Bistro: Farm-to-Table Fare The term farm-to-table is bandied about by a lot of chefs, but very few can boast having their own farm from which to harvest meat and produce. Such is the case for chef Vitor Abreu of Vitor’s Bistro, and he takes full advantage of the nearly four-acre Valley Hill Farms in nearby Cleves when planning his daily three- to seven-course tasting menus.

The property is owned by a close family friend, who lets Abreu farm it for the bistro.

Pigs and cattle are raised on the farm, as well as vegetables, which provide the restaurant with 25 to 50 percent of its needs, depending on the season. Chef Abreu preserves the produce to stretch the bounty of the warmer months into winter. “We freeze our corn so we’re still using fresh corn that we grew ourselves,” he says, “and I jarred probably around 100 gallons of tomato sauce this summer, so I’ve got jars and jars of freshly made sauce that we made from our tomatoes.”

They also plant as far into the season as they can. “We put in fall crops about six weeks ago, so right now we have broccoli and cauliflower in, we have cabbage and Brussels sprouts and collard greens, so we stay pretty productive.”

The tasting menus are $38 for three courses, $46 for four courses and $55 for five courses. Chef Abreu also offers a private one-on-one, five- to seven-course dining experience with guests at the chef’s table, which begins at

$75. Vitor’s is BYOB. 3232 Harrison Ave., Cheviot, 513-481-5333, vitorsbistro.net.

Ando Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar: Omakase Tasting menus aren’t limited to Western-style cuisine. The Japanese have their own omakase, which loosely translates to “I trust the chef.” Chef Ken Ando and his wife, Keiko, of Ando Japanese Restaurant have been welcoming people to their Blue Ash location since 1998. The restaurant offers traditional Japanese dishes, and their omakase dinners are offered two ways: with either sashimi — chef Ando’s choice of the seven finest raw fish items of the day — or sushi, which includes eight types of nigiri sushi (the raw fish is served on rice) and your choice of one roll, either salmon, tuna, spicy tuna or California. Both start with a salad and miso soup, and are artfully plated; the sushi option comes served in a beautiful Bento box along with tempura-fried vegetables, pickles and other goodies that change daily.

The sashimi omakase is available at market price.

The sushi omakase is $30.50. Ando is BYOB. 5889 Pfeiffer Road, Blue Ash, 513-791-8687, andojapaneserestaurant.com.

The Presidents Room at The Phoenix: Wine Dinner If you fancy a bit of education along with your meal, and you want to taste beverages as well as food, why not try a wine dinner? Recently, chef Jeremy Luers of The Presidents Room at The Phoenix paired with Argentinean winemaker Ernesto Bajda of Catena Zapata Wines, treating guests to five courses of gourmet goodies like lobster-stuffed squid-ink pasta, veal sweetbreads and a trio of beef served with truffles.

Each course was expertly paired with wine by Bajda, who explained to guests how and why each wine was chosen.

President’s Club event manager Cat Amaro plans to schedule monthly collaborations with other distilleries and breweries. “It’s our goal to do an event every month, and we want to switch it up,” she says. “Sometimes a bourbon tasting instead of a wine tasting, cocktails even.”

Prices vary. 812 Race St., Downtown, 513-721-2260, thepresidentsrm.com.

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aving a choice is good, but sometimes it’s nice to be able to put yourself in the hands of a professional and let him or her do their job. In the case of food, this concept turns up in the form of a chef’s tasting menu — generally small portions of several dishes chosen by the chef. Since most restaurants only change their menus quarterly or yearly — and some almost never— it’s a fun way for them to express their creativity in the most artistic way possible, instead of cooking the same thing night after night. And with the role of contemporary chefs moving from behind-the-scenes food-slingers to cultural rock stars, tasting menus are becoming a more popular way for restaurants and pop-ups to showcase a chef’s vision in a paced, controlled and artfully presented multi-course meal.

If you’re planning to visit a restaurant that offers a tasting menu, there are a few things to keep in mind. Typically, everyone in your party is asked to participate so the kitchen can line up the courses appropriately for an optimal dining experience. Also, if you know that substitutions for allergies or dietary preferences will need to be made, tell the restaurant in advance. Finally, do your research and be prepared to spend and dress appropriately. Some of these tasting menus can be both wallet- and belly-busting. Consider, for example, the menu offered at Minibar by chef José Andrés in Washington, D.C., which consists of 25 to 30 courses for $500 per person — without wine, and before tax and tip. Or chef Paco - Sublimotion in Ibiza, Spain; his 20-course menu for two comes with a bill of $3,377. Chef Roncero also offers a three-hour tasting menu for 20, including everything from DIY cocktails, 360-degree projections and neon dining tables to dishes that incorporate experimental techniques. Fortunately, here in Cincinnati, we have some phenomenal and unique options of our own that are sure to keep your bank budget and your trouser seams intact.

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Blue Oven tops toast with homemade and locally sourced jams, honeys and spreads.

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Toast of the Town Blue Oven Bakery adopts the nation’s latest food trend: artisanal toast

BY COLLEEN MCCROSKE Y In 2013, VentureBeat even published an op-ed titled: “$4 Toast: Why the Tech Industry is Ruining San Francisco.”

But it was during a visit to San Francisco that local Blue Oven Bakery’s Mark Frommeyer saw firsthand the success of the elevated breakfast staple and an opportunity to not only capitalize on the trend, but also create a connection between their bakery and their farm, the lesser-known part of the business. Their new Toast Bar, open at Blue Oven’s Findlay Market stand, combines both their bread and their produce.

“It’s a way for us to say that we’re not just a bakery, we’re a farm, and we always have been a farm,” Frommeyer says.

They grow some of the toast-topping ingredients themselves, but what they don’t grow, they source them from other local farms, like jams and honeys from Bee Haven, another Findlay Market staple (which is soon to open a shared brick-and-mortar with another local, Chocolats Latour, in Northside). Toast Bar offers both sweet and savory options, like a cinnamon toast with sweet cream, or a dark rye with whipped goat cheese, microgreens and arugula pesto. Frommeyer also encourages sampling and substituting when it comes to helping you select a loaf to take home — a Chipotle for toast, if you will.

“If you don’t want to commit to buying a full loaf, we’ll get you a slice of toast and smear it with whatever you want,” he says.

But what’s the difference between artisanal toast and perennial Italian favorite bruschetta? What is it that separates Toast Bar toast from, say, Sotto’s goat cheese and hazelnut-honey bruschetta? It depends on who you talk to.

The word “bruschetta” comes from the Italian “bruscare,” meaning to roast over coals, and it traditionally refers to the bread, not the toppings. So all bruschetta is toast but not all toast is bruschetta.

Jill Donenfeld, Cincinnati native and author of Better on Toast, a cookbook with 70 recipes for toast and things to put on it, told The Cincinnati Enquirer that it’s all the same to her — bruschetta or open-faced sandwich. “I don’t draw a line,” she said. “It’s all toast.”

So toast or bruschetta, sweet or savory, what matters most is that this delicious trend is here to stay — and looks great on Instagram.

Blue Oven Bakery’s TOAST BAR is now open at Findlay Market on Saturdays and Sundays. More info: blueovenbakery.com.

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Consider the cronut. Food trends, for the most part, tend to take the form of the exotic and the unusual: a donut-croissant hybrid, goji berries, macarons, Greek yogurt, quinoa (did you know how to pronounce the name of the South American grain before 2012? No, you did not).

But the most versatile, and arguably most popular, of these new trends is something that has been gracing American plates for decades, even centuries: humble toast.

Gluten is now the new gluten-free.

You’ve seen it on your Instagram feed and all over the Buzzfeed listicle-verse. Toast smeared with avocado and gently dusted with red pepper flakes. Toast topped with ricotta and zested lemon. Toast spread with hand-churned peanut butter and chia seeds.

According to foodie website Eater, the concept of artisanal toast was born at San Francisco’s Trouble Coffee and Coconut Club, where it faced immediate derision for its $4-per-slice price tag — an amount for which you could buy an entire loaf of bread — and hipster appeal. It became so popular at The Mill, another Bay Area bakery and early adopter of the trend, that it was eventually serving upward of 400 pieces of toast per day on the weekends.

Can’t Stop Macaron Bar Parisian-inspired OTR bakery expands to five locations

BY BART BISHOP Macaron Bar now offers their colorful French confections at outposts across the Tristate.

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Macaron Bar at 1206 Main St. in Over-the-Rhine has been open for 10 months and is already expanding into its fifth location. Since December 2014, the bakery has staked its claim in the burgeoning cultural and foodie neighborhood. From the start, co-founder Patrick Moloughney, a former brand manager at Procter & Gamble, knew they would expand.

“We approached (Macaron Bar) with a hub-and-spoke business model,” Moloughney says, “with the OTR location as a kitchen that would supply the other locations.” So far, those other locations include a Hyde Park store that opened in June and a Kenwood Towne Centre kiosk that opened last month. Now, they’re branching into the outer suburbs with a new kitchen and store in Loveland, and venturing outside the city to open a Macaron Bar in Louisville, Ky. Macarons have been popular in Europe for hundreds of years but caught on in the United States only in the last decade or so. The little colorful pastel cookies are made with meringue and almond flour and sandwiched with ganache, buttercream or jam; like delicate French Oreos, but available in all the colors and flavors of the rainbow. There are traditional flavors, like raspberry or chocolate, and then more experimental offerings, like matcha green tea and coffee, which can all be found at Macaron Bar. “They are very finicky to make,” Moloughney says.

Temperature and humidity are big factors, and they take about five hours to produce from start to finish; you can watch the entire process go down in the OTR location’s open kitchen. (The gluten-free treats are also a little finicky to

store — at home you store them in the fridge but bring them to room temperature to eat.)

Macaron Bar chef Nathan Sivitz, Moloughney’s business partner and husband, studied pastry with a focus on macarons at The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica, Calif. The duo lived in Los Angeles for a year and caught onto the macaron trend there. “They’re really the new cupcakes,” Moloughney says.

After California, the pair went to Europe, where Sivitz took a macaron master class at Ecole Lenôtre in Paris. Then they decided to bring their big idea back home to Cincinnati.

At any given time, Macaron Bar serves 14 flavors — 12 everyday and two seasonal. The 12 include favorites such as dark chocolate and classics like blackcurrant, a very French flavor. Over the summer, they had a seasonal peach flavor, and at the moment there is, of course, the obligatory pumpkin spice flavor for fall. In November, there are plans to make hazelnut macarons, and they want to bring back a champagne flavor, unveiled around New Year’s last year.

In terms of expansion, the aim is to open the 1,400-squarefoot Loveland store at 732 Middleton Way before Thanksgiving. It will be another supply hub and cater to customers in the Miami Township and Mason areas. “We’re hoping to appeal to those that can’t always make the trip downtown,” Moloughney says.

Their customer base has tended to veer toward females ages 16-35, but step into the OTR shop on a weekday afternoon and you’ll see a wide variety of faces and backgrounds, ranging from young hipsters to cargo-short wearing tourists. “The community really shares our philosophy of

experimentation and trying new things,” Moloughney says.

(They also offer macaron-baking classes for those who literally want to try new things.)

The Louisville location is also set to open in November. It will be housed in the city’s NuLu neighborhood, a colloquial name for the East Market District situated between Market Street downtown and the Highlands to the east. “We have friends and a local connection there,” Moloughney says.

“And Louisville is similar to Cincinnati in sensibility.” The 900-square-foot storefront will have to receive deliveries from the Cincinnati headquarters.

They hope to add a kiosk at one of Louisville’s East End Malls early next year. After that, they’ve also got their eye on Indianapolis, Columbus and Lexington, with hopes of encompassing a three-hour radius with their product.

But back on the homefront, they’re always looking to keep things as local as possible. To accompany the macarons, they also serve local staples such as Deeper Roots Coffee and chocolates from Findlay Market’s Maverick Chocolate Company, along with freshly infused tea.

Part of Macaron Bar’s business model is to donate a portion of its proceeds to local nonprofits, so the more stores they open, the more they donate — 3 to 5 percent of their profits go to Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati, GLSEN Greater Cincinnati and the Freestore Foodbank. Their Louisville nonprofit partners will be determined by January.

For more on MACARON BAR, visit macaron-bar.com.

Foodie Flicks

From the owners of the Esquire, Mariemont and Kenwood theaters comes the city’s first gastropub cinema

BY GARIN PIRNIA

EASTGATE BREW & VIEW is located at 4450 Eastgate Blvd., Eastgate.

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Theatre Management Corp., the people behind the Esquire, Kenwood and Mariemont movie theaters, plans to give new meaning to the phrase “dinner and a movie.� Come November, they’ll launch a new theater concept — Eastgate Brew & View — where patrons will be able to booze it up and eat gourmet food while watching first-run Hollywood films.

Located next door to Jungle Jim’s Eastgate, the theater’s dining menu plans to outdo current culinary-centric theater concessions, serving more than just the nachos, pizza, popcorn and occasional hummus or samosa you’ll find at national chains.

Gary Goldman, who runs Theatre Management Corp., says he got the idea for Eastgate Brew & View from seeing successful theater/gastropub dining experiences in other cities, like Austin, Texas (Alamo Drafthouse), Boca Raton, Fla. (iPic), Columbus (Studio 35) and Chicago (ShowPlace Icon). And after three years of planning, the right real estate opportunity presented itself when the Eastgate Danbarry Dollar Saver Cinema went of business in 2014. Goldman pounced on the chance to purchase the space.

The renovated theater will have eight auditoriums, an outdoor patio, 33,000 square feet of space and a large menu consisting of 35 items (not including the drinks), which will be served before, during and after the movies. “It’s good for couples that want a date night,� Goldman says. “They don’t have to get up and leave to get dinner after a movie, or if they’re thinking of having a dinner before a movie, it’s kind of one-stop shopping.�

Eastgate Brew & View will function similarly to places like the aforementioned Alamo Drafthouse: Patrons will sit in conjoined seats in the theater and order food 30 minutes prior to showtime; they can also order more food and beverages throughout the film, or dine in the lobby or outdoor patio.

Goldman says the menu will feature 30 local and national craft beers on draft, along with wine, boozy milkshakes, craft cocktails and, of course, Esquire’s famed popcorn made with real butter. The star attraction, however, isn’t the snacks. They hired Horseshoe Casino chef Quenten Brogden Sr. — “He’s just like magic,� Goldman says — to develop the wide-ranging menu, consisting of dishes including a seared meatloaf sandwich on Blue Oven bread, a “heart attack� hot dog (a kosher dog wrapped in bacon and deep fried), movie-themed hot wings, salads, wraps, chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits, poutine and a kids’ menu.

Despite the gourmand offerings, Goldman doesn’t plan on pricegauging his customers; an average entrĂŠe will cost $10-$12. “Our goal is to make it affordable,â€? he says. “Our target audience is people who go to movies on a regular basis. We don’t want to make it like an event place where it’s very nice but very expensive.â€?

Right now, the plan is to screen strictly first-run films, but Goldman will see if there’s a demand for special screenings, like the Esquire’s occasional one-off showings of classic and cult films. The theater would also like to collaborate with neighbor Jungle Jim’s on wine and food tastings.

If all goes well, Eastgate Brew & View will have a soft opening on Nov. 6. “A lot of people have to fulfill their promises to make that happen, but we’re trying,� Goldman says. That weekend the new James Bond film, Spectre, opens, as does The Peanuts Movie. Goldman says maybe they’ll have a special drink for the first night: a martini, shaken, not stirred.

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Bees in the ‘Burbs Sleepy Bee Café expands its message of sustainability with a second location in Blue Ash

BY GARIN PIRNIA Gross is also the owner of Oakley’s Brazee Street Studios, and she and Brazee’s creative director, Leah Busch, concentrate on making glass art, like the floral glass chandeliers hanging in both Sleepy Bee locations. Gross and the pediatrician Hutton also own Oakley’s Blue Manatee children’s bookstore. “I have Brazee Street Studios, that’s my baby,” she says. “His baby is Blue Manatee, and together we are very involved in Sleepy Bee.” At 5,000 square feet, the Blue Ash Sleepy Bee is almost twice the size of Oakley’s (but not quite as busy yet), and unlike the flagship location, they serve boozy brunch drinks: mimosas, bloody marys and champagne cocktails.

Akin to practically everything on their menu, the alcoholic drinks have some sort of sustainability component, including the wines. Blue Ash also has specialties exclusive to the location such as a Blue Ash Smash sandwich — scrambled eggs, potatoes, candied bacon, nectar sauce, pesto and pickled onions on sourdough bread — and Sandy’s Style — blueberry pancakes with extra blueberries — because Gross loves them.

Both locations serve a gluten-free pancake called Bee Cake, which tastes better than a regular pancake and is made with almond milk. “People freak out over the

gluten-free pancake,” Gross says. “It’s a very healthy pancake and it’s very low sugar. The flours are all pollinated by bees: quinoa, almond and buckwheat flour.”

One out every third bite of food at the café is pollinated by bees, owners estimate, so sustainability is an important issue for the staff. Chef Kroner focuses on local ingredients like honey and Ohio maple syrup, and she’s met with all of the farmers the restaurant works with (a glass map of the farms from which ingredients are sourced hangs in the dining room).

In September, Time Out New York named Sleepy Bee one of the 17 best breakfast restaurants in America. They landed at lucky number 13, sandwiched between Outerlands in San Francisco and Coastal Kitchen in Seattle.

“That was amazing and wonderful and lovely and very unexpected,” Gross says. Eventually, they’re going to add even more locations, but for now Cincinnatians will have to be content with two Sleepy Bee Cafés to learn about the plight of bees and to eat good food.

The new SLEEPY BEE CAFÉ is located at 9514 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash. More info: sleepybeecafe.com.

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When Oakley breakfast spot Sleepy Bee Café opened at the end of 2013, it proved to be so buzzed about that husband-and-wife owners Dr. John Hutton and Sandra Gross decided to open a second location in Blue Ash this year. They say there were two main reasons for the Blue Ash location, which opened its doors Sept. 1 — demand for a café like theirs in the East Side suburbs, along with an interest in expanding their kitchen space to support Sleepy Bee’s catering operation.

Gross says they had been considering suburban locations for the new restaurant, and one day while she was driving on Cooper Road in Blue Ash on her way to Pipkin’s Market, she stumbled across a building located in the Towne Square shopping area. “We loved that location because you can walk to it, you can bike to it,” Gross says. “To me, it feels much more a part of the neighborhood.

There’s a lot of density around it.”

Gross doesn’t manage the day-to-day operations — she leaves that to a staff that includes chef Frances Kroner — but she does design the interiors of her restaurants. “We like to inhabit buildings and give them a new purpose — buildings that have been there for a while and maybe need to have some new life breathed into them,” she says.

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Where to Eat Now Dining options for every type of craving

Restaurant listings are compiled from CityBeat dining reviews and are edited for space.

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H Arnold’s Bar and Grill Open since 1861, Arnold’s is the oldest continuously running tavern in town, complete with dark wood walls, vintage memorabilia and a big ol’ bathtub in the dining room, rumored to have been used to make gin during Prohibition. A Cincinnati classic, it serves up a nice range of lunch and dinner options — pasta, sandwiches and burgers, plus vegan and gluten-free options — at bargain prices.

Enjoy a local draft in the outdoor beer garden and almost daily live music. Named as one of the best bars in America by Esquire magazine. $7-$18. 210 E. Eighth St., Downtown, 513-421-6234, arnoldsbarandgrill.com.

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Boswell’s The bar has been reopened and renovated, and the new menu contains the same inexpensive items from yesteryear, except now with more vegetarianfriendly dishes. $4-$14. 1686 Blue Rock St., Northside, 513681-8100, boswellalley.com.

City View Tavern Home of the best bloody mary and one of the best views in town, and the burgers are damn tasty, too. Meet Big Ted: six ounces of griddle-cooked, handmade beef patty with American cheese, brown mustard, lettuce, pickles, mayo, onion, ketchup and home-grown tomatoes (when in season). $3-$7. 403 Oregon St., Mount Adams, 513-241-8439, cityviewtavern.com.

Habits Café A classic neighborhood bar and grill. The dinner menu changes a bit with the seasons, but you can always get Potato Rags at Habits.

Hash browns on steroids, Potato Rags are smothered in cheese, bacon, onion, tomato and ranch dressing. There’s a french fry version, too. $5-$14. 3036 Madison Road, Oakley, 513-631-8367, habitscafe.com.

Holy Grail Tavern & Grille With more than 15 high-definition TVs, a plethora of beers on tap and great pub grub, this is a prime sports spot at The Banks.

Munch on classic fare like ballpark pretzels, angus burgers, wings and wraps, with outdoor seating directly across from the Reds stadium. $7-$10. 161 Joe Nuxhall Way, The Banks, 513621-2222, holygrailcincy.com.

H Incline Public House With a 1,400-square-foot deck for soaking in vistas and cocktails, IPH’s name derives from the actual Cincinnati Incline that existed there from the late 1800s to the 1940s.

Their upscale twist on pub food features sandwiches, pizza, epicurean appetizers and a slew of craft cocktails and draft beers; they have a monthly beer series called Meet the Brewer during which beer-ophiles can sample suds from local breweries such as Blank Slate and MadTree. $7-$14. 2601 W. Eighth St., Price Hill, 513-251-3000, inclinepublichouse.com.

Northside Yacht Club The fare might be described as typical bar food with a few creative twists. Most bar food leans toward meat, cheese and fries — your basic high-fat, low-cost, satisfying stuff. The Yacht Club has three sandwiches: short-rib grilled cheese, smoked portabello and smoked pulled pork. All meats are smoked and braised in-house, including smoked chicken wings. For vegetarians, there’s also a large salad and vegan lentil Cincinnati chili over fries. $6-$12. 4227 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, 513-541-0528, facebook.com/northsideyachtclub.

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Keystone Bar & Grill This neighborhood joint offers a variety of tasty comfort food.

Huge plates of pasta, a rockin’ quesadilla menu, build-your-ownburgers (including turkey or veggie options) and weekend brunch.

When a restaurant dedicates an entire menu to its macaroni and cheese varietals, you know they are serious about grub. $7-$15.

Multiple locations including 313 Greenup St., Covington, Ky., 859261-6777, keystonebar.com.

Lachey’s When a celebrity opens a restaurant, customers likely fall into two camps: those who go there

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Serving only local beers on draft, Arthur’s is a relaxed gathering place on Hyde Park Square. The menu includes salads, soups, sandwiches and — their specialty — burgers with deals on “burger madness” days. Includes a late-night menu. $8-$12. 3516 Edwards Road, Hyde Park, 513871-5543, arthurscincinnati.com.

BrewRiver GastroPub Chef Michael Shields, who earned his chops under Emeril Lagasse, opened BrewRiver GastroPub with craft beer and thoughtfully paired New Orleans-leaning cuisine in mind. Try the curried beef short rib poutine or Decatur Street Muffaletta with a rotating list of more than 50 handpicked, locally brewed drafts, bottles and cans. $8-$32. 2062 Riverside Drive, East End, 513-861-2484, brewrivergastropub.com.

Taft’s Ale House Housed in a renovated multi-story 1850s-era church, Taft’s is named after William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States and native Cincinnatian. The 6,000-barrels-per-year brewery and restaurant features meat platters, salads and sandwiches that focus on tri-tip beef — similar to prime rib. The creative beer selection boasts brews made with local goods — everything from locally roasted coffee to artisan chocolate. $7.50-$20. 1429 Race St., Downtown, 513-334-1393, taftsalehouse.com.

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dang tasty barbecue, including mouth-watering beef brisket and a good and sloppy pulledpork sandwich. Mix and match your sauce and meat. $7-$30.

Multiple locations including 10375 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash, 513-257-0362; 7706 Voice of America Centre Drive, West Chester, 513-755-0518; 2760 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, Ky., 859-415-4544; citybbq.com.

H The Eagle OTR The Eagle is nested inside a retired post office and has a relatively small menu, comprised of fried chicken, sandwiches, some snacks and several side dishes. Booze-wise, they serve 100 kinds of beer and have about 15 different brews on tap.

The fried chicken is free-range, antibiotic-free and sourced from Amish farms. You can get a whole chicken for $16, a half chicken for $8 (white and dark meat) or a quarter of a chicken for $5. The kale and artichoke dip is a must. $8-$16. 1342 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-8025007, facebook.com/theeagleotr, theeagleotr.com.

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for the celeb brand, or those who actually enjoy the food, drink and ambiance. For Over-the-Rhine’s sports bar Lachey’s, it works both ways. The real winner here is the extensive drink menu; along with beer, wine and cocktails on tap, there are bottles, cans and a section devoted to both bloody marys and boilermakers. As for food, the menu (designed by celebrity chef Brian Duffy) wavers between fried foods such as tater tots and wings and healthier dishes like a heaping kale salad. Bonus: 90-inch TVs and a running sports ticker flank the bar. $8-$16. 56 E. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine, 513275-0740, lacheys.com.

H Moerlein Lager House Moerlein Lager House celebrates Cincinnati’s brewing tradition in a giant restaurant and brewery with sweeping views of downtown and the riverfront. Offers a large something-for-everyone menu of burgers and pastas, plus fancier dishes like filet mignon and squash wellington.

With 24 beers on tap — house brews and other crafts — plus more than 60 in bottles and cans, there’s a drink for every taste. Tours of the in-house brewery available. $10-$28.

115 Joe Nuxhall Way, The Banks, Downtown. 513-421-2337, moerleinlagerhouse.com.

MOTR Pub MOTR Pub does two things really well: rocks your face off with loud music and sweaty crowds and serves up one hell of a burger.

But fret not veg-heads — you can get a veggie burger or veggie BLT. There’s also the spicy St. Francis Monastery mac and cheese. Try the Migas Tacos with egg, crispy potatoes, cheese and chorizo with a bloody mary during Sunday brunch. Now open for lunch. $5-$9. 1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-6687, motrpub.com.

Tap House Grill A locally owned restaurant and bar featuring 34 beers on tap, focusing on local and regional breweries. They also offer a

build-your-own burger menu. $9-$20. 8740 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, 513-891-TAPS, taphousecincy.com.

H Wurst Bar in the Square Mount Lookout’s Wurst Bar in the Square has tricked-out sausages showcasing local meats from Wassler’s Meat Market, along with vegetarian dogs from Avril-Bleh, and a carefully selected lineup of craft beer and mixed drinks. The Abe Froman Special, a Chicago-style dog with a twist, is a plump all-beef dog topped with relish, peppers, shaved onion, brown mustard, sauerkraut and fries. $5-$9. 3204 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout, 513-321-0615, wurstbarinthesquare.com

BARBECUE AND HOMESTYLE City BBQ This regional chain was named one of the best in America by Men’s Journal. They put out some

Eli’s specialty, the pulled-pork sandwich, is a good intro to his amazing barbecue sauce, and you can move on from there to hickory-smoked ribs, smoked turkey or an all-beef hot dog topped with pulled-pork crispins and coleslaw. Try the mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, baked beans or the jalapeno corn bread.

The East End location is BYOB, so don’t forget your six-pack. $5-$8; cash only. 3313 Riverside Drive, East End, and on the south side of Findlay Market, 1801 Race St, Over-the Rhine. 513-533-1957, elisbarbeque.com.

Green Derby Most diners who visit the Green Derby know exactly what they want before they walk in the door.

The Derby Salad is a favorite, served with hot bacon dressing.

Try the halibut sandwich on rye or one of the Derby’s other plentiful fish entrées. You’ll want to save room for dessert, too. The Green Derby has been around since 1947; it’s easy to see why. $9-$19. 846 York St., Newport, Ky., 859-431-8740, thegreenderby.com.

Greyhound Tavern Famous for its double-deckers, the Greyhound Tavern has been a Fort Mitchell institution since

the 1930s. You won’t want to miss the divine fried chicken, the ginormous onion rings, the Hot Brown or the bread pudding. $10-$29. 2500 Dixie Highway, Fort Mitchell, Ky., 859-331-3767, greyhoundtavern.com.

The Hitching Post “World’s Best Fried Chicken” is this diner’s claim to fame, but you should try their outstanding breakfasts — especially Uncle Bubba’s Ultimate Omelet.

Burgers and Tall Stacks (overstuffed double-decker sandwiches) compete with traditional classics like meatloaf and BLTs. $4-$13. 2715 Madison Road, Hyde Park, 513-871-9201, hydeparkhitchingpost.com.

H Huit Craft BBQ The menu reflects an intriguing mashup of cultures: Flavors from Indonesia, the Americas, China and Southeast Asia are found in Huit’s spicy tribute to the pig, the chicken and the cow. But their barbecue tofu helps keep those pesky vegetarians happy. This energetic dining spot is bringing new life to Court Street, with good hours for residents, including evenings and Saturdays, and their ramen is a big, fat bowl of heaven. $7-$24. 29 E. Court St., Downtown, 513-381-4848, huitfoodbar.com.

H Montgomery Inn World-famous for its ribs, Montgomery Inn has been a staple in Cincinnati for more than 60 years. Along with ribs, the Inn offers barbecued spring chicken, silver salmon, pulled-pork sandwiches, burgers, salads and more, including everyone’s favorite: saratoga chips served with their famous barbecue sauce. $8-$35.

Multiple locations including 9440 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, 513-791-3482; 925 Riverside Drive, Downtown, 513-721-7427; 400 Buttermilk Pike, Fort Mitchell, Ky., 859344-5333; montgomeryinn.com.

Ollie’s Trolley Ollie’s special seasoning spices up everything from grits and eggs at breakfast to a hearty lunch of barbecued turkey tips. Start with the Ollie burger and fries and stay for the ribs with homemade macaroni and cheese and lemon pound cake for dessert. This cooking feeds your soul. $3-$45 (for whole turkeys). 1605 Central Ave., West End, 513-381-6100, facebook.com/olliesburger.

Ron’s Roost Family owned and operated since 1960, Ron’s Roost has the best fried chicken around. If the weather is cooperative, sit on the covered patio and enjoy the hot bacon slaw (a West Side staple), German sauerbraten, mock turtle soup and homemade cream pies. $10-$20. 3853 Race Road, Bridgetown, 513574-0222, ronsroost.net.

Schoolhouse Restaurant With the menu written on an ancient blackboard, you might expect (and maybe want?) a metal lunchbox to come to your table bursting with bologna sandwiches and Twinkies. What you’ll get, and be thrilled by, is delicious classic American fare served family-style. Among your choices: fried chicken, baked cod, meatloaf and roast beef.

The Schoolhouse Restaurant has been in business for more than 50 years. $9-$17. 8031 Glendale-Milford Road, Camp Dennison, 513-831-5753, theschoolhousecincinnati.com.

Silver Spring House Dubbing itself “The Chicken Joint,” Silver Spring House definitely serves up some delicious chicken. Marinated in citrus juices and spices, it’s grilled and succulent. If you’re not in the mood for chicken, you can choose pork ribs, salmon, burgers and a variety of sandwiches.

Vegetarians need not fear — there are options for them, too. $11-$25. 8322 E. Kemper Road, Montgomery, 513-489-7044, thesilverspringhouse.com.

SmoQ The “Q” is for barbecue, the specialty at SmoQ. It’s all done slow and low in a big ’ol smoker.

You’re likely to find your favorite Southern specialty here as well, be it a Kansas City strip, blackened catfish or chicken and waffles: a buttermilk-fried chicken breast served on top of a sweet potato-pecan waffle, with maple butter and syrup. $7.99-$26.99. 275 Pictoria Drive, Springdale, 513-671-7667, smoqbbq.com.

Son of a Preacher Man A funky, cool Southern restaurant with a straightforward menu and a cheerful, upbeat vibe. The fried chicken is marvelous; try the lip-smacking spicy version of the chicken biscuit sandwich.

Drinks at this establishment consist mostly of bourbon shots,

H Pontiac From chef Daniel Wright, who brought us Senate and Abigail Street. With pimento dip served with Ritz crackers, Cheerwine and Red Neck Frito Pie, barbecue palace Pontiac takes low-class grub to a self-aware, higher level. Along with their pulled pork, their smoked brisket, turkey, kielbasa and veg are a beautiful thing. St. Louis ribs available by the slab. $9-$23. 1403 Vine St. Over-the-Rhine, 513-579-8500, pontiacbbq.com.

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which you can sit at a bright red table while enjoying your smoked turkey on salted rye and locally foraged soda. $5-$11. 326 E. Eighth St., Downtown, 513-3456618, cheapsidecafe.com.

Collective CAC A partnership with local craft coffee shop Collective Espresso.

While you eat or drink, you’re surrounded by both local and international artists and their installations. The current menu features all-day breakfast, with sandwiches, salads and snacks available until 2 p.m. daily. But if you have a hankering for a cortado in the evening, the café offers light bites and coffee service until close — which isn’t until 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. $7-$10. Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, 513-345-8400, contemporaryartscenter.org/ visit/caf.

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beer in cans and bottles and a few featured cocktails. $6-$16 3009 O’Bryon St., O’Bryonville, 513-813-3052, eatatpreacherman.com.

Walt’s BBQ The menu is made for meat-lovers and includes many slow-smoked specialties like pulled pork, ribs, roasted chicken, brisket and more. $6-$20. 6040 Colerain Ave., White Oak, 513-923-9800; 6095 River Road, Blue Note Yacht Club, Delhi; 746 NW. Washington Blvd., Hamilton, 513-868-9258, waltsbarbeque.com.

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BISTROS AND CAFÉS Bacalls Café An Art Deco dreamland complete with a custom piece of

Bistro Grace The impressive Bistro Grace offers quality entrées on artsy, square plates. The bar serves local beers on tap, with a couple dozen more by the bottle and a 45-bottle wine list, including 17 available by the glass. Eight “signature cocktails” round out the drinks list. Try the hanger steak or the duck poutine. $12-$20.

4034 Hamilton Ave., Northside, 513-541-9600, bistrograce.com.

Brontë Bistro Brontë, located inside JosephBeth Booksellers in Rookwood, is a cozy, relaxed location to enjoy a book and a great meal.

It has a lot to offer, including

coffee, a full bar, starters, salads, sandwiches, home-cooked entrées and desserts. $6-$15.

2692 Madison Road, Norwood, 513-396-8970, josephbeth. com/bronte.

Café de Paris Feast on lunch and breakfast selections like salade niçoise and croissant foure aux epinards (toasted croissant with spinach and feta). Fresh-baked European breads make the sandwiches very satisfying. Follow lunch with a Parisian espresso. $5-$10.

17 Garfield Place, Downtown, 513-651-1919.

H Cheapside Café Cheapside Café is a breath of fresh air in the Eighth Street Design District. With a menu featuring kale salads, breakfast sandwiches with pimento cheese and modern espresso drinks (like the bubbly chinotto, with housemade tonic, espresso and soda), along with an interior decked out with a white floor, rustic wood seating and live plants, the ambiance feels decidedly West Coast — especially when you glance at the patio. The focal point of Cheapside’s al fresco seating is a large wooden tepee, constructed out of slatted cedar, in

French Crust Café French Crust Café is cozy, seating just 26 people, and serves both breakfast and lunch. Fresh fruit tarts and other pastries are served with coffee throughout the day. The lunch menu includes homemade soups, quiche, casseroles and assorted sandwiches. As is the case with sister restaurant Jean-Robert’s Table, French Crust Café sources ingredients as locally as possible. $5-$14. 915 Vine St., Downtown, 513-621-2013, jrtable.com/ french-crust-cafe.

Gabby’s Café A family-owned restaurant serving American cuisine with Italian flair. Signature pizzas include The Capone with cappicola, salami, pepperoni, sausage, olives, banana peppers, mozzarella,

Half Day Café Seasonal menu items with fresh, locally sourced ingredients make this popular Wyoming mainstay a breakfast and lunch standout.

Try the thick-sliced mango-butter rum French toast, and for lunch, indulge in the carnitas with slow-roasted pulled pork in a rich mole sauce. $3-$11. 1 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming, 513-821-2323, halfdaycafe.org.

Hang Over Easy Aside from being a legit brunch spot, Hang Over Easy is also a nighttime spot with bar hours until 2:30 a.m. — so you can get drunk and cure your hangover all in one place. Try the Pollo Loco Chorizo Skillet, with chicken, chorizo, peppers, onions, home fries, melted queso, eggs and toast in a skillet. $3-$8. 13 W. Charlton St., Corryville, 513-221-5400, hangovereasy.com.

Iris BookCafé A combination of an art gallery, bookshop, coffee shop and wireless café, Iris BookCafé is a locavore’s dream. The sandwich bread is from Shadeau Bread, which is almost directly across the street, meats are from Avril’s on Court Street and ice cream is from Aglamesis. And there are both meat and veggie options on the sandwich menu. $5-$10.

1331 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-2665, irisbookcafe.com.

Kitchen 452 Combinations of sweet and savory lead to seasonal dishes such as a pear salad and a hot ham and Swiss sandwich, with crunchy slices of tart green apples. All sandwiches are made with Shadeau breads, and all salads are dressed with homemade vinaigrettes. $4-$8. 2714 Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills, 513-559-0452, kitchen452.com.

H La Soupe French roadside soup shack La Soupe sells a scrumptious, rotating line of simmering broths, stews, chili and chowders made from fresh produce and local meats. Available for carryout. $7-$16. 4150 Round Bottom Road, Newtown, 513-271-0100, lasoupecincinnati.com.

Mokka Whether it’s their corn flakebattered French toast topped with bananas and crème brulee or their eggy arsenal of inventive frittatas, Mokka makes a mean breakfast. Vegetarians will love the California, veggie and Greek frittatas, while carnivores can tear into the three-meat and Green Goat (spinach, chicken and goat cheese) varieties.

Lunch and dinner options include burgers and hearty grinder sandwiches. $5-$9. 500 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-581-3700, mokkasunset.com.

Om Eco Café Om Café features fresh, local and organic coffee, tea, soups, salads and sandwiches. Coffee is shade-grown, the apothecary bar features more than 100 herbs to add to cocktails and tea and they even have homemade biscuits for dogs. Lots of veggiefriendly options here. $5-$11.

329 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513381-3436, aquariusstar.com.

Quarter Bistro A romantic bistro offering seasonal cuisine and sophisticated ambiance. The 18-hour short ribs are to die for and the Q’s pizzas are nothing short of divine. There’s a lovely wine list at Quarter Bistro, and outdoor dining in the historic Mariemont town square is wonderfully charming. $10-$37. 6904 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, 513271-5400, quarter-bistro.com.

Ruth’s Parkside Café Located in a factory bay at the American Can Building, Ruth’s offers diners a mix of comforting, well-known classics from the owners’ former restaurant Mullane’s, such as the spinach sauté and red beans and rice, as well as new dishes. Everything is from scratch, and there is plenty for vegetarians and carnivores alike. $4-$15. 1550 Blue Rock St., American Can Building, Northside, 513-542-RUTH, ruthscafe.com.

Sleepy Bee Café A family-friendly breakfast and lunch spot. Much of Sleepy Bee’s food is sourced locally from farms with bee-friendly practices, including Holistic Acres eggs; Marksbury Farms’ humane, pasture-raised meats; and potatoes, sprouts and microgreens from nearby growers. Expect a healthy wait on weekends. $6-$12.

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Walt’s Hitching Post is a kick-back, casual place where everybody knows your name. Open in some iteration since the 1950s, the new owners have lightly tweaked classic menu items, adding fried green tomatoes to the chicken livers and increasing the steak quality. $12-$30. 3300 Madison Pike, Fort Wright, Ky., 859-3602222, waltshitchingpost.com.

frosted glass depicting Union Terminal and a phone booth tucked in the corner. Classy, but Bacalls still has TVs on which you can watch the game. The menu has something for everyone including soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, burgers, pasta and other entrées.

Serving meals and booze to locals and visitors in College Hill for more than 26 years, they must be doing something right. $9.95-$14.50. 6118 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, 513-541-8804, bacallscafe.com.

Located in the heart of historic Mariemont, Dilly bistro and bottle shop serves lunch and dinner daily, with entrées like Ohioraised strip steak, fresh Atlantic salmon and housemade pasta.

Paying tribute to their origins as a deli, you’ll also find satisfying sandwiches, housemade soups and their famous beer cheese.

Eat or sip a glass of beer or wine on their giant two-level Englishcourtyard-style patio. Guests can also choose a bottle of wine from their in-house bottle shop for retail price plus a small $5 corkage fee. $7-$25. 6818 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, 513-561-5233, dillycafe.com.

provolone and parmesan.

Specialties include eggplant parmesan, Greek vegetable pasta and gluten-free zucchini linguine. $8-$17. 515 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming, 513-821-6040, gabbyswyoming.com.

513-533-2339; 9514 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash, 513-241-2339, sleepybeecafe.com.

York Street Café Built in the 1880s, the building holds a beautifully decorated eclectic café, a lounge with live music and an art gallery, along with a terribly romantic garden patio. Order a Conversation Board, with samplings of different appetizers, and let the words flow. The grilled salmon might just bring you to tears. $12-$25.

738 York St., Newport, Ky., 859261-9675, yorkstonline.com.

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Mr. Gene’s menu — for both the weenies-on-wheels food truck and brick-and-mortar location — features hot dogs, metts and Italian sausages with traditional sides of fries and onion rings. A portion of Mr. Gene’s profi ts are donated to charities, so pig out! Find Mr. Gene’s on

Twitter (@MrGenesDoghouse) for truck location updates. $2-$10. 3703 Beekman St., Northside, 513-541-7636, mrgenesdoghouse.com.

Gordo’s Pub & Grill What’s not to love about a pub with more than 100 microbrews and incredible gourmet burgers?

Their two standbys are the Jean Robert, with grape compote and goat and blue cheeses and the Gordo’s burger, topped with Boursin cheese, poblano peppers, onions and smoked bacon. A Xavier hangout. $10-$12. 4328 Montgomery Road, Norwood, 513-351-1999, gordospub.com.

Mad Mike’s Burgers and Fries Choose from their creative signature offerings like the Rockefeller, with blue cheese, cranberry chutney, beer battered onions, cilantro mayo and lettuce, or the Goliath, which featuers two grilled cheese sandwiches for buns. $3.29-$7.99. Multiple locations including 6420 Dixie

Highway, Florence, Ky., 859-6476444, madmikesburgers.com.

Meatball Kitchen Start out with a type of meatball — beef, turkey, spicy pork or gluten-free vegetarian — and decide if you want it on a sandwich, pasta or salad. Select a sauce (meat, tomato or béchamel) and add some sides. Sides include onion-and-garlic bread pudding, smoky coleslaw, Sriracha sweet-potato mash, spicy kale, seasonal roasted veggies or a side salad. $3-$7. 2912 Vine St., Corryville, 513-407-7405, meatballkitchenusa.com.

Paula’s Café The best lunchtime burgers in the city for 21 years. Order your burger with balsamic-laced onions and Swiss on a grilled Shadeau Bread wheat bun. The chicken salad, BLT and carrot cake all deserve their crowdpleaser statuses. $4-$8. 41 E. Fourth St., Downtown, 513-3813354, paulascafe.com.

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Salem Gardens Open since 1926, Salem Gardens is a friendly neighborhood hangout that specializes in fresh, homemade meals, including burgers, like the All American, topped with lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion and American cheese. They also boast a large patio, nice draft selection and weekly specials. $8-$10. 6396 Salem Road, Anderson, 513-2319666, salemgardens.org.

★ Senate Senate’s mission is to present upscale street food, and they do a terrific job of it. The menu plays heavily on hot dogs, from gourmet Chicago dogs to more interesting dog-of-the-days and quirkily named dogs like Hello Kitty 2.0, a beef hot dog with wasabi mayo, ponzu-wasabi slaw, bacon, wasabi peas and sesame seeds. The truffle fries are a must-have, as are the cocktails.

The Senate Cookbook is available now. $9-$25. 1212 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-421-2020,

senatepub.com.

Silver Ladle Silver Ladle is a “fast casual” restaurant that serves a variety of hearty sandwiches, a dozen soups, fresh salads, gluten-free options and its own twist on Cincinnati-style chili and coneys.

Burger fans will be happy to see a stout lineup of five “stuffed” burgers, and the five sandwich offerings are far from skimpy. $5.99-$8.29. 580 Building, Between Walnut and Main streets, Downtown, 513-8347650, silverladle.com.

★ Terry’s Turf Club There’s no other character on the Cincinnati dining scene quite like Terry, and his little juke-joint is now a legend. The short but sweet menu centers on burgers — big, beautiful hamburgers including a tender-as-butter filet mignon burger with béarnaise.

Other sandwiches start with grilled chicken or portabellos and shiitakes. Take the basics and add one of the formidable

sauce options for a customized burger experience. $6.50-$26.

4618 Eastern Ave., East End, 513-533-4222.

★ Zip’s Café Zip’s has been doing burgers right since 1926, and generations of East Side Cincinnatians call Zipburgers their favorite. The meat arrives fresh daily from locals Avril-Bleh & Sons and the lightly toasted honey-egg buns are from Klosterman, also local.

For those who need more than just a burger and fries, Zip’s offers the Train Wreck — a burger, split mettwurst and shaved ham.

Now offers bacon. $4-$8. 1036 Delta Ave., Mount Lookout, 513871-9876, zipscafe.com.

Zola Pub & Grill Nine different burgers and nine flavorful wing sauces lend to a variety of options at Zola.

A full bar in combination with live music Tuesday-Saturday and a great location make this a happenin’ place to be. $5$12. 626 Main St., Covington,

Ky., 859-261-7510, zolapubandgrill.com.

CASUAL AND NEW AMERICAN 20 Brix Cutting-edge cuisine with more than 100 wines. $10-$36. 101 Main St., Milford, 513-831-BRIX, 20brix.com.

Bouquet Restaurant & Wine Bar Working closely with local sources, Bouquet’s farm-totable approach means a fresh, frequently rotating menu packed with seasonal ingredients.

Elegant small plates, entrées and thoughtful wine pairings set the stage for an intimate dining experience. $5-$30. 519 Main St., Covington, Ky., 859-4917777, bouquetrestaurant.com.

Buz Features full table service, a bountiful wine selection and an environmentally friendly menu in

an elegant, exposed-brick dining room. Pick from a whimsical list of “Bar Doeuvres,” including the addictive cheese donuts: beignets with crab and Gruyère dipped in a side of curried remoulade. $4-$25. 3543 Columbia Parkway, Columbia Tusculum, 513-533-2899, buzatgd.net.

Cooper’s Hawk A wide-ranging menu accompanies the winery’s housemade wine. $7-$35. 8080 Montgomery Road, Kenwood, 513-488-1110, coopershawkwinery.com.

Grandview Tavern & Grille Great cheeseburgers (a grilled Angus half-pounder) and sweet-potato fries. The braised short rib and the oven-roasted sea bass shouldn’t be missed. $9-$38. 2220 Grandview Drive, Fort Mitchell, Ky., 859-341-8439, grandviewtaverngrille.com.

★ Krueger’s Tavern The menu is broken up into snacks, sandwiches, sausages, “greens” and sides. The

Main Bite

Marty’s Hops & Vines

Main Bite creates delicious, seasonal fare with crafty culinary cocktails to go with each bite. All of the sauces and dressings are made in-house. This isn’t a tapasstyle restaurant, but the portion sizes are shaved down, so one dish won’t stuff you. Their cocktails feature fruits and vegetables, muddled or pureed accordingly. $7.95-$13.95. 522 Main St., Covington, Ky., 859-261-2483, mainbiterestaurant.com.

This College Hill wine and beer emporium offers weekly wine tastings with six healthy pours accompanied by cubed cheese and crackers. Half the shop is retail, selling bottle craft beers and local and international wines, and the other half is a bar and restaurant.

Their newly expanded menu consists of salads, baked subs and an individual build-your-own pizza. $7-$10. 6110 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, 513-681-4222, martys-hopsandvines.com.

★ La Poste

Maribelle’s Eat + Drink

Located in a former post office, the seasonal menu items and sommelier wine selections are delivered with a smile. La Poste’s prosciutto salad includes pistachio relish, Stilton blue cheese, blackberry vinaigrette — and, yes, fresh spinach — and it all comes neatly enveloped in a dainty slice of the sweet and savory Italian ham. Be sure to ask for a wine pairing suggestion. $10-$28.

3410 Telford St., Clifton, 513281-3663, laposteeatery.com.

With a homey feeling, diners can see — and actually eat — inside the kitchen. Some favorites include roasted turkey on a pretzel bun with Brie and Brussels sprouts with capers, a sunnyside up egg and toasted walnuts.

Saturday and Sunday brunch specials include cornmeal pancakes and a sunny-side egg sandwich with truffle aioli and Gruyère. $9-$14. 3235 Madison Road, Oakley, 513-321-9111, maribellestavern.com.

The Mercer OTR The Mercer OTR fills the niche for those diners looking for easy parking, a sense of space, delicious flavor and gracious service in OTR. The scallops starter, which, though plural, is indeed just two scallops, is amazing.

The menu is wide, but the chef excels in seafood and mushrooms in combination, like in the branzino: two crisp filets perched on fregola sarda and maitake mushrooms. $8-$29. 1324 Vine

St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-4215111, themercerotr.com.

Metropole at 21c Museum Hotel With a menu focused on dishes cooked in a custom-built wood-burning fireplace, the restaurant is a showcase for the area’s sustainable farmers and producers, and the menu features an ever-changing list of hearth-roasted meats, fish and vegetables, grains and housemade charcuterie. Offers breakfast, lunch, dinner and bar bites. $8-$32. 609 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-578-6660, metropoleonwalnut.com.

Nectar Cincinnati native chef Julie Francis finely crafts a small menu filled with locally sourced, organic ingredients. Sunday brunch is also available, featuring pastured eggs, local honey and freshbaked breads. $7-$25. 1000 Delta Ave., Mount Lookout, 513929-0525, dineatnectar.com.

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Lincolnshire sausage is bursting with herby flavor, served over colcannon — a tart, creamy take on mashed potatoes. Their sandwich section is equally appealing — it features a Cuban, Krueger’s take on the sloppy joe, an eggplant parm sandwich and an awesome, crunchy housemade veggie burger. Try their beer cocktails — beer with booze! $5-$10. 1211 Vine St., Over-theRhine, 513-834-8670, facebook. com/kruegerstavern.

H Otto’s The pinotage wine is glorious.

Try the balsamic tofu for dinner with caramelized kale and honey-curry cream sauce. For brunch, Benedict Otto’s substitutes fried crispy flatbread and smoked salmon for the English muffin and ham of a traditional eggs Benedict. It’s delicious, a bit rich and a true indulgence. $7-$31. 521 Main St., Covington, Ky., 859-491-6678, ottosonmain.com.

H Packhouse Meats Waiters and waitresses get paid either $10 per hour or 20 percent of their food sales — whichever is higher — so there’s no tipping at Packouse, which serves up meatballs in a variety of formats. Pick a packed meat (quinoa, turkey, fried chicken, etc.), then a gravy and stick them in a bowl, on a sandwich or in a salad. $7.50-$9.50. Packhouse Meats, 1004 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-415-2312, packhousemeats.com.

H The Presidents Room The Presidents Room restaurant inside The Phoenix has a traditional feel, but with some whimsical touches that welcome a younger crowd. The snacks section had some good bar nibbles — spiced pistachios, smoked olives, bruschetta-of-the-day and deviled eggs. The black cod is excellent, as is the strip loin steak. $9-$36. 812 Race St., Downtown, 513-721-2260, thepresidentsrm.com.

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Red Feather Kitchen Red Feather serves up fromscratch housemade dishes using the best possible ingredients.

Described as New American, chef Brad Bernstein says the partners wanted to create a chefdriven restaurant reflecting the diversity of the global influences they each picked up as they honed their craft. Red Feather is an unpretentious, approachable, neighborhood spot that serves “fun food that people enjoy.” $7-$23. 3200 Madison Road, Oakley, 513-407-3631, redfeatherkitchen.com.

Red Roost Tavern The Hyatt Regency’s farm-totable Red Roost Tavern joins topnotch hotel eateries downtown.

Red Roost’s philosophy is: “Food.

Thoughtfully Sourced. Carefully Served.” They emphasize harvesting produce within a 100-mile radius of the restaurant.

$12-$34. 151 W. Fifth St., Downtown, 513-579-1234, cincinnati.hyatt.com.

The Rookwood Rookwood tile and pottery is a large part of Cincinnati’s heritage, and the restaurant that inhabits the former pottery building is putting its stamp on Cincinnati as well. Great food and well-crafted cocktails are their specialties, served in the main dining room, the loft or inside one of the pottery’s old kilns. The menu has some unique Cincinnati dishes: Hanky Pankys on the small plates list, french fries with Grippo’s seasoning and a crazy-good pork belly sandwich. The young staff has a lot of creativity and skill. $6-$28. 1077 Celestial St., Mount Adams, 513-421-5555, therookwood.com.

H Salazar The eponymous restaurant from chef Jose Salazar mixes old and new to create an approachable yet refined farm-inspired menu.

Salazar offers creative dishes including cured and potted items, like chicken liver mousse, and housemade rillettes, terrines and charcuterie. There are also comfortable choices like burgers, fish and pasta. The in-house pastry chef makes delectable sweets and the wide-ranging drink menu features thoughtful craft beers, cocktails and wines. $9-$31. 1401 Republic St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-621-7000, salazarcincinnati.com.

The Summit Class is in session! Yes, this restaurant is inside a school.

Culinary and hospitality students at the Midwest Culinary Institute at Cincinnati State are handpicked to staff the kitchen and dining room in this teaching restaurant. Top-notch food at reasonable prices paired with an extensive wine list make this a restaurant for the city to be proud of. $10-$28. 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, 513-569-4980, facebook.com/thesummit.mci.

Teller’s of Hyde Park Located in the historic Hyde Park Savings and Loan building, Teller’s offers unique ambiance, 30 beers on tap, a plethora of wine and a comprehensive menu with pastas, pizzas, salads, steak and more. They also offer a back patio and the option to eat inside of a bank vault. $7-$36. 2710 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-3214721, tellersofhydepark.com.

Trio Trio offers something-foreveryone American-style menu items with an upscale twist.

Choose from many great salads, sandwiches, gourmet pizzas and seafood and pair your meal with a nice glass of wine from the extensive wine list. The filet mignon, the Trio Meatloaf and the soy-glazed seabass are customer favorites. $11-$35.

7565 Kenwood Road, Kenwood, 513-984-1905, triobistro.com.

H Trailhead Coffee Newport, Ky.’s Reser Bicycle doesn’t just sell bikes — they also sell really good coffee at their coffee outpost Trailhead. It’s currently the only place in town where you can get a whole bag or a cup of Portland-originated Stumptown Coffee, which is like the gold of coffees. Using rotating roasts and Brown Bear Bakery’s salty caramel syrup, they make a great somewhat-sweet drink called The Grizzly (try it). The best part of the shop? Their baristas are knowledgeable and not intimidating like those at some craft coffee joints. Prices vary. 648 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-261-6187, reserbicycle.com/pages/trailheadcoffee.

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Virgil’s Café Specializes in from-scratch cooking, utilizing its own garden, with a little Creole flair. Menus change frequently with rotating daily features, but some highlights include starters like fried bologna sandwiches and entrées like burgers, Andouille carbonara with housemade Andouille and Vietnamese smoked pork. $10-$25.

710 Fairfield Ave., Bellevue, Ky., 859-491-3287, virgilscafe.com.

Walhill Farm By using what is readily available from the 250-acre farm itself and local farms nearby, the restaurant provides guests with higher-quality products at a lower price point.

Walhill Farm raises Black Angus cattle, Berkshire pigs, chickens and other animals sustainably, free from antibiotics and fed with crops from the farm’s acres of pasture. They even have a butcher shop on the premises, where they prepare most of their cuts. $7-$25. 857 Six Pine Rach Road, Batesville, Ind., 812-9342600, walhillfarm.com.

H Wildflower Café With local farm-raised, grass-fed beef and an extensive wine list that features products from Cincinnati-area vineyards, Wildflower is dedicated to producing the freshest and best-quality food at an honest price. Foods are local, sustainable and seasonable to offer peak freshness. $9-$24. 207 E. Main St., Mason, 513-492-7514, wildflowergourmetcafe.com.

Wise Owl Expect thoughtful and consistently excellent wine recommendations in an inviting atmosphere at this wine bar and tapas restaurant. The menu includes small plates, like a charcuterie board and bruschetta, plus more filling options like a variety of sliders (braised short rib or beef tenderloin) and some light seafood

dishes. Wine available by the glass and bottle. $9-$17. 6206 Mulhauser Road, West Chester, 513-860-9463, wiseowlwinebar. com.

of Hyde Park square. Prices vary.

2734 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513321-2525, awakeningscoffeeandwine.com.

H Zula

Coffee house and café with dollar-off drinks during happy hour 5-9 p.m. Monday-Friday and $5 mimosas and bloody marys all weekend long. Prices vary. 1101 Saint Gregory St., Mount Adams, 513-621-CAFÉ, bowtiecafe.com.

You could dine every night for a week and sample a new pot of mussels from a different locale around the world each time.

Preparations include classic French, Mediterranean, Thai and New Orleans, among others. But don’t get stuck on the mussels: You’ll miss out on a half-dozen flatbreads and great appetizers like eggplant fries dusted with confectioner’s sugar and a spicy-sour dipping sauce. $6-$17.

1400 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-744-9852, zulabistro.com.

COFFEEHOUSES Awakenings Coffee and more than 500 bottles of boutique wine, plus food and artwork, in the middle

Bow Tie Café

BLOC Coffee Company BLOC earns its reputation for serving some of the best cups of joe in the city. All dairy comes from Snowville Creamery, giving that frothy latte an extra touch of wholesomeness. $1-$4. 3101 Price Ave., Price Hill, 513-4294548, bloccoffeecompany.com.

H Carabello Coffee Husband-and-wife owners Justin and Emily Carabello roast and sell their coffee on the premises, but they’re also entrenched in local and international philanthropy,

giving much of their profits to Third World coffee regions in Nicaragua and Kenya. Also carries frozen ice pops called Bello’s Bike Pops. Prices vary. 107 E. Ninth St., Newport, Ky., 859-4151587, carabellocoffee.com.

Coffee Please Local coffee roaster in Madeira’s town square, offering pastries, sandwiches, salads and soups. $5-$10. 6930 Miami Ave., Madeira, 513-271-4700.

HCoffee Emporium A Queen City staple with multiple locations, Coffee Emporium has been serving up artisanal roasted beans for decades (they’re the city’s oldest coffee house) and offers up some of the best breakfast pastries in Cincinnati. A hip, laid-back atmosphere makes it feel like you’re at a book club meeting with 20 of your friends. Prices vary.

Multiple locations including 110 E. Central Parkway, Downtown, coffee-emporium.com.

Collective Espresso Big-city-style espresso and coffee bar. Offers cool blends like cortados and espresso lemonade. $3-$7. 207 Woodward St., Over-the-Rhine; 4037 Hamilton Ave., Northside collectiveespresso.com.

College Hill Coffee Company Full espresso and coffee bar with a hearty café menu and gift shop.

Free music and Wi-Fi. Prices vary.

6128 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, 513-542-2739, collegehillcoffeeco.com.

Fuel Coffee

neighborhood of Newport has become a full-fledged café and wine bar (with an awesome patio). Newberry Bros. Coffee roasts small batches of beans sourced from family farms in Sumatra, Peru and Guatemala.

And if that’s not enough to get you in the door, their fromscratch daily pastries, deli sandwiches, more than 60 wines by-the-glass and 500 different bourbons and whiskies should be. Prices vary. 530 Washington Ave., Newport, Ky., 859-2619463, newberrybroscoffee.com.

Reality Tuesday Café

Coffee shop, breakfast, brunch and lunch. $5-$10. 2726 Riverside Drive, East End, facebook.com/fuelcoffeecincy.

Coffeehouse and bakery. Prices vary. 1518 Dixie Highway, Park Hills, Ky., 859-261-4939, facebook.com/realitytuesdaycafe.

HD Beans and Brews Café

Redtree Art Gallery and Coffee Shop

A coffee shop, bar, café and sports haven in one. Fair-trade coffee, more than 100 local and national microbrews and wines.

Prices vary. 6721 Montgomery Road, Silverton, 513-793-6036, hdbeans.com.

Highland Coffee House Not your traditional coffeehouse — Highland doesn’t open shop ’til 5 p.m., and alongside a bunch of coffee drinks and a full bar, there are delights like boozy milkshakes, iced Thai coffee and fresh cookies. Prices vary.

2839 Highland Ave., Corryville, 513-861-4151, facebook.com/ officialhighlandcoffeehouse.

Kitty’s Coffee Hot or iced coffee, tea and sandwiches. $2-$8. 119 E. Court St., Downtown, 513-632-9580.

Left Bank Coffeehouse

Lookout Joe Small but mighty, Lookout Joe in the heart of downtown can roast with the best of them. Serves fair-trade beans from around the world as well as a great selection of pastries, bagels, and smoothies. Also in Mount Lookout.

Prices vary. Multiple locations including 15 W. Seventh St., Downtown, 513-241-0281.

H Newberry Bros. Coffee What started as a fair-trade organic coffee roaster and coffee shop in the Mansion Hill

Roebling Point Books & Coffee Local independent bookstore with interior coffee shop. $2-$5.

306 Greenup St., Covington, Ky., roeblingpointbooks.com.

Rohs Street Café This not-for-profit coffeehouse close to the University of Cincinnati fully embraces ethical sourcing by offering only fair-trade coffees and teas. Choose from a selection of locally roasted La Terza coffees to sip with a fresh pastry. $1.20-$4.45. 245 W. McMillan St., Clifton, 513-381-7647, rohsstreetcafe.com.

Sidewinder Coffee & Tea The café offers locally roasted fair-trade and organic coffees, espresso drinks, spirits, blended and loose-leaf teas. Tasty sweet and savory treats abound, including a veggie sandwich with roasted red peppers, cucumbers, spinach, hummus and provolone. $1.50-$7.25. 4181 Hamilton Ave., Northside, 513-542-8321, sidewindercoffee.com.

Sitwell’s Maybe you enjoy the smell of coffee, but would rather have a beer or mixed drink in your hand. This Clifton coffee shop offers a fine line of artisan coffee, local and imported beer, a full bar with signature cocktails and even fancy milkshakes. Food choices include salads, breakfast, sandwiches

Velocity Bike & Bean Full-service bike shop that serves coffee. $2-$5. 7560 Burlington Pike, Florence, Ky., 859-371-8356, velocitybb.com.

Dutch’s Larder Local legend Dutch’s established itself as a wine and bottling shop and open-air pony keg in 1947 and has expanded into a deli/grocery. Not only do they have an enormous selection of wine and craft beer, they also have an upscale larder with an impressive selection of artisan charcuterie, gourmet cheeses, sandwiches, sausages and pantry staples. Prices vary. 3378 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-871-1446, dutchscincinnati.com.

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DELIS, SANDWICHES AND TAKEAWAY Avril-Bleh & Sons A historic Cincinnati butcher and meat market with attached deli and takeout. Prices vary. 33 E. Court St., Downtown, 513-2412433, avril-blehmeats.com.

Fred & Gari’s Fresh meats roasted daily draw a crowd during downtown lunch breaks — along with the charm and hospitality of the staff. No packaged deli meats here: The chicken breasts are oven-baked and artfully sliced by hand, and the ham is just like mama made.

There are also soft chocolate chip cookies and freshly baked pies. $3-$20. 629 Vine St., Downtown, 513-784-9000.

H Fond Lunch and Deli An organically inspired lunch stop that does locally sourced deli and ready-made meals. $7-$14. 10764 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, facebook. com/fondorganiclunchanddeli.

H Fresh Table at Findlay Market Meredith Trombly, Louis Snowden and their staff do all the hard parts — finding the best locally sourced ingredients and cooking 40-50 delicious and beautifully presented dishes every day. Baby-back ribs and grilled wild-caught salmon highlight the main courses at this constantly evolving eatery. Try the eggless egg salad. $5-$12.

1801 Race St., Findlay Market, Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-3774, freshtable.biz.

H Gilpin’s Steamed Grub If you really need a steamed sandwich — like their My Cousin Vinny, with pepperoni, ham, bacon, banana peppers, jalapeno, cheese and barbecue chips on a pretzel bun — a steamed burger or a really creative vegetarian snack (with a lot of cheese, cream cheese and avocado) at like 11 p.m. on a Sunday, they’ve got you covered. Alternately, if it’s 2

a.m. Thursday-Saturday, you can get the Doritos sandwich off the drunk menu, with turkey, cheese, lettuce, honey mustard, dressing and Doritos — nacho cheese or Cool Ranch. Prices vary.

2504 W. Clifton Ave., Clifton; 37 E. Seventh St., Downtown, eatgilpins.com.

Gramma Debbie’s Kitchen Old-fashioned comfort food, cooked and ready for you to take home. $5-$12. 1801 Race St., Findlay Market, Over-theRhine, 513-421-4726, facebook. com/grammadebbiesatfindlaymarket.

The Gruff The Gruff is a gourmet market/ deli, a bar and a pizzeria/restaurant all working in tandem.

The restaurant does brick-oven pizzas and hot sandwiches, with Graeter’s ice cream and Covington’s Piebird pies and milkshakes for dessert. You can even order food and beer through the drive-thru.

Prices vary. 129 E. Second St, Covington, Ky. 859-581-0040, atthegruff.com.

H Happy Belly on Vine Healthy clean-eating spot on Vine Street for breakfast and lunch. Offers smoothies and takeaway, like their basilhummus wrap or a sweet potato burger. $5-$8. 1344 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-873-8619, facebook.com/happybellyonvine.

Izzy’s A Cincinnati tradition, Izzy’s serves a reuben we can all be proud of. Other sandwiches such as the Reuben-ator and the Izzy’s Mex showcase their delicious corned beef. $5-$10. Multiple locations including 800 Elm St., Downtown, 513-721-4241; 610 Main St., Downtown, 513-2416246, izzys.com.

H New York New York Deli If you want a taste of the Big Apple, travel no further than to Mount Washington, specifically to the family-owned New York NY Deli on Beechmont Avenue. The menu features delicious 6- or 12-inch subs made with New York-style recipes, and each sub features a Big Apple name, such as the Midtown Club, the Empire

State or the Bronx Bomber.

Prices vary. 2210 Beechmont Ave., Mount Washington, 513233-3354, nynydeli.com.

H Picnic and Pantry An offshoot of Northside favorite Melt, Picnic and Pantry offers an abundance of locally grown whole foods and gourmet takehome salads and sandwiches.

Picnic-perfect. A knowledgeable staff of chefs develops the menu and supplies more than enough produce, dairy and meat to make that special dinner without a trip to the megastore. $5-$12. 1400 Republic St., picnicandpantry. com, 513-381-6325.

Rascal’s NY Deli What are the signs of modern civilization? Indoor plumbing, a literate population and a good deli, right? Rascal’s is that deli — the real deal. They serve the best pastrami that’ll ever pass your lips. Rascal’s has soul food for your Yiddish heart: chopped liver, blintzes, knishes and kugel. $3-$15. 9525 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash. 513-429-4567, rascalsdeli.com.

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Serves Deeper Roots coffee as well as snacks and pastries from local purveyors including Savor Catering, Shadeau Bread, Grateful Grahams and more. $2-$7. 701 Greenup St., Covington, Ky., 859-431-4655, leftbankcoffeehouse.com.

Fair-trade and organic coffee within a gallery setting. Prices vary. 3210 Madison Road, Oakley, 513-321-8733, redtreegallery.net.

and options for vegetarians and kids. $4-$9. 324 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513-281-7487, sitwellscoffeehouse.com.

Revolution Rotisserie Revolution specializes in hormone-free, preservativefree roasted Amish chicken on a number of pita sandwiches named after revolutionaries — Marie Curie, Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, etc. — as well as in chicken-centric house specialties, indulgent appetizers, fresh salads and traditional sides made with a twist. There is also a full drink menu with draft and bottled beer, wine and house punch. $8-$13. 1106 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-0009, revolutionrotisserie.com.

Son & Soil Stephen Williams, chef and owner of Covington’s Bouquet Restaurant and Wine Bar, and wife Jessica’s quick, convenientyet-healthy fast-casual carryout serves coffee, freshly pressed juices, smoothies, sandwiches on Sixteen Bricks bread and salads. Ingredients are sourced from local farmers. $5-$10.

627 Main St., Covington, Ky.,

859-360-6268, facebook.com/ sonandsoil.

★ Sprout Sprout, a market and eatery, spoils you with local, fresh ingredients. Everything is delicious, especially the housemade pasta: tendrils of fettuccini marinated in tomato confit, fresh basil and melted Parmesan-Reggiano wrapped around forks. The menu also features salads, sandwiches, fresh seasfood and homemade ice cream. $5-$18. 941 Pavilion St., Mount Adams, 513-7216977, sproutmtadams.com.

★ Tom+Chee A gourmet grilled cheese and tomato soup shop with a famous grilled-cheese donut. Featured on Shark Tank. Prices vary. 420 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-7212433; Newport on the Levee, Newport, Ky., 859-291-2433, tomandchee.com.

★ Total Juice Plus Total Juice Plus has been serving natural fruit smoothies,

wraps and fresh squeezed juices to the weekday downtown population for over a decade.

They use all-natural flash-frozen fruit, extol the benefi ts of fresh juice and make excellent wraps with a Mediterranean lean. $5.95-$9.50. 631 Vine St., Downtown, 513-784-1666, totaljuicecincy.com.

The ‘Wich on Sycamore Quality made-to-order sandwiches with roasted meats. $5-$10. 425 Sycamore St., Downtown, 513-421-9424, thewichonsycamore.com.

DINERS AND CHILI PARLORS Anchor Grill Taking its blazing neon “We May Doze, But Never Close” sign to heart, the Anchor Grill stays open 24/7, offering round-theclock breakfast fare along with lunch and dinner comfort-food classics. The diner ambiance is

unmatched, from the sassy-yetpersonable waitresses to the vintage ’50s animatronic miniature band moving in sync with jukebox selections. $4-$12. 438 Pike St., Covington, Ky., 859-431-9498.

Blue Ash Chili This family-owned chili parlor, established in 1969, not only offers traditional Cincinnati-style chili with coneys and three-, fourand five-ways, but also a menu loaded with sandwiches, burgers, salads and sides. Featured on Food Network’s Diners, DriveIns and Dives. $3-$8. 9565 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash, 513984-6107, blueashchili.com.

★ Camp Washington Chili A great place for breakfast, lunch or dinner, Camp Washington Chili features greasy-spoon breakfast offerings, double-decker sandwiches, Cincinnati-style chili, coneys and even a few salads. $5-$8. 3005 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington, 513-5410061, campwashingtonchili.com.

Dixie Chili Founded in 1929 by “Papa Nick,” Dixie Chili has classic, secret-ingredient Cincinnatistyle chili with cheese and onions on spaghetti. $1.50-$7.

Multiple locations including 733 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-291-5337; 2421 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., 859-4317444, dixiechili.com.

The Echo Customer favorites include the Echo Grill (baked ham, Swiss cheese, lettuce and tomato served with tartar sauce), the open-faced turkey sandwich, the Reuben and the Hot Mess (layers of home fries, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, gravy and cheese). The Echo has weekly specials and always serves up homemade pie. $6-$10. 3510 Edwards Road, Hyde Park, 513321-2816, echo-hydepark.com.

Hathaway’s The old-fashioned flavors of the soda fountain are found at Hathaway’s, including the best

darn chocolate shake in town.

You’ll feel like you’ve stepped through a time portal to the 1950s. Get a plate lunch or a burger, but if you’re there for breakfast (and when isn’t it time for breakfast food?) don’t miss the French toast and goetta.

Hathaway’s does them both exactly right. $4-$9. 441 Vine St., Carew Tower, Downtown, 513-621-1332, facebook.com/ hathawaysdiner.

J&J Restaurant This old-school diner serves huge double-decker sandwiches, good chili, cheese coneys and all-day breakfast at a great price.

Tucked into a strip mall, this is a no-frills neighborhood staple with lots of regulars and quick service. $5-$8. 6159 Glenway Ave., Westwood, 513-661-2260.

Pepper Pod Open 24 hours a day so you can get your fried-pickle fix whenever the craving hits — and once you have the Pepper Pod’s fried pickles, the hankering will hit you

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often. The meatloaf goes very quickly in the evening, so get there early. Greasy spoon dining at its best, the Pepper Pod is a Newport legend. $3-$10. 703 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-431-7455.

Pleasant Ridge Chili A local chili joint that just celebrated 50 years. Offers chili to-go and late-night eats. $3-$9. 6032 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, 513-531-2365, pleasantridgechili.com.

Price Hill Chili Generations of West Side patrons have grown up on this iconic, family-owned restaurant’s diverse, fairly priced menu. Having expanded several times over the years, there are now multiple dining areas and a full-service cocktail lounge called Golden Fleece attached.

What sets them apart from other chili joints is the full menu of sandwiches, sides, entrées and even breakfast served all day. $2-$15. 4920 Glenway

Ave., Price Hill, 513-471-9507, pricehillchili.com.

Rima’s Diner There are old-school diners that try too hard to resurrect the past, and then there are diners that authentically live in the past to the point where you feel like everything is trapped in amber, including yourself. Covington, Ky.’s Rima’s Diner follows the latter logic — in a great way. Elvis paraphernalia exploded inside the restaurant, from knickknacks of Fat Elvis to ephemera of handsome younger Elvis to his vinyl record sleeves hanging on walls. $5-$10. Rima’s Diner, 635 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., 859-261-7800, facebook.com/ rimasdiner.

Skyline Chili A locally based chain of chili parlors founded by Greek immigrants in Cincinnati in 1949. Their Cincinnati-style chili is poured over spaghetti or hot dogs along with chili burritos, fries and baked potatoes. Their

vegetarian version is almost as tasty with black beans and rice. $4-$9. Multiple locations including 290 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513-221-2142, skylinechili.com.

Sugar n’ Spice Huge, fluffy omelets and “wispy thin” pancakes have made Sugar n’ Spice a bona fide breakfast institution for more than 70 years. Lunch highlights include third- and half-pound burgers, double-deckers and signature sandwiches. $3-$11.

4381 Reading Road, Avondale, 513-242-3521, sugar-n-spicerestaurant.com.

Tucker’s Truly an Over-the-Rhine institution (same family since 1946!) and an “everyman” restaurant.

Solid, Midwestern staples for hungry, working people. Features a full breakfast menu complete with a variety of omelets, pancakes and egg dishes. Try the Big Tucker, a double-decker burger with cheese and special sauce.

Other standbys include biscuits

and gravy and the fried cod sandwich. $4-$7. 1637 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-721-7123.

AFRICAN

★ Elephant Walk Injera & Curry House One genius way to set yourself apart in Cincinnati’s sea of Indian restaurants is by serving Ethiopian food. Elephant Walk Injera & Curry House boasts a large, double-sided menu — Northern Indian on one side, traditional Ethiopian on the other. But what’s really awesome (besides the 3-7 p.m. daily half-price bottles of wine, which includes organic Ethiopian wine) is the 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily lunch buffet.

It has both Ethiopian and Indian dishes, so you can sample all you can eat of both country’s cuisines and gorge yourself on naan and injera. $4-$30. 170 W. McMillan St., Clifton Heights, 513-5261555, elephantwalkcincinnati. weebly.com.

Emanu The cuisine comes from eastern Africa, specifically sharing dishes from Ethiopia and Eritrea, which neighbors Ethiopia to the north.

Guests can delight in communal platters of meat and vegetable stews, meant to be scooped up with injera flat bread. There are plenty of options for vegans and vegetarians, like the Ahmelti with collard greens and lightly spiced cabbage cooked with onions and pepper. $10-$22.

6063 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, 513-351-7686, emanuea.com.

Habesha Family-run restaurant with true Ethiopian dishes and Ethiopian-style coffee ceremony. $7-$15. 5070 Crookshank Road, Westwood, 513-429-4890, habeshacincinnati.com.

Teranga They offer dishes like kebabs with fish or shrimp and whole grilled tilapia, with the head on or off, served with sides

of couscous or steamed noodles. It’s a great place to try West African dishes such as Mechoui (stuffed lamb leg with onion sauce) and Charwarma (chicken or beef in a mustard sauce served in flatbread). $5-$10. 8438 Vine St., Hartwell, 513-821-1300.

ASIAN

★ AmerAsia Quaint and comfortable with a huge beer list, AmerAsia might be Covington’s best-kept secret.

Offering all the usual Chinese dishes and a list of chef specialties, AmerAsia’s food is anything but the usual. Chef Chu makes it all from scratch. His motto: “Do not take short cuts and do everything with passion and love.”

Enjoy it all while taking in the eclectic décor of Kung Fu movie posters and paper lanterns. $7.50-$16. 521 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., 859-261-6121, facebook.com/kungfoodchu.

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H Pho Lang Thang Located in the heart of Findlay Market, Pho Lang Thang offers dishes like hot pho soup, spring rolls and the ever-popular banh mi sandwiches, which come sprinkled with assorted pickled vegetables and your choice of meat or tofu. They also serve Vietnamese coffee sweetened with condensed milk and brewed right on the table into your glass. $5-$9. 114 W. Elder St., Findlay Market, Over-theRhine, 513-376-9177, facebook.com/dothelangthang.

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Over-the-Rhine, 513-898-7991, kazeotr.com.

Le’s Pho and Sandwiches The menu is simple yet extensive, offering both traditional Vietnamese dishes as well as those that cater to less adventurous palates. The banh mi, a traditional Vietnamese sandwich, comes complete with your choice of chicken, beef, pork, teriyaki or dac biet (a hearty combination of pork and pâté), topped with pickled carrot, onion, cilantro, jalapeño and just the right amount of mayonnaise. But the dish you will most often find in front of Le’s customers is the pho, with a heaping serving of Vietnamese broth, rice noodles, meat, vegetables and herbs. $4-$6. 3 E. Court St., Downtown, 513-721-9700.

Lulu’s Rice & Noodles It’s not a Chinese restaurant, it’s a noodle shop! Serving up inexpensive steaming bowls of various Asian rice and noodle dishes garnished with vegetables and seafood or meat. Their soups are great, too. Try the spicy and intense Tom Yum soup with shrimp. $5.50-$9.50. 135 W. Kemper Road, Springdale, 513671-4949, lulusricenoodles.com.

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China Gourmet

Fusian

China Gourmet has been serving fine Chinese cuisine since 1977.

The menu at China Gourmet is not your typical gigantic Chinese menu with hundreds of items.

It is divided into sections of classics, what’s new and traditional favorites, each with just a handful of choices. $8-$22.

3340 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-871-6612, thechinagourmet.com.

Fusian’s fast-casual approach, in which you choose your own custom sushi roll, prompted many to coin the restaurant the “Chipotle of sushi.” They offer a diverse selection of non-traditional sushi proteins, including steak, chicken and roasted tofu, but the classic tuna and salmon rolls remain among the most popular. $6-$9.

Multiple locations including 600 Vine St., Downtown, 513-4217646, fusian.com.

Cilantro “Eat well. Eat fresh. Eat often.” These three sentences serve both as a tagline and as a personal philosophy for local restaurateur Darren Phan, owner of Cilantro Vietnamese Bistro, Clifton’s brothy, herby, vermicelli-filled landmark. A collection of family recipes and flavors brought over from the motherland serve as the heart from which joy and laughter still pump. $5.50$7.95. 235 W. McMillan St., Clifton Heights, 513-281-1732, eatatcilantro.com.

House of Sun A great find for Saturday and Sunday mornings, you’ll love the traditional Chinese Dim Sum, with long, sweet fried breadsticks, small sausage-filled steamed dumplings, the scallion pancake with egg and the most delicious Sesame ShaoBing with beef — all bargain-priced. $6-$11. 11959 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, 513-769-0888, houseofsuncincy.com.

Ichiban Sushi, sashimi and Robotayaki grill (traditional Japanese

charcoal grill) offerings abound in the cozy Ichiban dining room.

Tapas-style small plates, dishes to tempt carnivores and a dizzying variety of noodle dishes round out the menu. Belly up to the sushi bar or bring a group and dive into the half-price sushi menu while enjoying a warm sake or Asian-inspired cocktail. $10-$20. 1020 Delta Ave., Mount Lookout, 513-321-8686, ichibancinci.com.

H Kaze The old Cincinnati Color building on Vine Street is such a landmark that it would have been dreadful had it been torn down. Thankfully, Japanese gastropub Kaze saved it. With a distinct bar and dining room, favorites are the pork belly buns and kobe sliders, with cucumber pickled kimchi-style and a rich Korean barbecue sauce. The huge patio and attached bar do daily happy hours, with food and drink specials and frequent late-night dance parties. $5-$30. 1400 Vine St.,

Transcending the typical Chinese American menu since 1977, Oriental Wok offers innovative, fresh and delicious chef-prepared cuisine that’s never boring — from five-spice tofu over stir-fried spinach to sea bass with black bean and garlic sauce or a steak with peppercorn sauce. Excellent beer and wine selections. $11$27. 317 Buttermilk Pike, Fort Mitchell, Ky., 859-331-3000; 2444 Madison Road, Hyde Park, 513-871-6888, orientalwok.com.

H Quan Hapa “Hapa” is the word for a mixedrace Asian or Pacific Islander — the perfect nomenclature considering the food is an iteration of the best dishes and spirits from Korea, Vietnam, Japan and Hawaii. Their menu is delineated into sections of small plates, steamed bun sliders, noodles, poké (Hawaiian marinated fish salad) and rolls, with all of the dishes shareable. $4-$13. 1331 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513421-7826, quanhapa.com.

H Riverside Korean Restaurant For authentic Korean dishes, Riverside Korean Restaurant is

an excellent choice. They offer traditional rice-based dolsot bibimbap with mixed vegetables.

Or try something new from the “Adventure Dinner” menu, like the sam gyub sal bo sam, a marinated pork belly dish. All dishes are served with a delightful selection of side dishes called ban chan. Floor tables available. $12-$36. 512 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., 859-291-1484, riversidekoreanrestaurant.com.

Shanghai Mama’s Shanghai Mama’s menu gives you the option of mixing and matching proteins with starches.

The noodles are homemade, thick and rustic and very delicious. And Mama’s is very vegetarian-friendly. There are several seitan dishes, including veggie cashew chicken and the Happy Buddha. $7.95$24.95. 216 E. Sixth St., Downtown, 513-241-7777, shanghaimamas.com.

Song Long We’re lucky to have Song Long’s authentic Vietnamese food in town. Family-run, Song Long is often busy enough to have a line out the door on weekday nights.

Try the Bahn Xeo crepe stuffed with bean sprouts and shrimp, or the Gui Con with its clear, cool rice paper and blend of fresh cilantro sprigs and vermicelli doused with peanut sauce. Not fancy, just fantastic. $7-$16.

1737 Section Road, Roselawn, 513-351-7631, songlong.net.

Straits of Malacca The restaurant offers three different menus: lunch (Tiomon Café), happy hour (Blue Intan) and dinner (Langkawi Spice). All share similar dishes, the happy hour menu being the smallest and featuring just a selection of appetizers. The Corvina entrée on the dinner menu is a chunky fillet of white fish encrusted with a savory cilantro kesom crust, surrounded by seasoned cooked okra, red peppers, eggplant and pineapple rice, then finished off with beet foam. $5-$28. 202 W. Main St., Mason, 513-492-7656, straitsmalacca.com.

Sukhothai Thai Cuisine Exotic dishes like mango prawns stir-fried in a tamarind sauce or the tamarind crispy duck. There are familiar options like stir-fry and noodle dishes such as pad Thai with your choice of meat and house fried rice. All of the dishes can be made vegetarian-friendly

with vegetables or tofu. $6-$18.

8102 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, 513-794-0057, sukhothaicincy.com.

Sung Korean Bistro For a break from the ordinary downtown dinner, Sung Korean Bistro hits the spot. Sung serves traditional Korean dishes like hot stone bowl Dolsot Bibimbap, sizzling with your choice of meat and a spicy chili bean paste served on the side. Try the Doeji Galbi pork rib dish, which packs a sweet-and-spicy flavor combo served with rice. For an appetizer, try the Haemul Pajun: wheat flour pancake with egg, shrimp, crabmeat, squid, green onion and pepper. They also serve sushi for dinner. $15-$20. 700 Elm St., Downtown, 513-721-7864, sungkoreanbistro.com.

Teak Thai With three floors of dining, a full bar and a large outdoor patio area, Teak Thai has the room to accommodate throngs of Thai and sushi lovers. It also has the food to keep them coming back for more. Thai curries, soups, stir-fries, sushi and sashimi all vie for space alongside noodle dishes and house specialties like seafood claypot and crispy duck. $3.50-$17.95. 1049 Saint Gregory St., Mount Adams, 513665-9800, teakthaicuisine.com.

H Thai Express A favorite stop for inexpensive, good Thai food and friendly service. Most dishes come with your choice of tofu, chicken, pork or shrimp. All-time favorites are Pad Thai and the red curry with chicken, spring rolls or the Waterfall beef salad. The tiny, no-frills kitchen puts out some very tasty Thai food. Everything is cooked in one of the two giant iron woks, and nothing on the menu is outside a student’s budget. $5-$11. 213 W. McMillan St., Clifton, 513-651-9000, facebook. com/thaiexpresscincinnati.

Thai Namtip Located in a strip mall, Thai Namtip has a rather unassuming location, but diners who know good Thai food make regular pilgrimages to this spot. Their specialty is the Orange Chicken, with breaded chicken breast drenched in a tangy orange sauce with vegetables and cashews. Another specialty is the Seafood Clay Pot. $3-$16. 5461 N. Bend Road, Monfort Heights, 513-481-3360, thainamtip.com.

H Taste of Belgium Hot, fresh Belgian waffles make delicious breakfast sandwiches, but there are also healthy fruit-andyogurt parfaits. The crepe station prepares sweet and savory crepes, like the Nati Crepe with goetta, made fresh to order. At dinner, the sophistication goes up a notch with mussels, steak frites and Belgian specialties. Exclusive selection of Belgian beers. $5-$25. Multiple locations including 1133 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-4607; 2845 Vine St., Clifton, 513-394-7105; 3825 Edwards Road, Rookwood, Norwood, 513-3965800, authenticwaffle.com.

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Covington, Ky., 859-261-2365, deefelice.com.

H Knotty Pine on the Bayou Louisiana cooking featuring alligator, lobster bisque, oysters, fried catfish and frog legs with a mess of sides. Be sure to ask about the nightly special. $11$30. 6302 Licking Pike, Cold Spring, Ky., 859-781-2200, knottypineonthebayou.com.

H Mardi Gras on Madison Latoya Foster and her husband Randy, originally from Algiers Point, Louisiana, were among the first pioneers to establish a foothold in the Cincinnati food-truck movement with their popular New Orleans to Go eatery. Now they’ve parlayed their mobile success into Mardis Gras on Madison, a café featuring classic Cajun and Creole dishes. Foster invents the menu each morning, serving up items like catfish tacos, black beans and rice, fried okra and shrimp po’ boys from opening until they’re gone. Prices vary. 1524 Madison Road, East Walnut Hills, 513-873-9041, , facebook.com/ mardigrasmad.

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Wild Ginger Many Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese dishes complement the creative sushi menu. A recent expansion added a Hibachi grill to the mix. Try the Heema Roll, with shrimp tempura, asparagus and avocado, topped with yellowfin tuna and sprinkled with crabmeat and tempura flakes. $10-$15. 3655 Edwards Road, Hyde Park, 513-533-9500, wildgingercincy.com.

CARIBBEAN

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Caribe Carryout

Allyn’s Café

A Caribbean carryout with dishes like empanadas, stews, coconut chicken, black beans and more. $3-$7.50. 2605 Vine St., Corryville, 513-221-1786, caribeonvine.com.

The sheer number of menu items you’ll find at Allyn’s will surprise you. There are Cajun specialties like blackened gator, jambalaya and red beans and rice; slowcooked ribs; Tex-Mex treats like enchiladas and chimichangas; and standard pub grub like hot wings, fries and sandwiches.

There is also a menu for the kids and beverages for adults (try the margaritas). $9-$20. 3538 Columbia Parkway, ColumbiaTusculum, 513-871-5779, allynscafe.com.

H Island Frydays This bright-yellow building sitting in the heart of Corryville offers authentic Jamaican delights like jerk chicken, sweet plantains, oxtail and curry goat.

Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. $8-$10. 2826 Vine St., Corryville, 513-498-0680, islandfrydays.com.

JameriSol Chef and owner Nyah Higgins creates Jamaican-American food inspired by her grandmother’s recipes. The twist? Higgins replaces meat with all vegetarian and vegan ingredients, like a jerk tofu instead of jerk chicken.

Prices vary. 1801 Race St., Stall 16, Findlay Market, Over-theRhine, facebook.com/jamerisol.

Dee Felice Café If you’re looking for more of an experience than just dinner, swing into Dee Felice Café. Along with spicy New Orleans-style dishes, you’ll enjoy great live Jazz performed on a raised stage behind the bar Wednesday through Sunday. The star dish here is the crawfish étouffée, a generous pile of crawfish tails with vegetables and spicy sauce over rice. $15-$37. 529 Main St.,

BRITISH and CELTIC Cock & Bull Public House Cock & Bull serves awardwinning fish and chips and betterthan-average pub grub, including excellent crab cakes and buildyour-own burgers. The atmosphere is convivial, and the beer selection is astounding — 60 beers on tap. $7-$17. Multiple locations including 2645 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-533-4253; 601 Main St., Covington, Ky., 859-581-4253; 275 E. Sharon Road, Glendale, 513-771-4253, candbpublichouse.com.

Molly Malone’s Northern Kentucky’s own Irish Pub, Molly’s has a great mix of Irish and American fare for lunch, brunch and supper, and serves pizza and appetizers until the wee hours. With 28 draft beers, trivia, karaoke and live music

Nicholson’s For some gastropub food with Scottish influence and a cocktail or two, Nicholson’s is a hot spot to hit. They’re known for their fish and chips, but their new menu offers duck-fat fries and shepherd’s pie. If you’re not hungry, check out one of their 90 singlemalt scotches, craft cocktails or draft beer. $9-$29. 625 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-564-9111, nicholsonspub.com.

FRENCH AND BELGIAN Le Bar a Boeuf Jean-Robert de Cavel’s Le Bar a Boeuf (French slang for ‘beef bar’) is set in The Edgecliff high-rise residences in East Walnut Hills, boasting stunning views over Eden Park and the Ohio river. The city’s most beloved restaurateur opened the bar to specialize in ground meat served with potatoes and veggies, with a selection of sauces, cheese and garnishes to dress. The bison topped with goat cheese and ‘forestiere’ mushroom-based sauce is perfect in every way. $9-$25. 2200 Victory Parkway, E. Walnut Hills.

513-751-2333. jrcincy.com.

H Jean-Robert’s Table The casual, upscale menu of French-American cuisine includes foie gras, local chicken with fingerling potatoes and the French Chateau Burger with blue cheese, caramelized onions, tomato and bacon on a fluffy brioche bun. A Duo of Snail & Frog Leg appetizer is also available, served with a crawfish beignet, kale and chablis reduction. $12$36. 713 Vine St., Downtown, 513-621-4777, jrtable.com.

GERMAN Hofbräuhaus The first authentic German Hofbräuhaus in America modeled after the legendary Munich location. Traditionally decorated rooms, beer brewed onsite, a huge biergarten and German dishes make this a fun dining option. $4-$16. 200 E. Third St., Newport, Ky., 859-491-7200, hofbrauhausnewport.com.

Iron Skillet Did you even know that there are eight kinds of schnitzel?

The Iron Skillet celebrates traditional Eastern European cuisine with a schnitzel for every day of the week — and then some. $9-$22. 1020 Ohio Pike, Withamsville, 513-561-6776, laszlosironskillet.com.

Katharina’s Café-Konditorei Katharina’s is a family-run operation, with the entire staff hailing from Mainz, a small town in Germany. The traditional German menu is bilingual and offers breakfast and lunch — meat, breads, cheeses and, of course, cake — in an authentic kaffee haus environment. $4-$13. 529 Overton St., Newport, Ky., 859-291-2233, katharinascafe.com.

Mecklenburg Gardens For a taste of Zinzinnati’s German heritage, Mecklenburg Gardens showcases some of the best German cuisine the city has to offer. Their specialty is Wiener Schnitzel, a tender veal cutlet topped with lemon; it’s served with German fried potatoes and cabbage. They have 16 beers on tap, most of which are German, along with some microbrews. $8-$20. 302 E. University Ave., Corryville, 513-221-5353, mecklenburgs.net.

H Wunderbar!

Wunderbar! is one of those restaurants that’s considered a “hidden gem.” The authentic German-inspired menu features housemade wursts with locally sourced meats, like the restaurant’s super popular Currywurst — a peculiar invention of post-World War II Germany. It’s a spiced sausage served with a ketchup-Worcestershire-curry sauce. The rotating sausage menu is written on a blackboard behind the bar, but a must-try is the Riesen Brezel, a gigantic, plate-sized pretzel that easily complements any of the bar’s more than 35 beers. $7-$12.

1132 Lee St., Covington, Ky., 859-815-8027, facebook.com/ wunderbar.covington.3.

INDIAN Akash India Authentic Northern Indian cuisine with a lunch buffet and Indian beer. $8-$15. 24 E. Sixth St., Downtown, 513-723-1300, akashindia.net.

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A tiny space adjacent to UC’s campus, Tiger Dumpling Co. serves belly-warming, great tasting and inexpensive food until 3 a.m. every night. Tiger offers two dumpling options — pork and veggie — which are so big, you’ll struggle to pick them up with your chopsticks. The real winner at this place is the sauce, deemed “tiger sauce.” You taste vinegar, a little red pepper and the tiniest hint of sweetness.

It is delicious and addicting. $4-$5. 249 Calhoun St, Clifton Heights, 513-475-0000, tigerdumpling.com.

Southerners will feel right at home. An ample lineup of classic Louisiana favorites like jambalaya, gumbo, po’ boys and red beans and rice are paired with a selection of hardwoodsmoked ribs, barbecue chicken and pulled pork. $8-$18. 3742 Kellogg Ave., East End, 513-8347067, swampwatergrill.com.

seven nights a week, Molly’s will fill your dance card. $7-$15.

112 E. Fourth St., Covington, Ky., 859-491-6659, covington.mollymalonesirishpub.com.

★ Ambar India

HOME OF THE

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Perhaps the classiest of the Indian restaurants along Ludlow Avenue in Clifton, Ambar touts a neat and simple dining room with white tablecloths and consistently good service. $8-$20. 350 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513-2817000, ambarindia.com.

Amma’s Kitchen Amma’s serves only vegan and vegetarian Indian food, but you won’t miss the meat when the flavors are this complex. Homemade breads include the puffy pillows of cooked dough called batura.

They also carry Indo-Chinese dishes. $5-$10. 7633 Reading Road, Roselawn, 513-821-2021, ammaskitchen.com.

Amol India

133 E. Court St. Cincinnati, OH

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Excellent North Indian fare such as saag paneer and chicken korma. Complete the meal with an order of naan — there are 10 varieties to choose from, including garlic and paneer (cheesefilled). Also offers a broad lunch buffet. $8-$15. 354 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513-961-3600, amolindiacincinnati.com.

Baba India Baba is known for its gentle blending of herbs and spices, featuring authentic cuisine from Northern India. Try the savory tandoori oven dishes, exotic curries, excellent naan and various mango juice beverages. $6-$14.

3120 Madison Road, Oakley, 513321-1600, babarestaurant.com.

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Bombay Brazier Owners G. and Rip, who own the original Bombay Brazier in Lexington, Ky., bring style and class to a cuisine popularized by buffets, Americanized dishes and rushed, overcrowded dining rooms. What’s their philosophy?

Northern Indian recipes done the only way they know: authentically. $12-$28. 7791 Cooper Road, Montgomery, 513-794-0000.

Brij Mohan Indian Sweets & Restaurant Brij Mohan features authentic northern Indian cuisine specializing in desserts and street-foodstyle dishes. Try the malai kofta, a creamy onion and tomato sauce with mixed vegetable balls, or homemade cheese dishes like spicy chili paneer or saag paneer with spinach. All dishes are vegetarian and made from scratch, including their pastries. $7-$10. 11259 Reading Road,

Sharonville, 513-769-4549, brijmohansweets.com.

Deep India Deep India’s simple, cheaper take on takeout is welcome in the Clifton brotherhood of Indian restaurants. Head to the counter to order, and then wait for your giant Styrofoam container of saag to come out. You can either eat in at one of their fast-food-style tables or take your Goliath order home and make a few meals out of it. $7-$10. 211 W. McMillan Ave., Clifton Heights, 513-421-6453, deepindiarestaurant.com.

Dusmesh Sitting at the bottom of Ludlow Avenue right across from Cincinnati State, Dusmesh is a foodie favorite, offering Northern Indian food made fresh with organic produce. Vegans can substitute coconut milk in any of their dishes. If you want to sample a little bit of everything, check out the lunch buffet. $8-$15. 944 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513-221-8900, dusmesh.com.

Krishna With only a few seats in house and every dish served in a Styrofoam container, it’s no wonder why the emphasis is on the food. Krishna offers budgetfriendly Indian fare without compromising the quality. Go in for the lamb biryani or the saag paneer, and add some vegetable samosas to your order. Their food is friendly whether you’re carnivore or herbivore. $7-$10.

313 Calhoun St., Clifton Heights, 513-961-2878.

New Krishna Specializes in a wide variety of North Indian foods. Includes a lunch and dinner buffet. $8.50$15.99. 11974 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, 513-769-6266, newkrishnaindiancuisine.com.

Shaan Indian Cuisine Located in Hyde Park, Shaan Indian Cuisine provides Northern Indian specializing in saag dishes, like the chicken saag and the saag paneer. The Chane Ki Chat is a blend of fruit and vegetables mixed with chickpeas served cold as an appetizer that you don’t normally see, but don’t miss the spicy lamb vindaloo or the ginger lamb. $9-$12. 3880 Paxton Ave., Hyde Park, 513533-3100, shaanindian.com.

★ Swad The former owners of Dusmesh opened this spot that’s friendly

to all: gluten-free eaters, vegans, bring-your-own-beer types and those who just love excellent garlic naan. $9-$15. 1806 W. Galbraith Road, North College Hill, 513522-5900, facebook.com/ swadfineindianfoodcincinnati.

ITALIAN AND PIZZA 15 North Wood-fired pizzas are the centerpiece of this restaurant.

The Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas are smallish — about six slices per pizza — and come with toppings like a Black & Blue (tomato sauce, olive tapenade, blue cheese, pepperoni, roasted onion, Kalamata olives) and Harvest (onion and garlic purée, mozzarella, squash, cherry tomatoes, red pepper, basil). The small plates consist of bruschetta, caprese salad and roasted olives, and even three sandwiches: a veggie, an Italian and a prosciutto. $9-$14. 15 N. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas, Ky., 859-441-0967, 15northpizza.com.

★ Adriatico’s Adriatico’s has a huge draft beer selection and 64-ounce growlers to go, plus spicy, garlicky sauce, oversized pepperonis and the super-thick crust that their pizzas are known for.

Good luck finding calzones like theirs, too. It’s “madness” every Monday and Tuesday with specials that the college kids can’t turn down. The Bearcat pizza will feed your entire party. $6-$18. 113 W. McMillan St., Clifton Heights, 513-281-4344, adriaticosuc.com.

★ A Tavola Armed with a pizza oven from Naples, Italy, A Tavola strikes a resounding chord of authenticity while redefining the perfect pie. Their playful selection of signature pizzas — such as the Fig + Prosciutto, Sweet Pea + Bacon or Sausage + Sage — are a blend of the familiar coupled with the exotic. Whet your appetite with their stuffed dates, filled with house sausage, wrapped in smoky bacon and topped with tomato sauce. $5-$16.

1220 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-246-0192; 7022 Miami Ave., Madeira, 513-272-0192, atavolapizza.com.

Bella Luna Ideal for a lively night out with friends. Features authentic recipes from Italy’s Sicily and

★ Sotto Located under Boca restaurant, the Tuscan-inspired Sotto offers a more approachable atmosphere and price point than its upstairs neighbor. With multiple dining rooms, the kitchen is open to view, including the custom-made wood-fire grill in front and a fresh-pasta room in the back hallway. Menu items include handmade pasta, house-cured salami and big-ticket items like Bistecca Fiorentina, a grilled creekstone porterhouse steak with daily sides. Sotto sources their bread from Blue Oven and also grows their own herbs and vegetables. $7-$75. 118 E. Sixth St., Downtown, 513-977-6886, sottocincinnati.com.

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Calabria regions — must-haves include the mushroom ravioli stuffed with portabello and topped with sweet pepper sauce and gorgonzola as well as eggplant Parmesan. They also offer a gluten-free menu. $8.99-$25.99. 4632 Eastern Ave., East End, 513-871-5862, bellalunacincy.com.

Betta’s Italian Oven

Cincy by the Slice Try the Pickleroni Pie with pickles and pepperoni; supreme pie with pepperoni, mushrooms, green pepper, onion and Italian sausage; the Italian sausage hoagie with peppers; or the veggie stromboli. $6-$18. 1207 Main

St., Downtown, 513-621-3800, cincybytheslice.com.

★ Dewey’s Pizza A hip neighborhood pizza chain with craft beers, seasonal salads, specialty toppings and a window where kids (and adults) can watch the pizzas being handtossed. $9-$22. Multiple locations including 3014 Madison Road, Oakley, 513-731-7755; 7767 Kenwood Road, Kenwood, 513-791-1616; Newport on the Levee, Newport, Ky., 859-4319700, deweyspizza.com.

Enoteca Emilia Italian small plates and woodfired pizzas dominate this popular Italian wine bar. An impressive collection of cured meat, artisan cheese and pasta plates perfectly complement their wide selection of reds and whites. $5-$27. 2038 Madison Road, O’Bryonville, 513-8345773, enotecaemilia.com.

★ Fireside Pizza Since opening a brick-and-mortar version of their popular woodfired pizza cart last year, Fireside

BURGER MADNESS - $8.99 BURGERS EVERY SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY HAPPY HOUR MONDAY-FRIDAY 2:00 PM TIL 6:00 PM $2.00 DOMESTICS $3.00 WELL DRINKS $4.00 PINTS $5.00 WINES ALL DRAFTS FROM LOCAL BREWERIES Hyde Park Square 3516 Edwards Rd Cincinnati, OH 45208 (513) 871-5543

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Plenty o’ choices here to give any local Italian chain a serious run for its money. Familiar favorites include antipasto, soups, salads and Italian and NYC-style sandwiches, but pizza is the real word. The wood-fired oven produces tasty, thin-crust pies like the Quattro Stagioni with kalamata olives, prosciutto, tomatoes and fresh mozzarella, and breadsticks including the spicy pepperoni sticks. There are plenty of regulars filling the tables every night — always a sign of a consistently good meal. $8-$14. 3764 Montgomery Road, Norwood, 513-631-6836, bettasitalianoven.com.

Buona Vita Pizzeria Lots of Italian restaurants claim to cook “just like Grandma made it,” but few actually use authentic recipes passed down from the motherland. At Buona Vita Pizzeria, the Frommeyers use their family name (Buonavita, “the good life”) and family recipes.

Truly a family affair, Joseph Frommeyer runs the front of the house while his brother/ chef Matthew runs the kitchen using recipes handed down from their Nonna. Mamma helps out in the dining room, serving her homemade cookies and other Italian treats to guests; plus cousin Ralph drops off his Dolce Vita Gelato. $5-$17. Buona Vita Pizzeria, 441 Sixth St., Dayton, Ky., 859-261-6792, buonavitapizzeria.com.

H Mazunte Mazunte is the taqueria you always wanted in your neighborhood. Simple, delicious, a great value and hip. Get the mixed taco taster — three for $9 — and sample their beer-battered fish, shredded roast pork and sangria-marinated steak. With an order of guacamole, you are in paradíso, amigo.

And their sangria is second to none. $7.25-$9.25. 5207 Madison Road, Madisonville, 513-7850000, mazuntetacos.com.

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Newport, Ky., 859-581-3065, pompiliosrestaurant.com.

Ramundo’s Pizzeria Try the pizza challenge — two people, 10 minutes, one 24-inch pizza. Winners get their photo on the wall. $3-$36. 3166 Linwood Ave., 513-321-0978, ramundospizzeria.com.

Red Rose Avocados are usually associated with Mexican food, but if you crave the green stuff on unconventional dishes, Red Rose Pizza offers it in the form of a fresh guacamole appetizer, broccoli avocado soup, the Goats & Guacamole salad, May’s Funky Chicken grinder and as a pizza topping. $6-$65 (for a 28-inch pizza). Red Rose Pizza, 5915 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, 513-620-7673, redroseonhamilton.com.

Santo Graal

Pizza has been able to attract a crowd to the up-and-coming East Walnut Hills neighborhood.

With the family-friendly vibe, old school Ms. Pac-Man game and the fact that it’s located inside an actual historic firehouse, Fireside’s appeal transcends its nicely singed wood-fired pizzas. $4-$20. 773 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, 513-751-FIRE, firesidepizzawagon.com.

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Forno Osteria + Bar Upscale-casual Italian from one of the city’s first families of food, the Pietosos of Nicola’s and Via Vite. The Forno menu offers the most authentic dishes possible, with wood-fired pizzas, pasta and classics like Pork Loin Milanese. $11-$27. 3514 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-818-8720, fornoosertiabar.com.

Goodfella’s Pizzeria The place to be when you stumble out of the bar at 2 a.m. (or for lunch), Goodfella’s makes their dough fresh every morning and their sauce in-house. They also offer subs, calzones and a multitude of delectable dipping sauces. A bourbon bar is upstairs.

$5.95-$32. 1211 Main St., Overthe-Rhine, 513-381-3625; 603 Main St., Covington, Ky., 859-9165209, goodfellaspizzeria.com.

LaRosa’s A chain of local pizzerias that’s been dishing up pies for 60 years, as well as pasta, salads, sandwiches and more. The sauce and crust are both a tiny bit sweet. $5-$25. Multiple locations, 513347-1111, larosas.com.

Mac’s Pizza Pub It’s kind of a collegiate Chuck E. Cheese. There are games, live music, sports and food — good food with vegan options. Mac’s pizza has won numerous awards, and the rest of its menu ain’t too shabby, either. $3.50-$10. 205 W. McMillan St., Clifton Heights, 513-241-MACS; 6309 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, 513-271-MACS; 2920 W. US-22, Maineville, 513677-MACS, macspizzapub.com.

Mellow Mushroom Choices are endless at this groovy pizza joint. Choose from an extensive list of specialty pizzas including the Holy Shiitake Pie or opt to craft your own creation.

$3.95-$24.99. Multiple locations including 9238 Floer Drive, West Chester, 513-860-0888; 3804 Paxton Ave., Hyde Park, 513-3212555, mellowmushroom.com.

Newport Pizza Company The pizzas are excellent, of course, and the vegetarian options are much better than average since Newport Pizza roasts most of their veggies themselves. Best thing on the menu, though, is the Antipasti Basket with salami, pepperoni, capicola ham, asiago and fresh mozzarella, manzanella olives, banana peppers, Roma tomato, fresh basil and a big fat head of roasted garlic. $5-$17. 601 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-261-4900, newportpizzacompany.com.

Pompilios This restaurant, where the toothpick scene in Rain Man was filmed, has been offering classic family Italian since 1933. Can’t go wrong with any pasta dish.

Play a game of bocce ball on the back court or grab a beer-andburger special in the attached Colonel Pomp’s Tavern. $6.95$13.95. 600 Washington Ave.,

Santo Graal fills a niche at The Banks for an affordably priced restaurant that gives sports fans and concertgoers a respite from the crowds. The food is familiar, mainstream Cincinnati Italian, and you can get a decent bottle of wine. The salads, like the smoky grilled romaine wedge with gorgonzola cream, are a hit. Other menu items come under the headings Sandwiches & Slices, Pasta and (whole) Pizzas. $10$15. 180 E. Freedom Way, The Banks, Downtown, 513-721-7222, facebook.com/santograalbanks.

Scotti’s Family-owned for a century, Scotti’s must be doing something right. Their large menu features just about every pasta imaginable and nearly 20 different varieties of veal dishes. Finish off your meal with a bottle of wine and you’ll be full for days. Multicolored tiles plaster the walls, and candles drip layer upon layer of wax on Chianti bottles at every table, providing a little light to the otherwise dimly lit dining room. $18-$30. 919 Vine St., Downtown, 513-721-9484, scottiscincinnati.com.

Strong’s Brick Oven Pizzeria Strong’s Brick Oven Pizzeria is not just another pizza joint. The dough is thin, with beautiful crisp air pockets that bulge out of the pizza. It is golden, charred and chewy. The toppings are tossed on top deliberately but asymmetrically — rustic in every sense. $9-$18. 336 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-291-6836, strongsbrickovenpizza.com.

Trotta’s A beverage drive-thru with aboveaverage pizza, including the Lotta Trotta big-ass pizza. $6-$35.

3501 Werk Road, Westwood, 513-451-5555, trottaspizza.com.

Via Vite Via Vite showcases chef Cristian Pietoso’s casual take on Northern Italian cuisine. Crispy, wood-fired pizzas and hearty pastas hearken to the motherland, while entrées of braised lamb shank and bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin smothered in grandma’s peperonata lead the diner on a classic Italian journey. $10-$38. 520 Vine St., Fountain Square, Downtown, 513-7218483, viaviterestaurant.com.

MEDITERRANEAN

H Abigail Street The Mediterranean-inspired menu of small plates revels in Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Greek influences, with unique twists only chef Daniel Wright (winner of Food & Wine’s 2012 People’s Best New Chef: Great Lakes Region) could pull off — chorizo-stuffed dates, grilled octopus, batata and more. Wines are available on tap, by the bottle or the glass. $5-$15. 1214 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-4214040, abigailstreet.com.

Ali Baba Ali Baba Mediterranean Grill is a tiny hole-in-the-wall serving up gargantuan falafel and gyro platters that won’t break the bank.

Stock your plate with a variety of fresh toppings doled out by a friendly server, then sit down to watch Persian singer Mansour and others belt out hits in music videos hearkening back to MTV’s glory days. $5-$10. 4793 Red Bank Road, Madisonville, 513271-0706, alibabagrille.com.

Andy’s Mediterranean Grille Expect maximum Mediterranean flavor at Andy’s, from the signature Shish Tawook, a marinated chicken kabob, to authentic stuffed grape leaves and many varieties of baklava and Turkish coffee. $6-$24. 906 Nassau St., Walnut Hills, 513-281-9791, andyskabob.com.

Kinneret Café This veg-friendly spot combines cultures and dishes from around the Mediterranean, specializing in Israeli food. Everything is made in-house and the only meat on the menu is fish. $5.50-$17.

8316 Plainfield Road, Deer Park, 513-791-1777, kinneretcafe.com.

H Marrakech Moroccan Café & Grill The chefs, who hail from Marrakech, serve up Mediterranean staples, plus a variety of tajines, flavorful stews slow-cooked in a conical earthenware pot, and bastilla, a sweetand-savory chicken pie layered with scrambled eggs, shredded chicken, caramelized onions, ground almonds, confectioners sugar and cinnamon. Don’t miss out on the Moroccan mint tea. $5-$12. 341 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513-442-2233, facebook.com/ cliftonmoroccancafe.

Mediterranean King Chow down on authentic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine. Check out Mediterranean King’s Facebook for daily specials. $4-$29.99.

3307 Clifton Ave., Clifton Heights, 513-221-7222, facebook.com/ mediterraneanking.

Mirage Mediterranean Owned by two ArmenianAmerican brothers, Mirage features authentic family recipes that have been passed from generation to generation. Most dishes hail from around the Black Sea, including kebabs, Russian borscht, khinkali dumplings and Mikado cake. 11381 Montgomery Road, Mongtomery, 513-4690089, miragecincinnati.com.

Phoenician Taverna A hidden gem in a Mason stripmall, Phoenician Taverna specializes in Lebanese and Mediterranean cuisine, all made in-house — from the pita bread to the sausage stuffed in natural casings. For entrees, find Shawarma, Mouzat (braised lamb shank in tomato sauce), Mashawi and Ouzi (braised met over rice). Plenty of hot and cold vegetarian mezza (appetizers) abound. $10-$21. 7994 S. Mason Montgomery Road, Mason, 513-770-0027, phoeniciantaverna.com.

Sebastian’s Serving as a West Side staple for more than 38 years, Sebastian’s family-owned restaurant is a Greek treasure. With mouthwatering baklava, flaky spanakopita and the hands-down best gyro in town, it’s no wonder why customers keep coming back for more. $4-$10. 5209 Glenway Ave., West Price Hill, 513-4712100, sebastiansgyros.com.

drakescomeplay.com Sultan’s Authentic Mediterranean cuisine. Owner and executive chef Mustafa Koylu prepares a wide selection of excellent kebabs, and the menu also reflects Ottoman specialties and traditional appetizers (grape leaves, hummus, cacik), along with plenty of vegetarian entrees. $7-$35. 7305 Tyler’s Corner Drive, West Chester, 513-8471535, sultanscincinnati.com.

MEXICAN/TEX-MEX/ LATIN AMERICAN

H Bakersfield OTR Part bar, part taco joint, all classy. Bakersfield specializes in gourmet tacos (pollo rojo, pastor, huitlacoche, etc.), quality tequilas and whiskeys and handcrafted margaritas made the old fashioned way — not from a premade mix. $3-$9. 1213 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-579-0446, bakersfieldotr.com.

Barrio Barrio’s most delicious taco filling is the house-smoked beef brisket. Beyond chips and dips, appetizers or snacks include Loaded Papas Fritas (fried potatoes topped with queso, house bacon and jalapeno), grilled Mexican corn and smoked or fried chicken wings with a selection of sauces. Otherwise, the menu features burritos, quesadillas, salads, tacos and sandwiches. $4-$8. 3937 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, 513-5416400, barrio513.com.

Calle Cantina

Cancun Mexican restaurant attached to Western Bowl bowling alley; an area favorite. Prices vary.

Multiple locations including 6385 Glenway Ave., Western

Cazadores Cazadores is one of the city’s most underrated restaurants.

It’s locally owned, boasting four decent-sized, clean and rarely crowded restaurants in the Greater Cincinnati area. They even recently started sending a guy around to the tables with a cart to make fresh guacamole. $6.50-$15. Multiple locations including 750 Ohio 28, Milford, 513-831-3300, cazadoresrestaurants.com

The Comet A neighborhood bar with tons of bottled beer options and a limited Mexican-inspired menu available from 4 p.m.-1 a.m.

Choose chicken, beef or jerked tofu for your burrito or have the same in a quesadilla, nachos or tacos. $4-$8. 4579 Hamilton Ave., Northside, 513-541-8900, cometbar.com.

Django Western Taco The al pastor pork pairs with tequila-soaked, grilled pineapple and fragrant chopped mint. Vegetarians can enjoy a delicious veggie taco. The Sheriff’s Stone Bowl features beans, rice, vegetables, beef and egg in a big steaming stone bowl. $3-$18. 4046 Hamilton Ave., Northside, 513-542-3664, djangonorthside.com.

El Rancho Grande One of the largest local Mexican chains. $2-$10. Multiple locations including 7860 Montgomery Road, Kenwood, elranchogrande.info.

Frida 602 From the purveyors of MainStrasse’s popular Otto’s bistro, Frida — named for Frida Kahlo — has the largest selection of mezcal in the region. The menu features tacos, guac, chips, queso and other Mexican street-food dishes. 602 Main St., Covington, Ky., facebook.com/ frida602.

H Gomez Salsa Open until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, Gomez’s walk-up taco window has it all: mahi-mahi tacos with slaw and Baja sauce, chips with pineapple salsa, taco salad bowls and owner Andrew Gomez’s greatest invention, the Turtle Shell. Take a tortilla, stuff it with rice, beans, sour cream, lettuce, salsa, meat, veggies and cheese, layer in a tostado

for crunch, put some cheese on the top and then brown it. It’s a fat little crunchy burrito envelope, a walking taco. And the Turtle tastes even better if you stumble over after imbibing at the adjacent HalfCut, a craft beer café of sorts. Now open for lunch and brunch. $3-$9. 107 E.12th St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-1596, gomezsalsa.com.

Habañero Cincinnati’s original foil-wrapped Latin fare. Habañero opened in 1999, before most of us had even heard of that national burrito chain. Known for their more creative burrito options like the Mad Max (with fried tilapia) and the Calypso Chicken (with adobo-glazed chicken breast and pineapple salsa), along with various quesadillas and signature salsas. $6.79-$7.99. 358 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, 513-9616800, habanerolatin.com.

La Mexicana

BEER BURGERS SUSHI 6805 Houston Road, Ste 900 Florence KY, 41042 Phone: (859) 869-4840

Mon – Thurs: 4 pm – 12 am Fri – Sat: 11 am – 1 am Sun: 11 am – 12 am

Home of some of the city’s best tacos: Tacos al Pastor with delicious marinated pork shoulder.

They also serve all the usual stuff as far as tasty authentic Mexican tacos are concerned: barbacoa, carne asada, lengua (tongue) and sesos (brains; they wash down perfectly with a cerveza).

This inexpensive and authentic menu has been known to incite cravings after as little as one visit. $3-$10. 642 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-261-6112.

Mita’s Chef Jose Salazar is a continent away from his mamita and the hand-cranked mill she still uses to grind corn for arepas and empanadas, but his new restaurant, Mita’s, is a tribute to her spirit and to Spanish and Latin American food. Some of the more intriguing dishes at Mita’s use familiar ingredients in new ways. The fresh emeraldgreen sauce for the short-rib empanadas is unexpectedly minty, and the beef is tucked into cornmeal crusts so light and crisp that it lifts the dish to the sublime. The bar at Mita’s is a great place to get familiar with mezcal, the underexplored spiritof-the-moment, and the Mezcal Manhattan is getting lots of buzz. $7-$39. 501 Race St., Downtown, 513-421-6482, mitas.co.

Montoya’s Friendly service and fresh, affordable food have kept Montoya’s a neighborhood staple for more

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Calle means “street” and cantina means “bar,” and that’s exactly what you’re getting: a no-frills watering hole/street-food restaurant that feels like a worldly destination you’d come across on your travels. For now, they have a sparse menu: only chips and sopes — fried, handmade masa tortillas with various toppings. On a given day, Calle offers about five kinds of margs, some of which are made with shrubs (fresh fruit fermented with sugar and vinegar). $3-$10.

950 Pavilion St., Mount Adams, 513-721-6977, facebook.com/ callemtadams.

Hills, 513-574-1639, cancunmexicanrestaurantes.com.

The premier place in Newport, KY with an award winning menu for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Late Night Cocktails with Live Music on Friday & Saturdays.

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$14.95 Steak Night w/sides & salad (Choose from 8 Different Steak Options)

Private upstairs party room also available for events!

Serves up good strip-mall Mexican, with the giant portions and plentiful margaritas you’d expect. $2-$10. 34 Carothers Road, Newport, Ky., 859-292-8750.

Taqueria Mercado

$10 Fajitas $9 Chimis 5-9 pm $3 Coronas & Margaritas

Open Everyday for Breakfast & Lunch - 9 - 3, Dinner served : 3 - 10 Everyday except Sunday, Bar Open Late Nightly : Live Music- Thur, Fri & Sat Nights

Nada Modern Mexican. Outstanding guacamole tops beer-batterfried hake on crisp, Baja-style tacos. The ceviche zings with notes of orange and chipotle.

Churros, classic fried dough with cinnamon and sugar, are a sweet way to wrap it up. Great location next to the Aronoff Center downtown, and the patio is a big attraction when nice weather beckons. $6-$22. 600 Walnut St., Downtown. 513-721-6232, eatdrinknada.com.

Rio Grande

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than 20 years. Patrons rave about their authentic Mexican dishes like chilaquiles, their signature spicy Pirata Plate and anything with mole. Great margaritas are the cherry on top. $4.50$8.50. 2507 Chelsea Drive, Fort Mitchell, Ky., 859-341-0707.

Fajitas come with your choice of grilled steak, chicken or shrimp.

Go in Sunday morning for a not-so-typical American brunch, and get their spicy chilaquiles with chorizo and pair it with their Michelada — it’s like a bloody mary, but with your choice of light or dark beer mixed with tomato juice, lime juice and hot sauce. $3-$15. 100 E. Eighth St., Downtown, 513-381-0678; 6507 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, 513942-4943, tmercadocincy.com.

Taqueria Yolandita

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Taqueria Yolandita is a tiny taco trailer. The menu is brief, but you’ve still got a tough choice — you’ll want to try everything.

Overstuffed tacos, priced at three for $6; burritos, quesadillas and tortas, all $7 each. An order of three is a sit-down, eat-with-a-fork feast, heaped high with braised meat, fresh avocado, chopped onions and cilantro, quartered lemons — not limes — and slices of crisp radish. $5-$7. 1881 Westwood Ave., Fairmount, 513-551-0828.

RUSSIAN Oasis Russian Fusion

500 Monmouth at 5th St, Newport, KY, 41071

859.581.3700 www.mokkasunset.com

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A Russian restaurant that holds back a little on the traditional fattening ingredients Russian meals are known for. Find beef

stroganoff, Georgian chicken tabaka, goulash, dumplings and pastry appetizers. $8-$18.

8697 Fields Ertel Road, Symmes, 513-247-9755, oasisrussianfusion.com.

Puffins Bistro and Desserts Bea Terekhov and her family make their “puffins,” aka puff pastries, from scratch using family recipes. Their signature pastry is what’s called a piroshky, a smaller, Russian version of the Italian calzone or a thicker version of the Polish pierogi. After they’re stuffed with vegetables or meats like Bavarian sausages, the pastries inflate in the oven. $5-$7. 11033 Reed Hartman Highway, Blue Ash, 513-6006081, getyourpuff.com.

SCANDINAVIAN Fika Hus Owners Daniel and Angie Connor opened Fika Hus (pronounced fee-ka), their “coffee break room,” on the west side of Covington, generating a rotating chalkboard menu of homemade Swedish pastries, breakfast items, lunch foods and, of course, coffee. The Swedish flag billows outside the quaint café, which looks like it’s straight out of a Scandinavian fishing village.

They make several types of pastries every day; for $10, you can get a sampler of six. $2-$10.

508 W. 12th St., Covington, Ky., 859-816-9125, fikahus.com.

SOUTH AMERICAN Alfio’s Buon Cibo Italian for “good food,” the restaurant aims to wed Italian and Argentinian cuisine. The menu is dotted with Italian (baked ravioli, bruschetta) and Argentinian (empanadas, grilled lamb) dishes, but steers more toward the former. And, as both countries are located on coasts, there’s always fresh seafood. $7-$29. 2724 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-321-0555, alfioscincy.com.

Argentine Bistro For more than seven years, Argentine Bistro has quietly showcased an assortment of authentic dishes of this exotic South American locale. The appetizers are largely made up of focaccia bread, meat and cheese plates. The dinner menu includes a surprising number of Italian dishes. Entrées also highlight the

innate meatiness of the region. $7-$30. 2875 Town Center Blvd., Crestview Hills, Ky., 859-4261042, argentinebistro.com.

Boi Na Braza Brazilian Steakhouse with a lot of fancy meat on sticks delivered tableside by gauchos, plus a salad bar. $48.95. 441 Vine St., Downtown, 513-421-7111, boinabraza.com.

FINE DINING

★ Boca A trip to chef David Falk’s Italian/ French gemstone is an experience to be savored as much as the food itself. Take your time, invest a few hours and allow him and his attentive, knowledgeable staff to unfold an epic tale of two or three courses, plus dessert. $15-$37. 114 E. Sixth St., Downtown, 513-542-2022, bocacincinnati.com.

The Celestial Whet your appetite on P.E.I. mussels with togarashi, saffron and white-wine broth or delectable crab cakes with chipotle aioli. Whether you choose the Celestial Oscar, crowned with king crab, or the braised beef short ribs, you will not be disappointed. Desserts include a classic crème brulee and a raspberry peach bread pudding with Michele Chiarlo Moscato d’Asti. $8-$46. 1071 Celestial St., Mount Adams, 513-2414455, thecelestial.com.

Grande Finale Operating at the same historic building since 1975, Grand Finale serves up everything from steak and lobster to crepes and outrageous desserts. Try the bacon, shrimp and sun-dried tomato deviled eggs or the herbed filet mignon brochette.

No worries for your vegetarian tablemates: Grand Finale has plenty of veggie fare. $12-$38. 3 E. Sharon Road, Glendale, 513771-5925, grandfinale.info.

Meritage Meritage offers upscale classic American cuisine, ranging from pan-seared scallops and Thai-glazed salmon to a Cajun goat cheese-crusted filet. Don’t miss the bone-in pork chop served with bourbon cream sauce. Meritage also boasts an extensive wine cellar and signature cocktails. $10-$40. 1140 Congress Ave., Glendale, 513376-8134, meritagecincy.com.

Nicola’s Restaurant A celeb-spotting treasure, Nicola’s renown is undeniable.

One of Cincinnati’s top, Zagatrated restaurants, its menu of housemade pastas, gnocchi and creamy risotto are among some of the thoughtfully conceived dishes transporting patrons to the heart of Italy. Indulge in wine-paired tasting menus, or cap off your meal with a dessert of devil’s food cake with strawberries and dark chocolate. $12-$40. 1420 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-721-6200, nicolasotr.com.

H NuVo Chef Mark Bodenstein finally has a venue where he can let his creativity flourish, and his new dining adventure is unlike any other in the area. At NuVo at Greenup, you eat what the kitchen sends out, usually in seven to 10 small courses. Pay one price, plus drinks, and see how Bodenstein takes mostly familiar ingredients and combines them in ways you never thought of. $65 prix-fixe; $35 three-course. 308 Greenup St., Covington, Ky., 859-4151308, nuvoatgreenup.com.

Orchids at Palm Court Nestled inside Carew Tower’s historic Art Deco Hilton hotel, Orchids hosts a breathtaking feast for the eyes — a perfect backdrop for weekly seasonal menus of refined elegance made with local ingredients, including some from the hotel’s rooftop beehive and herb garden. Chef Todd Kelly’s five-diamond menu features creative, fresh cuisine paired with an award-winning wine list and delicious desserts by pastry chef Megan Ketover. $9-$60 (for the chef’s tasting prix fixe platters). 35 W. Fifth St., Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Downtown, 513-421-9100, orchidsatpalmcourt.com.

Seasonal menus of fine, upscale fare at a four-diamond restaurant — including a menu just for vegetarians and vegans. $65 for three courses; $95 for nine, with pricing in between.

601 Vine St., The Cincinnatian Hotel, Downtown, 513-381-3000, palacecincinnati.com.

Primavista With a breathtaking city view, Primavista wins frequent reader’s choice and magazine awards such as “most romantic,” “best date spot” and “best dining

STEAKHOUSES AND SEAFOOD Alabama Fish Bar Cod, perch or whiting battered, deep-fried and handed over in a more-than-generous portion on a bed of fries with a slice of bread.

Slap some condiments on it and eat as much as you can stuff in! $7-$8. 1601 Race St., Over-theRhine, 513-241-2255, alabamafishbar.com.

H Anchor OTR Located in a historic building at the corner of Washington Park, Anchor OTR offers impressivequality seafood. The raw bar selections are tempting, and they also offer interesting starters: crawfish beignets, fried calamari and deviled eggs with smoked salmon. The salads change seasonally. $6-$32. 1401 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-421-8111, theanchor-otr.com.

Eddie Merlot’s An upscale chain of prime-aged steak and seafood. House recommendations include a romaine Waldorf salad with maple apple cider vinaigrette, sesame calamari, chateaubriand for two and a bone-in filet. $8-$95. 10808 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, 513-4891212, eddiemerlots.com.

Embers There is a seemingly endless variety of Thai/sushi/Asian restaurants in our city. How about a steakhouse/sushi joint?

That’s what you’ll find in Embers.

Steaks are aged 28 days and are served with housemade compound butter or a variety of “extras” like truffle sauce or caramelized onions. Try the Tiger’s Eye sushi or Vietnamese-style baby-back ribs. $17-$63. 8170 Montgomery Road, Kenwood, 513-984-8090, embersrestaurant.com.

Jack Binion’s at the Horseshoe Casino A Chicago-style steakhouse inside the Horseshoe Casino,

with tableside preparation of side dishes. $10-$70. 1000 Broadway, Downtown, 513-2503294, horseshoecincinnati.com.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood This upscale steakhouse and piano bar does everything from innovative meals to craft cocktails and extensive wine choices to live music. For dinner, opt for sushi or the raw bar to start, followed by a little surf and turf or signature entrees, like the black truffle filet, chateaubriand for two or vegetarian portabellos with goat cheese and tomato. $9-$70. 5980 West Chester Blvd., West Chester, 513-8605353, jags.com.

H Vitor’s Bistro Located in a quaint 1864 European-looking building complete with an outside terrace, Vitor’s Bistro serves up a chef’s course menu — a multi-course surprise party for your mouth. Just give your food preferences/dietary constrictions (the fewer the better) and chef Vitor Abreu will whip up a memorable meal in an unsuspecting space tucked away in Cheviot. Each dish leaves you eager to see what Vitor will create next. Odds are you’ll find a new favorite dish you never would have ordered in the first place. $9-$75 (for the chef’s five-course tasting menu). 3232 Harrison Ave., Cheviot, 513-481-5333, vitorsbistro.net.

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Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse Modeled after a 1940s New York Art Deco steakhouse. If you love steak you have about a zeropercent chance of being let down with one of Ruby’s — they dry-age their own. There are several non-steak options on the menu, including good seafood dishes, but the cow is king (queen?) at Ruby’s. $7-$62. 700 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-784-1200, jeffruby.com.

Jimmy G’s The ’50s retro nightclub vibe of the place is the first thing you’ll notice as you meander down the staircase to the red-hued, subterranean dining room. From there, chef Jimmy Gibson ensures his steakhouse is like no other in Cincinnati, from his smoky, tender, wood-grilled octopus soaked in a sherry reduction to his arsenal of grilled, dry-aged steaks and classy martinis. $8-$38. 435 Elm St., Downtown, jimmy-gs.com.

Maury’s Tiny Cove Maury’s has been packed full of flavor and West Side tradition since 1949. The dimly lit 1940s supper-club vibe will have you feeling like a regular on your first visit. The extensive menu consists of all the classic steakhouse options: tender, juicy steaks, seafood and chicken cooked just right, plus pasta, sandwiches, soups and salads. $8-$31. 3908 Harrison Ave., Cheviot, 513-662-2683, mauryssteakhouse.com.

H Pelican’s Reef For 20 years, the laid-back island oasis Pelican’s Reef has been serving up super-fresh seafood in Anderson. While much of the expansive menu features breaded and fried items with

plenty of tartar sauce — choices like fried oyster po’boys or broiled grouper stuffed with crab meat, wild rice and cornbread stuffing — none of the restaurant’s diehard fans are complaining. $6-$24. 7261 Beechmont Ave., Anderson, 513-232-2526, thepelicansreef.com.

H The Precinct You can always rely on a Jeff Ruby restaurant for a big, rare steak and platters of seafood.

The Precinct, housed in a historical Romanesque-style former police precinct, was the first in a long line of Ruby steakhouses.

You can’t go wrong with a sirloin or porterhouse, named after current and past Cincinnati baseball greats. But there are other options, like blackened diver scallops or something from the tableside service menu like seafood fettuccine alfredo for two. $14-$62. 311 Delta Ave., Columbia Tusculum, 513-3215454, jeffruby.com.

Tony’s of Cincinnati A luxury steakhouse operated

by Tony Ricci, former GM of Jeff Ruby’s Precinct, serving USDA prime meats with all the toppings you could want — Oscar, au poivre, sauce béarnaise. Also features a raw bar, indulgent pastas, non-steak entrées and classic steakhouse sides. $10$65. 12110 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, 513-677-1993, tonysofcincinnati.com.

Washington Platform Established in 1875 (and reestablished in 1986), the saloon is home to an annual oyster festival and crab carnival. $4-$27.95. 1000 Elm St., Downtown, 513-421-0110, washingtonplatform.com.

VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN The Elusive Cow The owner of The Elusive Cow, Jim Fisher, wanted to create a space where eaters of every kind can sit down and enjoy something off the menu. Focused on

sustainable and organic farms, the food supports the omnivore in us all, including dishes with bison, tofu, fish and, of course, hamburgers. $6.95-$10.25. 519 Fairfield Ave., Bellevue, Ky., 859291-0269, theelusivecow.com.

Green Dog Café There are always vegan options, and the lemon hummus served with roasted red peppers, feta, marinated olives and grilled bread offers an amazing start to any meal. $5-$15. 3543 Columbia Parkway, Columbia Tusculum, 513-321-8777, greendogcafe.net.

H Happy Chicks Bakery Happy Chicks Bakery owners Jessica Bechtel and Jana Douglass began baking vegan goods together as a way to produce food that they enjoyed — foods focused on sustainability and free from preservatives and animal products — and weren’t able to find in stores.

The Northside café and bakery offers cakes, cookies, cupcakes, pies and more, all with

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with a view.” They offer fine Italian dishes from all regions, specializing in veal and fish, with sauces made in-house. The gnocchi sautéed in sage butter with pancetta melts in your mouth, and the bread pudding is the best. $7-$35. 810 Matson Place, Price Hill, 513-251-6467, pvista.com.

H Off The Vine Juice Bar We’re not talking smoothies — we’re talking nutrient-dense, cold-pressed juice funneled into a pintsized glass container. Juice heads can stop by and purchase an 8-ounce juice or 16-ounce juice in a reusable glass bottle that can be returned and recycled. Customers also will be able to purchase a set of juices and homemade nut milks for a one, three or five-day juice cleanse. $6-$10. 1218 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-305-6020, facebook.com/otvcincy.

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Glendale’s quaint village square, their from-scratch seasonal pies, made with farm-fresh eggs, sweet butter and real gardenfresh fruit, are as authentic as it gets. Prices vary. 29 Village Square, Glendale, 513-7725633, bluebirdbakery.com.

H The BonBonerie Have your cake and eat it too as the BonBonerie crew shows off their savory skills. Scones, coffee and quiche adorn the breakfast menu, but the real treat is for those with a sweet tooth. The dessert menu features tortes, cakes, pastries and old-fashioned cookies to please everyone. $5.50-$15. 2030 Madison Road, O’Bryonville, 513321-3399, bonbonerie.com.

H Brown Bear Bakery Cincinnati pastry artist Blair Fornshell does not have her own storefront yet. Unlike a lot of commercial bakeries in the city, Blair uses all-natural ingredients to create so-beautiful-you-almost-feelbad-about-eating-them desserts, such as vanilla bean scones, oat flour salty chocolate chip cookies, cacao nib rochers and brown butter cranberry almond streusel muffins. Prices vary. brownbearbakes.com.

Buona Terra

fresh, seasonal flavors and light lunch options, including sandwiches, salads and soups that are all freshly prepared from non-processed foods. $4-$7.

4035 Hamilton Ave., Northside, 513-386-7990, happychicksbakery.com.

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Loving Hut The mission behind Loving Hut is to offer affordable, healthy, vegan cuisine. The restaurant’s environment was created using many found, reclaimed and reused materials. For disposable goods like containers, cups and utensils, they choose biodegradable and/or recyclable products. Tons of paninis, wraps, sandwiches and burgers to choose from. $5.50-$8.

6227 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, 513-731-2233, lovinghut.us.

H Melt Eclectic Café Vegan, vegetarian and glutenfree diners aren’t an afterthought at Melt. But no worries, the carnivorous can feast, too. A plethora of sandwiches, wraps, soups

and salads tempt every palate.

Sandwiches include items like the veggie cheesesteak made with seitan and The Rachel, a smoked turkey sandwich with red cabbage, apple sauerkraut and Swiss cheese. $4-$10. 4165 Hamilton Ave., Northside, 513681-6358, meltcincy.com.

Park + Vine Vegan lunch counter with items like smoky potato salad, fresh kale and barbecue sliders, alongside local favorites Blue Oven Bakery and Shadeau Breads. All items are available gluten-free. $5-$8. 1202 Main St., Over-theRhine, 513-721-7275, parkandvine.com.

H The Weekly Juicery The juicery boasts an almost entirely gluten-free and vegan menu, and the staff is sensitive to just about every allergy imaginable. Their weekly juicing programs offer three, four and five-day juicing regimens in the $27 to $54 price range. 2727 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-3210680, theweeklyjuicery.com.

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H Abby Girl Sweets A from-scratch cupcakery with two locations and special, seasonal flavors. Prices vary. 4773 Glendale Milford Road, Blue Ash, 513-335-0898; 41 W. Fifth St., Downtown, 513-335-0898, abbygirlsweets.com.

Aglamesis Brothers A classic, 1900s ice cream parlor at its best, wooing foodie visitors from all around the country with its unblemished reputation for quality. The Raspberry Hot Fudge and the Banana Classique shakes are chart-toppers.

Prices vary. Multiple locations, including 3046 Madison Road, Oakley, 513-531-5196; 9899 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, 513-791-7082, aglamesis.com.

H Bluebird Bakery Twin Peaks’ Agent Dale Cooper was onto something with his interest in pairing a cup of coffee with a slice of pie. And at Bluebird Bakery in historic

European-style street food and gelato. $3-$8. 1028 Delta Ave., Mount Lookout, 513-386-9356, facebook.com/buonaterragelato.

Busken Bakery Busken Bakery opened in 1928 and quickly became a Cincinnati staple with bakery counters in grocery stores, 24-hour drive-in bakeries and delicious donuts, bread and apple pies. Their award-winning baked goods can be found in Remke-Bigg’s stores, UDF locations and 10 bakeries around the city. Hyde Park location open 24/7. $2-$6.

Multiple locations including 2675 Madison Road, Hyde Park, 513-871-2114, busken.com.

H Dojo Gelato Authentic Italian-style gelato.

Dojo Gelato loves to create unexpected flavor profiles — guacamole, bellini, honey lavender, Vietnamese coffee, etc. And they use fresh, seasonal ingredients in their creations. $2-$8.

Findlay Market, 137 Elder St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-328-9000, dojogelato.com.

Gadabout Doughnuts Gadabout is different because

it’s basically a traveling donut shop, going from event to event; the donuts are exclusive and obscure right now, and that makes them even more craveable (they’re also just really good). She uses all-natural ingredients and no preservatives — “eat better donuts” is her motto. Prices vary. gadaboutdoughnuts.com.

Graeter’s Since its founding in 1870, Graeter’s French Pot Ice Cream, handmade chocolate confections and fresh-baked goods have become traditions in the Queen City. Today, the Graeter family still faithfully uses centuryold recipes and methods of production. $2.75-$5.75. Multiple locations including 511 Walnut St., Fountain Square, Downtown, 513-381-4191, graeters.com.

H Hello Honey Everything is homemade and handcrafted from scratch at this hidden-gem ice cream parlor downtown, from the ice cream to the waffle cones to the marshmallows on top, torched by hand. Rotating creative and decadent flavors — like chocolate cayenne, honey lavender, pistachio, espresso brittle and salted caramel — are also free from artificial ingredients. That means they’re healthy, right? 633 Vine St., Downtown, 513-977-0300.

H Holtman’s Donuts In September 2013, the Loveland-based Holtman’s Donuts finally opened an OTR location, replete with a window you can peer through and watch them make donuts, like the sensational maple bacon. Homer Simpson would be so proud... and hungry. Prices vary. 1332 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-0903, holtmansdonutshop.com.

H Macaron Bar In the past, the closest thing Cincinnati had to Paris was the Eiffel Tower replica at Kings Island. Now we have Macaron Bar, the only local bakery and coffee shop specializing in the brightly colored French pastry, which offers traditional and seasonal macarons, with flavors like salted caramel, Earl Grey tea and pistachio. Prices vary.

1206 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, macaron-bar.com.

H Maverick Chocolate A bean-to-bar chocolatier in Findlay Market, made with ethically sourced cocoa beans. $8. 129 W. Elder St.,

Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/ maverickchocolate.

H O Pie O O Pie O’s handmade pies come in super seasonal flavors with a ridiculously flaky crust (apple with rosemary caramel, honey vinegar, bourbon pecan), just like their medium-sized pie, which is meant to serve four… although people have been known to down whole pies by themselves.

Prices vary. 1527 Madison Road, E. Walnut Hills, 513-274-3238, opieo.com.

OTR Candy Bar The shop feels a bit like the candy store from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, chock full of sticky sweets, an entire table devoted to out-of-the-box candies.

Then there’s an actual bar upon which a sharply dressed candy barista will make you a float using the vintage soda of your choice, dressed with a piece of old-fashioned stick candy. $2-$10. 1735 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-3812765, otrcandybar.com.

The Root Beer Stand The restaurant makes secretrecipe root beer (available by the jug) using water from the property’s 280-foot-deep well and family-recipe chili for their famous foot-long coney dogs. Prices vary.

Memorial Day-Labor Day. 11566 Reading Road, Sharonville, therootbeerstand.com.

Schneider’s Sweet Shop An old-time corner candy and ice cream store serving the area since 1939. Prices vary.

420 Fairfield Ave., Bellevue, Ky., 859-431-3545, schneiderscandies.com.

Servatii Fourth-generation family bakery, started by great-grandfather George in Muenster, Germany.

Known for their pastries, desserts and especially for their soft pretzels, which you can get in all sizes from six ounces to three pounds. $2-$8. Multiple locations including 511 Walnut St., Fountain Square, Downtown, 513-421-2253, servatiipastryshop.com.

streetpops Grown-up ice pops made from unique combinations of fresh ingredients and unexpected flavors, like papaya rosemary, Thai basil lime, peach Sriracha and many more. $3. 1437 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-446-7505, streetpops.com.

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Does your restaurant recycle? Customers notice.

Any restaurant or bar in Hamilton County is eligible to receive free assistance setting up a recycling program. Email getnoticed@hamilton-co.org, visit HamiltonCountyRecycles.org, or call 946-7766.

Check out which venues recycle at HamiltonCountyRecycles.org Not on the list? Call us at 946-7766.

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FRIDAY 23

ART: TRANSFORMED WORLDS at the Weston Art Gallery merges art and nature.

See Big Picture on page 47.

DANCE: Cincinnati Ballet performs LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS. See page 49.

ONSTAGE: Cincy Shakes’ production of DEATH OF A SALESMAN is a masterful staging. See review on page 48.

ONSTAGE: BUYER AND CELLAR is a laugh-out-loud one-man show at Ensemble Theatre. See review on page 48.

ONSTAGE: MAD RIVER RISING The Cincinnati Playhouse opens Mad River Rising, a play by Dana Yeaton that artistic director Blake Robison produced two decades ago in New Hampshire. It’s about an elderly man, escaped from a retirement home and hiding out in an old barn hayloft, defending the family farm where he grew up and grew old. The script has been updated and relocated to Ohio, so it’s a new work in many ways. It drifts back and forth in time, especially to a catastrophic 1937 flood. An insight into aging, it’s also a poetic tribute to hanging onto places with meaning. Through Nov. 14. $30-$85. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mt. Adams Circle, Mount Adams, 513421-3888, cincyplay.com. — RICK PENDER

THURSDAY 22 MUSIC: NICHOLAS DAVID turned an appearance on The Voice into a folksy Soul Pop career. See Sound Advice on page 60.

MUSIC: BRONZE RADIO RETURN brings feel-good tunes to the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 60.

MUSIC: High-energy Indie Electro Pop duo CHERUB plays 20th Century Theater.

See Sound Advice on page 60.

EVENT: BLOOM UNDER THE MOON This casual “flower power” party is held in conjunction with the Cincinnati Art Museum’s four-day biennial event Art in Bloom. On display Thursday through Sunday, the exhibit features the work of more than 60 florists, who have each created floral arrangements inspired by artwork from the museum’s collection; flowers interpret the color scheme, mood and other aspects of individual paintings or sculptures.

Bloom Under the Moon combines the artful arrangements with light bites, cocktails, wine and a DJ. 7-10 p.m. Friday. $45. 953 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, cincinnatiartmuseum.org. — EMILY BEGLEY EVENT: FALL FEST WEEKEND Between music festivals and celebrations dedicated to beer, it may seem like Washington Park is more adult-playground than actual playground. But this weekend the park transforms into a family fun zone for Fall Fest. Enjoy family-friendly movies on Friday night (Scooby Doo: Decoy for a Dog Napper at 7:30 p.m. and The Addams Family at 8:15 p.m.) and activities all day Saturday and Sunday, including a performance by the Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, magic shows, live music and even an apple pie-eating contest. 7:30-10 p.m. Friday; noon-7:30 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Free.

1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — COLLEEN MCCROSKEY MUSIC: LYFE JENNINGS Toledo, Ohio native Lyfe Jennings’ life could have been quite different, but it was actually a stint in jail (and inspiration from an Erykah Badu album) that turned things around. As soon as he was released (he was serving a 10-year sentence for arson), Jennings set about pursuing his dreams of a career in music, recording a demo and winning multiple “amateur nights” at the Apollo Theater in New York. He landed a majorlabel deal, releasing a string of critically and commercially successful albums that showcase a mix of vintage-to-modern R&B, Soul and Hip Hop, as well as his abilities as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Jennings’ sixth album, Tree of Lyfe, came out this summer. 7 p.m.

Friday. $38-$48. Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville, bogarts.com. — MIKE BREEN CONTINUES ON PAGE 44

FRIDAY 23 ATTRACTIONS: THE ART OF THE BRICK Millions of LEGO bricks are taking over the Cincinnati Museum Center. Anticipated exhibit The Art of the Brick features more than 100 artworks created by contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya using nothing other than LEGOs. Explore life-size human figures, a 20-foot-long T-Rex skeleton and replicated famous paintings, including “Starry Night” and “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” plus familiar sculptures like “The Thinker” and the Sphinx. Sawaya has also created a Cincinnati-themed piece that will be revealed when the exhibit debuts. Create your own LEGO masterpieces in the interactive Brickopolis, and don’t miss special themed days revolving around Star Wars, dinosaurs, superheroes and more. Through May 1. $19.50 adults; $12.50 children 12 and under. Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate, 513-287-7000, cincymuseum.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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COMEDY: ALEX SCOTT Alex Scott is a comedic chameleon of sorts.

Virginia locals know him as Comedy Dad, a blogger and TV personality who works for the local NBC and FOX affiliates. On his dad blog, he waxes about everything from baby wipes to the environment. On stage, though, he’s more freewheeling, recounting past experiences in the Air Force, working in a hospital and being a teacher. “I had one kid say ‘I’m gonna build a bomb and blow up this place,’ ” he tells an audience about a former student.

“You can’t even make a Valentine’s Day card, sit your ass down.” Thursday-Sunday. $15$17. Funny Bone on the Levee, Newport, Ky., funnyboneonthelevee.com. — P.F. WILSON

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THIS WEEK: 10/22 - 10/25 Alex Scott

Def Comedy Jam, Stand & Deliver, Off The Chain

NEXT WEEK: 10/30 - 11/1 Aries Spears

A Different World, Def Comedy Jam, Mad TV

Newport On The Levee UPCOMING SHOWS:

11/6 - 11/8 Carly Aquilino 11/12 - 11/15 John Morgan 12/4 - 12/6 Jessimae Peluso

Reservations a must! Call 859.957.2000 or visit www.funnyboneonthelevee.com

SATURDAY 24 ART: ETON PLACE ALLEY FESTIVAL In a rapidly transforming neighborhood like Over-the-Rhine, advocacy for historically overlooked public spaces is often left out of strategic development efforts. In an effort to combat this oversight, Cincinnati-based nonprofit Spring in Our Steps will host a pop-up art installation by artist Mary Baxter, commenting on the construct of alleyways as catalysts for fear. Baxter’s large-scale installation, Miedo, is a series of nine-foot tapestries composed entirely of clothing collected from local thrift stores, which activate window wells within the alley directly adjacent to Rhinegeist Brewery. The festival is free and will feature food and beverages, and Spring in Our Steps will offer a walking tour of the neighborhood alleys and stairways a few hours before the festivities begin. 3-7 p.m. Saturday. Free. 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/springinoursteps. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

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EVENT: CINCINNATI ART & ANTIQUES FESTIVAL This three-day extravaganza features 18thto 20th-century English, American and Continental furniture, as well as fine art, posters and prints from a distinguished group of dealers, all set up in elaborate room displays in Music Hall. Proceeds benefit the Convalescent Hospital for Children and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Noon-5 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $10 three-day admission. 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, cincinnatiantiquesfestival.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

SATURDAY 24 HALLOWEEN: FROM CINCINNATI TO THE MOON

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Jules Verne’s sci-fi classic, From the Earth to the Moon, with a costume party at the Cincinnati Observatory. The tale, which follows three men as they attempt to launch themselves onto the moon via a space gun, is perfect for some steampunk flair, so break out your best corsets, goggles and waistcoats for an evening of sci-fi discussion and moon viewing. 7-9 p.m. Saturday. $15; $10 in costume. 3849 Observatory Place, Mount Lookout, cincinnatiobservatory.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO DANCE: FINDING MYSELF IN THIS EARTH Last April Demi Reber, professor emeritus in dance at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, asked a few of her performer/choreographer friends to knock around in the studio. The resulting works will be staged at Contemporary Dance Theater’s College Hill Town Hall

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WEDNESDAY 28 FILM: LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA Doing its part to improve awareness and appreciation of contemporary international film in Cincinnati, the University of Cincinnati’s Center for Film and Media Studies is kicking off a three-film series of European movies next Wednesday with a great title — Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s droll, deadpan road picture about a Russian Rock band, 1989’s Leningrad Cowboys Go America. UC professor Todd Herzog will lead a post-film discussion. Future films are the French Little Jerusalem on Nov. 4 and the Bosnian/German Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams on Nov. 11. Advance tickets are available at the “events” page at esquiretheatre.com. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. $9.75.

Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, esquiretheatre.com. — STEVEN ROSEN

on Saturday. “Working in a Dead Woman’s Kitchen and Other Stories,” from Cincinnatibased choreographer Judith Mikita, is on the bill. So is Reber’s “Finding Myself in This Earth,” inspired by writing from David Suzuki and Wendell Berry. Others represented are Patricia Gelmini, Jill Becker, Valerie Blackwell-Truitt, Louise Smith and Rico Reid. 8 p.m. Saturday. $8-$12. 1805 Larch Avenue, College Hill, 513-591-1222, cdt-dance.org.

— KATHY VALIN

SUNDAY 25 MUSIC: Chicago trio MEAT WAVE plays MOTR Pub. See Sound Advice on page 61.

HALLOWEEN: MAINSTRASSE VILLAGE DOG COSTUME PAWRADE

MONDAY 26 HALLOWEEN: ROAST OF HARRY POTTER Put on your Slytherin robes and “Potter Stinks” badges — the Louisville Roasters is bringing its magically crude Roast of Harry Potter to the Funny Bone. Kent Carney portrays the Chosen One as he is prodded by friends and enemies alike, including the likes of Rubeus Hagrid, Severus Snape, Lord Voldemort and best friends Ron and Hermione. Sean Keller hosts the evening as Lord of the Ring’s Gandalf the Grey. Because mischief will be far from managed, the show is not recommended for underage witches and wizards. 8 p.m. Monday. $10. Funny Bone on the Levee, Newport, Ky., funnyboneonthelevee.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

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HALLOWEEN: HALLOWEEN GALA Not entirely sure what to do with yourself for Halloween? Have a costume but nowhere to go? Support a local charity and have yourself a blast at this year’s Halloween Gala, hosted

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Adapting Adeptly

The Art Academy of Cincinnati celebrates a decade in Over-the-Rhine

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enice will be no farther away than 444 Reading Road on Friday evening, when “Venezia Carnevale,” a Beaux Arts Ball hosted by the Art Academy of Cincinnati Alumni Council, takes place at the Bell Event Center.

Gondolas and an expansive landscape painted by academy students will be part of the scene for an event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the school’s move from Eden Park to Over-the-Rhine and honoring those who made the move possible.

“It was the right place at the right time, although at the time no one could have known how fast the neighborhood would change,” says John M. Sullivan, Art Academy president, who moved to Cincinnati two years ago to head the venerable art school, founded in 1869.

Now located at 1212 Jackson St., one block east of Vine Street and the Gateway Quarter, the Art Academy had a long association with the Cincinnati Art Museum and was housed next door to the Eden Park institution in its own building for decades.

The move to OTR was a major change and involved cutting its ties to the museum in order to become an independent college of art and design. It now grants degrees in graphic design, illustration, painting and drawing, photography, print media and sculpture, as well as a master’s degree in art education.

Art Academy graduates can be found in art-related jobs throughout the city as well, continuing to make their own art.

They tend to look back on their educations with pleasure and gratitude. Mike Beeghly, a 1979 graduate, is now a designer who deals with “brand identity in the built environment” and is pleased to reminisce about learning under illustration instructor Charley Harper. Beeghly says Harper used to conduct live tutorials to show students how he created his iconic illustrations.

“Watching him work and listening to him casually talk about what influenced his creative process must have been like sitting next to Socrates expounding on philosophy,” Beeghly says. “Only Charley was probably much funnier.”

Harper was himself a mid-20th-century graduate of the Art Academy, and he attended at the same time as famed wild-life artist John Ruthven. The two became firm friends.

Patrick Kunnen, a graduate from 1978, speaks of four years spent with people from all over the place, from different ethnic, economic and cultural backgrounds. “People I ordinarily would have never interacted with,” he says, “and teachers who drove you crazy with their expectations. I lost my fear of the

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unknown and learned to push on through every problem — learned to let go.”

Another graduate from the Eden Park days, Jan Brown Checco, was working with OTR youngsters on a Keep Cincinnati Beautiful project called “Vine Street Murals and Can-paign” at the time the Art Academy was preparing to move downtown.

“I was concerned for the art students who would soon be living and studying in this challenging neighborhood,” she says. But the response to the project she was involved with convinced her that students would be welcomed. Art is “something that uplifts everyone’s mood,” she says. “Art can do that.”

The small classes and “personal education” stick in the mind of Jack Hennen, a 1989 graduate, when he speaks of his Art Academy education. “The most valuable takeaway,” he says, “is the creative process I learned at AAC. It has allowed me to be quick and thorough at problem solving.”

That trait no doubt influences the predilection of Joe Wilhelm, production manager at Rookwood Pottery, in hiring academy graduates. “They are hard-working, knowledgeable and bring a passion to whatever they are working on,” Wilhelm says. “We know here at Rookwood that if we hire an Art Academy graduate, we are hiring a quality individual.”

The Art Academy, with its current enrollment hovering around 200, has the capacity to grow to around 250 bachelor of fine arts students, according to Joan Kaup, the school’s vice president for institutional advancement.

About 85 percent of students are from the Greater Cincinnati area, she says, noting that moving to OTR increased the academy’s physical footprint from 10,000-square-feet to 60,000. Now, juniors and seniors each have a studio with natural light, and students have 24-hour access to their studio spaces.

In addition to its degree programs, the Art Academy also offers classes to children, teens and adults year-round through its Community Education program. The public can stop by the school during public hours (they vary, depending on what’s going on) to inquire about classes or to take a look at temporary art exhibitions. These shows usually feature the work of current students or noted graduates.

Kaup mentions that among famous alumni is Elizabeth Nourse, who graduated early in the life of the school, in 1880, when it still was associated with the University of Cincinnati and called the School of Design. Nourse spent her painting career in France and is frequently linked with Mary Cassatt, both of whom became outstanding practitioners in a field then dominated by men. She is among the six Art Academy alumni whose work

Art Academy President John M. Sullivan says no one could have expected OTR to change so fast.

contributes to the six Master Series ArtWorks murals in downtown Cincinnati. Five of these pieces are already in place; the sixth, reflecting Nourse, will be unveiled soon.

Sullivan, in his expansively windowed office on an upper floor of 1212 Jackson St., speaks of the appropriateness of the location and the situation of the Art Academy at this point in time.

“Long-term debt has been eliminated; it’s a stable institution,” he says. “We provide higher education for professional practice.

Students are ultimately employable, but we are not a career school.”

Sullivan goes on to speak of the building’s energy when school is in session and of students’ interest in pushing an expansion of film and video classes.

“We’re content providers and makers,” he says. “It’s amazing to me what students accomplish.”

A school that goes back to 1869 necessarily moves with the times, but the Art Academy seems adept at it. ©

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Donald Kelley Brings the Outdoors Inside

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Land art — or earth art — is a term for holding gray magnesium silicate. They are when artists go outside the gallery and, often in three asymmetrical rows, and there is a using indigenous materials like soil, water vertical strip of powder — a dirt shadow — and stone, create large works that seem on the wall between rows. integrated into the surrounding natural I had an oddly good feeling looking at this, landscape. I recently wrote about a new realizing the art was making me pay attention film called Troublemakers: The Story of to its surroundings. Paintings or photographs Land Art, directed by James Crump, former on a wall don’t do that. The piece made me chief curator at Cincinnati Art Museum (see realize that gallery art need not be apart from “Land Art,” issue of Sept. 30). wherever it is. It can interact and become one When it works, it is a sublime merging with its surroundings. of art and nature — awe-inspiring. But that But it is a wary interaction. And that’s merging of art-making and “outdoors” matea metaphor, one assumes, for our shared rials can also happen inside a gallery, although it’s a difficult undertaking.

Donald Kelley, a professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP, is taking on that task currently at downtown’s Weston Art Gallery.

Transformed Worlds is on view through Nov. 8, and the work stands out for its sensitivity, thoughtfulness and ability to thoroughly transport.

Because of the subtlety, repetition and minimalism of Kelley’s work, it runs the risk Artist Donald Kelley’s “Ramps for Leonardo” of being swallowed up by its P H O T O : D o n a l d K e l ly/ w e s to n a r t g a l l e r y surroundings. He does struggle with that with his pieces in the street-level upper gallery, where the bright space on earth with nature. This is best comlight, high ceiling and alternating expanses municated in “Timeline,” which was revised of glass and stainless steel compete for this year from its 2006 creation and which attention. But in the downstairs gallery, in occupies four gallery walls (one quite small). a windowless space with white walls and a It has the same materials and general wood floor, he lets nature make its presence properties as the other pieces but is more felt. He does so in a beautiful but completely turbulent and disturbing. Almost all of unsentimental way. In fact, his vision is the steel shelves — holding powdered austere and sometimes ominous. You could clay — slightly overlap, providing a sense of cut the tension with a small garden tool. movement. The “dirt shadow” is thicker and “Five Wedges,” a 2015 piece that occupies muddier here; it looks violently splattered. one wall, might at a casual glance look like And at the ends of several shelves, sharp some paper airplanes — or small drones — metal shards protrude from the clay. They flew into a wall and got partially embedded. are not neatly arranged; they look more But they are silvery steel wedges intenlike miniature versions of newly excavated tionally placed in this location. And each is artifacts. As a result, they both symbolize packed with dry, powdered white clay, which danger and are dangerous in their own right. is neither smooth nor securely encased by And yet, as art, their shapes, color and texthe wedges’ sides. You can see cracks, ripples, ture nicely interrupt the piece’s repetition. erosions and collapsed or missing spaces.

A fourth piece in this gallery, the new You can also see where clay has spilled “Ramps for Leonardo,” has the most color and or been intentionally smeared onto the materials — small glass and steel objects surrounding wall. Particles collect along along with recycled motor oil join powdered the edge of the wooden floor and along the clay. The mixing of oil and clay produces a baseboard’s burgundy strip. (I hope whoever colorfully gunky substance, but this piece vacuums knows it’s art, not dirt — or maybe looks too obviously human-manipulated. that it’s dirt as art.)

Overall, Transformed Worlds shows Another piece on an adjacent wall, “Driftthat Kelley is someone who can bring the ing Ellipse,” strikes the same effect on a outdoors in. larger scale with darker material. It was first created in 2005 and revised this year. There CONTACT STEVEN ROSEN: srosen@citybeat.com are 20 steel shelves with sharp edges, each

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Old and New, Tragic and Comic

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Theater can take you to so many places, Willy’s successful older brother; Jim Hopkins and two shows that opened last week demonas Charley, the boisterous next-door neighbor strate the possible range — a classic modern who’s Willy’s only real friend; and Billy Chace, tragedy at Cincinnati Shakespeare and a as Charley’s nerdy son Bernard, who attains contemporary comedy at Ensemble Theatre. the success that Willy wished for his own Take your pick — they’re both winners. sons. Kelly Mengelkoch plays “The Woman,” a The production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 louche business contact with an oppressive Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Saleslaugh who Willy dallies with, and Josh Kataman is coinciding with the 100th anniverwick is Howard, Willy’s callous boss. They stir sary of the playwright’s birth. It’s unarguably the vortex of this sad man’s downward spiral. one of the great plays of the 20th century, If Miller’s sad play sounds too tragic, I can and Cincy Shakes’ artistic director recommend Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer and Brian Isaac Phillips has put together a masterful staging featuring two of our region’s finest professional actors.

Bruce Cromer pours himself into the weary nowhere man, Willy Loman, a traveling salesman at the end of his sadly frayed rope. He admits to being “a little tired,” but he’s way beyond that. He lives in a world of selfaggrandizing fantasy, haunted by his past, roads not taken and wrong-headed decisions.

He vacillates between blaming others for his plight — especially Death of a Salesman his weak-willed son Biff (Justin PHOTO : Mikki Schaffner McCombs) — and reverting to glories that never actually happened in a life that was truly humdrum.

Cellar, receiving its regional premiere at He yearns to be remembered, but of course, Ensemble Theatre. Nick Cearley’s one-man he’s not done much worthy of recollection. performance as the shopkeeper of Barbra Cromer runs the gamut from delusion to Streisand’s basement mall had me laughing regret in an anxious, wrenching performance. out loud, even when I knew what was coming.

Opposite Cromer is Annie Fitzpatrick as Inspired by Streisand’s coffee-table book, Willy’s devoted wife Linda. She clearly loves My Passion for Design, Tolins imagined an him and his efforts to provide, even while actor recruited to maintain the “shoppes” recognizing his shortcomings. She strives and provide customer service to the only to buoy him up no matter what sad turn of customer who drops by to browse, banter events boils over, but Fitzpatrick does not and barter. Cearley plays all the characters play Linda as a doormat: When she angrily — Alex the actor and his gay partner Barry, confronts Biff and his ne’er-do-well brother Streisand and her husband James Brolin as Happy (Jared Joplin) about how they’ve disapwell as Sharon, the crusty property manager pointed and angered Willy, she’s steely and of the Malibu estate. no-nonsense, defending her man, even though In a 90-minute monologue, Cearley she knows he’s as much or more to blame as slips from character to character as Alex they are. The play closes with Linda at Willy’s recounts his astonishing adventure. He graveside, almost tearlessly mourning; we conjures Streisand with simple gestures — realize that the tragedy is as much hers as his. hair-stroking, head-turning, odd diction and McCombs looks a tad boyish to be a faded, a touch of neurosis — but does so lovingly. onetime football star, but when he finally The show could become a snarky gossip-fest, stands up to his father and says he needs to but it doesn’t, thanks to Tolins’ clever writfollow his own path, it’s a show of strength ing and Cearley’s performance. Streisand — even though it leads to a sad end. He’s the and Alex don’t exactly become friends, but one who says, “We never told the truth in confidences are exchanged. And Alex is this house,” and that’s the sad reality of past strengthened by his outlandish experience. lies, denials, expectations and demands that (Find a full-length review at citybeat.com.) permeate the story. Of his father, he says, “He had all the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.”

DEATH OF A SALESMAN, presented by Cincinnati Phillips has drawn fine performances Shakespeare Company, continues through Nov. 7. from the company’s acting corps — Barry BUYER AND CELLAR, presented by Ensemble TheMulholland as the evanescent Uncle Ben, atre Cincinnati, will be onstage through Nov. 1.

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Cincinnati Ballet Brings Back a Modern Masterpiece

BY KATHY VALIN

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Imagine it’s 1998. Cincinnati Ballet is it doesn’t necessarily mean they are right performing Val Caniparoli’s choreography for Lady. These roles are so selective. for a full-length story ballet — the exquisite There are traits I want to see. Hard as the 1995 Lady of the Camellias. It’s the first dancing is, it’s not super virtuosic. It’s more time artistic director (now CEO) Victoria intimate. The pas de deux (dance for two) Morgan has chosen a ballet for her company are difficult; couples have to be matched from the up-and-coming choreographer. The up correctly. And a dancer has to be really story is from Alexandre Dumas’ Camille, good at telling a story.” the famous 1848 novel about a tragically Caniparoli explained the milieu in which doomed courtesan of the Paris demimonde, the ballet takes place. Though Marguerite is where high and not-so-high society mix in a probably only 23, she is already getting old in heady whirl of champagne, fancy balls and her world. “Plus, it’s not what we think of as fashionable romantic liaisons.

Cut to 2015. This weekend, the Ballet again presents Lady of the Camellias. It’s the 20th anniversary of the production’s premiere. Choreographer Caniparoli is now very highly regarded; perhaps the busiest choreographer in the United States, with more than 100 works to his credit. Among them: Cincinnati Ballet’s popular Frisch’s Presents The Nutcracker, which ran from 2001-2011, as well as the brilliant shorter works “Caprice” and “Vivace.”

Lady of the Camellias And, it turns out that Lady of PHOTO : Tulsa Ballet the Camellias, Caniparoli’s first full-length story ballet 20 years ago, has become nothing less than a modern a courtesan now. These women were high up masterpiece. “It’s one of the great dramatic in society,” he said. “They lived well because ballets, like Romeo and Juliet,” Boston Ballet they were held in high esteem by those who artistic director Mikko Nissinen has said. kept them.”

The lead characters are Marguerite At the center of Lady of the Camellias is Gautier, a celebrated courtesan, or kept a pas de deux that expresses the rapturous, woman, and her one true love, Armand love-at-first-sight meeting of Marguerite and Duval, whom she heroically and tragically Armand, set to a movement from Chopin’s abandons when she finds out she has con“Piano Concerto No. 1” in E minor. sumption. Today it’s called tuberculosis and Two weeks ago, Cincinnati Ballet soloists is treatable, but the wasting-lung disease Maizyalet Velázquez and partner James was almost always fatal then.

Gilmer, who have learned the roles of MarThe ballet’s drama is gloriously pushed guerite and Armand, offered their thoughts along with a romantic score by Frédéric after a rehearsal with Charla Metzker, who Chopin. Music director Carmon DeLeone is staging Lady in Cincinnati. The pair conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, explained the energy it takes to perform a pianist and two vocalists. the central “pas” and a number of intricate “Though the CSO plays for the first time steps and lifts — the ballerina is often lifted here, this ballet is still a tour-de-force high overhead, only to descend in a series of for piano,” DeLeone says. “We, again, are rapturous spirals. fortunate to have it performed for us by our “I don’t think I could do this ‘pas’ if it world-class piano soloist Michael Chertock.” wasn’t for James (Gilmer), who is very Chertock says it’s no less daunting to play strong,” Velazquez says. “There are many today. “Chopin wrote these pieces when his times in the lifts where there’s nothing I can fingers were as fast as bullets and his hands do but wait for him to lift me.” as flexible as rubber,” he says.

“At the same time,” Gilmer added, “as Caniparoli was in Cincinnati in late much as I have to be strong to pick her up September to watch the ballet’s New Works over my head, she needs to be strong in her program and some company classes. He said body, as well, to hold the all the positions.” there are 10 principal characters that need to be strong to tell the story.

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‘Beasts of No Nation’ Streams into New Frontier

BY T T STERN-ENZI

harrowing classic). Having absorbed The 40th anniversary of the Toronto punishing scenes of war in countless films, International Film Festival ushered in a few especially the more recent hyper-realistic unique changes to the longstanding event’s and immersive frames of say, Saving Priformat. For the first time, a new category vate Ryan, we know war is hell. But what — the Primetime Program — augmented Fukunaga presents is not only more relentan already world-renowned international less in its immediacy — with Agu and his film slate. The category broke through with fellow soldiers wielding guns and machetes a narrative mix that would introduce new with abandon — but also far more tragic, serials like Heroes Reborn, a continuasince the combatants are children, and tion of the NBC original series Heroes, as we have no real idea who or what they are well as a noirish thriller from Iceland — fighting for. Who is the enemy? What politiTrapped — from feature director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest), while also spotlighting special presentations such as Keith Richards: Under the Influence from Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom).

Neville’s installment in the Primetime category offers an intriguing glimpse into the future of the mixed- and emerging-media landscape, because it is an original production from the streaming service Netflix, which used TIFF as a launch pad for its Beasts of No Nation assault on distribution format PHOTO : Netflix boundaries. Besides the Keith Richards documentary, Netflix, cal and/or societal evils could ever justify with the unveiling of the new film Beasts drawing children into such a fray? of No Nation from director Cary FukuBeasts of No Nation marks the debut of naga (who also directed the first stellar Netflix as a feature-film producer, although season of the HBO anthology series True it is maintaining its position as a streaming Detective), announced itself as a player on outlet by utilizing a day and date release the feature-film stage, boldly challenging schedule that allows audiences access via the exhibition window and the rules for theaters (31 screens in select markets) and Academy Award consideration. online simultaneously. Academy Awards Beasts, the story of a young boy named guidelines stipulate that films need excluAgu (newcomer Abraham Attah) who is sive one-week exhibition in theaters prior to forcibly enlisted as a child warrior in the airing on television, but apparently online civil war of an unnamed African country streaming does not conflict with the rule. under the brutal command of a fanatically Which means that regional audiences charismatic figure known as the Commancan seek out the Academy Award-worthy dant (Idris Elba), is Fukunaga’s mesmerizwork of Idris Elba (sure to be in the discusingly grim adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s sion for Best Supporting Actor) as well as novel. The film’s raw depiction of Agu’s that of Fukunaga, who deserves to be in rapid plummet into the dark void of this contention in the Best Director category. civil war achieves its haunting brilliance Based on the box office tally (Oct. 18, in large part due to the care taken in the 2015 “Weekend Report” on moviecitynews. early stages of the narrative to show the com), Beasts only brought in approximately loving foundation the youngster had with $52,000 in ticket sales, and with Netflix his family and friends. The closest recent closely guarding its streaming views data, parallel, in terms of the personal interplay, this initial test run will likely be seen as an would actually be the Davis Guggenheim inconclusive experiment. documentary He Named Me Malala, with The question is whether this changes its focus on Malala Yousafzai’s everyday what it means when we talk about “film” exchanges with her family. and “television” as we move forward.

Of course, Beasts is fiction and Agu’s Does our conception of narratives change path is bleaker, more akin to the surreal depending upon how we view them? downward spiral of Apocalypse Now (or (Beasts of No Nation is now available on Heart of Darkness, the Joseph Conrad Netflix) — tt stern-enzi (R) Grade: Asource material for Francis Ford Coppola’s

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Halloween Vibes

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With October 31 just around the corner, there’s plenty on TV to get you in Nathan For You (10 p.m., Comedy the Halloween spirit.

Central) – Nathan suggests that a horse American Horror Story: Hotel (10 ranch cater to obese riders, helps a p.m. Wednesday, FX) – Alex struggles with women’s shop attract a male demographic reminders of Holden; The Countess’ rival and possibly commits a hate crime.

(Angela Bassett) comes for Donovan.

The Simpsons (8 p.m. Sunday, Fox) – “Treehouse of Horror XXVI” features Sideshow Bob, memory loss and radiation superpowers.

The Knick (10 p.m., Cinemax) – ThackBrooklyn Nine-Nine (8:30 p.m. ery plans his return to the Knick; Cornelia Sunday, Fox) – Peralta and Holt embark on their third annual Halloween face-off.

The Walking Dead (9 p.m.

Sunday, AMC) – Let’s see how they follow one of the best episodes of the series. JSS, y’all.

Halloween Baking Championship (9 p.m.

Monday, Food Network) – The final four bakers create edible haunted houses. With host Richard Blais and judges Carla Hall, Ron Ben-Israel and Sherry Yard, one baker will win $50,000 and the championThe Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror XXVI” ship title.

PHOTO : FOX FearFest 2015 (daily through Oct. 31, AMC) – Resident Evil, Friday the 13th and tasks Cleary with a messy job; Lucy is surLeprechaun marathons and much more. prised by a visitor; Bertie makes a change; 13 Nights of Halloween (daily Robertson advocates a new subway plan; through Oct. 31, ABC Family) – KidBarrow pushes the construction budget. friendly classics like The Addams Family and Hocus Pocus, plus scarier fare — including the Poltergeist movies.

31 Days of Halloween (daily through The Leftovers (9 p.m., HBO) – Back Oct. 31, Syfy) – The Hostel, Se7en, in Texas, Nora is woken up by the earthChildren of the Corn, The Fog and other quake and can’t find Kevin, who returns spooky flicks. later with some memory loss. The Murphys cope with the fallout of Evie’s disappearance.

Project Greenlight (10 p.m., HBO) – Empire (9 p.m., Fox) – Cookie, Anika The production crew is pushed to its and Laz put together a launch party to limit when Jason refuses to select a announce their artists and premiere a song scene location. Later, Jason arranges the

by Hakeem; Jamal collaborates with guest stunt-crash. star Ne-Yo. Modern Family (9 p.m., ABC) – Gloria is psyched to put her new citizenship to use when she’s selected for jury Fargo (10 p.m., FX) – Peggy discovers duty, leaving Jay to fly solo with Joe; Bring a new theory about the Waffle Hut Your Daughter to Work Day is a flop; Phil shooter; the hunt for Rye continues; Lou volunteers with Manny and Luke’s class. goes to Fargo.

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Nyah Higgins launched JameriSol, her Jamaican-American vegan food stand, with help from local start-up incubator MORTAR.

aims to educate new business owners and connect them to community resources.

In Higgins’ case, that resource is in the form of SCORE mentor and investor Keith Stradford, global innovation manager for Procter & Gamble. Stradford has been with Higgins throughout the MORTAR program and the launch of her Findlay Market food business.

He also helped her develop a line of healthy fruit juices called “Criss” — a Jamaican patois word meaning “good” — which will be featured at Whole Foods.

Braziel knew immediately that Higgins would be a perfect fit for MORTAR. “She had a great idea,” Braziel says. “The most important thing for us is a great idea and having a person who will actually execute that great idea. Nyah is a great example of that. If you give someone an opportunity and they already have those qualities you look for in a successful entrepreneur, then they’ll be successful. You just have to give them that chance.”

Higgins’ enthusiasm was a driving factor in her success, Braziel says. She consistently brought in new foods for her team to try out, and even though she was creating

vegetarian and vegan goods, she included her takes on classic Cincinnati fare like a vegan coney dog.

“It’s hard to be an African-American in Cincinnati,” Braziel says, “and it’s hard to be an African-American and start a business in Cincinnati. I think when you look at a lot of the programs that exist right now, most of them your typical AfricanAmerican would not feel welcome or feel that that’s not a place for them, where a program like MORTAR, Nyah said she saw three brothers and it felt like a place where she would be welcome.”

Higgins indeed felt the love.

“Cincinnati has been nothing but beautiful to me from the moment that they heard about JameriSol,” she says. “Everything happened for a reason this year. All of it I did not understand at the time — now I do, because if I wouldn’t have been at the place where I’m living now, I wouldn’t have been able to concentrate fully on JameriSol.” Find JAMERISOL at stall No. 16 at Findlay Market every Saturday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. More info: facebook.com/jamerisol.

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hen you’re homeless, it can be difficult enough to know where your next meal will come from, let alone to consider starting your own business. But with help from MORTAR, a local incubator that helps launch non-traditional entrepreneurs, that’s exactly what JameriSol’s Nyah Higgins did. JameriSol offers a line of Jamaican-American-inspired vegan foods and beverages available at Findlay Market.

“I’ve always had some issues with lowpaying jobs,” Higgins says. “They didn’t always afford me the ability to keep a roof over my head, and last year I found myself shelter-less again.”

“I was working a packaging job and I was down at the Drop Inn Center,” she continues.

“I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, if I keep doing this I’m gonna end up right back here again, so what can I do differently?’ I decided I was going to take a chance on myself and use the God-given talents that I have — I’m good with people and I’m good with food.”

Health issues forced the mother of three and grandmother of 10 to reform her diet.

“My food is still the same type of stick-toyour-ribs-type food that I like, but I just use better ingredients so it’s not really sticking to your ribs,” she says.

Inspired by her grandmother’s recipes, Higgins focuses on tradition but removes all animal products. She replaces goat and chicken — meats typically used in Jamaican jerk — with tofu, and uses the more nutritious black rice as a base for most of her dishes.

Higgins also prepares the traditional Caribbean dish Callaloo, which is made with leaves from the amaranth plant, with local greens.

It was during a conversation with Meggie Kingsley, service coordinator at CityLink, that Higgins found out about MORTAR. “The first day I was at CityLink I was talking to Meggie about food for hours,” Higgins says. “She said that I would be great for this program called MORTAR, and I said, ‘Hook me up with these guys.’ ” One part of the application asked candidates to upload a business plan. Higgins had no idea how to create one.

“So that’s what I put on my application,” she says. “You know, that’s what I need you guys for.”

About a week later, Derrick Braziel, MORTAR’s field director, called Higgins and said she was exactly the type of person the program was looking for.

“I had to go outside and yell,” Higgins says.

“I was really excited and happy about that.”

MORTAR’s entrepreneur program involves a nine-week course based on curriculum first proven and pioneered by LAUNCH Chattanooga, a program that

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“I really wanted to do something a little different and interesting for the Cincinnati craft cocktail community,” Trevino says. “I wanted to create a menu that was a little bit more basic and straightforward that you didn’t need a history book.”

The bar takes its namesake from The Shining’s Overlook Hotel, and Trevino desired to create “tiny homages to The L-R: Overlook Lodge co-owners Otto Baum and Jacob Trevino Shining without being tacky.”

PHOTO : JES SE FOX It’s not his all-time favorite movie — that would be It’s A Wonderful Life — but he hopes to pull blackberry tea — a cocktail version of his people in with the theme and a bucolic grandma’s sweet tea. “There’s a lot of Southsetting. The Shining nuances appear in the ern influence in what I do,” Trevino says. “I bar’s aesthetics: a streak of red light on the like really big flavors.” The Hatchet is “Midbar itself, wallpaper with a pattern from the west spicy,” made with tequila, ginger liqueur, movie, a giant fireplace and hearth, drinks fresh lime and a Spanish-spiced rim; the named Writer’s Block and The Hatchet. And bloody mary is made with a housemade mix, they plan on throwing a New Year’s Eve smoked vodka and topped with “American party to commemorate the ambiguous 1921 beer” foam, aka Bud Light Lime. They also NYE/July Fourth photo in the movie. plan to have local beers, wines and bourTrevino grew up in Texas, lived in Austin, bons and beef jerky from Hillje Smokehouse Houston and New Orleans and moved to in Hillje, Texas and trail mix to snack on.

Cincinnati in July 2013 from Lake Charles, The setting of Pleasant Ridge is vital to the La., to be with his fiancée, Katie Fraser, a bar, mainly because the suburb is experipartner in Gorilla Cinema and The Overlook. encing a renaissance, with Grand Central (Lifelong Pleasant Ridger Otto Baum is Delicatessen, Nine Giant Brewing and Share: another business partner.)

Cheesebar opening on the block. Trevino If all the construction is completed wanted to do something for the neighborhood, on time, the bar will have a soft opening for those who eschew venturing to OTR’s saton Halloween and will probably loop a urated scene. “I think your Friday, Saturday screening of The Shining, which won’t night crowd, they want the best bang for their be screened frequently after Halloween. buck,” he says. “They want to go somewhere Otherwise, they’ll show Bengals games where they can have more than just a drink and nature documentaries and have live — they want to have an experience. That’s Bluegrass bands on the weekends. why we really want to do the theme. It’s one Before owning Overlook, Trevino was the of those things where ‘It’s Saturday night, let’s bar manager at OTR’s Salazar until last year, go check out that Shining bar.’ ” and he worked at Molly Wellmann’s Myrtle’s Punch House until this summer. “(Jose) SalaOVERLOOK LODGE will be located at 6083 Montzar taught me restraint,” he says. “If you go gomery Road, Pleasant Ridge. More info: facebook. to Mita’s or any of his restaurants, his food is com/overlooklodge. very simple, and you’ll see that.”

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Fat Heads Beer Dinner — Moerlein Lager House chefs prepare a multi-course meal to be paired with brews from Fat Heads brewery. 6 p.m. $55. Moerlein Lager House, 115 Joe Nuxhall Way, The Banks, Downtown, moerleinlagerhouse.com.

In Season: Apples — Celebrate fall’s bounty with this cooking class devoted to using apples in new ways in recipes. 6-8 p.m. $70. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.

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Fundamentals of Pairing Wine and Food — Never be intimidated by a wine list again! The class features multiple tasting courses paired with specific wines. 6:309:30 p.m. $85. Midwest Culinary Institute at Cincinnati State, 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, culinary.cincinnatistate.edu.

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Daniel Wayne returns to Cincinnati with an all-star vengeance for his debut full-length album

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been doing it since I was a little kid, and I must have some aptitude for it.’ That’s when I got serious about it,” Wayne says. “Then Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Social Distortion, Rancid and all that came around.”

After leaving college, Wayne started doing open mics around town, including at the Crow’s Nest in Price Hill. It was there he was christened with his first nicknames.

“Captain Mike used to play at the Crow’s Nest, and he was kind of a mentor to me,” Wayne says. “I didn’t start playing guitar until relatively late. I could write songs, but I couldn’t necessarily play guitar that well, and Mike would say, ‘You’re not working hard enough.’ They started calling me Boy Band Dan and Handsome Dan, and it would was like, ‘Handsome Dan has one song again.’ And I was like, ‘C’mon, I feel good about this song.’ It pissed me off, so I only wrote for about a year, then I played (the song) ‘Pub’s Crawl’ at one of the open mics, and Mike was like, ‘Who wrote that?’

And I said, ‘I wrote that.’ And he was like, ‘OK, now you’re getting somewhere.’ They were busting my balls, but that’s when they started letting me in.”

In 2004, Wayne took his best friends’ advice and got out of Cincinnati, moving to New York City. After a decade of living, working and playing in Brooklyn, he felt it was time for a change of scenery.

After several years away, Daniel Wayne returned to CIncinnati and recorded his debut full-length.

“I opened for Shawn Mullins, Heartless Bastards and Suzanne Vega, a lot of cool people, and I was doing well, but things weren’t coming around the way I wanted them to,” Wayne says. “I read this thing by Townes Van Zandt, and he was like, ‘If shit gets old, shake shit up.’ ” After moving to Nashville, Tenn., for a few months, Wayne decided to return to Cincinnati, where he set up shows and started a duo with Seiwert, which led to the formation of the Silver Lines. While working on his live presence, he also began recording with Olive.

There’s a My Morning Jacket/Avett Brothers/Wilco vibe to Wayne’s debut album.

Wayne admits to loving and being influenced by a wide variety of music, but he also acknowledges his place in the process.

“I don’t try to sound like anybody, but there are things that I think would sound cool — ‘I want it to sound a little like this, a little like that,’ ” he says. “You get your own recipe going and have it come from your own voice, and you’ll be all right.”

Organic seems to be the key to Wayne’s newfound success back home. He met Olive when they played on a bill together in New York years ago and they kept in touch. He saw Perfect Children and asked Kreft to be a part of the album. And Olive put together the murderer’s row of talent that filled the sessions.

Wayne asked Alletzhauser if he’d like to sit in with him and Seiwert one night and the result was so seamless he asked the guitarist to join his band. A rehearsal at Alletzhauser’s Batcave space led to a meeting with Harris.

And he met Lamping through a mutual friend, which resulted in a night of drinking and conversation at a local bar that gave him all of the information he needed.

“I thought, ‘I don’t know if he’ll fit, but I like this guy,’ ” Wayne says of Lamping. “So me and Tim and Mike played and in the first 10 seconds we were like, ‘Yeah, this is it.

This is perfect.’ ” This version of the Silver Lines has been playing since earlier this year, but gigs have been sporadic, given the schedules of everyone involved. But the future is looking shadesbright for Wayne; he’s got new management, and the self-released album, already available locally, will be distributed to the wider world toward the end of the year.

“My primary goal is to tour and play shows,” Wayne says. “If a label comes around, we’ll see what happens. Right now, I just want to play, hopefully sell some CDs and T-shirts and make enough money to keep going.”

For more on DANIEL WAYNE AND THE SILVER LINES visit facebook.com/DWATSL.

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ike a modern-day Dorothy, Daniel Wayne left his home and traveled to remote locales to chase his heart’s desire, only to find that his greatest opportunities and potential for next-level success were right where he started. On his journey, Wayne was known by many alternate nicknames, some snarkily derogatory, some humorously appropriate, but now that he’s returned to Cincinnati, he’s simply Daniel Wayne, and he and his new band, the Silver Lines, have just released an atmospheric and rootsy self-titled Country/Folk/Rock album that could stand with the best of the year.

There are two different versions of the Silver Lines — the one that Wayne and Cincinnati-based producer Brian Olive assembled for the sessions that resulted in the band’s debut full-length (including Olive, guitarists Johnny Walker and Chris Surface, pedal-steel player Cameron Cochran, Newbees drummer Tim Seiwert, Perfect Children’s Kristen Kreft, The Hiders’ Beth Harris, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Paul Patterson and ex-Greenhorne Jared McKinney), and the one that Wayne put together to play his songs live (Seiwert, Kreft, Harris, The Hiders’ Billy Alletzhauser and former Heartless Bastards bassist Mike Lamping).

Both entities are stacked decks of local talent, lending more than a little credibility to Wayne’s material that already bristles with contemporary verve and classic timelessness.

“Man, I’m telling you, I’m humbled to be playing with these people,” Wayne says over lunch. “I’m really fortunate and extremely thankful.”

A Cincinnati native, Wayne began writing songs on a Casio at age 8. His parents sang in church, but he may have absorbed the bulk of his musical talent from his maternal grandmother and aunt.

Throughout junior high and high school, Wayne played trumpet in the school band, while, with his friends, he continually wrote songs.

“My friends and I would write songs and, on my own, my mom gave me an organ that I would constantly play and write stuff,” Wayne says. “But I never thought that was something that a lot of people did, it was just this thing I do. I didn’t know it was a thing. I didn’t have any aspirations.”

After high school, Wayne attended the University of Cincinnati, but dropped out before finishing his degree. While trying to figure out what to do with his life, he finally decided to follow his true passion.

“I was talking to an older guy at a job and he said, ‘What do you do when you’re not doing this?’ And I said, ‘Writing music.’ And I thought, ‘I should just focus on this. I’ve

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‘Clockwork’ Petition Auctioned It appears silly, useless petitions didn’t start with the Internet. A letter from 1968 petitioning the makers of a film version of Anthony Burgess’ book A Clockwork Orange to hire The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger for the lead role will go up for auction at the end of the month. The petition, signed by all of The Beatles and other big-name pals, was in protest of the casting of David Hemmings in the role (ultimately, censors banned the original script and Malcolm McDowell starred in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 version). Legend has it that Jagger — who had reportedly bought the film rights from Burgess for $500, but sold them off for a profit — wanted his co-Stones to co-star and The Beatles to create the soundtrack.

Label for Sale You can now play global conglomerate and purchase your very own record label. Canadian “extreme and underground Metal/Noise” imprint Handshake Inc. is on sale for $5,000. If you’re worried about the hassle of such a transaction, fear not — Handshake’s sale was posted on Craigslist, so you may even be able to buy it with your PayPal account. The listing says the sale includes the label’s back catalog, royalties, international distribution channels and remaining stock, as well as 2,000 Twitter followers and 2,000 Facebook likes. And lest you think this is a joke, the listing makes it clear that it is accepting “serious inquiries only.”

R.I.P. (Again) Cassettes The “cassette revival” was an interesting little music trend for a while there, seemingly fueled by “ironic” music fans who weren’t around to remember just how fragile tapes were and how awful they sounded. But the trend appears to truly be over now that Urban Outfitters, one of the major retailers supporting that other format fad (vinyl), has announced that several of its stores will carry cassette versions of new Indie albums. The stores will also reportedly sell new players upon which customers may listen to their new tapes (until they break, unravel or get eaten by said player).

Greg Dulli Solo-Tours Ahead of New Afghan Whigs LP

BY MIKE BREEN

Hamilton, Ohio native Greg Dulli, frontman for Cincinnati-spawned AltRock greats The Afghan Whigs, recently announced a worldwide solo tour that will hit churches, a synagogue and small theaters in 31 cities in 11 countries across the world. The show, dubbed “An Evening with Greg Dulli” and featuring a “stripped-down band” running through songs from throughout the singer/ songwriter’s career (along with new tunes), comes to Over-the-Rhine’s Woodward Theater on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17).

Tickets are $25 and officially go on sale Friday through cincyticket.com, but special presale tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. (use the password “Dulli2016”). Comedian, poet and storyteller Derrick Brown is slated to open the 8 p.m. show.

In conjunction with the tour announcement, Dulli made his excellent cover of singer Sharon Van Etten’s song “A Crime” (featuring guest vocals from Ani DiFranco) available as a free download through gregdulli.com.

The Afghan Whigs — with ex-Greenhornes/Raconteurs drummer Patrick Keeler, who joined the group last year, behind the kit, and John Curley, the only other founding member of the band, on bass — are currently working on the follow-up to the critically acclaimed comeback album, 2014’s Do to the Beast. The new Whigs album will be released on SubPop Records in 2016. In response to fans expressing disappointment that his solo tour was skipping their town, on his Instagram account, Dulli said the Whigs will be back on the road next year to play many of the cities skipped on this current go-around.

More Local Notes • On-the-rise Cincinnati Country singer/ songwriter Taylor Shannon will be celebrating his new album, Home & Tennessee, with a release party/Halloween shindig this Saturday at Bogart’s (2621 Vine St., Corryville, bogarts.com). Home & Tennessee is the follow-up to Shannon’s 2014 debut, Old Soul, and he and his band have been touring regionally and garnering fan and industry attention over the past couple of years.

Doors open at 7 p.m. Saturday and Billy Brown and the Michael Wayne Stacey Band open. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 day of show. Visit taylorshannonband. com for more info on Shannon.

• Two Cincinnati acts — Blues/Rock group Silver Pockets Trio and AltRock crew Blame the Gun — are teaming up for a double-release party in honor of each acts’ new EP this Saturday at Madison Live (734 Madison Ave., Covington, madisontheateronline.com/madison-live). Since it’s the season, the show is also a Halloween party, and fans are encouraged to come in costume.

Greg Dulli will play Cincinnati March 17.

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Tickets for the all-ages 9 p.m. show (with special guest Here Come Here opening) are available for $10 through cincyticket. com or $12 at the door.

• Fresh off of an appearance at the Old Flame Records showcase (among other appearances) at the huge CMJ conference/ festival in New York City, local AltRock quintet Automagik is set to release its new EP, Dark Daze, in conjunction with a Friday night show at The Drinkery (1150 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, drinkeryotr.com). (There do not appear to be any mandates regarding costumes for this show, though the band probably wouldn’t be mad if you showed up wearing one.) Automagik goes back on the road after the hometown show, with dates booked across the Midwest and on the East Coast through early December.

Friday’s 10 p.m. show is free and also features performances by Fluffer and Go Go Buffalo. Visit automagikmusic.com to sample the band’s music.

• Fall Fest Weekend at Washington Park (1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org) is a free, family-friendly event running Friday-Sunday. Along with magic and puppet shows, a pie-eating contest, theatrical presentations and kid movie screenings, there will also be some solid local music. On Saturday, catch the Casey Campbell Folk Trio (3:30 p.m.), The Whiskey Shambles (5:30 p.m.) and The Magic Lightnin’ Boys (7:30 p.m.). Sunday’s musical lineup includes Bulletville (4:30 p.m.) and Jake Speed & the Freddies (5 p.m.). Visit Washington Park’s website for the full schedule.

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Piano. Free.

BLOC Coffee Company - Open mic with Brian Ramirez. Various. Free.

Bella Luna - RMS band. Soft Rock/ Jazz. Free.

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Eli’s BBQ - Mipso (6:30 p.m.).

Folk/Americana/Bluegrass. Free.

The Drinkery - Josh Berwanger H Band with Sweet Ray Laurel and Good English. Indie Rock. Free.

HD Beans and Brews Café - Sonny Moorman. Blues. Free.

MOTR Pub - Red Hot Rebellion with LZRPNY. Rock. Free.

Madison Live - Heyrockko with Cold Front and The Elwins. Rock. $5, $7 day of show.

Grandview Tavern & Grille - Chris Cusentino. Acoustic. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Fish Head. Various.

Free.

The Greenwich - Apollo @ The Greenwich featuring Weapons of Mass Seduction and more. R&B/Hip Hop/ Adult Contemporary/Spoken Word/ Various. $5.

Miller’s Fill Inn - Music By Andrew.

Acoustic. Free.

MOTR Pub - You, You’re Awesome with Howell Dawdy. Indie/Electronic/ Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Leftover Crack with Everyday Objects, All Torn Up, Days N Daze and White Cop. Punk/Hardcore. $15.

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Plain Folk Cafe - Open mic with Crystal Judge. Various. Free.

Madison Theater - Machine Gun Kelly with King Los and Dub O. Hip Hop. $30, $35 day of show.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Lil Red & The Rooster and Ricky Nye. Blues. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Jeff Thomas & Angie Holt. Roots. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival H Room) - Bronze Radio Return with The Roosevelts. Americana/Roots/

Meritage - Sonny Moorman. Blues.

Free.

Northside Tavern - Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke. Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - A Film in Color with Ethicist and Great Dane. Post Rock/ Doom/Post Hardcore/Various. Free.

Rock/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Patrick Sweany with Lilly Hiatt. Blues/ Various. $12, $15 day of show.

Julian’s Deli & Spirits - Ricky Nye. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

Knotty Pine - Final Order. Rock. Cover.

MOTR Pub - Motel Beds with H Moira.

Rock. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Doug Hart Band.

Blues. $4.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - The Cla-Zels.

Rock. Free.

Myrtle’s Punch House - Billy Alletzhauser, Beth Harris & John Ford of The Hiders. Indie/Rock/Roots/Various. Free.

Northside Tavern - Saintseneca H with The Sidekicks and Yowler.

Indie/Folk/Rock. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Halvsies, Catl and The Stealth Pastille. Indie/Blues/ Rock/Pop/Various. Free.

Peecox Erlanger - Saving Stimpy.

Rock. $5.

Plain Folk Cafe - Marc Delgado.

Acoustic. Free.

Pompilios - Annette Shepherd. Jazz/ Pop. Free.

The Redmoor - Soul Pocket. Dance/ Pop/R&B. $10.

Rick’s Tavern - DV8 with Wendy Lee Oakley. Rock. $5.

Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing. Acoustic. Free.

Urban Artifact - Sammy Miller and the Congregation. Big Band/Jazz. Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - Mamadrones with Buffalo Wabs & Casey Campbell. Blue-

Walt’s Hitching Post - Bob Cushing (6:30 p.m.). Acoustic. Free.

Rock Bar and Lounge (Horseshoe Cincinnati) - DJ Fuseamania. DJ/ Dance. Free.

grass/Folk/Americana. Free.

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Stanley’s Pub - Singer/Songwriter Night featuring Justin Payne. Singer/ Songwriter. Free.

The Listing Loon - Lil Red & The Rooster and Ricky Nye. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

Urban Artifact - Blue Wisp Big Band.

Big Band Jazz. Free.

Bella Luna - Blue Birds Trio. Classic Rock/Jazz.

Bogart’s - Lyfe Jennings. R&B/ H Soul. $38-$48.

Boone County Public Library, Main Branch - Whiskey Bent Valley (7 p.m.).

Bluegrass. Free.

Rohs Street Café - Kelly Hoppenjans and Jake Kolesar. Indie/Pop/Folk.

Shady O’Grady’s - Bob Cushing.

Acoustic.

Silverton Cafe - Big Trouble Blues Band. Blues/Rock. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - The Cousin Kissers. Country. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - JetLab with The Electric Grandmother and Catscan!. Indie/ Rock/Electronic. $5.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Hits And Grins. Country/Comedy. $25, $28 day of show.

College Hill Coffee Co. - Raison d’Etre.

Folk. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Wanyama with Nevele and Dr. Foxcroft. Funk/Hip Hop/Rock/ Electronic/Jam. Cover.

20th Century Theater - Cherub with Hippie Sabotage. Electro/Funk/Pop/ Dance. $18, $20 day of show.

The Comet - Dr. Paul with J Dorsey Band and Anteater Apocalypse. Indie Pop. Free.

Thompson House - Cage with Mc Ekoh, Lazy Ass Detroyer and BloodWerks.

Industrial/Alt/Rap/Various. $15.

Crow’s Nest - Chris Bell and Dan Van Vechten. Acoustic. Free.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Drew Hauck. Jazz. Free.

The Drinkery - Automagik (EP H release show) with Fluffer. Indie Rock. Free.

The Underground - Battle of the Bands with Friday Giants, Kyle Hackett, Stratford, Break & Run, Mask Of The Charlatan. Various. Cover.

1215 Wine Bar and Coffee Lab - Benjamin Thomas, Peter Gemus & Tony Franklin. Jazz. Free.

Aronoff Center for the Arts - The Mersey Beatles. Beatles tribute. $39-$49.

Crow’s Nest - The Newbees. Rock/ Pop/Various. Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Real Live Humans. Pop/Rock/Country/Soul. Free.

Urban Artifact - Raised by Wolves, H Valley High, Flowhio and J.Al. Hip Hop. Free.

Jim and Jack’s on the River - Kenny Welch Band. Country. Free.

The Venue Cincinnati - Pandora Effect.

Rock. Free.

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Nicholas David with Dawg Yawp Thursday • Woodward Theater The third season of The Voice boasted a strong slate of contenders, but none were as accomplished or as singularly unusual as Saint Paul, Minn.’s Nicholas Mrozinski.

By the time Mrozinski made the cut to appear on the 2012 edition of the NBC vocal competition program, the soulful hippie had already put out several releases on his own label (including his 2004 debut, Four Legged Light, and 2008’s The Sacred Play of Life) and earned the nickname “The Feelin’,” also the name of his longtime band.

Further distinguishing himself among the field of young hopefuls, the early-30s Mrozinski was married with two kids (plus a third on the way), and was taking a break from his active gigging schedule for a shot on The Voice.

Winding up on CeeLo Nicholas David Green’s team, MrozinPHOTO : PROVIDED ski (who started going by “Nicholas David,” his first and middle name, when he made the show) told America about his battle to maintain sobriety, his weight issues and his spiritual journey.

After providing some of the season’s most memorable moments (a stirring spin on Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On”; a tearful rendition Bronze Radio Return of Joe Cocker’s “You PHOTO : Z ACKERY MICHAEL Are So Beautiful” sung to his pregnant wife), Mrozinski notched a third-place finish.

After The Voice, Mrozinski returned to his working-musician career; his TV exposure led to him performing the national anthem at a Minnesota Vikings home game and playing at one of Barack Obama’s many inaugural balls. In the summer of 2013, Mrozinski issued an iTunes-exclusive EP called Say Goodbye, which was described as a cross between Mumford & Sons and Maxwell and landed in the Top 50 on Billboard’s album chart.

Last year, Mrozinski dropped his seventh recording, the well-received six-cut Make Hope. Perhaps most importantly, Nicholas Mrozinski uses his raised profile to work with a number of children’s charities — he was recently named Ambassador of Love for the humanitarian Smile Network International organization — and he runs his Wake the

World label as a green business. And that’s how you make a local/global difference with folksy Soul Pop and an appearance on an innocuous talent show. (Brian Baker) Bronze Radio Return with The Roosevelts Thursday • Southgate House Revival It’s so easy to wind up jaded by new music. In a world where even the “influencers” have blatant and utterly trite influences, where can we find new music that isn’t already tired and played out? Bronze Radio Return hopes to turn up in your search.

The East Coast sextet doesn’t exactly offer up something entirely new. However, Bronze Radio Return takes what Top 40 listeners love about Pop Rock and brings it to the next level. Infectious beats? Got ’em. Uplifting lyrics? They’re nailing them, song after song. The band’s new album, Light Me Up, isn’t even a week old and the track “Keep or Lose” has already been obsessively memorized.

There’s not a single track on Light Me Up that won’t make feet dance across floors and knuckles knock on desks.

Bronze Radio Return is not for the cynical, though. Tracks like “Build a Stage” are straight out of the optimistic discographies of bands like OneRepublic and Imagine Dragons. Shuffling your feet just isn’t good enough. Light Me Up is meant to be danced to, smiled about and shouted along with.

If you want to experience an entirely immersive, cult-like form of happiness, go see these dudes this week. Bronze Radio Return will delight every Pop-lovin’, goodday-havin’ fan in the crowd. (Deirdre Kaye) Cherub with Hippie Sabotage Thursday • 20th Century Theater Someone needs to check Nashville, Tenn.’s water supply, because the only explanation for the incredible diversity within the city’s current music scene might be some sort of hallucinogenic creativity drug delivered straight through everybody’s taps.

The latest case in point is Cherub, the high-energy Indie Electro Pop duo of Jordan

Meat Wave with The Dirty Nil Sunday • MOTR Pub Chicago threesome Meat Wave’s name apparently causes giggles and results in a lot of questions (fair enough, as it was reportedly taken from the headline of a 12-year-old story from The Onion: “Dozens Dead In Chicago-Area Meatwave”). But the group’s name isn’t (or at least shouldn’t be) as head-turning as its vibrant take on modern Post Punk, displayed magnificently on Meat Wave’s recent full-length (and debut

for the esteemed SideOneDummy Records), Delusion Moon.

The trio — singer/guitarist Chris Sutter, bassist Joe Gac and drummer Ryan Wizniak — came together in 2011 in an effort to start a project that was a bit more of an aggressive outlet than the members’ other bands at the time. As evidenced by the following year’s great self-titled/self-released nine-track album, the chemistry between the three musicians was instant. And while certainly intense, forceful and cathartic, the sound Meat Wave forged isn’t a chaotic blur, marked instead by a melodic finesse and well-crafted, memorable songwriting and arrangements.

As Delusion Moon’s two-minute title/ kick-off track shows from the onset, in the three years since that self-titled release, Meat Wave has honed its compelling sound into something sharp and bracing, yet also accessible and with the ability to reach fans of a variety of genres. The songs are punchy and lyrically mix humor, personal musings and non-didactic, socially aware commentary.

But the snarling-tosoaring melodies have a caressing effect, creating a riveting balancing act that Meat Wave presents with unwavering confidence.

You can hear echoes of Chicago’s Post Punk legacy — and, yes, as is often noted in reviews, fans of Hot Snakes will dig the band — as well as other ’90s Indie Rock fare (the new album could’ve been released on a label like Touch and Go or SubPop were it released in 1996), but Delusion Moon grinds with distinction. It’s one of this year’s finest Rock records and is hopefully just a hint of things to come from the Chicago crew. (Mike Breen)

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Kelley and Jason Huber, who have lit up YouTube with millions of views of the clip for their single “Doses and Mimosas” and stormed up the charts with their Columbia Records debut album, Year of the Caprese.

Kelley and Huber met at Middle Tennessee State University while both were enrolled in the music-education program. In 2010, the pair turned their five-year friendship into a musical partnership when Kelley emailed Huber seven tracks he’d written and recorded. The following year, Cherub released its first EP, Man of the Hour. In 2012 after a relentless road grind, Cherub dropped its digital-download full-length, MoM and DaD. The band had conjured a big buzz (on the road and online), and Columbia Records took notice, signing the duo at the end of 2013 and re-releasing “Doses and Mimosas,” which rocketed up Billboard’s Rock Airplay and AlterCherub native Songs charts.

P H O T O : F o r d Fa i r c h i l d At least part of Cherub’s success can be attributed to the fact that the duo has not limited its exposure to a single audience type, opening shows for Electronic groups as well as Indie Rock/Jam bands, including Sound Tribe Sector 9 and Umphrey’s McGhee.

The Columbia connection hasn’t hurt either; Meat Wave just after the May P H O T O : K at i e H o v l a n d release of Year of the Caprese, the label reissued Man of the Hour, making it available digitally for the first time. Cherub now has a touring band to flesh out its sound and a mind-blowing stage production to keep even the heartiest of partiers fully engaged in the proceedings.

Don’t be put off by the cute name; Cherub is anything but cherubic. (BB)

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Daddies, Straw Boss, Keith Jones & The Makeshifts, Cherry Lee & The Hot Rod Hounds, Jane Rose And The Deadend Boys, Vice Tricks and more (free car show 12-6 p.m.; music fest 8 p.m.).

Rockabilly/Rock&Roll/Various. $12, $15 day of show (whole house show).

Stanley’s Pub - Vibe & Direct with Eyeris Wide. Jam/Funk/Hip Hop. Cover.

Taqueria Mercado - Ricky Nye. Blues/ Boogie Woogie. Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 70s Pop/Rock/ Dance/Various. $5.

Urban Artifact - Ned and the Dirt with Jim Casto. Rock/Folk. Free.

Legends Nightclub - The Slam-Clickers Band. Rock/Alt/Jazz. $5.

The Listing Loon - Nic Powers & ★ Brendan Bogosian, Bill Alletzhauser and Steve Wethington. Acoustic/Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - Buffalo Killers with Amplified Heat. Rock. Free.

★ Madison Live - Blame the Gun/Sil★ ver Pockets Trio (double EP release show) with Here Come Here. Rock/Pop/ Blues/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Jay Jesse Johnson. Blues. $3.

MONDAY 26 Bogart’s - Mat Kearney with Parachute.

Pop/Rock/Alt. $23.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Acoustic Jam with John Redell & Friends. Acoustic/ Blues/Various. Free.

The Underground - Andy Mineo with Propaganda and SPZRKT. Hip Hop. Cover.

Lawrenceburg Event Center - Terri Clark. Country. $20-$25.

Urban Artifact - Bruno Mangueira with Phil DeGreg. Brazilian jazz. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctu★ ary) - Southgate House Hot Rod Revival & Music Fest with The Krank

The Fling Barn - Richard Lynch Band.

Country. $7.

Knotty Pine - Pandora Effect. Rock. Cover.

Thompson House - Marc Delgado with Cream & Sugar and Misnomer. Rock/ Blues/Various. $10.

Silverton Cafe - Night Owls. Blues/ Soul/R&B/Rock/Various. Free.

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Jim and Jack’s on the River - The Dan Varner Band. Country. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Sunday Night Open Jam. Various. Free.

The Comet - Naytronix with Lazy ★ Heart.

Experimental Pop. Free.

MOTR Pub - Margo and the Price ★ Tags. Country. Free.

Rohs Street Café - Darren Benton Quintet featuring Emily Jordan. Jazz.

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Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Strung Like A Horse (5 p.m.). Roots/ Rock/Various. Free.

Thompson House - Trevor Hall with Peridoni. Reggae/Jam/Folk/ Acoustic/Various. $15.

McCauly’s Pub - Open jam with Sonny Moorman. Blues. Free.

Molly Malone’s Irish Pub (Covington) - Bluegrass Jam Session. Bluegrass. Free.

Northside Tavern - Northside Jazz Ensemble. Jazz. Free.

Urban Artifact - Dolores de Huevos.

Punk. Free.

TUESDAY 27 1215 Wine Bar and Coffee Lab - Benjamin Thomas & Peter Gemus.

Jazz. Free.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Diamond Jim Dews. Blues. Free.

Bogart’s - Raheem DeVaughn and Leela James. R&B. $23.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Bob Ross. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

BrewRiver GastroPub - Danilo Fusaro.

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20th Century Theater - Honor Flight Fantastic Forties Day with Frankly Speaking and Jump N Jive Big Band (2-7 p.m.). Pop/Rock/Dance/Swing. $25 (benefit for/celebration of veterans).

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Fitton Center For Creative Arts - Music Cafe with Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers and more. Bluegrass/ Various. Free.

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