10 of a best restaurants and bars in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati

Near Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine — Photo pleasantness of iStock / Jason M. Hazard

In 2001, riots caused Over-the-Rhine (OTR) to tumble into disrepair. It took some-more than a decade for tools of a area to reconstruct and turn what it is today, a gentrifying place filled with different restaurants, bakeries, breweries, wineries, boutiques, bagel shops, coffee shops, song venues, an old-school arcade, cocktail bars, The Mini Microcinema, film fests, extract bars, a open swimming pool and parks.

Basically, OTR is a food heart of Cincinnati with Findlay Market representing a epicenter. Though a liquid of growth is commencement to strech oversaturation in certain parts, new independently-owned businesses (and a few chains) open monthly. Most businesses and residences are housed inside easy colorful Italianate structures built in a 1800s. And all is clustered together, that creates it easy to bound from one place to another.

Whereas Vine Street contains a many eateries, Main Street, a few blocks away, offers a quieter nonetheless still buzzy array of establishments. In new years, many inhabitant publications have created about OTR’s scene, so this list reflects some of a inestimable spots that don’t get lonesome as frequently and also some particular new places that have non-stop in a past year. However, you’d be hard-pressed to find common food and splash in OTR.

Locoba by Platform

Drink splash and nitro coffee during Platform. — Photo pleasantness of Garin Pirnia

In 2014, Platform Beer Company non-stop in Cleveland, though in Feb 2019, they non-stop a sun-filled taproom on Main Street in OTR – their initial incursion into a Cincinnati market. The taproom barrel-ages some beers (Locoba stands for “local coffee barrels”), though generally serves their brews on daub (try a tough seltzer) and sells them in cans.

The disproportion between Platform’s other tasting bedrooms (they also have one in Columbus) is Locoba offers a coffee module and an all-day food menu. They decoction flow overs and have nitro coffee on daub from rotating roasters. Their all-day menu consists of breakfast, sandwiches, salads and dips; weekends meant brunch, including cocktails and bagels from OTR’s The Bagelry.

During a weekdays, they horde happy hour, though on Sundays they have all-day happy hour, that creates for a happiest of days.

Wódka Bar

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Since 2012, Sara Dworak has channeled her family’s Ukrainian birthright into Babushka Pierogies, offered them in markets and to restaurants. But in late 2018, she non-stop a walk-up window in OTR (the area has a lot of these) to exchange specialties like Cincinnati chili-style pierogies and low boiled pizza ones (pizzarogies).

In Mar 2019, she non-stop Wódka Bar (pronounced “vodka”) – a customarily Slavic grill in OTR and one of few Slavic spots in a whole city – as a means to not customarily sell some-more pierogies though also 60 forms of vodkas, including around 14 house-infused varietals.

The rest of a splash menu consists of Eastern European beers, as good as European wines and cocktails, like a cheekily named Russian Collusion, a some-more superb take on a White Russian. Order a moody of vodkas along with food: kielbasa bowl, pierogies (of course), caviar in smoke fritter and a Taste of Old Country board, featuring smoked herring, Polish oszczypek cheese, beet and horseradish pate, pickles and bread from adjacent Allez Bakery.

HomeMakers Bar

On weekends, HomeMarkers offers a solitaire and tonic bar — Photo pleasantness of Garin Pirnia

In June, Los Angeles around Cincinnati cocktail veterans Julia Petiprin and Catherine Manabat non-stop a somewhat retro HomeMakers. Almost any day, instead of happy hour, they horde Spritzer Hour. On Mondays, it lasts all day definition name bubbles-filled cocktails are customarily $6.

On weekends, they set adult a solitaire and tonic bar, full with DIY skewers of uninformed fruits and herbs, bitters and fruity elementary syrups. The bar menu consists of several gin-, sherry- and vermouth-based cocktails (they make their possess vermouth); a singular splash from Nicaragua; and dishes like a Home Plate Special: double-decker sandwich, house-made pickles, Hamms splash and a shot of amaro.

They also make dips, finger sandwiches, a charcuterie house and salads. The bar itself is embellished out in colorful shades, damaged china pieces displayed underneath a bar top, selected framed food photos and a Pac-Man cabinet. As a observant goes, “It’s your home divided from home.”

Sacred Beast

Sacred Beast’s deviled eggs is a dish in itself — Photo pleasantness of Garin Pirnia

This upscale caf� goes large – hence a “beast” in a pretension – with all their dishes, generally deviled eggs. Instead of usually defeat eggs into boiled egg whites, Sacred Beast takes it a step offer and leaves in a yolk from seven-minute eggs and tops them with a churned egg mixture, pig rinds, Calabrian chili peppers and preserved mustard seeds.

The outcome is so decadent that we competence not have room for one of their several interesting entrees, such as twice-cooked ribeye (available on Friday and Saturday), lemon ricotta pancakes, neckbone gravy with hashbrowns, “one large donkey meatball” or a boiled mortadella sandwich.

They also have a prolonged list of cocktails, mocktails, wines, beers and coffee, and adding to a heterogeneous caf� vibe, a bar area plays song from a singular reel-to-reel fasten machine.

Liberty’s Bar and Bottle

Among eyeglasses of wine, pints of splash and cocktails, Liberty’s also offers half pours of booze and splash — Photo pleasantness of Garin Pirnia

Located during a dilemma of Main Street and Liberty Street, the bar/bottle shop is one of a some-more low-key area bars – they customarily opt for display Netflix on their TV instead of sports and they concede dogs.

They have 20 rotating taps of local, informal and general beers and a strong list of wines by a glass. You can get half-pours (4 ounces) of many beers and wines, so we can try some-more things. The bottle partial of a pretension denotes a tiny preference of carry-out booze and beer, some of that they have on tap. On Rosé Wednesday, congregation can representation rosé flights and rosé cocktails.

The emporium also creates their possess ginger beer, used in cocktails like a Liberty Mule ($5 during happy hour) and Gin-Gin Spritz. As for food, they offer a charcuterie board, though go opposite a travel to Alabama Fish Bar for some fish and chips.

Aladdin’s Eatery

Aladdin’s 15-page menu includes falafel salad, boozy slushies and Greek fries — Photo pleasantness of Garin Pirnia

Though Aladdin’s is a sequence of Lebanese-American restaurants founded in Ohio, a OTR plcae (one of 3 locations in Cincy) offers something that other locations don’t: a full bar.

At this Aladdin’s, we can sequence boozy slushies, Lebanese wine, infrequently $2.50 cans of internal qualification splash and cocktails like a Za’atarita (tequila, elementary syrup, orange juice, mango nectar, lemon bitters, Jun Bug Probiotic Soda) or a Beirut Mule (bourbon, uninformed mint, dusty ginger, elementary syrup, ginger splash and Arak). Sip a drinks during their indoor bar, outside bar (they have a good patio, too) or in a dining room.

Their menu can be strenuous – it’s 15 pages prolonged – though they offer normal hummus, falafel salad and some-more surprising dishes like pizza pita (pitza), rolled pita sandwiches and za’atar fries with dipping sauces. Plus, they’re located subsequent doorway to Platform, so it’s easy to revisit both places in one stretch.

Longfellow and Other Room

Dr. Jones, one of Other Room’s rum-based cocktails — Photo pleasantness of Garin Pirnia

Longfellow is a bit of an bauble in a neighborhood. Last year for Halloween, they threw a Titanic-themed party. In June, they respected Prince on his birthday with purple drinks. The L-shaped cocktail/beer bar has a food menu with vittles like a throw sandwich (baguette, slicer scraps, lettuce, Dijon mustard, preserved shallots and preserved peppers) and lodge cheese dashed with pepper.

In 2019, they non-stop a adjoining Other Room, a 10-seat bar featuring Ohio’s largest preference of rum, charity some-more than 100 kinds. They flow informed Caribbean rums though also singular rums (or rhums) from places like Antigua, Guyana, Guadalupe, Martinique, St. Lucia and St. Croix. People can ambience a rum around two- or four-ounce pours and in cocktails. Other Room is customarily open 4 nights a week, though it’s adequate to ride we to a tropics.

Maize

Maize specializes in Latin American food like churrasco criminal chimi — Photo pleasantness of Amber Bridges Studios

Opened in 2018, Maize specializes in Latin American cuisine with an importance on Venezuelan dishes. Their menu covers all from Venezuelan avocado dip, arepas and cachapas (Venezuelan corn pancakes) to Puerto Rican mofongo (mashed plantains).

For entrees, some favorites are a grilled dress beef with chimichurri (churrasco criminal chimi) and a Puerto Rican-style pig swell (lechonchetta criminal mofongo). Pair a food with one of their bright, pleasant cocktails, like a Hurricane Maria – $1 of any sale gets donated to whirly relief. And save room for a after-dinner El Ritual shot, that is rum churned with coffee and brownish-red sugarine and served with a orange wedge.

Sweet Petit Desserts

Cake pops are one of several fun desserts during Sweet Petit — Photo pleasantness of Amy Elisabeth Photography

Before starting Sweet Petit in 2009, owners Taren Kinebrew served in a Army National Guard and spent time in a corporate world. But she’s clearly found her job in conceptualizing and baking bite-sized desserts and full-size cakes.

She creates macarons, cake pops, brownies, red velvet cookies, mini cupcakes and cakes like strawberry cheesecake, and double chocolate cake. She sells her goodies during her storefront though she also caters events with a tradition dessert bar, in further to training baking classes.

Pleasantry and 1215 Wine Bar

Try Pleasantry’s brunch breakfast sandwich — Photo pleasantness of Garin Pirnia

1215 Wine Bar non-stop on Vine Street in 2012 and a sister restaurant, Pleasantry, non-stop a few blocks divided in 2016. Daniel Souder and Joanna Kirkendall possess both places, that concentration roughly exclusively on healthy and biodynamic wines.

1215 has some-more of a coffee focus: flow overs, peaked lattes, a best Irish coffee in a city and a singular food menu. Pleasantry’s menus underline anniversary vegetables, burgers, fish entrees, chicken, breakfast sandwiches, toasts and olive oil cake.

Both places offer a healthy wines, though 1215 highlights flights – tasting records includes detailed phrases like “peppered cherry juice” and “dryer sheets’ – since Pleasantry procures some-more wines by a bottle than a glass. And during 1215, we can squeeze bottles to-go.

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