In 2022, the Better Cincinnati space welcomed a variety of new and thrilling restaurant ideas to the native eating scene. From tried-and-true favorites opening new areas to newcomers with choices starting from soul meals to genuine Mexican sweets to basic BBQ, right here is only a sampling of the brand new eating places that opened within the Tri-State this 12 months.
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MadTree’s Alcove
1410 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine
Oakley-based MadTree Brewing partnered with 3CDC to create The Alcove, a taproom, bar and restaurant boasting MadTree brews and craft cocktails, together with farm-to-table bites from Covington restaurant Bouquet’s chef Stephen Williams. The area is mild and ethereal, with a big bar and “lush patio area for lounging and eating,” in addition to a greenhouse area and residing partitions and chandeliers from native nonprofit City Bloom.
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Daylily
3751 Jap Ave., Columbia Tusculum
Daylily Deli — chef Jose Salazar and Deeper Roots Espresso’s New York-style bodega — opened in Columbia Tusculum in August. The menu options every thing from the New York staple egg on a roll with American cheese, a chopped cheese sandwich (with floor beef, cheese, banana peppers, sauteed onion, lettuce, tomato and particular sauce on a hoagie) and even an egg cream espresso soda.
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Element Eatery Food Hall
5350 Medpace Means, Madisonville
Factor Eatery Meals Corridor held its grand opening in September, welcoming 10 food vendors to Madisonville, together with barbecue joint 4 Mile Pig; Little Straightforward, a Po Boy Store, a New Orleans-style sandwich and gumbo store and Latin American eatery MashRoots, which makes a speciality of Puerto Rican mofongo. The meals corridor can seat as much as 400 individuals inside and greater than 200 throughout three outside terraces.
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Soul Secrets
1434 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine
This OTR spot doesn’t simply supply soul meals – their recipes inform the story of proprietor Candice Holloway’s household. “Our recipes – that is what we convey to the desk. They’re historic, they’re conventional, they’re authentic, they’re from scratch, they’re made with love.” Holloway told CityBeat. A take a look at the menu exhibits entrees that, in a variety of the South, would simply be known as good ol’ house cooking, like fried hen, shrimp and grits, fried whiting and catfish. On the facet there’s macaroni and cheese, collard greens, candy potatoes and cornbread — the sorts of dishes ready for the household and that you simply’d hope for when somebody gives to “repair you a plate.”
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Ford’s Garage – Norwood
2692 Madison Street, Suite 115, Norwood
This Florida-based beer-and-burger chain, which is an official licensee of the Ford Motor Firm, opened within the Rookwood Commons & Pavilion in April. Channeling a “Nineteen Twenties service station/prohibition bar” vibe, the menu focuses closely on its black Angus beef burgers, but additionally carries veggie burgers, do-it-yourself meatloaf, hen wings, onion rings and macaroni and cheese, in addition to seafood, salads and hen. One other location is because of open in Florence quickly.
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Dulce Pecado
567 Predominant St., Hamilton
This family-owned cafe options basic American treats alongside genuine Mexican sweets and paninis. If you happen to’re trying to strive fresa con crema (strawberries and cream), paletas (a popsicle made with recent, frozen fruit), bolis (ice cream in a tube) and mangonada, which is a frozen mango deal with often made with chamoy and chile lime seasoning, head to Dulce Pecado. The cafe opened in November and is internet hosting a raffle to win a free menu item from now till Wednesday, Dec. 14.
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Symposium
2835 Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills
Symposium opened in East Walnut Hills this spring, sporting a relaxed Hemingway cafe-style environment. The cantina encompasses a snack bar, together with a espresso bar that converts right into a wine bar later within the day and avian-themed cocktails, dubbed “birdtails.”
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Royce
501 Vine St., Downtown
Trendy French brasserie Royce opened at The Foundry, 3CDC’s $51 million improvement within the constructing that beforehand housed the downtown Macy’s, this August. Described as “a French-leaning eating expertise,” Royce encompasses a uncooked bar and an open-air kitchen and eating room that’s impressed by European markets, New York Metropolis brasseries and French delicatessens.
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Flavors of the Isle
1807 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine
Findlay Market welcomed Jamaican soul meals restaurant Flavors of the Isle to its fold in October. The restaurant and bar is owned by Detroit-native-turned-long-time Cincinnati resident Ebony Williams and makes a speciality of its well-known Jamaican jerk hen. Flavors of the Isle obtained its begin as a member of the Outside Market and Findlay Kitchen, a nonprofit supporting native meals entrepreneurs, and was began as a method to handle the scarcity of ethnic eateries in Cincinnati, says Williams.
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Sleepy Bee Cafe – College Hill
5920 Hamilton Ave., School Hill
Sleepy Bee, which gives brunch and lunch choices centered on recent, native substances, opened its latest location in August as a part of School Hill’s Keymark Growth revitalization mission. The brand new cafe is serving all of the favorites – from buttermilk pancakes to avocado toast to breakfast sandwiches, plus loads of vegan and vegetarian choices.
