May 24, 200718 yr 1 - Below Zero sounds awesome! 2 - Graeter's is the best ice cream in the known universe! 3 - I saw on Fox19 this morning that the Purple People Bridge Climb has closed; not enough business.
May 24, 200718 yr Graeters isn't as good as Ben and Jerrys but at least it's cheaper. You are out of your mind. While I love Ben & Jerry's ice cream, there is no comparison. Graeter's is one of the best on this planet.
May 25, 200718 yr Bubble of Bliss Pho Paris suspends one in a magic bubble of inviting flavors BY LORA ARDUSER | CITY BEAT PHOTO: Pho Paris Interior Photo By Joe Lamb COVINGTON - I hadn't been to Pho Paris since its move to Scalea's old location in Covington. I was immediately charmed. The space is warm and inviting and the staff attentive without being fussy -- just the kind of spot to settle in for a relaxed evening of good food. Click on link above for full article.
May 25, 200718 yr Sports Page celebrates three decades of patronage BY NICOLE HAMILTON | DOWNTOWNER DOWNTOWN - In honor of its 30th anniversary, Sports Page Restaurant on Vine Street will be changing the prices on some of their menu items, so that diners will pay what they would have three decades ago. The anniversary event will start Friday, May 25 and run through Friday, June 1. During this time, visitors to the Sports Page on Vine Street can enjoy hamburgers, ice cream cones and other featured menu items at '70s and '80s prices. The restaurant will also cut back prices on their drinks, and feature discounted hamburger, fries and drink platters. Now run by James Paskel, his mother, Tary Paskal, along with his brothers Kali and Bill, first opened Sports Page in 1977. They later opened a second location on Main Street in 1992. Back in the '70s and '80s, Sports Page served breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as a full-service bar. As business began to decline in the '90s, the owners decided to stop serving dinner. They also scaled back at the bar now they serve only beer. Far fewer people are coming Downtown now than when the Sports Page first opened, notices James. He says that since the smoking ban, he has seen a 30-percent decline in business. Some patrons who smoke are beginning to trickle back in, but it is not like it used to be. James says that some of them are either eating their lunches outside or going across the river into Northern Kentucky, where they can smoke indoors. One thing he counts on is a steady lunch crowd. Some have been regulars since the beginning of Sports Page. And while prices and business may have changed somewhat, the family-owned business remains a fixture Downtown. Sports Page is one of the oldest in the area. "This is our chance to do something nice for all of our customers," says James. "A way to show our appreciation for the 30 years we have been here." Sports Page Restaurant is located at 626 Vine St., (513) 721-0067 and 823 Main St., (513) 241-9976. Only the Vine Street location will feature the discounted menu.
May 25, 200718 yr Sports Page celebrates three decades of patronage I'm downtown a lot, and I can't picture this place at all.
May 25, 200718 yr ^It's a couple of storefronts down from the former 'Union Station Video Cafe' on Main Street.
May 25, 200718 yr ^There's also the location on Vine St. near 7th. It's near Dink's and across the street from Skyline and New Horizons Credit Union.
May 25, 200718 yr Sports Page celebrates three decades of patronage I'm downtown a lot, and I can't picture this place at all. LOL, I thought I was alone with the same thought. Why haven't I been here?
May 29, 200718 yr Restaurant, retailer to take over pet store Local developer Midland Atlantic Properties is investing $1.8 million in rebuilding a former pet store at the corner of Paxton and Isabella avenues in Oakley, where the area's first Noodles & Co. restaurant will open in the fall. Click here for article: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/05/28/daily5.html?surround=lfn "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 31, 200718 yr ^ The place in Rookwood when belly up because the owner didn't pay the franchise fees to Nothing but Noodles.
May 31, 200718 yr The Nothing but Noodles here in Huntsville, Alabama is great. The place is packed for lunch and dinner. We went to the one in Crestview Hills once and it wasn't so good food wise.
June 6, 200718 yr New eatery slated for Fort Mitchell Station June 5, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER A brother-and-sister team will create a new upscale restaurant for the Fort Mitchell Station office/retail center. Grandview Tavern & Grille will open in late July at the center, adjacent to Interstate 75 in Fort Mitchell, according to a release from developer Paul Hemmer Cos. Click on link above for article.
June 13, 200718 yr Atlanta Bread forced to close Owners allegedly owed rent, loans BY JAMES MCNAIR | [email protected] As new restaurants jockey for locations and customers in downtown Cincinnati, one nine-year mainstay - Atlanta Bread Co. - has closed. The restaurant at Fourth and Walnut streets closed after its landlord filed a lawsuit accusing its franchise operator, Cincinnati Bread Co., of falling $81,828 behind in its rent obligations. A judge ordered the premises returned to the landlord, CF3 Realty Ltd. Click here for article: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070613/BIZ01/706130305/1001
June 14, 200718 yr There is a Dewey's Pizza opening in the new shopping plaza being built off of Kenwood Road across from the mall.
June 15, 200718 yr From the 6/13/07 Enquirer: New restaurant in old Pacific Moon spot BY POLLY CAMPBELL | [email protected] A new restaurant will open soon in the Marketplace of Montgomery. Allure will be a contemporary American restaurant, taking the space that was Pacific Moon. Click here for article: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070613/LIFE/306130049/1079/rss04
June 16, 200717 yr Both from the 6/15/07 Enquirer:[/i] Koka to open in Mount Adams THE ENQUIRER MOUNT ADAMS – Marianne and Brian Breneman, owners of Koka Coffeehouse in the East End, plan to open Koka Coffee at 1101 St. Gregory Place on June 18. Click here for article: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070615/BIZ01/306150044/ Restaurant to get new name, relocate THE ENQUIRER PLEASANT RIDGE – East Africa Restaurant, which offers Ethiopian and Eritrean food, will soon get a new name and more space. The restaurant has been renamed Emanu and will move to 6063 Montgomery Road in September. Click here for article: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070615/BIZ01/306150045/
June 19, 200717 yr Author City deal ensures Phoenix won't rise Legal troubles doom 150-year-old tavern BY JANE PRENDERGAST | [email protected] DOWNTOWN - One of Cincinnati's oldest bars - quietly closed three weeks ago - will stay that way under a deal between the owner and the city. Click here for article: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070619/NEWS01/706190389/1056/COL02
June 20, 200717 yr Disaster inspires startup BY JOHN ECKBERG | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER June 20, 2007 PHOTO: Latoya Foster-Filson (left) and her mother, Miranda Forbes, work behind the counter at New Orleans To Go in Springdale. The restaurant opened in October. THE ENQUIRER/CARA OWSLEY SPRINGDALE - Hurricane Katrina may have displaced tens of thousands of Americans and ripped at the fabric of New Orleans, but for Latoya Foster-Filson, it was a new beginning. The former Crescent City resident was inspired to open a Springdale eatery that serves food from that historic American city. Her restaurant, New Orleans To Go, 139 W. Kemper Road, opened in October, in part to create work for storm-displaced cousins who had moved north to live with her. Click above link for more info.
June 20, 200717 yr "The Phoenix is the second neighborhood bar around the Aronoff to close in two years." Sounds like the Aronoff is bad for business.
June 22, 200717 yr So I guess the Cadillac Ranch opened today...did anyone drop on by and check it out??
June 22, 200717 yr ^Went to Akash tonight across the street and Cadillac Ranch was packed! It was wall to wall people, especially on the outside portion of the bar. All the people outside gave a vibrancy sorely lacking on 6th until now. Oh, and Logde, McFaddens, and Sullys were pretty busy as well, so it looks as if Cadillac is drawing new people down instead of just recycling those who were already partying here.
June 22, 200717 yr ^^ Ditto ... Just got home not too long ago and it was still packed. We took a stroll down 7th and Sulley's, McFadden's, and Lodge Bar were jumping. All we need now is the Bootsy/Ruby place to open and Bella/Nada to open. I can't wait to see how things are with the new Fountain Square Friday night party (I'm assuming similar to Party in the Park) and how it affects the new bars?
June 22, 200717 yr Author Note to Newport on the Levee...Be afraid, be very afraid. Well, they will probably hold on to a portion of their suburban clients who enjoy the sanitized half empty atmosphere.
June 22, 200717 yr There is a big thing to note with NOTL...it's weekends are huge for business, but the weekdays are a trouble spot to say the least. If you go to Haufbrauhaus or many of the other bars during the week it is not all that busy, especially the Levee part. The new downtown places are busy during the week, and I'm sure this will only continue to draw people back to downtown away from that pit of NOTL. If Newport hasn't started to be concerned yet, just wait a year or so when leases are being signed for the first phase of The Banks. I'm pretty sure an ESPN Zone would just about shut down Gameworks...and I think that the ESPN Zone thing is essentially a given for The Banks. NOTL is going to have some very difficult years ahead.
June 22, 200717 yr Sully's had a similar opening as The Lodge Bar and Cadillac Ranch in terms of a large number of crowds. Anyone been to Sully's lately? Are the crowds sustaining? I don't want the same group of people to move bar location everytime one opens up. I think their are enough people downtown to support these businesses, but I worry too much too soon sometimes. Hey Montecarlos, you know what would make my day? To see you at Cadillac Ranch on that mechanical bull? :)
June 22, 200717 yr I generally am walking by Sully's three times a week around 9:00 on my way home from the gym and there is a decent crowd in the front, bar room at that time but it is not packed by any means. Now it might get busy later. Rockin Robin's always looks to be packed at about the same time but it is so much smaller, 20 people there feels empty at Sully's.
June 22, 200717 yr Sully's had a similar opening as The Lodge Bar and Cadillac Ranch in terms of a large number of crowds. Anyone been to Sully's lately? Are the crowds sustaining? I don't want the same group of people to move bar location everytime one opens up. I think their are enough people downtown to support these businesses, but I worry too much too soon sometimes. Hey Montecarlos, you know what would make my day? To see you at Cadillac Ranch on that mechanical bull? :) A few weeks ago I went to sullys after a reds game and it was packed.
June 22, 200717 yr Hey Montecarlos, you know what would make my day? To see you at Cadillac Ranch on that mechanical bull? :) That would be funny! Montecarloss, let us know when you'll be there. :)
June 22, 200717 yr Man...the ladies seem to be swarming around the prospect of monte getting on/riding a bull. I never knew he was such a lady's man. :wtf: :laugh:
June 22, 200717 yr I just remember how much Monte hated country in general, so he was not too excited about The Cadillac Ranch, but a mechanical bull? How can that not be fun?
June 22, 200717 yr Bah... no mechanical bull rides. I actually rode my first one at the Newport Gameworks two years ago. It was very awkward... I am happy to see the downtown businesses bringing in the crowds. I know NatiJoe and his wife were their at Cadillac Ranch last night. I think he texted me 6 times about the place. And yes, Country music nauseates me. I think my wife had two country cd's when we got married and they some how disappeared.
June 22, 200717 yr I've been told my certain women that I remind them of a mechanical bull. That's disturbing
June 22, 200717 yr I've been told my certain women that I remind them of a mechanical bull. That's disturbing What?
June 22, 200717 yr I can't wait to get downtown and try all the different restaurants. Only prob... I'm on a diet and have no money
June 23, 200717 yr I am not a country music fan, but I was also downtown yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by the crowd at The Cadillac Ranch. It looked absolutely mobbed with lines down Walnut - I concur that if it brings more crowds downtown I am happy.
June 23, 200717 yr God Bless Kentucky, Clermont County, and Toledo, eh? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 23, 200717 yr went to cadillac ranch tonight, packed. had 3 bars and tons of tables, not my scene, but great to see the crowds.
June 23, 200717 yr I also was at Caddy Ranch tonight and also the Lodge Bar. Both are theme bars. You have to expect a certain atmosphere when you go in. But for what they are, they are both well-executed. The Ranch has the edge due to the excellent outdoor area. We also went to Below Zero lounge. It is much nicer and more comfortable than the Alchemize space. I recommend it. Much more city-fied than the Caddy Ranch and the Lodge.
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