Food & Dining

Houston Inn: Doing Its Own Dang Thing Since 1953
"Fancy” is a relative term. There’s caviar fancy, and then there’s chilled-salad-bar-plates fancy. Houston Inn is decidedly the latter.  



The Thali at Amma's Kitchen is Dinner on a Silver Platter
Lighten up with this Roselawn gem’s Southern Indian fare.

Waggle Continues Sleepy Bee's Sunny-Side-Up Sustainability
The carryout sister concept to Sleepy Bee Café, Waggle provides healthy fast-casual options.



Grace of India Takes Over the West Side from an Old Chili Parlor
It used to be The Chili Company, but palak pakora and chicken korma have replaced the three-ways and coneys.

Welcome to the New Pho Lang Thang
A new location for a Findlay Market favorite adds a new bar and carryout-only entrance.



Meet CityBird, The Eagle's
On-the-Go Cousin
Cincinnati has the requisite chains, but the latest local option is CityBird, a chicken tender concept from Thunderdome Restaurant Group—the dudes who brought us Bakersfield, Currito, and The Eagle.

Taste Test: Fried Chicken
Cincinnati’s proximity to the South comes with major perks in the comfort-food department. Case in point: an embarrassment of fried chicken riches. From countrified roadhouses to high-end hotel kitchens to suburban strip-mall dives, here are 10 purveyors who do it up right.

Take a Time Out at Downtown's Café de Paris
This iny storefront restaurant alongside Piatt Park has carved out a stable place in the fickle downtown lunch scene.



Mazunte Centro is a New Take on Mazunte Taqueria
The beloved Madisonville taqueria gets a downtown sibling with a distinctly different menu.

Taking in the View from the Holtman's Donut Window
The viewing window at the newest Holtman’s Donuts location in West Chester is a kid magnet, drawing them in before they even spot the finished candy-sprinkled doughnut display at the back of the shop.



A Better Babka
Take heed: It was chocolate babka that was immortalized in that Seinfeld sketch, so if you go with another flavor from a different bakery, you’ll be fielding “lesser babka” cracks all damn night.



Try This: Rhino’s Frozen Yogurt & Soft Serve
A Blue Ash gas station has a tasty surprise inside. (It’s not frozen burritos. But they probably have those too).



Taste Test: Poutine
Ontario native and Oakley resident Tim Brownlee has searched his adopted city high and low for standard issue poutine, and he has found us wanting.