Are you planning a trip to Cincinnati? No matter what kind of food you like best, you can find it in a local restaurant.
Are you planning a trip to Cincinnati, Ohio, but would like to know more about the available restaurants? If so, you can plan your trip knowing that no matter what kind of food you like, the Ohio city has a restaurant with your favorite on the menu. From steaks and barbecue ribs to pizza, Italian food, Chinese food, Vegetarian food, Thai food, many other types of ethnic food, and numerous other kinds of cuisine""all can be found in Cincinnati restaurants.
There are far too many types of restaurants in Cincinnati to list some of the best of each type in this guide, although many of the best restaurants available, featuring many varieties of food, will be listed.
For those interested in further research, many very good sites are available on the Internet. One of the best available sites is www.cincinnati.citysearch.com. On the City Search site, those interested can research the best restaurants, from countless available cuisines, in numerous American cities, as chosen by the City Search staff, as well as comments about the food in each, atmosphere, prices, and reviews by the general public.
If you like pizza, Dewey's Pizza, at 3014 Madison Road, was rated the best pizza restaurant in the area by City Search. It was highly recommended for food and recommended for ambience, service, and value.
It is a good place to bring the whole family. Children often watch chef's prepare pizzas, by throwing crusts in the air. Chefs often throw flour at the windows, while little faces watch from the other side. Besides cooking the pizzas, the chefs like to be crowd pleasers.
One specialty pizza is the Bronx Bomber. A traditional item, it includes pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, red sauce, mushrooms, onions, green pepper, and black olives. A less traditional specialty is the Caprice, which includes white sauce, mozzarella and fontina cheeses, fresh basil, and roma tomatoes. Vegetarians might like the wild mushroom pizza. The specialty includes white sauce, portobello, oyster, and shitake mushrooms, capers and roasted red peppers and a smoky-garlic taste.
The restaurant accepts major credit cards, and most items are less than $20.
If you like barbecue ribs, the Montgomery Inn at 9440 Montgomery Road, which had been serving the area since 1951, was rated the best in town by City Search. It was recommended for food, ambience, service, and value.
The restaurant is known for its excellent service""despite its huge size. The wait staff is friendly and prompt. The restaurant is popular and often crowded. It can take awhile to get a table.
The barbecue choice pork loin back ribs with the famous Montgomery sauce are popular. If you like chicken, the item is tender and juicy. If you like variety, you can order ribs and chicken or ribs and shrimp.
With each entrée, one receives a tossed salad and a choice of french fries or baked potato, baked sweet potato, or homemade Saratoga chips.
The restaurant was has chosen the best for barbecue by the City Search staff in 2004, by the audience in 2003, and by the audience and staff in 2001.
Appetizers range in price from $5.95-$19.50. Salads cost from $3.50-$14.50. Sandwiches range in price from the ala carte pulled pork barbecue for $5.95 to $8.50 for the deluxe fried filet of sole and deluxe sliced beef brisket. Entrées range in price from $12.95 for the petite barbecue choice loin back ribs to $24.95 for a king slab of the same item. A 16-ounce bone-in ribeye steak is $28.50.
If you like Chinese food, China Gourmet, at 3340 Erie Avenue, is a good place to stop. The business won the latest City Search award for Chinese food. The restaurant is good for kids and was highly recommended for food and service and recommended for ambience and value.
The 100 percent soup for two includes bits of chicken, chicken stock and shrimp. It also has julienned vegetables, and sesame oil. The fresh walleye contains ginger and scallion sauce. The Hot and Sour is loaded with black mushrooms, lily buds, diced pork tenderloin, and bamboo shoots.
The restaurant accepts major credit cards. The cost of entrées is less than $20 each.
Those who like seafood may like more traditional fare or to try something different.
La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill might not sound like a place one would go to get seafood, but City Search lists the restaurant as the 2003 Audience winner for the best seafood. That may be because of the Mahi-Mahi Baja Fish Tacos. There are seven different salsas to choose from at the Salsa Bar, if one would like seafood tacos with salsa. The Salsa Buena contains Habanero Salsa. It was also chosen as the best lunch spot for the same year.
The restaurant was also rated highly for its burritos and more traditional Mexican food. It was also rated highly for its "Cheap Eats."
Those interested in more traditional seafood might try the Mt. Adams Fish House at 940 Pavilon Street. The atmosphere is upscale-casual. The primary dining area seats 30, and the sushi bar seats ten. There is an upstairs dining are that is larger. Windows downstairs face the bustling street lights.
The restaurant daily receives fish that is flown from its suppliers. A popular item is the crab cake with Cajun Remoulade Sauce. The specialty is well-seasoned, large, and lightly breaded. Another appetizer, the blackened salmon, is spicy and contains gorgonzola cream sauce. Patrons may order half or full pound orders of steamed crab. They are served with fresh vegetables and drawn butter. The restaurant is best known for the Novia Scotia Salmon. It is served with Pinot Noir sauce with asparagus and Rosemary new potatoes. The restaurant offers little other than seafood.
Each entrée on the ala carte menu costs from $18 to $34.
Steak lovers should like The Precinct at 311 Delta Avenue, chosen by City Search as the best steakhouse in Cincinnati. The historic building offers a club like atmosphere.
The 12-ounce filet mignon is topped with king crab meat, mushrooms, asparagus, sauce béarnaise, and bordelaise. Those who purchase the popular Big Daddy, have a choice of garlic butter, melted gorgonzola, or sautéed mushrooms and onions. The steak is a 20-ounce New York strip. The steak tartar features raw tenderloin, eggs, Worcestershire sauce, capers, and pepper.
A full meal can cost $41 and up at the restaurant.
Vegetarians need not feel left out. There are quite a few restaurants in Cincinnati that specialize in vegetarian cuisine or offer meals vegetarians would like, even if they offer other meals with meat.
Doodles, at 3443 Edwards Avenue, was chosen by City Search as the restaurant offering the best vegetarian food, although the restaurant features Chinese food, and some items contain meat. The restaurant was also highly rated as a Chinese restaurant.
The restaurant was once the site of a chic clothing shop. Tables in the restaurant are decorated with white line and topped with white paper. There are crayons on each table, and customers may doodle to their hearts' content.
Customers may order dumplings and noodles, salads, vegetables, Szechuan and Hunan specialties.
The restaurant accepts major credit cards. Meal costs are less than $20 each.
