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The newest one is set for 750 N. High St. in Short North, site of the upcoming Graduate Hotel. Cameron Mitchell’s newest venture in the Short North, Del Mar SoCal Kitchen, will open at 705 N. High St. on Tuesday, Apr. 16. A new food truck from Graze on Capitol Square, the Glazed Churro Bar, hit the streets this week, serving ice cream, churros, and other items. Taft’s Ale House (which we recently visited! ) announced they would be opening a Columbus location called Taft’s Brewpourium in Franklinton’s Gravity development.

On the way to the Cincinnati Museum of Art, we visited Collective Espresso, a single-room shop serving a variety of roasts. After our trip through the art museum (read about it here), we headed back into Over-the-Rhine to one of our favorite stops in Cincinnati: Rhinegeist. Standing at 49 stories, the Art Deco Carew Tower is the second tallest building in Cincinnati, and includes an open air observation deck at the very top. The sign of any good visit: as you’re leaving, you’re already planning what you’ll do next time you visit…

During our recent Cincinnati adventures (read about them here and here), we began Monday morning with a visit to Maplewood, another breakfast that’s long been on my list to visit. It’s essentially their take on avocado toast: a multigrain bread from Cincinnati’s Sixteen Bricks bakery topped with sliced avocado and a nicely balanced sweet/salty mix of crushed pistachios, a drizzle of local honey, and sea salt. The avocado benedict uses that same Sixteen Bricks bread and tops it with two poached eggs, sliced avocado, and a rich lemon and herb emulsion. One of my favorite bites of the meal was the bistro steak and eggs: three eggs cooked to order, Sixteen Bricks toast, hash browns, a properly done steak with a chunky (and sweeter than I expected) chimichurri sauce.

For lunch we snuck down to The Banks, a growing area along the riverfront that includes a collection of restaurants and bars, the baseball and football stadiums, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the northern terminus of the Roebling Suspension Bridge, and other sights. We’ve taken our boys to several art museums over the years, but let’s be honest: kids move at a different (read: more sporadic) pace than the adults, and sometimes it’s a challenge to see everything you want to see with a group. In addition the museum’s regular collections, there are special exhibitions running throughout the year; 2019 includes exhibitions about the 150th anniversary of the Arts Academy of Cincinnati, a restored Giorgione painting, and a look at Paris in 1900. We always make art a priority when we travel, so we loved incorporating a visit to the Cincinnati Art Museum on this trip, and look forward to returning to explore it further.