New restaurants opening in Cincinnati
In the 30 days to Nov 9, we logged 93 new restaurant and bar leads across Greater Cincinnati & Southwest Ohio: 74 liquor license applications, 11 new food, building, and sign permits, and 8 researched openings.
Coming soon to Cincinnati
The Gardens
An indoor botanical garden you can drink in is taking over the old Woodburn Brewing taproom, with a parlor, a cafe, an outdoor bar and a small park. Owner Jen Ciolino calls it a 'choose your own adventure' and is keeping most of the details secret until…
Pepp & Dolores
Grandma Dolores' Sunday sauce - spaghetti under a veal-pork meatball and braised pork shoulder - heads north as the Lanni brothers' OTR Italian, Yelp's No. 10 restaurant in America, opens its second dining room at the District at Deerfield.
The Rare
A 150-plus-year-old Main Street building, bought and restored by Mason couple Nikki and Josh Logsdon, becomes The Rare: an American bistro with a food window that can pass plates to The Common Beer Company next door, and former Pepp & Dolores executive chef…
Just opened
Jimmie Lou's
Alligator remoulade over collard greens with Allez bread, then beignets Harris brings out himself as 'the piece de resistance' - Nolia's Jeff Harris brings back the New Orleans restaurant named for his great-grandmother, this time with a full Pendleton dining…
Suzu
A huge dynamite hand roll, baked crab wrapped in soy paper, is the early favorite at Suzu, where Morimoto protégé Makoto Okuwa has opened his first Midwest restaurant at Madison Square, with a 10-seat Edo-style omakase counter called Suzuné tucked inside.
Sayler Park Sips
More than 40 bottles on the shelves and glasses poured Thursday through Saturday on Gracely Drive: Sayler Park Sips is the far West Side's new wine stop, opened by co-owners Amy Lind and Brittany Collins, who earned formal wine certifications before drafting…
Taglio at Lunken Landing
Crispy-edged Detroit-style squares now come from a walk-up window between pickleball games at Lunken Landing, where Taglio, the shop that brought Detroit-style pizza to Cincinnati, serves its full menu, from the much-praised pepperoni and hot honey pie to…
Pizza Time at Rhinegeist
Cupped-pepperoni 'Big Biff' pies and $4 cheese slices from a walk-up, '80s-retro window inside Rhinegeist's OTR taproom, with pizzas named like a VHS shelf (Hidden Valley Girl, Saved by the Bell) and culinary director Luke Anzano, formerly an executive chef…
New restaurant leads in Cincinnati: filed in the last 30 days
The earliest signals: liquor applications and new food, building, and sign permits, often months before any press. Names of filings from the last two weeks, plus every address and record, are for subscribers.
| Filed | Stage | Where | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Cincinnati | A••• E•••••• P•••••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Cincinnati | A••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Columbia Twp | A•••••• P•••• - |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Anderson Twp | B•••••• B••• C••••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Cincinnati | B••• H•••••• L•• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Anderson Twp | B••• A•• C•••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Norwood | B••••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | West Chester Twp | B•••••• 33 |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Cincinnati | C••• 1•••• L•• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Deerfield Twp | D•••••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Bethel | D••• L•• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Monroe | D•• J•••• M•••••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Oxford | D•••••• T•••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Cincinnati | E•••••• R•••••• C•••••• |
This month's leads include Columbia Twp, Anderson Twp, Norwood, West Chester Twp, Deerfield Twp, Bethel, Monroe, Oxford, Whitewater Twp, Colerain Twp, Liberty Twp, St Bernard, Lebanon, Springboro.
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Questions
How do you find new restaurants in Cincinnati before they open?
We read the public record every day: state liquor license applications (often months before opening), county health and city building permits (weeks before), local press, and a daily web sweep. Duplicates are merged and the substantive leads are researched against the venue's own site and press.
How many new restaurants are opening in Cincinnati?
In the 30 days to Nov 9, we logged 93 new restaurant and bar leads across Greater Cincinnati & Southwest Ohio: 74 liquor license applications, 11 new food, building, and sign permits, and 8 researched openings. Not every filing becomes a restaurant, which is why the researched openings are listed separately.
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