Coffee Emporium Hyde Park ★ 4.4
Coffee Emporium on Erie Avenue in Cincinnati's Hyde Park Square is the second location of the city's oldest coffeehouse, with pour-overs and pastries.
Signature drink: Single-origin pour-over and house pastries
Hyde Park Square is the residential upscale dining strip; O'Bryonville next door holds BonBonerie, and Graeter's flagship scoop counter anchors the Hyde Park ice cream stop.
Coffee Emporium on Erie Avenue in Cincinnati's Hyde Park Square is the second location of the city's oldest coffeehouse, with pour-overs and pastries.
Signature drink: Single-origin pour-over and house pastries
BonBonerie on Madison Road in Cincinnati's O'Bryonville is the long-running French and Italian tea-room bakery with the opera cream torte and tea service.
Worth the queue: Opera cream torte
Servatii on Paxton Avenue in Cincinnati's Hyde Park is the Hyde Park outpost of the local German bakery chain, with soft pretzels, tortes and rye breads.
Worth the queue: Soft pretzel and Black Forest cake
Graeter's on Erie Avenue in Cincinnati's Hyde Park Square is the Hyde Park scoop counter and bakery since 1870, with French-pot ice cream and sweets.
Worth the queue: Black raspberry chocolate chip ice cream
Busken Bakery on Madison Road in Cincinnati's Hyde Park is the third-generation Cincinnati bakery since 1928, with the smiley-face cookie polls.
Worth the queue: Smiley face cookie
Anderson Farmers Market on Beechmont Avenue at St Timothy's Church in Cincinnati's Anderson Township is the Saturday-morning farmers market from May to October, with produce.
First Watch on Madison Road in Cincinnati's Hyde Park is the local outpost of the daytime brunch chain, with chickichanga and lemon ricotta pancakes.
Order: Chickichanga and lemon ricotta pancakes