A day walking OTR from Findlay Market through the brewery district to a Vine Street dinner, hitting the city's three foundations: chili, beer and modern OTR kitchens.
Day 1: Saturday: Findlay Market, brewery row, Vine Street dinner
Morning
Findlay Market opens 08:00 Saturday. Pho Lang Thang for breakfast pho, Chino's Street Food for a Chino-Latino plate, Maverick Chocolate for a single-origin square to pocket. Walk the outdoor vendors for cheese and cured meats to take home.
Afternoon
Drive or rideshare northwest to Mom 'n 'em in Camp Washington for a long coffee on Colerain Avenue, then back into OTR proper for a Rhinegeist tour at 1910 Elm. Stop at Mellotone Beer Project on Race Street to see the 1850 German church inside.
Evening
Dinner at Salazar in its 2025 downtown move on West 5th Street, 19:30 reservation. Walk back into OTR to Sundry and Vice on West 13th for one cocktail, then end at Ghost Baby on Republic Street for late-night jazz five stories below the OTR streets.
Cincinnati chili and river day ★ 4.6
Cincinnati native bringing visitors, one day1 day
A day built around Cincinnati's three signatures: a 5-way at Camp Washington Chili, ribs at Montgomery Inn Boathouse on the Ohio River, and an ice cream stop at Graeter's Hyde Park.
Day 1: Saturday: chili, ribs, ice cream
Morning
Breakfast at Sugar n' Spice on Reading Road, 08:00 walk-in. Order the wispy thin pancakes, goetta and eggs, plenty of coffee. Drive down Reading Road through Paddock Hills.
Afternoon
Lunch at Camp Washington Chili on Colerain Avenue. Order a 5-way and a cheese coney. The 1940 counter is the JBF America's Classic. Then drive east on the Norwood Lateral to Eli's BBQ on Riverside Drive for a pulled-pork sandwich, picnic-table only.
Evening
Drive west along Riverside Drive to Montgomery Inn Boathouse for dinner ribs. End the day at Graeter's Hyde Park on Erie Avenue for a black raspberry chocolate chip cone.
Cincinnati German heritage day ★ 4.5
History and beer traveler, one day1 day
A day across Cincinnati's German foundation: Bockfest territory in OTR breweries, goetta breakfast, a coffee stop in Newport KY and a Moerlein Lager House riverfront dinner back on the Cincinnati side.
Day 1: Saturday: brewery row, goetta breakfast, NKY
Morning
Breakfast at Sugar n' Spice on Reading Road in Paddock Hills, 07:00 walk-in. Order the wispy thin pancakes, goetta and eggs.
Afternoon
Walk OTR's German brewery row: Rhinegeist on Elm, Mellotone Beer Project on Race Street inside the 1850 St. Paul's German church, Northern Row on West McMicken. Lunch at Krueger's Tavern on Vine Street for German-leaning bar food.
Evening
Cross the Roebling Suspension Bridge to Covington Kentucky. Coffee at Carabello Coffee on East 9th in Newport. Dinner at the Moerlein Lager House on Joe Nuxhall Way back on the Cincinnati side, the riverfront brewpub of the revived 1853 heritage brand.
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