College Hill Coffee Company
Need a relaxed atmosphere to sip coffee while sitting on comfy cushions of an overstuffed chair? Sound better than home? Then head on over to College Hill Coffee Company at the corner of Hamilton and N. Bend roads. (Plenty of free parking in back).
There have been numerous coffee shops and restaurants at this busy corner, but in my opinion this is the best so far. The hours are posted and regular, you can have a full lunch or dinner if you so desire, and on the weekends there is live folk music.
Riley’s Restaurant Greenhills Shopping Center
Tonight we had a peaceful and delicious home cooked meal at Riley’s Restaurant in the Greenhills Shopping Center. The Greenhills Shopping Center is a historical place in itself, being one of the first, if not THE first strip mall in the United States.
The staff were friendly, the dinner arrived warm and quickly, and the new Saturday Night Buffet for 13.95 was worth the price. The background music was pleasant. The regular menu is also available on Saturday nights, so there is something for everyone.
Riley’s opened a second restaurant in Springdale about a year and half ago. Rest assured, though, this chain of two restaurants is all local. The Riley family began the Greenhills location in the 80′s.
If you look around the restaurant you will see an extensive collection of ceramic cookie jars on wooden shelves adorning every wall and filling every nook and cranny. There are over 200 cookie jars on display. They look like quite the collector’s items.
Farewell to Uncle Al
Those of you in your late forties to early sixties probably have a glossy 8 x 10 black and white group photograph which includes you sitting in front of the barn on the set of the long-running local children’s show “The Uncle Al Show.” It was one of the major rites of childhood for children growing up in or near Cincinnati. The Uncle Al Show was the longest running children’s program in the history of commercial television. It ran from 1950 – 1985 on WCPO-TV channel 9.
Al Lewis passed away February 28th and his passing brings up such happy memories for so many of the children of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Fountain Square
We love going to Cincinnati Fountain Square. Over the years it has received several facelifts, but the famed fountain has always remained the focal point.
photo credit: ellievanhoutte
Unique Cincinnati
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Welcome to our home-grown website designed to bring you everything unique about Cincinnati, the “Queen City of the West.” We live in Cincinnati and are natives, so we will be bringing accurate information to you.
Our goal is to help you support local enterprises, and you can’t do that unless you know which ones those are. It is becoming more and more difficult to find, for example, a restaurant owned and run by a local family, or a gift shop that sells anything made in the USA, let alone made in your own city.
Join us as we feature the unique home-grown Cincinnati establishments that could use your support during these challenging economic times.
