11 Cincinnati Foods That Are Better Than Yours
Don’t be jealous. The worst part about moving away from Cincy is leaving behind this regional feast.
1. Cincinnati is home to Graeter’s Ice Cream, otherwise known as manna from Heaven.
2. Native Cincinnatians know Skyline Chili is the only chili.
Only transients prefer the subpar Gold Star. You wanna fight about it?
3. Hate yourself in the morning by taking Izzy’s 110 Reuben challenge.
Or yield to moderation and split this local Cincinnati beast with some friends.
4. Why eat gross, old chain pizza when you can eat Cincinnati-grown La Rosa’s?
Particularly delicious when consumed inside of King’s Island.
5. Speaking of, King’s Island is also home to the best soft-serve flavor in the world.
You haven’t lived until you’ve consumed seasonal blueberry ice cream.
6. Montgomery Inn BBQ sauce is liquid crack.
Be suspicious of the birth place of any Cincinnatian who prefers “dry rub.”
7. No bakery can hold a candle to the cookies, cupcakes, and doughnuts at Busken Bakery in Hyde Park.
Get your own dozen.
8. True Cincinnatians know Glier’s Goetta is the perfect breakfast (of anytime) food.
Goetta is so delicious, it gets its own festival every summer!
9. And of course nobody from Cincinnati would eat gross Cadbury Eggs at Easter with these around.
10. Graceland can keep their peanut butter, banana, and bacon Elvis sandwich. Cincinnati has the grilled-cheese doughnut from Tom + Chee.
Get the Blueberry Bleu for optimal deliciousness.
11. In Cincinnati, you eat crepes with your hands from It’s Just Crepes.
Eating crepes in the car, like a sir.
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bearsfan34 3 months agoI spent summers as a teen in Cincinnati. This article is spot-on. I’m very grateful that the grocery store by me carries both canned and frozen (with spaghetti) Skyline. No, it’s not nearly the same as the real thing, but when I want it it’s good to know I can. Graeter’s is available in our local stores too. I love the Cinci junk food. I don’t have it often, but good stuff. When we lived in both Florida and Michigan, they had Skyline chains there & it was pretty sweet having access to the real thing there.
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lisaw22 3 months agoborn and raised in cincinnati, and i (and my entire family and) prefer gold star. everyone of my out of town guests prefer gold star. skyline is tasty and i hate when people bash any of our tasty chili joints, but your attitude seems to be the “west side” attitude about skyline. represent both!
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suzanneharpert 3 months agoSorry but Skyline Chili is just gross. It’s bland and eating it over a bed of starchy spaghetti noodles is like eating a brick, but the brick might be seasoned better than the chili or the noodles.
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RoadieJoe 3 months agoSkyline is a crime against nature. Chili (con carne) was not invented by the Greeks and it does not contain cinnamon. It is not a pasta sauce. The name is the recipe, literally peppers with meat. The original makers, from la frontera, had access to onions, cheese and pasta (fideo) but understood those ingredients have no place in this dish.
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Anna Ohai Williams 3 months agoI’m just tickled to death to see a Cincinnati post. However?’c
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CameronHodge 3 months agoI must say that grated cheese with a side of chili looks delicious.
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joshw28 3 months agoDecent list. Skyline may be the consensus favorite for chain chili parlors, but most will have a favorite non-chain chili. Mine is Camp Washington. Others like Price Hill Chili, Blue Ash Chili, Dixie, or Plesant Ridge. And as a native Cincinnatian, I will say that Montgomery Inn is waaaay overrated. BBQ is all about the meat, not the sauce. Try Eli’s on the east side, Walt’s on the west side. For ice cream, you can’t leave off Aglamesis or UDF.
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lisaj18 3 months agoThe Skyline/Gold Star thing isn’t native vs. transplant. It’d be more accurate to call it East vs West, although even that line is blurred. Single-location chili parlors are generally better than either (tho’ I *love* Skyline).
LaRosa’s is comfort food for me, but given a choice, I’ll take Dewey’s. I never understood why the Kings Island location tasted different, though it was my favorite. THAT I would take over Dewey’s.
Montgomery Inn is nothing without the sauce. I miss Burbank’s.
Buskens is good, especially that Hyde Park location, but Servatii’s is better.
The goetta, Graeter’s and Izzy’s go without saying. No argument.
Haven’t been to Tom & Chee, yet, but that’s pretty new. Not that iconic.
And Just Crepes? How is that Cincinnati?
Frisch’s, the only Big Boy chain left that ISN’T Bob’s, THAT’S Cincinnati. Yes, they have their own recipes. Like the tartar sauce. It’s not Bob’s sauce, it’s Frisch’s. -
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Shmaylor P 3 months agoI lived in Cinci for 11 years (ages 2-5, 9-13, and 17-21), and I’ve only heard of the first 6 things on this list.
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ddisabatino 3 months agoWoah, internet, calm down. As a fellow Cincinnatian I’m a little disturbed at the effort natives are putting into tearing apart this list instead of being excited that 80,000 people have seen 11 awesome things Cincy offers (Particularly since 10 years ago the best things we were offering were race riots and America’s most dangerous neighborhood). The list isn’t “The 11 Best Foods In Cincinnati,” it’s 11 that are BETTER than yours. Keep it in your pants 513ers.
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