Month: February 2018

Meet Salimah Mari Abdul-Hakim of L. Mari Catering. She’s out to make her mark in Cincinnati’s food scene, and I have a feeling she’s going to make a big dent! She cooks, she hustles, and she connects with people through her food. As a graduate of MORTAR, a business accelerator for local entrepreneurs of color, she has earned nothing but high praise from Derrick Braziel, MORTAR’s co-founder and managing director. Look out Cincinnati.

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After living away from Cincinnati for 20 years, Seven Hills grad, Ned Elliott, comes home to open a restaurant. His restaurant, Foreign & Domestic, is expected to open in Over-the-Rhine this August, marking an expansion of the Foreign & Domestic brand which Elliott started in Austin, TX, nearly eight years ago. You can look forward to a menu that’s “new American with a French twist,” but uniquely Cincinnati.

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On Valentine’s Day, while couples file into restaurants to splurge on dinner, why not indulge in the main attraction – chocolate? Surprise your love interest with decadent sweets, or take that special someone on a fun shopping trip at one of Greater Cincinnati’s chocolate and sweets shops.

Here are nine sweet spots to get you started:

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