Cincinnati Restaurant Receives National Recognition (Which restaurant will surprise you.)
The cover story [edit: only certain covers; the mail subscriber version has an apple on the cover] in the October issue of Gourmet magazine features 126 American restaurants worth your money. The honorees range from ultra-expensive restaurants of international fame to places you have never heard of. The article is subdivided by region, the Midwest appearing last. Nine Midwest restaurants received recognition as being places worthy of your spending your own money to dine there, four in Chicago, two in Minneapolis, one in Wisconsin, one in South Dakota and one in Cincinnati.
Which Cincinnati restaurant, you ask? None other than my favorite daytime hangout — Tucker’s Restaurant located at 1637 Vine Street in the heart of Over the Rhine! [Article not yet online; link forthcoming when available.]
Other recipients included well known eateries Alinea (Chicago), Central Michel Richard and Komi (Washington, D.C), Bacchanalia (Atlanta), Grammercy Tavern (New York), and Cyrus (Sonoma County). Each of those restaurants receives international press almost weekly (and has a PR professional or five on retainer). Pretty heady company for our fairly unknown gem.
Congratulations to Joe and Carla Tucker! Please make it a point to stop by, enjoy a meal and congratulate the Tuckers in person.
Now the whole world knows what I have known for years; I wonder if I will still be able to get a seat at the counter?
Vine Street, Over the Rhine