A Tonic bar where you need it when you need it

Good mixed drinks are like cops and a prostitutes, there's never one around when you need them most.
Until now.
We're still high on the theater and drama of these guys mixing drinks, will that ever get old?
Not today it won't, not today.
One thing I like about Tonic, they seem to have gotten the place just right. Someone called them pretentious, but I don't find that at all, Tonic is strangely relaxing not like some downtown haunts wound so tight they're impossible to get comfortable in.
And not like others trying to be all things to all people.
They found a small niche that needed filled and filled it.

We got to look behind the scenes, they have this old surplus freezer that the military used to store aliens at Wright-Patt.
HA! just kidding
Maybe.
-59c on my calculator works out to about -75f below zero, they're not messing around making ice.
Or ingredients either, everything is handmade and it shows in the quality and taste of the drinks.



No trip to 4th street is complete until we see Heidi at Bromwell's


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a brilliant morning downtown

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Veteran's Day

Those adverse to violence will always be subject to those who aren't
~ Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert

Thanks Dad, and everyone who has served or is serving, for all your sacrifices and for keeping the bad guys at arms length.








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Via Vite

after a week of the flu and lounging around on the couch eating bland food, I finally felt good enough to get my money maker off the couch and get outside. But not just anything would do, I needed some pizza, and not just any pizza it had to be something special, since friends have been raving about Via Vite's pizza for awhile today was the day and that's where we ended up. We didn't get the happy hour half off price but even so, a gourmet pizza, wine and soft drink for what you'd pay to have one delivered?
Boy howdy, sign us up.

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Findlay Market tweetup

Another awesome fall day and people were taking advantage of it, Findlay was packed.
OK people some help here, we had this thin crust pizza for a blogger streetcar informational meeting. I can't find that place in Findlay anywhere, were the heck did it come from?

Apple Spice and Cinnamon Gelato from Dojo Gelato, my own version of a hot apple dumpling.
Except cold.


The tiny puppy had to be wrestled away from the vegan before she could take a bite of it.
"It looked yummy" was her only defense.

I braved the many dangers of OTR, including but not limited to hipsters, bike riders, duck squeezers and tree huggers; fought my way through the masses of organic shoppers and triumphantly planted my foot on the scooter of doom!


Hey its prolix21 and redrabbit!
Which one is redrabbit? You got three guesses, but if you need more than one.....
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The Q

The #1 up and coming neighborhood in Cincinnati hands down and as you would expect there's always something going on construction wise, it just keeps getting better and better.
The most exciting development right now besides the streetscapes project is a new bar/restaurant opening soon.
The Senate billed as a gastro pub with some twists on the usual fare such as lobster burgers.
And if they're reading my blog, may I suggest rabbit corn dogs?
Hey you read it here first. Rabbit corn dogs will be the new cupcake.
Or not.
And Outside has new stuff in, OK, it may seem a weird time to be buying stuff for outside, but hey it works, go check them out.

One more gem to pass along. Dan at Park+Vine keeps finding new ways to make me love him. As a certified coffee snob for years I've ordered Honduran coffee over the internet, inky, oily black, man that stuff is incredible. Well last time I ordered it was on back order, no word when it would be in. I remembered an email from P+V about carrying a whole bean coffee blended up just for them roasted locally.
BAMM! gotta new favorite.
Bonus #2 P+V is a block off my bus route and soon to be that close to a streetcar stop.

UPDATE: tonight The Q is hosting GrapeVine (get it? Vine St) The merchants of The Gateway Quarter have a special wine with each participating merchant having a different wine. For November they are featuring "Wines that Pair with Turkey"[where: 45202]cincinnati ohio downtown

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Lavo Final Friday

Crazy ass warm night at the end of October, everyone is always in a better mood on a warm night like that, have you ever noticed?
I have, and Lavomatic had a really weird, cool awesome vibe going on with people in costumes, a DJ and some really cool art.
Love, love these spontaneous happenings, not that the whole thing there was spontaneous, but us deciding to drop in was.

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Issue 9, goodbye and good riddance

Last night, after the results came in, it felt like midnight, New Years Eve.
You know that feeling, at the stroke of midnight, everything is going to be better, this really could be the year, the world just looks a little brighter than it did even 10 minutes ago?
That's how I felt.

Cincinnati elected a mayor for progress
elected a council for progress
AND defeated an anti-progress amendment

The CAVE* man on Bill Cunginham said, "if issue 9 fails we have to go home."
So goodbye and good riddance. You wanted people to have the right to vote on progress, and vote they did.

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