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08/19/2026

The crazy reason this Mt Adams bar doesn’t serve tequila 🤯

One of the best places to enjoy a view of Downtown is from the back patio of City View Tavern in Mt Adams. If you’ve ever stopped in for a drink, you may have noticed there’s one thing you won’t find behind the bar, and that's tequila.

According to urban legend, infamous criminal and cult leader Charles Manson briefly lived just down the street from City View Tavern on Oregon Street. Born in Cincinnati in 1934, Manson reportedly visited the tavern from time to time.

The story goes that sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s, Manson would go to the City View Tavern and down exclusively tequila shots, claiming he could fly from the tavern's deck. He threatened to try, prompting the bartender to take all the tequila, pour it down the drain, and make a vow to never serve tequila again.

There’s just one problem with the story: Manson spent much of the 1960s in prison, making the timeline a little questionable. Still, several people who lived in the neighborhood have sworn that they knew him and that he occasionally visited the tavern.

So, is it true? Is it Urban legend? We may never know.

But there’s one part of the story you can verify for yourself: City View Tavern still doesn’t serve tequila, despite what some of the signs may say. Instead, just order just about any other drink, grab a burger, and enjoy a front-row seat to one of Cincinnati’s most iconic skyline views!

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08/07/2026

WOW your out of town guests with a visit to these Cincinnati museums:

✨ American Sign Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday 10am-4pm and tickets are $20.

🦕 Cincinnati Museum Center is open daily 10am-5pm, tickets vary depending on experience; check the website for more details.

🖼️ Cincinnati Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and is FREE to all guests. Some rotating exhibits may have a ticket fee

What’s your favorite place in Cincy to bring guests while they’re in town?

The summer fun keeps on coming in Cincy with a slew of seasonal events on the calendar this month. Some of our top picks...
08/01/2026

The summer fun keeps on coming in Cincy with a slew of seasonal events on the calendar this month. Some of our top picks:

🎾 The Cincinnati Open, featuring tennis superstars like Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff on the courts of the Lindner Family Tennis Center.

🏃‍♀️ The Pool Run, an annual 5k that ends with a splash into Ziegler Pool.

🎢 Family Day at Strickers Grove, one of a handful of days each year this private amusement park is open to the public.

🐓 Cincinnati Wing Week, with delicious wing specials on the menu at dozens of local restaurants.

Swipe through for a look at all the August events. What's on your calendar this month in Cincy?

07/29/2026

The faces of the past, as seen in the present.

These are just a few pieces of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s 73,000+ work collection that spans 6,000 years of human history, from the ancient middle east to modern day America.

🖼️ Daily admission to the Cincinnati Art Museum is FREE.

✨ Special exhibitions require ticket purchase. Currently on display: a magical field of glowing pumpkins titled All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, by Yayoi Kusama.

🌖 Make it a night out at Art After Dark, the museum’s most popular monthly event.

What’s your favorite museum in Cincinnati?

Downtown Cincinnati is the heart of the Cincy region packed full of history, some of the region’s biggest attractions, a...
07/27/2026

Downtown Cincinnati is the heart of the Cincy region packed full of history, some of the region’s biggest attractions, and plenty to see, do, and eat. Here’s a look at the five neighborhoods that make up downtown Cincy:

The Central Business District is the core of downtown, with all of Cincy’s skyscrapers, the convention center, hotels, corporate headquarters, and the iconic Fountain Square.

The Riverfront is home to stadiums for the Reds, Bengals, and Cyclones, multiple music venues, the Freedom Center, and the Banks entertainment district, and beautiful riverfront parks.

Over-the-Rhine is Cincy’s most iconic neighborhood with Music Hall, Washington Park, Findlay Market, and long streets lined with shops, restaurants, and bars housed in charming 19th century homes.

The West End is where you’ll find the FC Cincinnati stadium and Union Terminal.

And finally Pendleton, downtown’s tiniest neighborhood, is home to a hub for local artists.

Swipe through for a closer look at these downtown neighborhoods, and all the best things to do in each one. Planning for a night out or your next trip to Cincy? Save this post for quick reference while you’re here. What’s your favorite thing to do in downtown Cincinnati? 📍🩷🗺️

Cincinnati has a bit of an obsession with ice cream. Swirled to impressive heights on top of a cone, served in old schoo...
07/21/2026

Cincinnati has a bit of an obsession with ice cream. Swirled to impressive heights on top of a cone, served in old school parlors, scooped up with giant chunks of chocolate, there’s so much iconic ice cream in Cincy it’s hard to pick a favorite.

Maybe the obsession began in the 1870s, before chili ever topped spaghetti or the Reds ever hit a ball, when Louis Graeter first scooped up French Pot ice cream from two small carts.

Maybe it was in the early 1900s, when Thomas and Nicholas Aglamesis served ice cream with sophisticated flair in parlors with imported Portuguese marble, Tiffany lamps, and live piano music.

Maybe it was a long, deep love grown through the rest of the 20th century, as mom and pop soft serve shops opened up in neighborhoods around the city, cementing the humble creamy whip as a delicious, nostalgic summer necessity in Cincy.

However it began, Cincinnatians’ love for ice cream is clear from the dozens of shops all over the region, each with their own fanbase that will proudly declare their local shop is Actually the Best One, thank you very much.

This guide will show you where to get the best swirls and scoops around Cincinnati. Save this post and screenshot our ice cream checklists to track of all the shops you still need to visit, or send to a friend and plan your own ice cream odyssey around the queen city.

What’s your favorite ice cream shop in Cincinnati? 🍦💜🍨

07/06/2026

Cincinnati has been popping off with new café openings lately, and I’m not complaining. ☕✨

✨First up the new bakery at Pho Lang Thang is serving up Vietnamese inspired sweet and savory pastries. We loved the spiced croissant, pandan, savory pasty and flan 🍮 

✨Locke is the newest cafe in town. The lines are still long but it’s worth the wait. We loved their breakfast sandwich and the almond croissant 🥐 Excited to go back for their drinks 🥤 

✨If you haven’t been to the THE ROLL yet, you gonna change that! It’s amazing! Soft and fluffy cinnamon rolls in different flavors? Yes please 😍 We absolutely loved the pistachio and blueberry lemon rolls 🙌🏽

Sebastian Bakehouse opened a coffee shop in mt Washington/ Anderson area 🎉 And just like everything they do, we loveddd everything we ate specially the truffled mushroom pastry and chocolate stuffed wave 🤤🤤

Brewd is a coffee shop and tap house that also makes Italian sodas, bites and pastries. We really liked the s’mores danish!

Dovetale Bakery right by Hyde Park Square is a cute stop for coffee and pastries! We also really liked their Kid bread for sandwiches at home 🥪

06/29/2026

Did you know Cincinnati once had a canal running right through downtown?

The Miami & Erie Canal, completed in 1845, stretched nearly 250 miles from Cincinnati to Toledo, connecting the Ohio River to Lake Erie and helping transform Ohio’s economy.

The canal once followed the path of today’s Central Parkway and Eggleston Avenue, and it’s even the reason "Over-the-Rhine" got its name!

As railroads took over and the canal became increasingly polluted, it fell into decline. After the Great Dayton Flood of 1913, much of the canal was destroyed, and Cincinnati began building its famous subway system in the old canal bed. The subway was never completed, and Central Parkway eventually covered much of the canal’s path.

If you could bring one back, would you choose the canal or the subway?

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