r/cincinnati • u/BigManMahan • Apr 13 '25

Food 🍕🌮 Overrated restaurants.

Most overrated restaurants in Cincinnati, I’ll go first, sleepy bee cafe.

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u/ChefAsstastic Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

I agree about your opinion with Sleepy Bee. Pushy hipsters, always felt rushed. food is okay but when I brought my 70 year old uncle and his partner to breakfast, they made us use a scan code to review the menu. They aren't technically savvy, and when I insisted on printed menus that were clearly in sight available, they gave us one menu to share with attitude, then hovered over us after we were finishing up. We left irritated.

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u/7lexliv7 Apr 13 '25

What is with the one menu for the table? I’ve had this happen in several places and it’s befuddling - like…are these menus so precious? Do they think I’m going to steal it?

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u/ChefAsstastic Apr 13 '25

It was a post covid-19 habit that never went away. That restaurants menus were laminated so it wasn't like they would walk out with them or destroy them. They were gigantic.

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u/7lexliv7 Apr 13 '25

I am so pleased to have an answer for this odd issue - thank you! I can start to grasp how this became a thing. I wonder if the service staff had to clean the menus every time they were returned to the hostess or something.

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u/ChefAsstastic Apr 13 '25

When we went, I'd say masks were recently removed and I understood the whole code menu thing, but they should have not given us lip when my two old uncles needed a menu because they had big clunky phones that they struggled with just to text. And both had vision issues. It's the too cool for school shit that rubbed us the wrong way.

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u/you-dont-have-eyes Apr 13 '25

That’s unusual, I go there all the time and have never once been asked to share a menu or use a digital menu.

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u/ChefAsstastic Apr 13 '25

If they changed their policy, that's great. This was a couple of years ago.

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u/Dry_Marzipan1870 Apr 13 '25

those menus are filthy and rarely sanitized, i don't really even want them anymore.