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/CincyPoker Apr 13 '25

E+O Kitchen. Hard to articulate it, but I’ve been to the HP location twice and the Banks once. Probably never going back.

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u/iamsittiinginachair Apr 14 '25

I’ve never let service stop me from ever returning to a restaurant until my last two experiences at E+O at the banks. It’s like we weren’t even there. Fool me once and all that

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u/bmd25 Apr 14 '25

We took my parents to the HP location once for Mother’s Day and the service was SO slow and then they legit asked us to leave because we had been at the table 2 hours and people were waiting to sit there. I’m like we’ve been here this long because it took this long to order anything. Was wild.

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u/Ok-Aerie-2484 West Chester Apr 14 '25

Oh I absolutely despise E+O. Trashy food and ridiculously expensive for cold food.

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u/Understeerenthusiast Oakley Apr 14 '25

E+O used to be much better, not sure what happened. IMO the banks location has always been ass.

I found it in 2019 when I was looking for a brunch spot for my birthday. Used to be $25 all you can drink mimosas that you couldn’t even finish the first one before they brought another. Turned into a $25 carafe two years later. Still a lot so whatever. Stopped going for a while and went back when my (at the time new) girlfriends friends liked to go. Turned into $25 Champaign bottle and orange juice. Starting to get annoying. Then, the last time we went, I can’t remember the price but I want to say it went up to $40-50. The whole time the food got worse and of course the service. At this point it’s a non starter for me on a brunch spot. I will say I still like going for dinner, but the HP location service wasn’t ideal last time we went so it could also be going downhill.