Chers Confrères: Attached to this email is the formal invitation to the Chaine’s December event: our Holiday Dinner at Embers Restaurant on Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 5:30 PM. For this year’s Holiday Dinner we are returning to another excellent restaurant we haven’t been to since 2016: Embers Restaurant in Kenwood. You’ll recall that in October our […]
Mondiale Cellar Treasures at Indian Hill Little Red School House – November 11, 2024
As winter weather was encroaching on the Midwest, Cincinnati Mondiale members and their guests met at the Little Red Schoolhouse Event Center to celebrate their ninth Cellar Treasures event. The event center was built during 1873-74 in what is now the village of Indian Hill, an upscale neighborhood east of Cincinnati. The building has retained […]
Dine Around at 20 Brix – October 14, 2024
On a sunny but chilly October day, the Cincinnati Chaîne returned to the 20 Brix Restaurant and Wine Bar in Milford, OH, a suburb of Cincinnati. As the name implies, this eatery actually wears three hats: upscale restaurant, wine tasting bar, and retail wine-seller. Since it opened in 2007, 20 Brix has consistently produced an […]
Fall Dinner at Brown Dog Cafe – September 16, 2024
The Cincinnati Bailliage made a return visit to long-time friend Chef Shawn McCoy and his renowned Brown Dog Cafe for their 2024 Annual Fall Dinner. For good reason, this revered eatery in the bustling Blue Ash suburb has been a hands-down favorite of the Cincinnati Chaîne. For more than 20 years, Chef/Owner McCoy has taken […]
Dine Around at Haynes Family Farm – August 10, 2024
On an unseasonably cool, sunny afternoon in August—just in the nick of time before the massive heatwave started moving full force into the Midwest—the Cincinnati Bailliage held its tenth annual dine-around at the country home of Vice Chargé de Missions Clint and Jean Haynes just across the Ohio state border in Liberty, Indiana. Once a […]