Polly Campbell, Cincinnati Enquirer | Published 4:13 p.m. ET Nov. 28, 2018 Bourbon still maintains its reputation as a man’s drink. And steakhouses as a man’s restaurant. Those old stereotypes are hard to maintain in Cincinnati, where Molly Wellmann is our best-known bourbon expert, and Britney Ruby-Smith is President of the top steakhouses in the city. The two
American steakhouses are the last bastion of unabashed self-indulgence. Traditional chophouses, complete with white tablecloths and bow-tied waiters, can be identified easily by their menus, relics of gluttonous days gone past. There are gleaming towers of chilled crustaceans, slabs of red meat—black on the outside and blue on the inside—and copious sides of potatoes and
If you’re up in Columbus and looking for a place to eat, you could go with some fried chicken from Eagle or tacos from Bakersfield. Or if you’re splurging, have steak at Jeff Ruby steakhouse. Unless you want some sushi at Fusian. Wait, that’s Cincinnati, not Columbus. Actually, it’s both. All those Cincinnati restaurants also have locations in Columbus. Some of
Jeff Ruby rolled into Nashville three and a half years ago on a branded tour bus with a cowboy hat on his head and declared Music City the new home of one of the most lavish steakhouses he’s ever built. The Ohio-based restaurateur was banking on Nashville’s unwavering appetite for red meat and potatoes, even
Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment, which operates three steakhouses in Cincinnati and six across three states, launched a new loyalty program that uses technology to learn from its diners. The Ruby restaurants have had a loyalty program going back 25 years, but it involved a lot of manpower with staff manually keeping track of diners’ spending
