Arnold’s Bar & Grill

7 Reviews on “Arnold’s Bar & Grill”

• Jessica Moore

  Cool place, great live music, extensive beer and bourbon selection. Food is a bit pricy. Tomato basil soup was delicious. Fried green tomatoes needed more kick. Blueberry chicken was unique and really good.

  November 13, 2017, 6:15 am

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• Induja Rajagopal

  Best food and live music! The ambience is just awesome . Easily the best bar and grill in Cincinnati area. A must go to for the historic feel too.

  September 10, 2017, 4:18 am

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• Go There! Try That!

  We went last night for a date night and while I really enjoy the patio seating and live music, I just wasn’t that impressed with the burger. I remember it being better. The fries were nice and crunchy. We also had the Hungarian Beef Soup and although we enjoyed it, the soup tasted much like a simple Minestrone. Great service and nice atmosphere, but the menu just doesn’t impress when compared to the prices. gotheretrythat.com

  October 1, 2016, 11:07 pm

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• Ben 'The Count' Hunt

  Used to be one of my favorites after work, or just hanging around downtown. Clearly, the ambiance of the oldest bar in Cincinnati is neat (no TVs, live music most nights). Service is good and prepared to handle downtown time needs (seeing a show, lunch break etc). The food is my only current reservation. The menu has shifted a lot in the past two years. They have effectively cut out vegetarian burgers (which is too bad they had a great one), and last time I was there they didn’t have the turkey needed for their self promoted famous hot brown sandwich, on a Friday night going into a holiday weekend. That said, the food that we did end up ordering was well prepared, and tasted great, but I am currently uneasy about recommending them until the kitchen/menu changes level out.

  September 30, 2016, 5:37 pm

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• Sherry Nicole

  Most of the time, I love to eat at Arnold’s. It has great ambiance but can get quite crowded. That’s to be expected. On several occasions, I went there specifically to get a hot pretzel only to be disappointed because they had run out of them….again. I usually stick with the appetizer menu, but this last time I branched out to the main dinners. First the appetizers….I recommend the Fried Green Tomatoes, The Fried Deviled Eggs and of course the Pretzel with Bourbon Beer Cheese. The wings that we ordered were swimming in grease. They were almost inedible. I wouldn’t order them again. The main dishes…Chicken and Waffles had a delicious maple syrup and the hot sauce was quite spicy. The flavor was good but I am sensitive to spicy things so I only sampled my friend’s dish. He enjoyed it. The waffle was light and the battered chicken was also. He thought that the waffle was better than Taste of Belgium’s but the fried chicken was not. I had the Blueberry Fried Chicken with Brie and walnuts. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any walnuts on my plate and the mashed potatoes were as cold as ice. The chicken was warm so I was afraid to send the food back because I did not want the potatoes to be microwaved, so I just suffered through them. The dish was pretty good but didn’t seem worth $20. Overall, I love this place but there is definitely room for improvement. I will be back of course to try again, but I might just stick with the appetizers and keep my fingers crossed that they have not run out of the pretzels and beer cheese. Parking is on the street or across the street in a paid parking lot. The cost varies with the current events going on in town.

  August 5, 2016, 9:19 pm

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• Katie Sanchez

  We stumbled upon this gem by accident. My girlfriend and I took a girls weekend to Cincinnati to eat and drink our way through town, and were shocked and dismayed that very few highly recommended places with GOOD beer on tap didn’t open until after 4pm on Fridays. Arnold’s was open, so we headed on over and are so glad we did!We actually stopped twice. The first was Friday afternoon. We each had a few local beers and a house cocktail made with alcohol infused by the bartenders there. I had a martini made with house infuse cucumber jalapeno vodka and midori. I am not a martini girl by any means, but it was out of this world.Our 2nd visit was for a late evening meal on Saturday night. The place was hopping, and deservedly so. We split deep fried deviled eggs – these are a thing, and they are mouth watering. We also split fried green tomatoes, done perfectly with pepperjack cheese and pico de gallo. We probably should have stopped there, but we were in town to eat and drink, so my friend had a hot brown and I had a fried bologna sandwich. The sandwich was good and I’d eat it again, but the real standouts were the tomatoes and eggs.They also had Pumking on tap, which they didn’t the day before – it’s one of the best pumpkin beers on the market.Others may have mentioned, but Arnold’s is the oldest bar in Cincinnati. It’s much more than a bar – though the actual bar itself is gorgeous. They have live music and a menu that is superior to most. Do yourself a favor and stop if you’re in town! katietalksabout.com

  January 20, 2016, 6:42 am

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• Food Sleuth

  Arnold’s is another one of my Cincinnati favorite places to go, historic open in 1851 very old school look and feel, I have enjoyed lunch and dinner here and always will be back.Everything on the menu is great from there Greek spaghetti, hot brown to the burgers are great.Highly recommend

  December 21, 2015, 8:32 pm

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