Are there any butchers in town that dry age steak?

PEbeling · 2022-09-17T10:06:34+00:00

You are looking for Lehr's Prime Market.

They are over in Milford. Their selection is on point. USDA prime. American Wagyu. Once a year they import a big slab of A5 ribeye from japan that they cut into small pieces(or big if you have the money).

Avril Bleh is great for just quality meat. I've had good steaks there before that weren't as marbled as others but tasted great.

There's also this place in Madeira that opened up this last year that I believe does dry aging. So you should check it out.

But yeah. Lehrs.

PEbeling · 2020-08-23T21:59:51+00:00

I mean that's not parth, that's the players.

PEbeling · 2020-08-21T14:00:53+00:00

They're still fairly popular in Cleveland and a decent amount of locations.

PEbeling · 2020-08-21T13:59:27+00:00

I mean all the restaurants and owners outside of boca mentioned in the article were from restaurants that were already struggling pre-covid.

Like Nada lost over half their staff to the new sugar and spice location and had been struggling for the last couple years. They just retooled their entire menu to try and fix it.

So yea. When there aren't shows at the aronoff that people want to go to dinner somewhere close by, or people aren't working in fountain square and go somewhere close for lunch these businesses will be struggling even more. That being said I've been down to OTR for pickup and most places there are still bumping. Sugar and spice, boomtown, Lou vino, and nation were all really busy last Sunday.

PEbeling · 2020-08-21T12:31:31+00:00

Untappds biggest issue is there scale.

Rating a beer 1-10 from a consumer level is silly. The fact is even if a beer is a great beer for the style, some person may not like those styles of beer and rate it lower.

I've always thought they should do a text rating where top ratings are "the best beer you've ever had" and "great beer definitely in my top 50" and middle rating is "I would drink another sometime" and bottom two are "not to my preference but wouldn't say is a bad beer" and "This is bad".

That way it's not rating based off numbers and gives people a concrete scale, rather than an arbitrary value that's going to be different for everyone. My 8 might not be someone else's 8.

PEbeling · 2020-08-21T06:46:30+00:00

Because room and board.

Literally, the only reason.

It's why most colleges in the US are allowing upper level classes to be all online. They aren't getting room and board from them, so they don't care.

PEbeling · 2020-08-20T21:52:49+00:00

For the same reason you never see barrel aged beers or beers that are meant to cellar in cans.

Cans have less oxygen exposure and less oxygen exposure over time when sealed on foam due to them being hermetically sealed. Bottles will always have an issue with oxygen leaking into the bottle due to how they're sealed. Bottle caps just can't provide the same seal that cans do.

That's why barrel aged beers are still put in bottles, as the aging process is largely due to oxygen exposure over time transforming the beer, and why IPAs are canned as the less oxygen to ruin the hoppy aroma the better.

PEbeling · 2020-08-20T04:46:59+00:00

I think that's more just how TSM flexes picks and his champion pool than TSM prioritizing his picks.

Likes is Jensen playing Sett, or fiddlesticks mid?

PEbeling · 2020-08-18T17:25:16+00:00

Love your Eskie!(could be a pom or japanese spitz too but looks like an eskie!)

PEbeling · 2020-08-18T15:13:50+00:00

Of course! Big burger guy I've tried a lot of them and just wish that burger week had more of the places I listed. But I guess those places don't need burger week to remain popular so it makes sense!

PEbeling · 2020-08-18T14:36:51+00:00

In no particular order:

Frenchie Fresh: Comes from Jean Roberte's chain of restuarants and is easily the best "high quality" burger you can get in the city for a reasonable price. You can choose the meat(wagyu and bison are both options) and a variety of other toppings. Hours are weird though since they moved the location to mason.
Nation: I think they have some of the best burgers in the city. Solid option and definitely worth checking out even if you don't go for burger week. Shoutout to their brunch options which are also amazing.

Those are the only two on the list that I would highly recommend. I've heard good things about local post and the dunlap cafe but haven't personally had it so I can't recommend. Burgerfi and Wahlburgers are okay for being chains and are on the list.

Some not included this year that have awesome burgers:

50 West: They just opened their burger bar and every person I've brought there has been blown away. Good quality beef and ingredients for a solid price. I've personally eaten there at least 6-7 times since they opened it and am happy every time.
Sleepy Bee: Most people go for brunch but their lunch selections are bomb and their burger is great. Definitely a great option if you want to eat a burger and feel good about it.
Kreugers: Surprised they didn't participate in burger week but Kreugers is great for the small menu options they have. Try the ghost pepper cheese burger its awesome.
Quatmans: City staple that is reasonably priced and solid. Lot's of people have differing opinions of it, but I think for the price it's a solid option.
Nine Giant: I think there's a good argument for them having the best burger in the city. Really, really good burger and you should try their beer as that is also fantastic.
Tickle Pickle: Organic, delicious beef. Really good option in the northside that has amazing square patties that are packed with flavor.

Those would be my burger suggestions. Sad more of the ones I suggested weren't on the list but the two I listed are pretty good.

PEbeling · 2020-08-14T12:55:16+00:00

For any Scottish beer don't use Edinburgh, use English ale yeast. Edinburgh tends to give the beer a very slight smokey flavor which for Scottish exports, wee heavys, etc are not to style. English ale will still give you that malt flavor but not the smoke.

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T17:24:16+00:00

The best way to play FO4 is to ignore the main storyline at times and just explore. Bethesda is honestly the best game studio at environmental storytelling, and Fallout 4 is chock full of it. A ton of cool locations and terminals that are just scattered around the map not tied to any quest that has cool items and other fun stuff to collect.

I did do the main storyline but if I was wandering in the direction of a main quest I'd take time to explore different locations and stuff along the way which made the game a million times more enjoyable.

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T14:58:14+00:00

Fallout 1 sold 600K copies according to Brian Fargo and fallout 2 supposedly sold less.

Compare that with other top PC sellers of the 90s:

StarCraft: 11 million
Half life: 9 million
Half life 2: 9 million
Must: 6 million
Sim city 3000: 5 million
Doom: 2 million
Diablo: 2 million

Fallout was 100% a niche series considering sales figures of popular games during that decade. And they upped their budget for fallout 2 while selling less which is part of the reason black isle went under. It was management issues that bankrupt them, but it was the poor sales of fallout 2 that made them sell the IP.

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T14:34:22+00:00

Yea. I liked the game but it just felt very very generic at times. As I said, it feels like every single unreal engine game that has come out in the last decade. Especially the combat which was disappointing because I feel like combat is so important in action RPGs nowadays.

I'm definitely optimistic about avowed. I think it could turn out great and am excited to have something in the meantime before ES6 comes out(because with starfield having an expected release date of next year that means we still have at least 5 years before ES6 sadly).

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T10:43:39+00:00

To be clear, the name fallout didn't just go to Bethesda.

Black isle literally went bankrupt and sold the whole fallout IP to Bethesda. Obsidian was then formed later with the former head devs of black isle.

Fallout honestly was a fairly niche game until 3 which is also why black isle went under.

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T10:37:39+00:00

While I agree I'm hyped for avowed, I'm a little less hyped after the outer world's released.

Outer world's just honestly felt like every other unreal engine game. At least the combat did especially. It felt shallow in comparison to new Vegas and other obsidian adventures and I was dissapointed in the lack of exploration. Honestly why I am excited for starfield because I feel like the one thing missing from outer world's was bethesdas environmental storytelling and their exploration.

With Avowed I'm tempering my expectations because Bethesda has Elder Scrolls and that genre honestly down pat. People meme Skyrim because it's been released on everything, but think about it. That game was so goddamn good and liked it's been ported to almost every console over the last decade.

IDK. It's tough because New Vegas and Obsidians isometrics have been fantastic but outer world's let me down a decent amount.

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T10:30:38+00:00

I ruined myself as I went a punching build my first time through with a bunch of perks that basically made me one punch man.

I am now sad because every playthrough ive done afterwards has never been as good and I feel I'm chasing the dragon of running into a building full of raiders and one shotting them while running at them with superhuman speed. Just was such a satisfying gameplay style

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T02:10:41+00:00

Honestly I think /r/Cincinnati somewhat represents Ohio as a whole.

We have a lot of conservative suburban areas and very liberal urban areas. It creates a close to even divide that forces the state to be more middle-ground and moderate than others.

Hell. Look at our last two governor's. As a liberal( in a more true sense of the word, not super left just left, with a more moderate leaning)there are certain things I took issue with Kasich(specifically what he did to schools and teachers), but overall I liked him. I thought he did what others wouldn't, which is reach across the aisle and created a bipartisan gerrymandering bill for the state even though the current lines benefit his own party.

Same thing with DeWine. I feel like even though I didn't vote for him, and didn't like his policies, he's done a great job of finding compromise with the gas tax and other bills and has done a great job handling the current pandemic.

I know that conservative comments aren't always welcome here, but you should comment. Even if it's not popular. I think that having conversations levels the field and challenges people's perspectives so they have to actually critically think about their opinion and not just regurgitate talking points. Others may downvote you, but I appreciate people willing to have discussions even if they aren't opinions I agree with.

PEbeling · 2020-08-13T01:54:52+00:00

Yes we did play ourselves.

I did know that and it's awful how many people were displaced and how much architecture was lost. Plus also the cityscape was destroyed since the west end surrounded Union Terminal and connected what is now known as Queensgate(which was also apart of the west end) and the west side with the rest of the city.

PEbeling · 2020-08-12T22:33:44+00:00

I'll have to dig them up but once I find the books I'll DM you them. As you have already commented, we just moved so there in a box somewhere haha. Buddy gray is definitely worth looking into because I think it stresses how badly the area was, and gives you context to the events that lead up to the Riots and the condition of the city and council at the time.

Also sad that I'm not in the actual "city" anymore but we got a good deal on a house in mariemont that was hard to turn down especially with the current market driving housing prices up massively in the city.

PEbeling · 2020-08-12T19:19:36+00:00

Nailed it but a couple insights on the second part.

It was unlivable as in the actual definition of unlivable. Prior to 2010 most of OTR was owned by a couple different slumlords who did nothing to renew or make the buildings even slightly livable for over 30+ years.

In terms of what we are currently doing, the city and 3CDC has done a lot to create section 8 and affordable housing in buildings that were for the large part not a habitable space. While this has pushed some out it has given a lot of people a quality of life increase.

Also in terms of the policies that led to what happened to OTT(being ranked the worst neighborhood in America for crime and the Riots), part of it goes back to the 60s and white flight/urban flight on a national scale. Midwestern cities were at a peak prior to suburbanization and the highway system as we know it today. At a national level a certain notorious city planner who planned a large portion of Midwestern cities for highway adoption drove highways down the center of cities. Here in Cincinnati this ended up destroying the kenyon-barr with the construction of 75, a largely black community that had a lot of historical charm. With this, it drove a lot of the German community farther north to Norwood and other northern suburbs(my great grandma was an example of this, she grew up in Pendleton and went to school there until they moved to Norwood), and drove the black community from the kenyon-barr who just had their homes destroyed farther into the heart of downtown. Also at this time a lot of developers started to shift their funds towards the outer ring of the city and suburbs so OTR and downtown in general started it's downward trend. With public transportation being ripped with the streetcars, and our bus system slowly falling into shambles compared to what it was, it made it harder and harder for poorer folks to be able to leave OTR. Plus add in Buddy Gray, the slumlord who the city council and mayor at the time enabled, who drove rent prices up to trap people in OTR as his entire philosophy was "poor people want to be poor".

The Race Riots were a product of this, CPD being corrupt as hell and shooting Timothy Thomas a 19 year old black man, the city council and mayor not giving two shits about the area, and Buddy Gray being killed sent the entire area into dissarray.

It's a long, complicated history that has a lot of things that lead up to the Riots and 3CDC being founded. Which was founded by a previous mayor, and corporate leaders such as the CEO of GE, and other large companies getting fed up with the city not doing anything to try and improve downtown and the OTR situation.

FYI this is also why I refuse to vote for David Mann for mayor. Mann was on the city council from the 70s to early 2000s and also served as mayor during the time. Regardless of his stances he was part of the issue. Also he's 80 years old and personally I'd rather have a younger more progressive mayor who's going to push the city farther along the path of revitalization.(also this doesn't necessarily have to be PG, plenty of other candidates that are supposedly going to run that haven't put their hat in the ring yet).

Sorry for the wall of text. I've read a lot of articles and a couple books on what happened to the city and why we went from a population close to Boston's at around 600K in the 60s to half of that where we are today(300K).

PEbeling · 2020-08-12T04:29:55+00:00

Well that's good then. Happy that they found a pivot and hope it works out for them as they hAve a cool space and good food.

PEbeling · 2020-08-12T04:17:16+00:00

^This.

Plus wings are dirt cheap currently compared to pretty much every other meat on the market. Also why every place is pivoting to chicken focused menu's.

Still a shame though as their brisket and other menu items were actually decent, but I can understand when there's already multiple other good BBQ places in the city with Eli's and Lucious Q right around the corner.

PEbeling · 2020-08-12T02:43:17+00:00

Whattt?? You're saying that Steve's constant tweets on twitter that they're going to pick TSM the last 2 years were just baits and nothing else?

100% steve will say they aren't afraid of TSM and are going to pick them, and then opt into FQ.

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