people have been telling me that i need to go to the anchor grill* since like the first day i moved to cincinnati. i distinctly remember having beers with people i haven't talked to in years now very soon after i arrived fresh off the east coast boat and a guy was telling me some convoluted story about a place with a jukebox and "this weird barbie doll dance thing" where people would go to eat "but only if it's like 3 am and you are really drunk." everyone who ever talked about the place instructed me that "you have to get the goetta omelet" but admonished me to remember that "you're not going there for the food."
good food
obviously i had to go to this place, but somehow i could never make it happen. nobody ever wants to drive to covington after they are already drunk, and nobody i know hangs out in covington to drink. i would occasionally throw it out there as a brunch suggestion but people would laugh at me. "go to the anchor grill SOBER?!?!" they would exclaim in pure and utter shock. "you can't go to the anchor grill SOBER! and you can't go NOW! you have to go at THREE AM!!!"
i would protest that at this rate, i was never going to make it there. i got no sympathy. "you CAN'T go to the anchor grill if you're not DRUNK and it's not THREE AM," people kept telling me. "NOBODY does that. NOBODY!!!" nobody, it turns out, but kieran.
the only person in cincinnati who will go to the anchor grill sober at 6 pm on a weeknight
i don't have anything really to say about the food. i ordered the goetta omelet and it was fine. it was fried goetta with american cheese melted on top all rolled into eggs. i think i would have preferred cheddar cheese, but on the other hand i enjoyed the super thin crispy goetta. overall it was just straight up middle american greasy spoon food, which is exactly what it is supposed to be.
the ambience however was everything i hoped it would be and more. i am going to let the pictures tell the rest of the story.
i don't think we're in kansas anymore
sorry it's blurry but i couldn't ruin this moment with a flash. fyi, that table ordered steaks for dinner. steaks. at the anchor grill.
they were as confused as i was
i think this meal may have taken a year off my life
i wonder what this mural looks like to really drunk people
until next time, anchor grill. because i am sure i will be back. i just might not remember it.
* yes, their website is a myspace page.
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I'm afriad your friends were right. To get the full Anchor Bar experience, you must see it after the bars close. It's an entirely different clientele at that hour. :)
Afraid, that is. Sheesh.
hahaha, I just went there with a bunch of co-workers, in the middle of the day, completely sober. I got the special, wish I would have got some sort of breakfast though. I'll be writing a blog about it hopefully soon, I am behind.
I kinda want to open up a myspace account so I can leave them their first message since 2007.
3am or noon, I love the place. I love the goetta, but would rather get it on the side instead of in the omelette, and the pies are usually good.
And if you do go in to a packed house at 3am, you might as well buy a pack of smokes ahead of time and light up, because you're gonna leave feeling like you did anyway.
"nobody i know hangs out in covington to drink."
Srsly? Have you not heard of Mainstrasse? It has like 20 pubs, restaurants, and bars within a few blocks. One of the best night-life areas in Cincinnati. Anchor Grill is a few blocks south of it.
hahaha simmer down anonymous, of course i have heard of mainstrasse. i organized a pub crawl there last year and another time had one of my most absurdly drunken cincinnati nights at the cock and bull a few years ago. it's just that for various reasons (probably because we are too old and live too far) my friends and i don't tend to hang out there.
Well Liz, I am sorry that you do not have friends who are cool! Writing off any part of Cincinnati is wasting one of the best cities in the country.
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