Comments on: Re-Review: Lavomatic (Small Bites & Cocktails)

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:10:00 +0000

..of? can you be more specific?

By: Millerprize

Millerprize — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:08:00 +0000

Don’t like the layout

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:53:42 +0000

I went to Lav-o-matic for the first time the other night, and used this review as a guidepost. We went with the beer cheese, and you’re right… pretty good.

I also sampled the “special” appetizer, a rolled mozzarella cheese with pesto and crostini. It was okay, but for 15 dollars, they were a little skimpy with the crostini. Also, I LOVED the pesto part of the dish, but it wasn’t proportional to the huge amount of cheese.

My date loved her Lavender Martini, and the rest of the folks we were with seemed to like the stuff they ordered mostly (especially the cocktails), but I was underwhelmed, I guess…

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:35:47 +0000

Seems like a lot of hate for Lavo these days. I had such a great time there recently; I feel obliged to write. Several of my friends and I went to Lavo for a girls night out and it was wonderful! Our server, Jonathon I think, was super cute and helpful. We all enjoyed our cocktails and the food. I’d go back in a heartbeat!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:29:43 +0000

Duncan is his name! He and my brother (who works in the kitchen at Via Vite) know each other really well, and I’ve had him at Nicholson’s a few times. He’s a great guy.

By: Rafael de Acha

Rafael de Acha — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:37:45 +0000

My wife and I went there for lunch last week. Newly arrived in Cincinnati we went there after a recommendation from a friend. On a weekday around 1 pm there were two servers and one unkempt guy in the kitchen. There were two tables with people at them – a handful. We ordered soup, sandwiches and beer. The soups – tomato bisque and mushroom – were average, the beers were flat, the grilled cheese sandwiches stingy on the cheese and accompanied by a limp and minimal salad. The waitress – new and a classical music student (or so she admitted to a guy at a nearby table – was utterly incompetent and had an attitude. We were overcharged well above the high prices and she begrudgingly adjusted the bill with still more of a nasty edge. This was our second and last visit to Lavomatic. Awful!

By: CincyCapell

CincyCapell — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:03:01 +0000

Relish & Wade are simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic at Lavo & Greenup. I like the craft cocktails at Tonic, but due to Wade’s shabby treatment of J-R I will no longer spend my money in any of his establishments. Did anyone hear about the blowup that Wade had with Greg Hardman of Christian Moerlein? As a result all of Hardman’s beers have been pulled from Wade’s restaurants. The guy just can’t get along with anyone. I have passed by Tonic on Fri/Sat nights for weeks now and the place always seems empty, even on nights when other downtown nightspots are rocking. Anyone else noticed if other Relish spots have been busy or not?

PS: BOYCOTT RELISH GROUP!

By: Suny

Suny — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:13:54 +0000

I was very excited to go to Lavamatic for our girls night out. The wine, pinot noir, was perfect. I, too, ordered the Beer Cheese Pretzel to share and it was fantastic except large pieces of onion. I just picked them out. Detracted from the creaminess. I got the teeny tiny grilled cheese sandwich, which tasted pretty good I think, but the bread was so tiny that most of the sandwich was crust the cheese hadn’t even touched. We had to ask for napkins a couple of times and water over and over. We were definitely an afterthought because they put us upstairs away from the crowd. I’m going to stick with Chez Nora’s for now and my currant fav. I wanted them to be great.

By: Relish the Boycott

Relish the Boycott — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:20:24 +0000

You started this off correctly Julie. Sigh. We have given up on Relish Group totally. Stick a fork in em, they are done, actually don’t even bother, they are overdone. Lavo ran off Molly, one of the best barkeeps in town recently when she suggested that perhaps tater tots and hot dogs did not go with craft cocktails. Jeanie is gone from JeanRo. Greenup is just sad, we joke they are channeling the old Wildflour in their last days. The embrace of local seemed a late and last ditch gasp, Chalk and 127 are the only ones that seem worth walking into, I wouldn’t know as I haven’t been in for months. I really feel for the remaining employees and especially Mark at Chalk and Geddys at 127 but the last round of lawsuits against JR and their PR person running around trashing him has prompted us to boycott Relish until JR is open. Sigh.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:05:17 +0000

Thanks, Julie! Immediately made a reservation and requested her. You are such a help!