Clough Crossings American Bistro - Cincinnati, Ohio

TimH

Everything we had was delicious. Service was great. We really appreciated how a piece of history an 1800s school house has been preserved and now serves as a bistro. It also has beautiful woodwork inside, a bar and a large outdoor seating area with a nice little putting green. Would definitely recommend

Christina K.

Great food and service. Everything was well seasoned, hot and fresh. Had their $5 margaritas and they were delicious.

We had seasonal flatbread. Burger with everything. Pan roasted chicken with artichokes, mushrooms, tomato in a white wine sauce sub rice for mashed potatoes.

Highly recommend

Michele A.

Fun local hangout!! Service was fabulous. Pam the bartender is a doll!! Food is top notch. Fun outside dining area with a tv and putting green. 👍🏼👍🏼

Chase -. S.

We were very disappointed. We chose to try this place due to the high reviews. The outside looks great, and at a first glance so does the inside but..the carpet is old and stained, there was old food bits stuck to the wall of our booth, a dusty spider web that ran from the booth light up the wall, and just an overall dusty dingy appearance once you start actually taking it all in....so it wasn't clean enough for us.

We watched everyone get baskets of bread, but we didn't, when we asked all we got was 2 little pieces on a little plate. Other than giving us our food, the waitress never offered refills, we had one glass of pop each to last our whole meal.. and after she gave us our plates..she never came back until we were done. Terrible service.

And the food...the bread was actually really good, the tiny cup of chicken corn soup was delicious even though there was barely any chicken in it, the mashed potatoes were just wonderful.... but the steak was dreadful. We wasted more than half of it each. A medium steak should not have a solid red center top to bottom with cold spots... and since the waitress never came back at all.. we muscled through what we could and wasted the rest.

Just not a very good experience considering the reviews, and especially for the cost at $40 a Steak Plate. Maybe it was a random unfortunate food situation for us, but the cleanliness of the place and terrible service won't bring us back.

Also, it was a bit awkward having some of the other customers stare at us like we didn't belong there, like we were sitting in their booth or something, it was just awkward.

Steve W.

Really enjoyed our experience here. The interior is well decorated and also have pictures that details the building's past as a schoolhouse. The bookcase on the back wall was beautiful.

Our food was absolutely delicious. The meatball appetizer was very tasty. Will definitely come back.

Dennis D.

Such a wonderful down home experience with great people, including staff and guest. There's a lot of locals that come here and there's a lot of history to be learned about this structure and community definitely recommend stopping in food is delicious.

Darrell H.

Clough Crossings is an intimate dining venue that deserves your attention. The venue is an old school house, so it's small. Reservations are recommended.
There are three small dining areas: the main area is for semi formal seating, there's a casual seating area with a full bar, and a small outdoor patio. The full menu is available in all three dining areas.

We ate in the main dining area, which features an ornate bookcase converted into a wine cabinet. There are booths and tables that you generally get to choose when you reserve a table. There's a wine list that features the range with cabernets, a reisling, and a wine with bubbles. There's domestic and imported beer, but we didn't ask what the bar had. Our table had a bottle of the Alamos Malbec from Argentina, one of my favorite grapes. Grapey on the nose and finish with a the dry pepper and oak notes in between.

Our party ordered the daily special, a Greek pasta. It was a great linguini with olives, onions, feta cheese, tomatoes, and tasty oil dressing.

We saw Derby Pie on the chalk board when we walked in, and it was a dense chocolate pie with nuts, seemed with the perfect proportion of ice cream, and drizzled with caramel and chocolate sauce. Delish!
The rest of the menu had a couple of hefty salads, some sandwiches and burgers, and a salmon entree that I want to go back and try.

Treat yourself to a nice dinner and a quiet venue at Clough Crossing. Ask for Dave, he did a great job.

Mindy B.

Great food & great experience! Awesome old schoolhouse built in the 1800s. Lots of rely cool architectural detail inside. Staff was AMAZING & food was AMAZING! When they learned it was our 1st trip they gave us free dessert and made sure our experience was great. You don't find this kind of service and caring often anymore. Highly recommend!