Bistro 737

Great service, wonderful food, and a bourbon menu longer than the food menu! Great place to eat when you are traveling.

All they have is a bar menu. Food selection is poor at best. The additional star is only for the bourbon selection. The place was not impressive whatsoever.

We got wall paper paste crab bisque, slimey rotted spinach salad, steamed chicken pot stickers, that were pork and deep fried, and meditteranian pasta dish swimming in oil. Tried one bite of each. Need a stomach pump. Worst dinner ever.

I’ve eaten here a number of times. The place does have some interesting «issues» that I will get to later but I did want to point out that people who rate a restaurant like this one based upon having eaten nothing there other than breakfast really need to stop doing stupid things like that. Yes — they serve breakfast probably because they have to as this is the restaurant at the Hilton and they need to supply something for guests. That said — fine — I probably wouldn’t eat breakfast there either.
OK, that said, the bar menu is standard bar-​fare with brick-​oven pizzas and burgers and the usual appetizers — if you’re looking for bar-​snacks a bit more creative ask for the dinner menu and order up black and blue sea-​scallops, or short-​rib wontons or shrimp cocktail etc — more up-​scale options at reasonable prices.
The dinner menu itself is surprisingly good with more than reasonable prices IMHO. I’ve had a number of items and all were quite acceptable to good. The steaks have always struck me as well-​prepared and tasty.
The bar area itself is kinda sweet. The bartenders I’ve had were also very friendly and although this is not a rocking place it is a good place to have a couple of cocktails, particularly if you are wanting to relax or talk.
Now the «issues»… I probably would have given this place a 4-​star rating. For Florence this place is as close to an upscale menu as you’ll find anywhere outside of Miyoshi’s Japanese menu. This town is not a hot-​bed of cuisine (I mean seriously — as I write this review, Red Robin is ranked #4… Red Robin… SMH). I am, instead, giving it 5 stars with the hope that people will finally figure out that the place exists and will give it a shot and to counter-​balance 3 star reviews from people who only ate breakfasts there.
The biggest problem I see with the place is that hardly anyone even knows it exists. I’ve lived in Florence for 10 years and when I mention this place to ANYONE they look at me like I’m insane and have never heard of it. It is inside the Hilton. It has no real advertising — you’d have to almost stumble upon it by accident or hear about it via word of mouth. Why? I suspect that Hilton is not necessarily all that interested in becoming a locally-​packed restaurant. It exists primarily to service their guests I suspect and whether it is intentional or not I do not know but they do not seem to be concerned about it as the crowds have never been very large for the 5+ years I have eaten there. Food is still good but unless they have some sort of group staying there you will rarely see more than a few tables full at dinner.
My final minor concern is the food itself — although there is nothing wrong with anything I’ve ever eaten there (their salads btw are really good) it just seems to lack that special something that says «wow — the chef really worked to make this sauce special» or «damn this is a unique flavor»… it is I suppose… safe. Which is why I’m amazed it isn’t packed with people from Northern KY many of whom refuse to cross the river to eat, find Red Lobster and Olive Garden to be «fine dining» and just love em some plain food with safe sauces… don’t get me wrong, the food here is clearly a notch above said chains but still not up to the level of other up-​scale places in Cincy.
So I’d say — give it a try… if you don’t want to risk dropping $ 20-​$ 30 on a dinner you may not like, try hitting the bar, have a drink or two and try something either off the bar menu or as suggested the appetizer portion of the dinner menu. You may be surprised. If you are going to be staying there from out of town and don’t feel like driving the 20 – 35 minutes to get to a really top-​notch place downtown then understand that it is as close to upscale dining as you will get in Florence (unless you like sushi because Florence has some really good sushi due to the Toyota headquarters over in Hebron… see Miyoshi or Matsuya or Jo An for example).

The breakfast buffet here is pretty decent. One of the options is salmon. I’m all about the salmon.

This bar/​restaurant is located inside the Hilton, where I was staying on a business trip. The food is average. I had the full continental breakfast here three times. The bacon was a little flimsy and the eggs were kinda blah. But, the cereal was good! The staff never refilled my damn drinks. Once I was halfway done with my meal before they even brought me my coffee! That made me a very very sad panda.
The reason I am giving them 3 stars, though, is because the beer was cheap!

This restaurant is inside the Hilton — Cincinnati Airport. It has enormous potential but has fallen short. I went there with my mom and sister for breakfast. Their website stated that they had this grand buffet with all sorts of yummy and fancy foods but when we got there it was practically a glorified continental breakfast. Come to find out that you had to specifically ask if you wanted things like omelets, pancakes and waffles. There was no sign with the options or instruction for the other foods and the service was horrible. The restaurant was deserted at 10 am on MOTHERS DAY! We should have taken that as a sign. Anyway, it looked very nice but they need to get their act together.