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BrewRiver is moving, adding more New Orleans flavor

Polly Campbell
Cincinnati Enquirer
BrewRiver GastroPub on Riverside Drive Provided

BrewRiver Gastropub, after seven years on Riverside Drive in the East End, is moving. They're going about four miles down the street, to the old location of Bella Luna in Linwood. 

They hope to open there on Nov. 2 and will stay open in their current location to the end, their last night on Oct. 28. Owner Joby Bowman said that the new place has a much larger kitchen. Chef Michael Shields had devised a menu that could be executed in a "postage stamp" size kitchen. "We'll be able to really do pasta, have room for things like oysters, do catering out of the restaurant kitchen, and accommodate private parties like rehearsal dinners," said Bowman.  

They're dropping the "gastropub" and adding the tagline "Taste like New Orleans, craft like Cincinnati," emphasizing their large selection of craft beers and homemade approach to food. Shields, who worked with Emeril Lagasse in New Orleans, will be adding many new Creole-style dishes to the menu. 

"After everything that's happened on the hillside, we couldn't stay there," said Bowman. Built on a slipping hillside, the building has actually moved 10 inches. For nine months, the city was building a badly-needed retaining wall so bulldozers and construction equipment surrounded the building. "It's been difficult," said Bowman. "We might have closed, but after how proud I am of what we've accomplished, I wasn't going to let Mother Nature close our restaurant."  

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