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Custom Rookwood pottery displayed above the open kitchen pass sets the tone at Jose Salazar's namesake restaurant, a mid-sized dining room where servers stand with hands clasped, quietly hunting for glasses to refill. The format is tapas in spirit: order everything at once, and the team paces it out. Dishes lean seasonal and arrive with an almost theatrical commitment to color, the kind of cooking that makes you notice it before you taste it.
Two honors, in evidence:
The record strongest first
- Cincinnati Magazine #10 · Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Jose Salazar
One number, weighted & current 75
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
- Creste di gallo Cincinnati Magazine
- Kimchi Cincinnati Magazine
- Little Fried Oyster Slider Cincinnati Magazine
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