Rise & Shine Café

Rise & Shine lunch

Originally uploaded by dynamist.

I’d only been to Rise & Shine once before, when I first moved to Cincinnati in March. I’d had a typical American breakfast there – I’m sure eggs, sausage, and hash brows were involved. One day last week I was downtown and fancied breakfast for lunch, so stopped in again.

Except this time I saw that they, bizarrely, also offer Thai food…or what passes for Thai food in these parts. I ordered the low carb pork chop “curry,” and asked for the pork to be replaced with chicken. What I got was certainly satisfying, if not spectacular, and very filling, but it was neither low-carb nor Thai nor a curry. Carrots and baby sweetcorn don’t go in low-carb dishes, and don’t even get me started on cooking food in soy sauce and then calling it a curry.

Still, it tasted fine. It just wasn’t what I was after.

Rise & Shine Café
130 E. 6th St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 421-3308