Eating well in Cincy’s Over-the-Rhine

Beets and salsify at Please, a progressive, year-old restaurant in a tiny Over-the-Rhine storefront.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )

Revelers at Cincinnati’s annual Bockfest beer festival, which celebrates the coming of spring, Over-the-Rhine’s brewing heritage and bock beer.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )

Findlay Market is a thriving, blocklong market ringed in restaurants, food producers and specialty grocers. Founded in 1852, it weathered the urban upheaval of the 1960s and a costly riot in 2001, sparked after the police shot and killed an unarmed black teenager.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )

Fresh produce vendors line the stalls at Findlay Market in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine ’hood.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )

Historic buildings flank Cincinnati’s Findlay Market.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )

The massive Rhinegeist Brewery stocks games for all ages.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )

Over-the-Rhine’s beer and refined dining worlds meet at Sartre, the new restaurant in the vast Rhinegeist Brewery building.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )

A pork noodle salad, foreground, and beef pho at Pho Lang Thang, a Vietnamese eatery at Findlay Market.   ( Elaine Glusac/Chicago Tribune )