Milkwood

Even if you can’t yet get a table at Whiskey Dry, Lee’s other restaurants—and the city’s oft-toasted dining scene at large—offer reasons aplenty to cross the Ohio.

After stints at Louisville’s Milkwood and Proof on Main, former Bluebeard chef John Adams is back cooking for the hometown crowd.

An approachable but definitely high-aiming lunch menu currently features several playful starters and a short list of “mains,” including a burger seared on a plancha grill and a grilled cheese with three types of fromage and a mushroom jam.