Your guide to Restaurant Week

20 Brix is a wine bar, restaurant and retail store that prides itself on the quality and selection of its wine list. With the menu changing for each season, you're bound to find flavorful dishes or grab a taste of one of the thin crust, bistro-style pizzas. Bring home a bottle of your favorite taste from the on-site retail store after one of their wine and beer tastings.

A romantic little place inside the Embassy Suites Hotel, Behle Street has an array of signature dishes and numerous options for vegetarians.

Experience all the elegance of a fine restaurant without the smug attitude. Bella Luna serves authentic Sicilian and Calabrian cuisine in a funky, fresh atmosphere with a fabulous wine selection.

A cozy, quaint addition to MainStrasse Village, this wine bar is a must for lovers of the vine. Bouquet features a superb wine selection (hence its name), a knowledgeable staff and a small but well thought-out menu.

This highly regarded restaurant and café combines a myriad of cuisines to create an eclectic menu suitable for all appetites. The café offers live music on Saturdays and fresh game instituted in every menu (roast boar tenderloin or pan roast venison loin, anyone?). Chef Shawn McCoy has really taken the upscale casual restaurant to another level with his wide-ranging choices. The décor and cherry wood bar complete the elegantly designed restaurant. Brown Dog offers an expansive drink selection with more than 50 kinds of wines and a comfortable bar area to grab a cocktail before dinner.

It’s been a favorite for over 30 years, but a remodeling effort brought it up to date with the sleek modern Tao Lounge. The food is still classic Chinese, served carefully along traditional lines.

Chef and owner David Cook creates delectable and creative courses for your dining pleasure, and the menu can change daily.

A fixture in Mariemont for years, Dilly Cafe is the perfect spot to enjoy a cozy meal or try a sampling of wines. Their menu includes small plates like grilled asparagus and Maryland style crab cakes, while the dinner menu includes an array of gourmet salads, homestyle pork ribs, Chilean sea bass and vegetarian sandwiches. The wine store carries over 1,000 bottles of wine and they serve an interesting collection of craft beers and signature martinis.

There is something to be said for tradition, and no one does it better than the oldest inn in Ohio.

Hugo serves sophisticated dishes inspired by classic low-country cuisine and current trends.

The historic Iron Horse features upscale, contemporary American dining in a cozy, 1850s building.

Jag’s embraces all that is classy not only in the menu selection and superb drink list, but perhaps most of all in atmosphere.

The Over-the-Rhine restaurant has revamped its offerings, adding more pub-like, heartier items to the list, while keeping its excellent wine selection.

This stylish entry to the upscale end of the dining scale emphasizes local ingredients and heritage dishes, but using modern culinary techniques.

This eatery is a lively but laid-back college hangout. Often times, students eat, drink, study or watch sports on 18 TV screens (including a massive plasma screen).

New restaurant now open in the former location of Glendale Gaslight Cafe. Features a menu the owner and chef describes as contemporary American food with a fresh twist. Steak, seafood and specialty sandwiches are served, as well as salads, dessert and appetizers such as stuffed mushrooms and steamed mussels.

This neighborhood mainstay has been cranking out homemade Italian specialties for almost 80 years, and the attached bar harkens back to the days before Prohibition.

Known (and named) for its panoramic views of downtown Cincinnati, Primavista is a local favorite for romantic Italian cuisine.

This classy restaurant is hidden behind the storefronts of Deerfield Towne Center. Relish serves lunch and dinner tapas-style: in bite-size portions meant to be shared. Wednesdays feature half-price martinis and Mondays and Sundays have half-price bottles of wine. For discounts on wine by the glass head in for happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday when wine is half price and you can also get 50 cents off beer.

This casual but elegant eatery overlooks the Ohio River and Northern Kentucky. The menu features what View calls "an inspired twist on American cuisine" - which means there is truffle oil in the mac and cheese, lamb in the meatloaf and bacon jam with the scallops. If you're eating on a budget, consider the prix fixe menu, where three courses are just $25. In September 2011, they updated the menu to combine the American dishes from the original View menu with some new Italian choices.

Your servers may look like the regular kind who bring you drinks and classic Italian food, but in between courses, they will jump up between tables or to the grand piano to sing arias, standards or numbers from musicals.

This historic restaurant has a storied and longstanding history in Cincinnati while playing host to a number of venues over the years. They specialize in seafood entrees but have an eclectic menu that appeals to every kind of taste bud.