Simon Says   

A friend of mine says that walking into Simon Says is like time traveling back to a gay bar in the late '70s. At some point they remodeled, but this might still be true. Even at 5:30 on a weekday, it's all about the mood - from erotic photographs to candles on the bar. Simon Says is the solid Midwestern gay bar, whatever it needs to be for whoever walks in: chill; familial; one of the few street-level, Downtown Cincinnati bars offering an oasis from the work-a-day. The patrons are mostly regulars, which might explain how this place has, in one incarnation or another, survived Downtown for what will be 50 years this September. The jukebox is bumping (soul, R&B, new wave), the pours generous. (CR)
Amenities: Jukebox; ATM