Iris Book Cafe

Open the door to Iris BookCafé and Gallery and discover a locavores delight. We take pride in serving only the best of what Cincinnati has to offer. Our menu selections are made with all-natural ingredients provided by local suppliers and coffee roasters. While food is local, our vintage book collection is global. We carry books on architecture, art, fashion, philosophy, literature, poetry, drama, film, photography, cooking, famous gardens, Americana, and childrens book, many in foreign languages (including the largest collection of Polish books in Cincinnati). Look up at the walls and youll see professionally curated exhibitions of fine photography, well lit and carefully presented, changing several times a year. Iris BookCafe and Gallery is a culinary and cultural oasis in historic Over-the-Rhine. Andrew Borowiec has photographed Americas changing industrial and post-industrial landscape for over three decades. His work has been exhibited around the world and are a part of major art collections, institutions, and museums throughout the country. Borowiec has received major fellowships and awards throughout his career as a photographer, photojournalist, author and professor.