The 86 Coffee Bar

Nice spot with tons of seating, power outlets,and fast internet. Delicious variations in the menu from coffee to smoothies.

As an out-of-towner this place was phenom! Great coffee, great atmosphere, great staff. Coffee during the day, music and drinks at night. Board games, shuffleboard, pool, cornhole. Just awesome. Almost makes me want to stay in Cincy longer!

One of the best cafe’s in the Cincinnati area! So glad I found it and made all my friends visit it! Absolutely love the space, coffee, and super sweet baristas 😍 100 % recommend it!

This place has a great vibe…especially the upstairs seating. I was looking for a good coffee shop in the nearby area to spend my morning and this turned out to be an excellent place. Good drinks options as well and the mocha I ordered was good.

Great place to gather for coffee and work. The cubano Cappuccino was great and a new thing to try! The staff was so nice and helped me out while I was there. Will definitely be back soon-still more coffee options to try! 😁😁👍

Hands down the best coffee shop in Cincinnati. They roast all of their coffee in-house and partner with other local small businesses and artists for their food, decor, and shop. The two-story location has a lovely outdoor patio as well as plenty of seating for studying and socializing. Their hours are also great for students and locals alike to grab a coffee both before and after work/school.

The coffee is obviously amazing, but honestly I really love the atmosphere, the music makes me feel like I’m in a Charlie Brown special haha. Also, the people who work there are very friendly and welcoming which is important to me because I don’t know much about coffee nor do I know what to get some times but they don’t make me feel like I’m being judged. Many other coffee shops scare me for that reason because it feels like I have to be an expert lol. Anyways, I always feel like I’m starting the day off right when I go in there for an early morning coffee. Would recommend!

Without a doubt my favorite coffee spot around the UC campus. Friendly staff and excellent drip coffee.

This is one of the nicest independent coffee houses in the area, my main complaint lies in the hours. Which is somewhat typical of every new independent coffeehouse opened in the last 20 years in this region. You have old standby university area coffee shops here like the Highland and Sitwell's, which understand the idea of a late night coffee shop close to University campus where people are going to come and read in socialize (at least Sitwell's used to until they changed ownership,). But the 86, like other newer ones, don't have this idea in mind. EVEN THOUGH you often have it nearly full at its early closing hour, which clearly indicates that they're going to have continued walk in traffic for some time, they always close shop early.

I don't get it, they're literally right across the street from a university campus, how does that even make sense? I think you just have a generation of coffeehouse owners who are disconnected from the past culture of coffeehouses, of old places like the old coffee houses of North Beach San Francisco or Greenwich Village New York, that inspired the first wave of independent espresso shops across the country decades ago. You can tell people who grew up in that coffeehouse culture because the understand the idea of late night coffee shops. The kind you hear about in Tom Waits songs. But for some reason, over the last 20 years there's a change in coffeehouse culture and the people opening and managing these places have no concept of the simple idea of keeping a place open at least until 10:00 p.m. . You will still make money, you just need two less employees to justify it. But I guarantee you a coffee shop open till 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. works. they are across the street from a university campus, they will continuously have walk traffic. What's the proof? Look at Highland Coffee House down the street, it's always packed to the brim until 1:00 a.m. and the original coffee house that was at this location long ago, The Buzz, which was more of a generation millennial haunt, was open late night and continuously packed. if you leave it open they will come, it's not a rocket science formula. What frustrates me is that the 86 is a good coffeehouse is the kind of place I would come in and spend money in at 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. or even midnight IF IT was open that late. I've also heard other people complain about this, so there's more people out there who would like that option.
During normal business hours, it's a pretty good place. I definitely enjoy coming here

Nice atmosphere but music is too loud for reading/studying.