Things to do in Deer Park? (Blue Ash, Reading: house, landscaping, neighborhood)

[MeganKaye]

Hi! My boyfriend just bought an awesome home in Deer Park and will be moving in at the beginning of June. Although I'm familiar with Kenwood Towne Center, I don't know much about the surrounding area. Is there anything (shopping, eating, bars, etc) in Deer Park or the surrounding area that we absolutely must check out? Thanks so much!

[Sarah Perry]

Originally Posted by MeganKaye

Hi! My boyfriend just bought an awesome home in Deer Park and will be moving in at the beginning of June. Although I'm familiar with Kenwood Towne Center, I don't know much about the surrounding area. Is there anything (shopping, eating, bars, etc) in Deer Park or the surrounding area that we absolutely must check out? Thanks so much!

Barresi's Italian restaurant on Webster. Not sure if technically in Deer Park, but close.

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The Jewish Community Center has a first class fitness center. Certainly don't have to be Jewish to be a member...a co-worker (gentile) belongs and raves about it.


Wellness & Recreation | Mayerson JCC

[Chemistry_Guy]

I live a few blocks from Deer Park, and you are absolutely right that it is a great little neighborhood. I am very fond of Chicken on the Run. It is a great place to watch sports and have cheap food and drinks with great people.

I also frequent Chamberlin park for walking my dog, pick-up softball, and entertaining my nieces and nephews. It is not the most amazing landscaping or anything but it is convenient and not usually crowded.

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There should be a placard at Willie Cunningham's boyhood home which would make for a good tourist attraction.

[MeganKaye]

Originally Posted by Chemistry_Guy

I live a few blocks from Deer Park, and you are absolutely right that it is a great little neighborhood. I am very fond of Chicken on the Run. It is a great place to watch sports and have cheap food and drinks with great people.

I also frequent Chamberlin park for walking my dog, pick-up softball, and entertaining my nieces and nephews. It is not the most amazing landscaping or anything but it is convenient and not usually crowded.

Pretty excited about this! The house is actually one block back from Chamberlin Park, which we've driven by and walked once and loved seeing guys playing softball and families walking around. It's a massive change from where he lives now. I saw Chicken on the Run on yelp and it looked promising. Another highly rated place was some Venezuelan place. Is anyone familiar with it?

[zach_33]

Strikes n Spares! (I think it is still there and unchanged?) Pretty sure my dad taught me how to bowl there back in late 70s. There is a bar up the road in Blue Ash some friends took me to one the last times I was in town - Logo's - it seemed like a nice, chill sports bar. Deer Park Deli has just about everything you need.

[goyguy]

The goyguy family (cheapskate WASP's to the core) swears by the TJ Maxx in the Dillonvale Shopping Center - it's the best stocked of the stores from that chain in the area. I've found some amazing coffees there, as well as difficult-to-obtain pickled vegetables which a younger family member inexplicably loves. The crew there also keeps it immaculate compared to its counterparts, no stuff strewn all through the aisles and no disorganized displays.

Deer Park as a whole is a very Mayberry, frozen-in-time sort of place. The school system may not be a conveyor belt to the Ivy League - and many residents do go the parochial route - but support from the townspeople for academic levies and sports programs is rock solid. It's the kind of place where teachers remember the parents of their students due to their having taught the parents as well. Because it remains a bulwark of the vanishing middle class, most residents are salt of the earth types and lean moderate to conservative politically.

For a real down-and-dirty discount shopping experience, the Glass Barn in Reading not too far distant is a gold mine. Pleasant Ridge, Roselawn, and Silverton are close at hand for unique "ethnic" dining as well as - in the case of the Montgomery Rd communities - old-school taverns. With the Kenwood mall sprawl close at hand you never have to travel far to find just about anything.

Good choice!