Cincinnati area restaurant featured on Food Network announces closure
IT’S ALL DRY RIGHT NOW, BUT MORE RAIN ON THE WAY WITH SOME MORE WINTRY IMPACTS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. I’LL TELL YOU WHEN THEY ARRIVE AND WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT COMING UP. AND BREAKING NOW, THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI, NOW SET TO HAVE A NEW ARCHBISHOP TODD –, JOINS US LIVE WITH WHO POPE FRANCIS HAS CHOSEN TO STEP IN. AS DENNIS SCHNUR STEPS DOWN WITH HEALTH PROBLEMS AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT A DEADLY SHOOTING IN WESTWOOD. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE VICTIM AS POLICE WORK TO GET THE SUSPECT IN CUSTODY. THIS IS WLWT NEWS FIVE LEADING THE WAY. WE’RE STILL FEELING THE IMPACTS OF THAT WINTER WEATHER WITH SNOW AND SLUSH ON THE ROADS, AND MORE PRECIPITATION IS ON THE WAY. THANKS FOR JOINING US AT NOON. I’M STEVEN ALBRITTON AND I’M KELLY RIPPIN. IT WILL LOOK DIFFERENT THOUGH, AT LEAST FOR MORE OF OUR COMMUNITIES THAN IT DID YESTERDAY. LET’S TALK WITH METEOROLOGIST ADAM BURNISTON. SO, ADAM, A SHORT BREAK AND THEN MOTHER NATURE BACK AT IT. AND MOSTLY RAIN THIS TIME. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. A LITTLE BIT OF A BREAK RIGHT NOW. STILL A DREARY LOOK, THOUGH, AS YOU ARE OUTSIDE OUT AND ABOUT AS WE LOOK AT RADAR. REALLY NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT OUT THERE AS WE’VE HAD JUST A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN HERE AND THERE, KIND OF SOME MISTING RAIN THAT’S BEEN OUT AND ABOUT. BUT AS WE’RE LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE, WE’RE LOOKING INTO THIS AFTERNOON, WHAT WE’RE GOING TO BE SEEING IS MORE RAIN INCREASING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENTUALLY MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF FREEZING RAIN FOR SOME OF OUR COUNTIES OUT THERE. SO AS WE LOOK AT FUTURECAST, IT WON’T BE A LOT. IN FACT, TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE ABOVE FREEZING, BUT YOU MAY SEE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT MIX BEFORE IT SWITCHES BACK ALL TO RAIN THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THROUGH THIS EVENING, AND THEN INTO TONIGHT. STILL SOME OF THOSE SHOWERS MOVING THROUGH INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON THURSDAY. SO WHILE ALL OF THIS IS STAYING AS MOSTLY RAIN FALL, STILL COULD SEE SOME MORNING IMPACTS THERE ON THURSDAY JUST BECAUSE OF THOSE WET ROADWAYS. ANY KIND OF STANDING WATER THAT COULD STILL BE SLICK OUT THERE AS WELL WITH HYDROPLANING OR JUST GENERAL LOW TRACTION ON THE TIRES. SO THAT MOVES OUT THURSDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES CRASHING THE REST OF THE DAY AND EVEN BY THE AFTERNOON. ON THURSDAY, WE COULD SEE A FEW FLURRIES. BUT GENERALLY IT’S JUST GOING TO BE A COLD DAY AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE END OF THE WEEK. SO THIS AFTERNOON WE MAKE IT INTO THE MID TO UPPER 30S, WILL BASICALLY STAY THERE THROUGH MUCH OF THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT BECAUSE OF THAT CLOUD COVER, THOSE SOUTHERLY WINDS HELPING A LITTLE BIT. BUT I HAD MY FULL FORECAST. WE’LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE SHOWERS LASTING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING, BUT ALSO ANOTHER WEEKEND IMPACT COMING OUR WAY FOR THE END OF THE WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND, WHERE WE COULD HAVE SOME RAIN, SNOW, WINTRY MIX, RETURNING ONCE AGAIN. SO WINTER NOT DONE WITH US YET. I’LL TAKE YOU THROUGH THE LATEST IMPACTS COMING UP HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. KELLY. OKAY, ADAM. THANK YOU. AND AS THAT SNOW CLEARS OUT, AS YOU JUST MENTIONED, EXPECTING THE RAIN COMING THIS WAY. REMEMBER, STAY AHEAD OF ANY IMPACTFUL WEATHER BY DOWNLOADING OUR WLWT APP. YOU CAN HAVE NOTIFICATIONS TURNED ON. THAT WAY WE CAN NOTIFY YOU WHEN THERE IS WEATHER IN YOUR AREA. BREAKING NEWS HERE AT NOON. THE NEARLY 450,000 MEMBER ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI HAS A NEW LEADER, ROBERT CASEY, COMING TO OUR REGION BY WAY OF CHICAGO TO REPLACE ARCHBISHOP DENNIS SCHNURR, WHO ALREADY ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S TODD — IS LIVE FOR US DOWNTOWN WITH WHAT THE ARCHBISHOP HAD TO SAY DURING HIS INTRODUCTORY NEWS CONFERENCE, TODD. YEAH, KELLY AND STEPHEN, THIS IS CERTAINLY A BIG DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FAMILY THROUGHOUT GREATER CINCINNATI. POPE FRANCIS HAS APPOINTED ROBERT CASEY, WHO GREW UP IN A SUBURB OF CHICAGO AND HAS BEEN A PRIEST FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS AS THE 11TH ARCHBISHOP OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI. CASEY IS REPLACING DENNIS SCHNURR, WHO FOLLOWED CHURCH PROTOCOL AND SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION WHEN HE TURNED 75. A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. CASEY THANKED THE SOON TO BE RETIRED SCHNURR FOR HELPING WITH THE TRANSITION AND HIS DEDICATION TO THE CHURCH. THE 57 YEAR OLD CASEY TOLD MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA AND PARISHIONERS THIS MORNING THAT HE’S THE SON OF AN IRISH IMMIGRANT FATHER AND A MOTHER FROM MICHIGAN. HE THEN DESCRIBED HIS FAITH JOURNEY AND THE MOMENT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOUND ITSELF IN TODAY. THE CHURCH IS IN A NEW MOMENT, AND I KNOW THAT THE CHURCH IN WHICH I GREW UP OUTSIDE OF CHICAGO IS NOT THE SAME AS THE CHURCH OF TODAY. AND SO WE FIND OURSELVES CALLED TO A A NEW MOMENT OF DISCIPLESHIP AND SERVICE AS GOD’S PEOPLE TO REALLY PROCLAIM JESUS CHRIST ALIVE AND PRESENT IN THE WORLD AROUND US. NOW, TODAY’S INTRODUCTORY NEWS CONFERENCE IS JUST ONE STEP OF THE PATH THAT ROBERT CASEY IS NOW ON. AN EXACT DATE FOR WHEN HE’LL BE INSTALLED. A LOT OF OFFICIAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN ALL OF THIS, AS THE ARCHDIOCESE’S NEW LEADER HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED, BUT WE’LL KEEP AN EYE ON THAT FOR SURE. FOR NOW, REPORTING LIVE DOWNTOWN OUTSIDE SAINT PETER IN CHAINS CATHEDRAL. TODD — WLWT NEWS FIVE. ALL RIGHT. NOW, TODD WAS THE OUTGOING ARCHBISHOP ABLE TO ATTEND TODAY’S EVENT? YOU KNOW KELLY, HE WAS NOT. AND IT WAS CERTAINLY EVIDENT BASED ON THOSE WHO WERE GATHERED HERE AT SAINT PETER IN CHAINS, THAT THEY CERTAINLY WISH HE COULD HAVE BEEN HERE ABOUT A WEEK AGO. SCHNURR HAD SURGERY TO DEAL WITH SOME LOWER BACK PAIN. AND OF COURSE, LAST SUMMER, AS WE’VE REPORTED, SCHNURR WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A FORM OF CANCER AND HE’S BEEN UNDERGOING ROUNDS OF CHEMOTHERAPY IN THE INTERIM. KELLY, BACK TO YOU. OKAY. TODD — REPORTING FOR US AT NOON. TODD, WE APPRECIATE THE UPDATES THERE. THANK YOU. DEVELOPING ON WLWT. WE’RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THAT CRASH IN THE NORWOOD LATERAL OVERNIGHT. A NORWOOD POLICE OFFICER TELLS WLWT A CINCINNATI PATROL CRUISER WAS HIT IN THAT CRASH. NEW RADIO TRAFFIC NOW SHOWING THE MOMENTS AFTER THAT COLLISION. LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT! 4356 MY UNIT WAS JUST STRUCK. COPY. THE OFFICER’S CALL GOES ON TO SAY THAT HE WAS OKAY. OFFICIALS COULD NOT TELL US IF ANYONE ELSE WAS INVOLVED OR HURT. WE’RE STILL WORKING TO LEARN MORE, AND WE’LL PASS ALONG ANY UPDATES AS SOON AS WE GET THEM. AND WE’RE LEARNING THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN WESTWOOD. THIS HAPPENED ABOUT TEN LAST NIGHT ALONG BOUDINOT NEAR MONTANA AVENUE. AND CINCINNATI POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE VICTIM AS 19 YEAR OLD NOAH THORNHILL. HE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL BUT DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY HAVE A SUSPECT AND THEY’RE ACTIVELY WORKING TO GET THAT PERSON INTO CUSTODY. WE’RE WORKING T
Cincinnati area restaurant featured on Food Network announces closure
Updated: 4:23 PM EST Feb 12, 2025
A restaurant in College Hill that was featured on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, announced its closing after six years of business.Kiki Cincinnati announced it will be closing and transitioning from their College Hill location. Their last day of service will be Friday, March 21.The owner, chef Hideki Harada, who also operates Sen by Kiki and Daruma Cincy, made the announcement in a post to Instagram.”From the start College Hill welcomed me and the restaurant with open arms, it was honestly overwhelming. During Covid, the support we got from the neighborhood just to keep our doors open through it was tearful. Thank you for being there for us. I will miss having a business here, but I plan to raise my family here for years to come,” he said in the post.He went on to thank his staff for all their work.In 2023, when Guy Fieri rolled through the Queen City, he stopped at multiple places including The Governor and Milford and Kiki. “Thank you to everyone that stepped foot in our restaurant and being a part of our story. We hope to see you all before we say our final goodbye on March 21,” Hideki said,Hideki did say the Kiki concept is not going away.”I believe that we’re just now getting started,” he said.See WLWT afternoon headlines from Wednesday, Feb. 12 in the video player above
A restaurant in College Hill that was featured on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, announced its closing after six years of business.
Kiki Cincinnati announced it will be closing and transitioning from their College Hill location.
Their last day of service will be Friday, March 21.
The owner, chef Hideki Harada, who also operates Sen by Kiki and Daruma Cincy, made the announcement in a post to Instagram.
“From the start College Hill welcomed me and the restaurant with open arms, it was honestly overwhelming. During Covid, the support we got from the neighborhood just to keep our doors open through it was tearful. Thank you for being there for us. I will miss having a business here, but I plan to raise my family here for years to come,” he said in the post.
He went on to thank his staff for all their work.
In 2023, when Guy Fieri rolled through the Queen City, he stopped at multiple places including The Governor and Milford and Kiki.
“Thank you to everyone that stepped foot in our restaurant and being a part of our story. We hope to see you all before we say our final goodbye on March 21,” Hideki said,
Hideki did say the Kiki concept is not going away.
“I believe that we’re just now getting started,” he said.
See WLWT afternoon headlines from Wednesday, Feb. 12 in the video player above
