Findlay Market cheese shop The Rhined has announced its expansion.
Owners Stephanie and Dave Webster, who also own Oakley Wines, are taking over the space formerly occupied by OTR Candy Bar — right next door to their shop — to open an education/event/production space called Bloom Room.
The new facility, which will seat about 25 guests, is slated to open in fall of 2021.
The space will host The Rhined’s Get Cultured classroom series and will also be used as a private event space for both The Rhined and Oakley Wines. A release from Stephanie says they will also utilize Bloom Room as a pop-up space for artists and “food creatives” in a partnership with Findlay Market and Findlay Kitchen.
“Bloom Room will allow us to continue growing The Rhined and our brand with a dynamic and playful space for our Get Cultured series and private events,” says Stephanie. “We care deeply about Findlay Market and are excited to play a larger role in the community. We feel that opening Bloom Room will allow us to expand our guest experience, have a little room to grow, and offer another way to share our passion of good cheese and good wine. It’ll be fun!”
Stephanie explains in the release that when the space is not being used for events it will be utilized for production.
The meaning behind the new business’s name references the cheesemaking process called affinage, “when a cheese physically ‘blooms,'” Stephanie explains in the release.
Bloom Room will be located at 1735 Elm St. in Over-the-Rhine.
This article appears in Jun 1 – Jul 6, 2021.
