Tahona Kitchen + Bar is set to take up more real estate at Summit Park in Blue Ash, a move that gives the taqueria extra breathing room and quietly redraws the park’s dining map. The expansion, reported Friday by local business media, lands at a time when several Summit Park tenants have either closed or retooled. For regulars, it means more seats and a fresh signal that the park’s restaurant row is still worth betting on.
According to the Cincinnati Business Courier, Tahona Kitchen + Bar is enlarging its existing Summit Park space rather than opening a separate standalone restaurant. In other words, it is doubling down on the corner it already calls home instead of starting from scratch somewhere else in the park.
Tahona’s foothold in the park
Tahona first planted its flag in Summit Park under the umbrella of Looking Glass Hospitality, which operates the Blue Ash location. The group describes Tahona as a California-inspired taqueria and tequila bar and spotlights its scratch-made tacos and tequila program, reinforcing that this is a locally rooted concept rather than a faceless chain.
Closures that cleared room
The decision to grow comes after a stretch of shakeups at Summit Park, where some of the most familiar names have recently exited. Senate, the popular hot dog spot, announced in early February that it would close its Blue Ash location, according to FOX19. Not long before that, the Brown Dog Cafe shut its doors last December after a long run, as reported by WLWT.
New tenants and re-tenanting efforts
In the wake of those departures, the city and property owners have been actively working to re-tenant empty spaces around the park, with operators shuffling storefronts to better capture foot traffic. Coverage from MadTree moves into Summit Park, and CityBeat details how MadTree and other operators are bringing new concepts into Summit Park, a broader shuffle that helps explain why Tahona might choose to spread out now instead of sitting tight.
Tahona’s call to expand rather than retreat stands out as one of the clearest signals that some restaurant owners still see solid demand in Blue Ash’s parkside dining scene. With MadTree in the mix, new Italian concepts on the way, and leases continuing to turn over, Summit Park’s restaurant row is getting reworked in real time, and Tahona is lining up to play a bigger role in the next chapter.
