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Downtown Dayton dining

Explore where downtown Dayton eats, drinks, and goes out.

Use the downtown directory for restaurants, bars, breweries, cafes, DORA spots, and Downtown Dollars businesses. The public site keeps the focus on useful visitor details, not hidden contact data.
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2nd Street Market
Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

2nd Street Market

600 E. Second St.

Local growers, bakers, culinary specialists, and artisans fill this charming historical freight house. Reminiscent of European markets, it's alive with vendors, people and activity during market hours.

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6888 Kitchen Incubator
Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

6888 Kitchen Incubator

32 S. Ludlow St.

A nonprofit commercial kitchen incubator dedicated to economic development, workforce training, and food justice. Located in the historic Dayton Arcade, the 6888 Kitchen is where culinary dreams take root and grow.

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Beyond Grocery
Downtown Dollars
Coffee & Tea Shops

Beyond Grocery

31 S. Main St.

This cashless grocery and convenience store offers drinks, snacks, grab-and-go food items, personal care items, and more.

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Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

Good Hands Bread Co.

527 Wayne Ave.

This artisan bakery specializes in fresh breads, soft pretzels, and other products available to go.

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Grist
DORADowntown Dollars
Fine & Upscale Dining

Grist

46 W. Fifth St.

Grist features its pastas, sandwiches, and other food for lunch and dinner, along with fresh pasta, bread, sauces, pastries, and other provisions to purchase, plus frequent cooking classes and other events.

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Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

Luke’s Grab & Go

45 W. Fourth St.

The Dayton Arcade 'Grab & Go' location of Luke's Custom Cakes offers a variety of cakes, cookies, candy, cupcakes, desserts, and other sweet treats.

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Maria’s at the Market
Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

Maria’s at the Market

45 W. Fourth St.

Maria’s Unique Foods offers local Amish-made and other gourmet food products such as jams, fruit butters, natural syrups, cobbler and pie fillings, a variety of salsas, popcorn, a variety of pickled foods, relishes, mustards, and more.

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Salt Block Biscuit Company
Downtown Dollars
Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

Salt Block Biscuit Company

115 E. Third St.

This bakery and cafe serves biscuits, cakes, cobblers, cookies, salads, small plates, sandwiches, entrees, sides, and more.

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Smales Pretzel Bakery
Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

Smales Pretzel Bakery

45 W. Fourth St.

Smales pretzels have been made the same way in Dayton, Ohio, for over 100 years using just four ingredients: flour, water, yeast and salt. The bakery's newest location is in the Dayton Arcade, just as it was decades ago, offering soft and hard pretzels, along with a few extras.

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The Book Worm Cafe
Coffee & Tea Shops

The Book Worm Cafe

215 E. Third St.

The Book Worm Cafe offers drip coffee, smoothies, snacks, sandwiches, and more inside the Dayton Metro Library's Main Library location.

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The Dessert Room
Bakeries, Breads, & Desserts

The Dessert Room

39 W. Fourth St.

Focused solely on elevated desserts and post-meal cocktails, this room next to Table 33 in The Dayton Arcade features a rotating selection of indulgent desserts, including its signature "The Chocolatier's Table."

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Val’s Bakery
Coffee & Tea Shops

Val’s Bakery

25 S. St. Clair St.

Val's features a variety of fresh, reimagined pastries, coffee, matcha, and more, from a 72-hour butter croissant to a specialty cruffin, pain au chocolat, tasty cookies, and more.

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DORADowntown Dollars
Coffee & Tea Shops

Winans Coffee & Chocolate

221 N. Patterson Blvd.

This area-favorite coffee and premium handmade chocolate shop also features retail wine and outdoor patio seating.

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