Is Blue Ash Chili Parlor Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 9, Episode 7 Aired June 7, 2010

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Blue Ash Chili in the Comfort Food With Attitude episode, S9E7, which aired 2010-06-07, spotlighting the restaurant's family chili recipe. Blue Ash Chili is a chili parlor established in 1969 in Blue Ash, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has since added a second location on Princeton Pike in Cincinnati proper. Yelp's listing for the original Blue Ash location, updated August 2026, showed the restaurant open with posted hours of Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and no closure notice. The business's Facebook page also displayed an open-now status alongside options for dine-in, outdoor seating, and in-store pickup. Roadfood.com and TripAdvisor both continue to list the Kenwood Road location as an active restaurant, consistent with the current Yelp listing.

Man v. Food, Season 7, Episode 12 Aired July 30, 2018

After Arnold's, Casey Webb traveled to Blue Ash Chili Parlor in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash to sample the city's chili style with the No Freakin' Way platter, an eight-pound combination of spaghetti, homemade chili seasoned with paprika, cinnamon, and cumin, and shredded cheddar, ringed with deep-fried jalapeno caps. Blue Ash Chili was established in 1969 and has served its family chili recipe from the Kenwood Road location ever since; Cincinnati Magazine's dining coverage notes the parlor was also featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives in 2010, years before Webb's visit. The restaurant's own website continues to list that location as active, and a Yelp listing updated in August 2026 shows hundreds of recent reviews, indicating Blue Ash Chili Parlor remains open years after the Man v. Food episode aired.