Gourmet Room

[2][3] The restaurant opened in 1948 on the rooftop of the newly-built Terrace Plaza Hotel and had 20 tables with space for 45 diners.

On the recommendation of Pierre Matisse, John J. Emery commissioned a 30 ft (9.1 m) Joan Miró mural for the restaurant.

[4][9][10] The walls of the dining space that didn't hold the mural were floor-to-ceiling windows that were cantilevered to prevent a glare and provide views of the surrounding city, the skyline, and suburban areas.

[4] Harper's Magazine wrote in 1948, "If you want to know what your grandchildren will think of as the elegance of this post-war era, you will have to go to Cincinnati and take an elevator up to the eighth floor of a pink brick building.

[4] The bottom seven floors of the building were retail space, and the only elevator to the restaurant was an express from the eighth-floor hotel lobby.