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Home Base Tavern

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Many visitors praise Home Base Tavern as a welcoming neighborhood dive bar with a great community vibe, especially for karaoke nights, and highlight friendly bartenders. However, some reviewers report negative experiences with rude or inattentive staff, with one reviewer describing the atmosphere as scary and another mentioning a stolen purse with no assistance.

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2401 Vine St, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
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Website
homebasetavern.wixsite.com

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About this place Home Base Tavern

Home Base Tavern is a gay bar at 2401 Vine Street, on the hill between Over-the-Rhine and the University of Cincinnati area. It's a neighbourhood bar with a 4.6 Google rating from about 170 reviews. We don't have hours or details of its nights, and the website is a basic Wix page. Check it, or call, before you go. Cincinnati's gay bars are spread out rather than clustered, so plan to get between them by car.

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Gay Mixed LGBTQ+ Chill / Relaxed Local favorite Pub Card payments accepted Walk-ins welcome Evening venue Year-round Gay-friendly (straight venue)

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4.6
★★★★★
170 reviews

Based on 170 Google reviews.

James Wilson
James Wilson Jun 2026
★★★★★

Great service, good karaoke

Brandon Ellerbusch
Brandon Ellerbusch Apr 2026
★☆☆☆☆

Bartenders were crashing out

Mason
Mason Apr 2026
★★★★★
Angie Sapphire
Angie Sapphire Apr 2026
★★★★★

My new regular place to go sing karaoke on Friday and Tuesday nights. It's like a huge queer family hangout where everyone roots and cheers for everyone

Nic
Nic Apr 2026
★★★☆☆
Emmett Noonan
Emmett Noonan Mar 2026
★★★★★

Oh my gosh bartender was a pleasure

Young hoe
Young hoe Mar 2026
★☆☆☆☆

Miller was rude to me when my friend made a Mistake which getting the drinks, and instead of trying to get my order the just wanted to argue. My first thought when interacting with miller was “how many shots deep are they/what did they smoke” I had to repeat myself multiple times not because it was loud but because they kept forgetting our order. At one point they tried to give me another persons order… Mind you this was the first time coming to this bar and will probably be my last because if how incompetent/inebriated and rude miller was… cant imagine how the rest of them are. TLDR: Miller was lucky my friend was paying because if I was, they would not get a tip.

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Last updated on 20 October 2026

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