Joe Biden visited this popular Cincinnati restaurant on Wednesday

President Joe Biden grabbed a bite to eat at a local restaurant while visiting Greater Cincinnati on Wednesday.

Biden, who spoke in Covington to tout a $1.6 billion federal investment to upgrade the Brent Spence Bridge, followed up his speech by going to Just Q’in BBQ in Walnut Hills. He arrived at the restaurant around 2 p.m., accompanied by Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval.

The president ordered the brisket plate, potato salad, macaroni and cheese, jalapeno cornbread and peach cobbler, per the White House.

“It’s really good. Seriously,” he said when asked about the peach cobbler.

Just Q’in BBQ owner Matt Cuff said Biden "reached in the bag and just pulled the peach cobbler right out.”

“He ate his peach cobbler first, which is a man after my own heart," Cuff said.

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A way to show off Walnut Hills

According to Pureval, the stop was chosen to show off the Walnut Hills neighborhood and the people who make it a great place to live, like Cuff.

“Senator Brown and I wanted to show the president that Cincinnati is the future,” the mayor said. “Walnut Hills embodied that. The owner, Matt, is intentional about hiring people who need a second chance. The investments we have seen there are historic. Just Q’in and Walnut Hills are a success for Cincinnati."

“Also, the president loves BBQ, so it was win-win," Pureval added.

Cuff said he spoke to the president about his views on hiring people who have barriers to employment.

“His background is not dissimilar from mine," the restaurant owner said. "We talked about how he had to kind of pull himself up, so he related to a lot of the things that not only I've dealt with in my life but the people that we employ have to deal with on a regular basis."

How do you top a visit from the president?

Ihsan Walker of Winton Hills and Ike Ekeke of Finneytown were dining at Just Q'in on Wednesday. They were told a VIP was coming inside the restaurant.

“A VIP is a weird way to describe anybody,” Ekeke said.

The two spoke with Biden, shook his hand and took photos.

“This sets the bar very high now for who we might be meeting in 2023," Walker said.

“Once you meet the president this time of year, I have to meet like Beyoncé and Bon Jovi on the same night together too," Ekeke added

While speaking in Covington, Biden praised Republicans and Democrats in Ohio, Kentucky and Washington for setting aside their differences to fix one of the nation's most important pieces of infrastructure.

"I believe it sends a message, an important message, to the entire country," Biden said of the new law that made the bridge project possible. "We can work together. We can get things done. We can move the nation forward."

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