For decades, Bootsy Collins, widely known as the "King of Funk," has been entertaining audiences with his electric bass and P-Funk groove.

Today, he’s still delighting audiences in the concert hall and also in a new restaurant outfitted with all the flash and glitz of his performances as well as some darned good, sophisticated food.

Appropriately called ”Bootsy’s,” the restaurant opened in mid-December in Downtown Cincinnati across from the Aronoff Center, the Queen City’s premier performing arts venue. Like Bootsy’s dazzling on-stage outfits of sparkly bright suits, star-shaped glasses, Mad Hatter hats, and knee-high platform boots, the new restaurant stands out on the street like a rainbow against a gray sky.

The décor of the restaurant has been described as if someone had fired boxes of crayons all over the walls with a shotgun.

"When veteran Cincinnati restaurateur Jeff Ruby and I decided to partner together on the enterprise, Jeff knew that I was interested in color," said Bootsy, a 1997 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"We both wanted to bring something bright to downtown, and just like writing a song, we started with a main hook and ran with it, saying what we wanted to say with color,” he continued. “The restaurant decor, you could say, goes along with my sense of fashion."

Bootsy’s fun dining experience begins on the first floor, where an intimate space holds a good deal of his funk memorabilia, like the rhinestone hat made in 1971 by Elvis Presley’s designer and his James Brown ...