Bar Cento Wine Dinner; Local Ice Cream; Wine Bar to Moreland Hills; Shinano review

 

Chef Dante's dish at the 3rd annual Pestival

I went to the Shaker Nature Center’s Pestival yesterday. Chef Dante Boccuzzi is expecting the new Tremont location to be open in July. The old location’s sushi specials will be available and the sushi menu will be honored with its own space in the basement.

There wasn’t any garlic mustard in the desserts. One of desserts was basil ice cream so maybe garlic mustard ice cream could work, too. The ice cream was delicious and it was provided by Mularo’s Gourmet Ice Creams. They have a huge list of very interesting flavors.  Chile mango, peach habenero, roasted banana and brown sugar (Haagen Daaz’s is certainly good) are all very tempting but I think the first that I would choose would be the sweet corn.

Bar Cento is hosting a wine dinner this Wednesday:

June 3, 6-9pm
Coturri Wine Dinner at Bar Cento
$40 Slow Food members / $45 non-members

Make reservations by contacting Bar Cento directly at 216.274.1010 or visit www.barcento.com/contact.13.

Clevelandfoodie breaks news of a coming wine bar in Moreland hills. The news comes in her interview with local blogger Heidi Robb and resolves any lingering curiosity over an off-hand remark in this coy blog post. The pictures in that post make me even more interested in checking out the wine bar but as far as I concerned, I’ll be supporting all of her projects for years based on the baked hot chocolate that she devised for Moxie.

What projects are you currently working on now? My super-talented beautiful friend and catering partner, Karen Gorman, is opening a new wine bar and carryout venture in Moreland Hills, The Nine of Cups and Nine of Cups Market. I’m consulting on recipe and menu development. There. I just spilled nine cups of beans. I’m absolutely thrilled for Karen – exciting times!

I’m also developing a slew of cooking classes with a new local farmer, Kelli Hanley of Hanley’s Homegrown, to be held out at her place. We are hoping to get started this summer.

Cleveland.com posted a review of Shinano in Solon. The review was generally positive and in particular praised the homemade sauces. The chance that there might be a local Japanese restaurant that isn’t happy to let their cooked food exist in the shadow of their sushi is very exciting.