Three December Events

Pear, pancetta salad at Sapore. Fantastic.

December 8, 2009 7 – 10pm : Beer Dinner at Buckeye Beer Engine

“Happy Holiday’s Beer Engine Fans. We wanted to remind everyone about our next beer dinner which is next Tuesday at 7:00pm. This will be a special beer dinner because of course it will [...]

Beer dinners at Buckeye Beer Engine and Tremont Tap House; Budget menus at Moxie and Flying Fig

beet salad at Moxie

September 1st, 2009 7pm : January 1st, 2004 Southern Tier Beer Dinner at Buckeye Beer Engine

The complete menu (PDF) has some notes about the beer pairings.

Baby spinach, fig, and goat cheese salad with orange honey dressing.
Paired with Southern Tier ‘Harvest Ale’ (5.7% ABV, Extra Special, Bitter)

Chinese five spice spare [...]

July 4th plus a couple pig pictures

Roasted pig (large) by vnoel

Some options for this coming July 4th:

Reddstone is throwing a free pig roast and BBQ. They’ll draw you in with the pork and get you with the alcoholic sno cones. There will be  entertainment and games all day long.
Bar Cento and the Bier Markt will open early (at [...]

Friday Salmagundi (Buckeye Beer Engine, Sapore, Culinary Vegetable Institute)

fried cod sandwich with cajun tartar sauce

The Buckeye Beer Engine recently sold burger #48324. You may remember when I made note of their announcement for #40000. I goofed on the calculation in that post. They’re now around their two year anniversary so that’s about 66 burgers every day. There were 113 days between announcements [...]

The Best Hamburger in Cleveland

The Beer Engine Burger

I gave up on hamburgers. I can’t even remember when. Meat, cheese, bread… It should be delicious and pretty much fool-proof to boot, right? Otherwise fine restaurants bungle burgers, usually by over-fancifiying them. American cheese melts. Your fancy cheddar cheese doesn’t melt as well and that’s important. Making the burger too [...]