Two New Pizzerias

Crostata's has some new competition

C-Town Eats reports on the opening of a new pizzeria in Little Italy: La Pizzeria. Their website promises the best pizza and gelato in Little Italy. C-Town Eats report doubles as a very favorable review, but also questions whether the area isn’t already saturated. Maybe, I’m not aware [...]

Ceviche Bar

Awesome ceviche. Sorry, I can't tell you where to find it.

Ceviche Bar is right next to Europa, which itself is relatively new. That space housed a Middle Eastern restaurant and a gastropub, but most people remember it as The Lion and the Lamb. Ceviche Bar has a dozen different types of ceviche [...]

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 [...]

A new steakhouse in the Boulevard Blue space?

Good. Why so big? Seriously. Is there a reason? Why can't I have a 4oz piece of beef in a steakhouse?

According to new-to-me blog At The Pass, Boulevard Blue is closed:

Our sources tell us, to look for another restaurant to open in Boulevard Blue’s former location the near [...]

Asian Town Center – Finally! Crust and Crumb returns – Finally!

I've never had a banh mi that I didn't like. They get extra points for making the bun. But you have to remember to ask for the hot peppers which I thought was weird.

Asian Town Center was announced two years ago. It’s managed by the family that owns Asia Foods. I’m a [...]

Polish boy; Ice cream; Clam Bake; lunch at fire

Polish boy. From Seti's.

Lunch at fire food and drink

According to Cleveland Independents, fire is going to start serving lunch on October 2. They’ll serve lunches on Fridays and Saturdays throughout the month and continue if there’s some interest.

I wasn’t a part of Cleveland’s clam bake culture. Cleveland Foodie offers a short list of restaurants [...]

New menu at Great Lakes; Grilling at Sarava

Great Lakes Brewing Company's Fatty Wagon

New Menu Items at Great Lakes Brewing

There’s always been a lot to like about the Great Lakes Brewing Company. They’ve pursued a lot of admirable environmental and civic initiatives and, of course, there’s the beer, but I never really heard people talking about how good [...]

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 [...]

Tuesday Salmagundi (fire, Pizza, Pacific East)

This isn't on the menu at fire's next wine dinner but it is on their bar menu and it's delicious. That's house made bacon. House made lamb bacon. It's got delicious bacon essence with a nice lamb twist.

fire is continuing its series of monthly wine dinners this coming June 10th. Every time I [...]

Moxie, fire and Boulevard Blue, Felice debut bar/brunch menu changes

fire's pork hushpuppy: Fantastic. I'm going to ask them how they make the chili sauce. The hush puppy was wonderfully light and tasty.

Bar menu at Moxie

According to Cleveland Independents, Moxie has added a bar menu (really? I thought they already had one… If so,  it’s been changed):

Stop by the bar Moxie between [...]