13 spooky recipes for Halloween-themed cocktails Many beer, wine, and spirits brands release festive drinks to give folks ideas for what to serve at Halloween parties and fall dinner festivities. Here are 13 spooky recipes for Halloween-themed cocktails to try this fall. READ MORE Tripadvisor's highest-rated brunch restaurants in Cleveland If breakfast is “the most important meal of the day,” it should go without saying that brunch is the most important meal of the week(end). But what makes a great brunch? Champagne and cocktails for breakfast? Fried egg on top of a burger? Short rib hash, Froot Loop pancakes, tiramisu crêpes, tater tot waffles with smoked salmon? All of the above? Cleveland.com has partnered with Stacker to find the 23 highest-rated brunch restaurants in the Greater Cleveland area, according to Tripadvisor. READ MORE |
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6 restaurants in Greater Cleveland for Central American pupusas Pupusas are an essential type of Central American cuisine that, thankfully, can be enjoyed in Northeast Ohio. The griddled corn discs, made out of cornmeal four, are filled with items like meat, cheese, and beans before they’re slightly browned. Cleveland has a few small but mighty Latin American restaurants that feature pupusas on their menus. Here are 6 restaurants in Greater Cleveland to eat pupusas. READ MORE Chef Brandon Chrostowski is serving up kindness every day at Edwins For this week’s Kindland feature, we look at one of Cleveland's most representative cases of leadership by example: Chef Brandon Chrostowski, the award-winning catalyst behind Edwins Leadership and Culinary Institute. Brandon helps former incarcerates regain their self-esteem and land gainful employment in the culinary arts industry. He founded Edwins after his own brush with the law. READ MORE Noted French chef Eric Ripert visits Cleveland -- talking new seafood cookbook, great restaurants & more Celebrity chef Eric Ripert made his way to a book signing at the Parma branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library on Thursday, October 5. Before then, he spoke with cleveland.com’s Alex Darus about cooking seafood at home, traveling, and the importance of supporting a strong local restaurant scene. READ MORE |
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OPENINGS Meals in a vending machine? Farmer’s Fridge is here Cleveland If Luke Saunders has his way, machines will take over the world. OK, not machines everywhere, just a little niche of the culinary market, where Saunders’ 10-year-old company, Farmer’s Fridge, is installing vending machines with fresh, affordable meal options. And the Chicago-based company, which has about 300 employees, is in the process of adding more machines in Cleveland, which has plopped down in multiple locations within the past couple of months with 10 in hospitals, six airport fridges, one in Progressive Field as well as retail sales in Costco. The Cleveland market, he said, could support 100 over the next two years. READ MORE |
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EVENTS/TASTINGS The Western Reserve Herb Society Herb Fair Check out an array of hand-crafted herbal items at the Western Reserve Herb Society’s Herb Fair at the Cleveland Botanical Garden. Products include both culinary and decorative items. Visitors will find herbal blends, jams and jellies, herbal teas, wreaths, pressed flower note cards, potpourri and baked goods. Tickets are included with Botanical Garden admission. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Oct. 14. Cleveland Botanical Garden, 11030 East Blvd, Cleveland. DETAILS Fall festival at North Coast Harbor Cleveland's downtown fall festival continues Saturday, Oct. 14, with Hay Hooray & Bright Nights at North Coast Harbor. Local makers will be selling their creations at a Fall Market. There will also be a beer and cider garden, food trucks, games and local bands. Bring your pet in costume for a parade at 6 p.m. Free. 2 to 8 p.m. Oct. 14. North Coast Harbor, Cleveland. DETAILS Rosewood Grill to feature unique wine dinner Rosewood Grill in Hudson has scheduled a fall evening wine dinner featuring Quintessa Wines of California. Michael Taylor of Huneeus Wines will guide the tasting, which is 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6. Agustin and Valeria Huneeus founded Quintessa in 1990. Rosewood Grill is at 36 E. Streetsboro St., Hudson. READ MORE Pints & Pies includes 100 different beers, drinks – brewery-beer list Pints & Pies craft beer and pizza festival is coming up at Akron Civic Theatre. Doors open at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13. The event offers about 100 craft beers and pies of all kind – savory and sweet. Cleveland.com’s Marc Bona has a preview of the beer list. READ MORE |
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PICKS OF THE WEEK Patron Saint Patron Saint is an all-day cafe and aperitivo bar in Ohio City that feels like a slice of Europe in the Midwest. Whether you stop for a coffee to work from your laptop or meet a friend for cocktail hour, the options at Patron Saint are endless. Every day at 4 p.m. is aperitivo hour, where the kitchen creates bar snack specials that accompany the eclectic daily menu. 2915 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. DETAILS Craving good eats? Try Crave in downtown Akron A year ago, Crave moved around the corner from its original location in downtown Akron, filling a dining void in the heart of the city. The menu covers a great range, from giardiniera, a collective nosh to start; to sandwiches that include a tasty muffaletta to its famous tomato grilled cheese soup and a dozen entrees. It’s at 156 S. Main St., Akron, with garages and street parking all around. Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, and 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday. DETAILS Travel back in time for old-world comfort at Prosperity Social Club Step into Prosperity Social Club on Starkweather in Tremont and travel back in time. The décor is vintage, right down to the bark cloth curtains. In continuous operation since 1938, the menu is heavy in old-world eastern European comfort food. The kitchen makes some of the best potato pancakes in Cleveland. DETAILS |
SPOTLIGHT Who serves the best chicken wings in greater Cleveland? Cleveland.com’s ‘Best of Cleveland’ team is at it again, on the lookout for local Northeast Ohio eateries that excel at those familiar dishes that keep you coming back for more -- the kind of experience you crave and want to tell your family and friends about. This time, it’s a search for Cleveland’s best wings. What is it that makes wings so delicious? Is it a secret recipe dry rub? Or a slathering of messy sauce? Both? Neither? Something else entirely? Do you like your wings breaded? Fried or baked? Smoked? Perhaps most importantly: What establishment has the best chicken wings that Northeast Ohio has to offer? Whether it’s a dive bar, diner or local family restaurant, we want to know. Nominate your favorite now. READ MORE |
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