OMG this place was FABULOUS!!! Aldo’s is a small, privately owned little place in a nothing-looking little strip center (may have been a convenient store at some point in the past). You’d never even know it was there if it wasn’t your destination. Seating is limited, so I’d imagine that the weekends there are nuts […]
Even though this particular storefront has been several things within the past few years; I think that the landlords may have found a long-term tenant in Matteo’s! While we’ve been to each of the previous restaurants occupying this space, never have we seen it as crowded on a Tuesday evening as it was this past […]
Wow, this was another one of those amazing finds! JoJo’s looks pretty non-descript on the outside, and is located in a very tired-looking strip center; however, don’t be deceived! Though we’ve driven by it for years, we never even noticed it, but thanks to our son-in-law’s recommendation, we wanted to try it. While very small, […]
WOW….what a great find this place was! Formerly Panos (which we had enjoyed; mainly for breakfast); Stella Mia is the epitome of an Italian, fine dining, ristorante; yet the $$ weren’t that much more than you’d expect to shell out at your local little family-owned neighborhood Italian place. The menu was gigantic, with everything that […]
I have to admit that Cork and Cleaver was a wonderful surprise; particularly because of it’s location. Formerly Benvenuti (which we really enjoyed several years ago when we first visited), and being predominantly Italian, we were really pleased to see that the same owner, Brian Okin, has gone in a somewhat different direction. Though still […]
Formerly Aroma, this quaint place is tucked back in the corner of a relatively obscure strip center right on Lake Road and if you’re not aware of it, or not from the area, you night not notice it, but since we absolutely and totally loved it; we are hoping to get the word out there! […]
We had, on numerous previous occasions, tried to get into Cibreo (always pre-theatre Thursday) and had always been told that they were completely booked. I even tried making reservations 3 days in advance and was shut out. So on this particular night, after calling 3 weeks ahead, we finally were able to get reservations. Oh […]
This quaint little Italian restaurant was exactly what it claimed to be…AUTHENTIC! From the minute we walked in, it just had that “feel” (and smell) to it. Our server was very attentive and had several good recommendations; however as I’ve already mentioned, Mr. Z just had to try their Chicken Parmesean in order to gauge […]
Though the story of how this place came to be is on the “heartwarming” side; that doesn’t mask the fact that, IN OUR OPINION, they have fallen WAY short of the acclaim given them in a recent newspaper write-up. Fazio’s is located in the space that formerly belonged to Quince (in the Grand Pacific Junction […]
Even though this place has been around for as long as we’ve lived in Northeast Ohio; we had never been here before. I think we just kind of stumbled across it and decided to finally give it a try. We were completely shocked to see how packed it was on a Tuesday night and from […]