There is plenty of beer to go around! This past Sunday, with thanks to Blogging Jason for the event heads-up, we spent the afternoon at the Winter Warmer Festival at Rock Bottom. Winter Warmer was a happy surprise, as my expectations were just of joyfully drinking local winter brews. Ahem, no Christmas Ale at this party! Glad to see Cellar Rats (Madison) making another festival appearance, and was pleasantly surprised with the deliciousness of Rust Belt Brewing Co. (Youngstown).
Then the sickness returned. I canceled my Saturday night plans because I felt “it” all in my throat. This stupid cold/throat thing killed me this week. I don’t get sick a lot — well, because I am rarely around other people, even less so since working from home. And last week I was around TOO many people. And children. TOO many children. I have meetings and calls and the like, which is very, very good. And I can’t taste my hot chocolate!
It’s also Downtown Cleveland Restaurant Week. While Restaurant Weeks in general leave little to be desired, I like the IDEA of focusing on restaurants in one particular area or neighborhood. Collectively, the menus for this DCRW suck. Hangar Steak. Yuck. Salmon. Yawn. One Walnut’s three-course selection was seriously the only creative option, but we took too long to make a decision on whether we would participate this year, and, not surprisingly, the restaurant was booked. Coming in second and third were Ponte Vecchio or Saigon - both restaurants I haven’t been. Being that OMG-It’s-Winter! and we live RIGHT THERE, the latter won out.
Saigon’s big draw was the “fourth course” - a glass of wine included with the meal. Upon seating, their menu reflected TWO glasses of wine with the meal. Super! Vietnamese food is, well, Asian food, so there’s nothing spectacular coming out of the kitchen. I enjoyed the chicken and cabbage cold salad a lot though. At $30 a person — with enough food for two more meals — it was worth it.
There is only ONE restaurant left on East 4th since becoming a downtown restaurant in which I haven’t eaten. It’s too embarrassing to admit, but I will eat there prior to my moving from East 4th. Promise.
Rock on, Cleveland. Oh, and I got a few music posts written about TRBX up at Addicted to Vinyl. I am a full month behind, I know, and I have so many more to go, not to mention everything about the cruise that was NOT music-relative. I’m sure by Rock Boat next year, thy will be done…
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