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Is it the driveway/road off the end of Birchwold by Mayfield Country Club? EDIT: And, yes, I refuse to call it The Mayfield Sand Ridge Country Club! :) There's too much history (and it's too nice of a course) to be "brought down" by that curvy, fake mounds, wetlands everywhere cookie cutter golf course design exurban country club out in Chardon.

I think it's Choo's bat that is waking up, not Santana's. Yes, Choo was 0-3 yesterday and Santana had a HR, but Choo had 3 hits in the series including a HR to left, where Santana still only has 1 hit in his last 27 at bats. I was disappointed that, after his HR yesterday, he still ended up 1-4.

Unfortunately, I'm not so sure about that.

My sentiments exactly. The last thing I'd want to see is our restaurants scene disappear and become a food cart scene. If they can both coexist then fine. But I think it's great people are tiptoeing into this rather than opening the flood gates without first figuring out the best approach for everybody involved.

The voting climate at the time was "Anyone But a Democrat," even for moderates.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but Jeni's is now open in Chagrin Falls.

What a DP that was! The Indians are really playing well as a team, not just a few individuals carrying them.

If we keep winning, we should see that number get much larger, especially as the weather gets warmer.

Since you can Friend and Like certain pages, why doesn't Facebook allow people to Enemy and Dislike other pages? :-P Yuck, I had to Like it in order to reply to someone's inaccurate comment.

OK, I see I really had myself confused. I knew the lift bridge was there recently, but for some reason when I was on the other side even more recently (Scranton/Carter) I thought I may have remembered it being gone, and the comment about something being demolished for the Casino or Innerbelt Bridge made me think maybe it had been demolished. Anyway, it led me to some interesting research about the lift bridge (still there), viaduct (deomolished in 2005), Stones Levee Bridge (still there), and Smead Rolling Road (demolished in 1928 to make way for the viaduct). One thing I found interesting that I definitely didn't know about was that the Smead Rolling Road had an "escalator" in the middle that pulled wagons up the hill to the intersection of Ontario and Eagle.

Actually, now that I think about it, the lift bridge was in place for years after the viaduct portion was removed, wasn't it? Or was it the other way around? Now I'm getting myself all confused!

Eiither the innerbelt of the casino, or both. Wasn't that bridge demolished a long time ago?

I meant more from an aesthetic and health standpoint. They all serve overpriced junk that people think is good because they have oversized tacky interior decorations and a recognizable name. But, yeah, Cheesecake's menu is a hot mess.

Maggiano's: The Italian Cheesecake Factory Abuelo's: The Mexican Cheesecake Factory PF Chang's: The Chinese Cheesecake Factory People love, love, love that formula, though.

Just as an aside, my boss's boss (who I referred to in another thread as one of the people I work with that brags about how he hasn't been downtown in over a decade) was telling an out-of-towner at a work dinner a couple of weeks ago that he heard Euclid Avenue "was pretty nice now". I was shocked.

I know the PR community is the most sizable group of Hispanics in Cleveland, but I'm pretty sure the majority of the Hispanics in Painesville are Mexican. I don't know too much about Lorain, but I thought it was heavily Mexican as well. And I'm pretty sure the Hispanic community in Elyria is not very big.

That's great, Hts. Made the cubicle wall.

Ugh...don't even get me started on Crapplebee's.

There really aren't any at the present time. Little Bar? Waterstreet Grille? Map Room? Winking Lizard?

Maybe I'm out of touch with the chain world because I think of them all as the "sodium and fat factories" they are. (Thanks, RnR, I like that one!) But I would have placed Five Guys as being at or below a TGI Friday's (it's pretty much greasy fast food) and Longhorn a slight step up (there aren't many steak places at a lower level other than Ryan's, Sizzler, and Ponderosa). Cheesecake Factory is in a whole different league than those other two (and fits in well with the others Glenville suggested) even though I personally greatly dislike the place. This is true. I only used it as an example because it's currently a couple miles away from the PF Chang's on Chagrin. If I could hand pick a Chinese restaurant for downtown, there are plenty of others. I love Sun Luck Garden, but unfortunately I don't think Annie would want to open anything busier at this point.

The interior of Pearl IS truly awful. But I question the tastebuds of anyone who thinks PF Changs tastes better (not to mention the nutrition).

How do people eat PF Chang's when we have Pearl of the Orient? Double the sodium, half the taste, double the price.

And they list one in Columbus first? That's the worst list of "Area Restaurants" I have ever seen. And that came out of CLE+! :roll:

They were looking at a radius of 3 miles from the center of the city. I don't think anyone considers areas anywhere near 3 miles to still be downtown, so the stats are very misleading. For example, 3 miles from the center of Columbus includes the entirety of OSU's campus, but that's clearly not downtown. (For comparison to Cleveland 3 miles east doesn't even stretch to E. 79th, so University Circle was not included in these stats.) It would be interesting to see what the stats were like for actual downtown areas.

I'm pretty sure he's wrong. I didn't see anything about same sex couples on that map. Also, there is no city in Ohio that rhymes with Columbus.