Posted June 15, 200619 yr Cast your votes in the following categories! No runners-up! Best Coffee Shop Lucky's (Tremont) Best Restaurant (food) Minh Anh (Detroit-Shoreway) Best Restaurant (atmosphere) Cafe Limbo (Shaker Square) Best Diner My Friend's (Edgewater) Best Bar Great Lakes Brewing Co. (Ohio City) mostly because it's smoke-free Best Shop Chelsea's Vintage Clothing (Edgewater) Best Neighborhood Chinatown Best Bus or Rapid Line The Red Line, of course! Best Summer Event Ingenuity Best Abandoned Building The old school at Detroit and W. 74th, pictured below:
June 15, 200619 yr Best Neighborhood Chinatown Chinatown?! I must have seen a different Chinatown in Cleveland than what you saw... I'll take Little Italy! Gotta represent the East side.
June 15, 200619 yr Best Coffee Shop Common Grounds (Kamm's) Best Restaurant (food) #1 Pho (Chinatown) Best Restaurant (atmosphere) Pickwick & Frolic (E. 4th) Best Diner GROSS. Best Bar I'm not 21! Best Shop City Buddha (Ohio City) Best Neighborhood Chinatown. Best Bus or Rapid Line Red line, duhzie. Best Summer Event Cleveland Pride. Best Abandoned Building Tower City :lol:
June 15, 200619 yr Best Coffee Shop - Civilization (Tremont) Best Restaurant (food) - Waaay too many options, but I'll ditto Minh Anh (Detroit-Shoreway) Best Restaurant (atmosphere) - Flying Fig Best Diner - Diner on Clifton (Edgewater) Best Bar - South Side (Tremont) - they have Great Lakes on tap, btw Best Shop - Flower Child (Edgewater) - a little pricey though Best Neighborhood - Edgewater Best Bus or Rapid Line - The Red Line, if only for the graffiti Best Summer Event - Cleveland Orchestra @ Public Square Best Abandoned Building - not sure if it's completely abandoned, but the Westinghouse warehouse near West 58th. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
June 15, 200619 yr Best Coffee Shop TIE: Talkies, Arabica in University Circle Best Restaurant (food) Don's Lighthouse Best Restaurant (atmosphere) Heck's Best Diner My Friend's Best Bar West End Tavern is one of my favorites, but its not in Cleveland, so I'll go with Hyde Park downtown. I would choose Great Lakes or the Renaissance Hotel lobby bar, but they don't want my business. Best Shop Modern World Best Neighborhood Ohio City Best Bus or Rapid Line 46 Best Summer Event Feast of the Assumption Best Abandoned Building The old church building at Lake Ave. and W.117th
June 15, 200619 yr I would choose Great Lakes or the Renaissance Hotel lobby bar, but they don't want my business. That sounds like it's got an interesting story behind it...did I miss it in another thread, or is it something you can share?
June 16, 200619 yr Best Coffee Shop I'm not a big fan of coffee shops or coffee, but I do like sitting out in front of Rocco's on Huron and taking in the street life. Best Restaurant (food) Sorry, I know it's not cool around here to go for chain restaurants, but I really like the Flo's Filet at Longhorn's Steakhouse. Best Restaurant (atmosphere) Pepper's Cafe. It's a tiny (28-seat) Italian restaurant on Detroit Avenue in Lakewood that plays Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Louie Prima and all the Italian-American singers and standards from the 50s and 60s. Best Diner Clifton Diner (just because it's the only one I ever go to) Best Bar Even when I drank, I didn't go to bars. Tough to afford 20 beers at bar prices. Best Shop Wings Hobby Shop. Best selection of railroad and transit books in Northeast Ohio. Best Neighborhood Little Italy Best Bus or Rapid Line Green Line, east of Shaker Square. Love looking at mansions from the windows of a train. Best Summer Event Watching numerous cities' Fourth of July Fireworks from the roof of my building. Best Abandoned Building Gospel Press in Tremont "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 16, 200619 yr Best Bar Even when I drank, I didn't go to bars. Tough to afford 20 beers at bar prices. from dictionary.com mod·er·at-ion adj. 1. Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme: a moderate price. 2. Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate: a moderate climate. 3. 1. Of medium or average quantity or extent. 2. Of limited or average quality; mediocre. 4. Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.
June 16, 200619 yr Best Coffee Shop Arabica in UC. Seriously you cant go wrong with coffee, studying and cigarettes for those numerous CWRU assignments. Best Restaurant (food) Tommy's. Yes i'm an eastsider, and I never tire of the place Best Restaurant (atmosphere) Lava Lounge, worth my trip every time. Best Diner Chucks RIP Best Bar any bar with beer in it. Best Shop all my money goes towards booze Best Neighborhood 1) edgewater 2) UC, which will improve once they find some residents. Best Bus or Rapid Line green line Best Summer Event cornhole in my backyard Best Abandoned Building browns stadium
June 16, 200619 yr Best Restaurant (food) Sorry, I know it's not cool around here to go for chain restaurants, but I really like the Flo's Filet at Longhorn's Steakhouse. No doubt, Longhorn's has by far the best steaks of any chain restaurant...you can do better at a steakhouse, but for at least double the price. I hit Longhorn's probably once/month - I hit a Juff Ruby's place down here maybe once/year, if that...
June 16, 200619 yr I would choose Great Lakes or the Renaissance Hotel lobby bar, but they don't want my business. That sounds like it's got an interesting story behind it...did I miss it in another thread, or is it something you can share? Those would both be non-smoking bars. Well the bar at the Renaissance has probably been non-smoking for a while, but the entire lobby area around the fountain where you could take your drinks and sit in a plush couch under the chandeliers permitted smoking until only a few months ago.
June 16, 200619 yr from dictionary.com mod·er·at-ion adj. 1. Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme: a moderate price. 2. Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate: a moderate climate. 3. 1. Of medium or average quantity or extent. 2. Of limited or average quality; mediocre. 4. Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion. From the School of Hard Knocks and their continuing education program called Life: Al-co-hol-ism = an addiction to alcohol where you drink increasingly greater amounts just to feel "normal" After numerous times of trying to moderate my drinking over 20 years, I ended up only drinking more. I quit several times but went into depressions. So finally, I quit drinking on July 20, 2003, did the 12 steps, went to AA, and so on. I've been sober ever since. However, I have yet to quit smoking (well, I've quit numerous times but none for more than a few years) nor have I dumped the Diet Coke. Those are next on my things to do. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 16, 200619 yr I stopped drinking diet coke by switching to ice tea; a much healthier option. I don't worry about smoking, because I think the real cause of lung cancer is walking down a street and inhaling exhaust from automobiles.
June 16, 200619 yr I don't worry about smoking, because I think the real cause of lung cancer is walking down a street and inhaling exhaust from automobiles. This message was paid for by your friends at Philip Morris.
June 16, 200619 yr I stopped drinking diet coke by switching to ice tea; a much healthier option. I don't worry about smoking, because I think the real cause of lung cancer is walking down a street and inhaling exhaust from automobiles. Both are horrible, but to single out only cigarettes is the fallacy of the smoke-free workplace advocacy crowd. How many cigarettes can fit in a car's exhaust pipe(s)? How many exhaust pipes do we have in this country? How many in the world? I'm sorry -- weren't we discussing our favorite places in town? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 16, 200619 yr lol exhaust doesn't go directly into your system like cigarette smoke. Compare the lung of a frequent smoker to that of a nonsmoker living in the city.
June 16, 200619 yr Best Shop all my money goes towards booze Any particular store that has a better selection than others?
June 16, 200619 yr Best Shop all my money goes towards booze Any particular store that has a better selection than others? the tops at superior and 115th
June 17, 200618 yr After numerous times of trying to moderate my drinking over 20 years, I ended up only drinking more. I quit several times but went into depressions. So finally, I quit drinking on July 20, 2003, did the 12 steps, went to AA, and so on. I've been sober ever since. Congrats on coming up on three years! Much respect for the will power! Best Coffee Shop Dunkin' Donuts-so sue me! Best Restaurant (food) Der Braumeister-Schnitzel uber alles! Best Restaurant (atmosphere) Steve's Hot Dog (Lorain & w. 50th?) Best Diner drawing a blank Best Bar Treehouse (Tremont)- I like a good Guinness wall mural Best Shop Segway Dealership in Arcade-just cuz Best Neighborhood Chinatown Best Bus or Rapid Line The Red Line Best Summer Event Tall Ships, when they come through Best Abandoned Building Coast Guard Station at the mouth of the Cuyahoga
June 17, 200618 yr Congrats on coming up on three years! Much respect for the will power! Thanks, but it isn't willpower that usually causes an alcoholic to quit drinking. It's often the fear of an early death. I'm pretty sure I would have been dead in five years at the increasing rate I was drinking. Best Abandoned Building Coast Guard Station at the mouth of the Cuyahoga I never thought of that one. Great choice! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 18, 200618 yr Best Coffee Shop Talkies Best Restaurant (food) lolita Best Restaurant (atmosphere) seconding Steve's Lunch (ladies in beehives! Sweet) Best Diner Nick's on Lorain Best Bar Great lakes when the patio is open Best Shop westside market (cheating, I know) Best Neighborhood Ohio City Best Bus or Rapid Line Red line (to airport visiting somewhere new) Best Summer Event sitting on the viaduct sipping cocktails, watching skyline, bridges, and boats Best Abandoned Building The penthouse of Key Tower
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