A number of years ago I visited a small brewery in Cave Creek, Arizona, named appropriately, the Cave Creek Brewery. While they offered a number of different types of beer one really stuck out. It was called Chili Beer . I hadn't thought about it for a long time until I came across it again [...]

The Hoagie Shop – $$ 1440 Mentor Ave. Painesville, OH 44077 440-352-5353 Do you have a secret place? You know what I'm talking about. A [tag]restaurant[/tag] or bar that you've come to love so much that you only share it with those closest to you as not to ruin it by making it popular? The [...]

I might have been the only person to notice, hell, I might be the only person that actually cares, but it appears as if the [tag]Latin Corner[/tag] in Painesville has gone out of business. I went by there last week and to my surprise there were "Moving Sale" signs in the windows. I decided to [...]

Nobody eat the spinach, the [tag]spinach[/tag] has gone bad!  Am I the only one sick and tired of hearing about the goddamn spinach?  The stuff has always tasted like shit, is it any surprise that there may now actually be shit on it?  Not to me.  Just, please shut up about the spinach already.

Texas Roadhouse – $$6095 Commerce CircleWilloughby, OH 44094440-833-0570 Last week with some friends I returned to a restaurant I had not visited in some time, the Texas Roadhouse in Willoughby.  Now the last time I was there I left feeling unimpressed, so I was hoping for a better experience this time around.  We arrived around [...]

The Sawyer House – $$$ 9740 Mentor Ave. Mentor, Ohio 44060 440-358-0100 I was lucky enough to have recently been invited out for a dining experience at the Sawyer House in Mentor.  I was leaving my employer after 6 years and he wanted to express his gratitude for my hard work.  Now this wasn't my [...]