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Three December Events

Pear, pancetta salad at Sapore. Fantastic.

December 8, 2009 7 – 10pm : Beer Dinner at Buckeye Beer Engine

“Happy Holiday’s Beer Engine Fans. We wanted to remind everyone about our next beer dinner which is next Tuesday at 7:00pm. This will be a special beer dinner because of course it will [...]

Dinners at Sapore, Culinary Vegetable Institute

flank steak at Sapore. delicious radishes, too

August 13, 2009 6pm � Irresistible Foods & Wine of Spain at Sapore

It’s nice to see a dinner with some classic dishes. I don’t need every course to be specifically created for that meal. There are huge repertoires of delicious recipes from [...]

Local Fruit Foraging Website and Some June Events

Orchard Row by calliope

Urban Fruit Gathering

Cleveland Fruit Share seems to be active after an extended fallow period. It’s a social website where people exchange information on sources of urban fruit. Have a fruit tree with more than you can eat? Or are you interested in harvesting urban fruit for yourself or charity? Talk with [...]

Friday Salmagundi (Buckeye Beer Engine, Sapore, Culinary Vegetable Institute)

fried cod sandwich with cajun tartar sauce

The Buckeye Beer Engine recently sold burger #48324. You may remember when I made note of their announcement for #40000. I goofed on the calculation in that post. They’re now around their two year anniversary so that’s about 66 burgers every day. There were 113 days between announcements [...]

Two Benefit Dinners, Beard Pre-nomination musings

Awesome hot chocolate at Sapore

Chef’s Fantasy Dinner to Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at Ritz Carlton Cleveland (Wednesday March 25, 2009) – Upcoming

March 25, 2009 6:30 � 9:30pm : Chef’s Fantasy Dinner to Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at the Ritz

Six courses prepared by six different chefs. It’s great to see Chef Matthew Anderson of [...]

Monday Salmagundi (Giovanni’s II, Restaurant Week, Valentine’s at Lucky’s and Sapore)

Delicious short rib cannelloni at Sapore

Tuscany is a new restaurant venture from the management of Giovanni’s. It’s always exciting to hear about a casual restaurant with high standards. There are some restaurants that serve specific types of sandwiches well (hamburgers and corned beef, for instance) but Cleveland still doesn’t have a lot of good [...]