Cleveland advice

[Bubbler]

It's my first trip to Cleveland since 2000. Back then, the Flats weren't a Scooby Doo ghost town.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Also, if you're a Marriott ***** like me, stay at the Renaissance Key Center and take the train in from the airport.

Is this the Cleveland Steamer I've heard so much about?

Had to know that one was coming.

Yes, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is cool. Make the trip if you have the time.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Speaking as the guy from the Cleveland outing who got to Melt, let me say this: Go to Melt. I had to wait more than an hour for my food, because the location I went to (Lakewood) was still pretty new, but well worth it. Had their monthly special, which should be on the regular menu but isn't, called the Firecracker Chicken: blackened chicken, avocado, grilled pineapple and pepper jack. Awesome.

Also you gotta order this: http://www.meltbarandgrilled.com/melt-challenge/

 

[JoelHammond]

Ryan:
Your hotel is awesome. Clevelander is good. Lots of bars right around there. Great Lakes Brewing is a short, easy drive over the Lorain Avenue bridge into the Ohio City neighborhood. I'd highly recommend it for lunch on an off day or something. Or, at the Clevelander, try Dortmunder or Conway's, in honor of March 17.

Though a word of caution: If you're coming in Thursday during the day, downtown traffic will be a clusterF because of STPD parade. But after 6 or so it should clear up.

Enjoy the city! As the guys, inlcuding Ron, found on the outing trip, the reputation doesn't really fit.

 

[JoelHammond]

Also, a warning: It's an absolute certainty that there will be 19,000 doucher Ohio State fans in town. So whatever you do, don't make fun of Tressel, bring up Urban Meyer, etc.

 

[Fly]

I will echo those mentioning Melt....went on a Sunday morning in January, before 11am, got a seat at the bar. By the time I left 40 minutes later, there was at least an hour wait. But I would have waited, it was that good.

GLBC is a definite, but Buckeye Brewing Co/Beer Engine in Lakewood is solid, as is The Brew Kettle in Strongsville. Haven't been to the Fatheads in Cleveland but the Pittsburgh location was quite good.

 

[JackReacher]

Back from Cleveland...finally.

Melt, as everyone noted, was damn good. Got there about 11 a.m. Sunday morning and found seats at the bar. As Fly said above, by the time we left, the line was out the door. Got the Monte Cristo and it was very good. Good prices, too. Well worth the 8-10 mile trip out of town.

Thursday night was weird. It was St. Patty's Day and we got into town about 9 or 9:30 p.m. maybe. Went out on 4th Street to get a few beers and....there was no one out. Damn near empty. Went into one bar and they closed at 10:30 p.m. Finally found an Irish Pub and it ended up being a decent time. Strange seeing hardly anyone out on St. Patty's Day. Especially since I heard they had like 400,000 people there during the day.

We spent Friday and Saturday on 6th St. West. At dinner both nights at the Barley House. Loved the place. Great burgers and pizza. Good music. Lots of TVs. And waitresses in short skirts. I'm guessing most of them were from out of town since they graded out at better than a 4. Oy. The women of Cleveland are, well, not what I expected. Although, my expectations must have been a little high it seems.

Watched the UFC fight at Paninis on 6th. Another decent place. Also spent time at the Blind Pig. Had an 80s cover band with a female singer. Very good band. Huge bank of TVs to watch the games. And a Plinko board.

That's really about it. Drank lots of beer. Watched lots of basketball. Ate some decent food. Saw some ugly chicks.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Saw some ugly chicks? Well I did hear there was a large contingent of George Mason fans in town ...

 

[JackReacher]

They brought the average up from 3.2 to about, oh...3.5 maybe.

 

[Brian]

It's true. We are an ugly people. Hard-working, upstanding, but ugly as mules. The good-looking people find their way out the state by the time they are 18, at the latest.

Lots of famous, beautiful people from Ohio. They just don't live here anymore.

 

[JackReacher]

Kinda what I was thinking. We nearly visited a local strip club down the street from our hotel out of curiosity. We decided against it, but a couple Mason students we drank with went. And their report was just as I had expected.

Anyway, I definitely recommend The Barley House. Had a burger one night and pizza the next. Both were outstanding.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

You know what was ugly?

George Mason on the court Sunday.

 

[JackReacher]

You know what was ugly?

George Mason on the court Sunday.

You sure do seem to have your feelings all busted up because I said the girls in Cleveland weren't all that hot. Brian, on the other hand, has A) a sense of humor about it or B) is in legit agreement with me.

Either way, I'm sorry for hurting your feelings, TSP. Truly.

 

[Brian]

You know what was ugly?

George Mason on the court Sunday.

You sure do seem to have your feelings all busted up because I said the girls in Cleveland weren't all that hot. Brian, on the other hand, has A) a sense of humor about it or B) is in legit agreement with me.

Either way, I'm sorry for hurting your feelings, TSP. Truly.

I've been to way too many games at the Horseshoe, leaving the stadium and seeing 105,000 jersey-wearing, jorts-sporting, Baconator-consuming, clear-my-left-ventricle-cause-there's-some-pork-cracklins-leftover-in-the-car Ohioans to ever even consider joking about something as serious as how (not) hot our women are and how grotesque us male Ohioans are.

Oxford (and they're not even from our state...they just find their sugar daddy at Miami), Athens...even the OSU campus, you find a precious few. But outside of that, head for another state.

And I speak on behalf of ugly people.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

You know what was ugly?

George Mason on the court Sunday.

You sure do seem to have your feelings all busted up because I said the girls in Cleveland weren't all that hot. Brian, on the other hand, has A) a sense of humor about it or B) is in legit agreement with me.

Either way, I'm sorry for hurting your feelings, TSP. Truly.

You sound like the one without a sense of humor. I said the girls of George Mason were the ugly ones you saw, which is pretty much the exact same thing that you said about the girls of Cleveland. Get it? Ha ha.

Then I said George Mason was ugly on the court, which was true. Maybe that hurt your feelings. If so, I'm not sorry. Truly.

 

[Azrael]

I'm sorry I clicked on this thread. Truly.

 

[Bubbler]

Back from Cleveland...finally.

Melt, as everyone noted, was damn good. Got there about 11 a.m. Sunday morning and found seats at the bar. As Fly said above, by the time we left, the line was out the door. Got the Monte Cristo and it was very good. Good prices, too. Well worth the 8-10 mile trip out of town.

Thursday night was weird. It was St. Patty's Day and we got into town about 9 or 9:30 p.m. maybe. Went out on 4th Street to get a few beers and....there was no one out. Damn near empty. Went into one bar and they closed at 10:30 p.m. Finally found an Irish Pub and it ended up being a decent time. Strange seeing hardly anyone out on St. Patty's Day. Especially since I heard they had like 400,000 people there during the day.

We spent Friday and Saturday on 6th St. West. At dinner both nights at the Barley House. Loved the place. Great burgers and pizza. Good music. Lots of TVs. And waitresses in short skirts. I'm guessing most of them were from out of town since they graded out at better than a 4. Oy. The women of Cleveland are, well, not what I expected. Although, my expectations must have been a little high it seems.

Watched the UFC fight at Paninis on 6th. Another decent place. Also spent time at the Blind Pig. Had an 80s cover band with a female singer. Very good band. Huge bank of TVs to watch the games. And a Plinko board.

That's really about it. Drank lots of beer. Watched lots of basketball. Ate some decent food. Saw some ugly chicks.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Was the Irish place on St. Patrick's Day Flannery's? If so, we ran into each other and didn't even know it. I was already quite blitzed after pounding Guinness at the Winking Lizard. Someone bought me a shot of Jagermeister (hey, I'm half-German too), which had to have been at least a triple-shot. Closed that dump.

 

[JackReacher]

Bubbler: that's the place. Did you see former NBAer Doug West striking out with about a dozen 4s before finally finding a taker? Hilarious.

TSP: And I made fun of those ugly GMU girls you mentioned. You musta missed that. Can't imagine how.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

So it was the ass-kicking by tOSU that put the tears in your eyes.

 

[JackReacher]

So now you're ****-talking the number one team in the country beating my poor little mid major team? How proud you must be. Celebrate by hitting the clubs downtown. Dance with a 3. Have a ball!