Barney Taxel,  Taxel Image Group   I celebrated the arrival of  Wine Spot on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights with a 2012 post . A recent v...

   What Michelle Heinz, a law student with some big vet bills, is doing has so many different kinds of good going on that I hardly know...

The  Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition , an organization dedicated to creating a fair, healthy and sustainable local food...

  Grovewood Tavern , open since 1999, occupies the sweet spot between fine dining and neighborhood hangout. The place is a Collinwood fix...

Cleveland Whiskey , a locally bottled spirit that get's age on it in a super fast, ultra-secret process  that I wrote about last Feb...

Courtesy Whole Foods Market Sommeliers are wine experts and they can get the credentials to prove it. The equivalent when it comes to ...

What's so wrong with repetition? There's some truth in the old adage "practice makes perfect." Why not do things the sa...

Photo from Rittman Orchards Lots of apples look good but many don't deliver on their promise. Sinking my teeth into one that is meal...

Photo by Barney Taxel, Taxel Image Group It makes me really happy to see a long shuttered piece of real estate return to use and come al...

Photo by Barney Taxel,  Taxel Image Group I can't get enough ice cream when the weather's hot. Those days are behind us for the...

In January, Julia Moskin wrote an article for the New York Times about female chefs starting to get their due in the kitchen. I actuall...

Sam McNulty calls him the "Donald Trump of Lorain." The guy who's successfully built his own food and drink empire on W...

I was driving down Chester Avenue last Thursday and noticed that workmen were putting up letters on the side of the new Hofbräuhaus Cle...

Photo courtesy of Barney Taxel Ninja City Kitchen and Bar opened last month in University Circle. This Asian street food and fast food...

Photo by Barney Taxel A friend turned the husband and I on to  Red, Wine & Brew , a most unusual and impressive beverage shop in Ch...

   I got interested in Jamie Simpson, who became executive chef for the  Culinary Vegetable Institute  in Milan, Ohio, earlier this year,...

On my recent stop at Pairings, Ohio's new wine and culinary education center , I tasted a red that blew up my ideas about what coul...

In June, the region took a big step in branding itself as a distinctive grape growing and wine making district with the opening of  Pairi...

Photo by Barney Taxel, Taxel Image Group I recently experienced the most impressive example of genuine and gracious hosting, perhaps the...

Photo courtesy This Is Cleveland This was the headline and subhead of a recent piece posted on citylab.com : "Restaurants Really Ca...