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We have picked up stakes and moved our household to glorious Cleveland (Cleveland Heights, actually, as far as the location of our actual home is concerned). The academic life is a peripatetic one, and we have peripated ourselves right smack into the midwest. What's more, I think we might like it. Our new home is lovely, if in what currently feels destined to be a state of perpetual un-unpackedness, and the kitchen is entirely hospitable. We can walk to both work and a rock club, and have already developed some very fine grocery shopping routines, which I will document in the near future.
The coffee so far has left a great deal to be desired, but there are job-related reasons to hope that this situation will improved markedly in the near future. On Friday, I went to a meeting in a warehouse in Western Pennsylvania. There, in the course of duty, I was required to consume many delicious and attractive espresso drinks. That is my hand holding one of these fine coffees in the photograph above. It is not every university job that features such excitements and also leaves one time to work on one's dissertation. Like our cat, who has just dashed across my line of vision, I seem to have landed on my feet.
Posted by redfox at April 04, 2005 07:43 PM (drink) | Comments (12)
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Thanks for the good wishes. I am not at all dismayed by Cleveland -- not yet, anyway! (Well, the weather on Saturday was a little dismaying, but fortunately it has bucked right up since.) I grew up in Pittsburgh, which I have only come to appreciate after having moved away, and that makes this part of the world feel pleasantly homey to me.
I love that I can walk to work, and we were lucky enough to be shown the excellent West Side Market right off the bat, which is a massive good. We need to explore the west side more in general; where we live is very convenient and pleasant in a great many ways, but I suspect we'll find some of the elements we crave and which so far elude us over yonder.
Anyone familiar with Cleveland should feel more than free to tell me what I'm missing that I oughtn't to be.
Posted by redfox at April 4, 2005 10:03 PMWelcome to the midwest. Cleveland has a special place in my life. It is where my wife and I spent our wedding night after being married in Akron.
Scott (from Indiana)
Posted by scott at April 4, 2005 10:42 PMI am also from pittsburgh (and now back living here)but, spent 3 years of my academic life in Cleveland. After the initial adjustment, I loved it. I still visit friends there twice a year.
Coffee in cleveland heights is a problem.
But, may I suggest 3 places that I still frequent?
On Coventry, the Inn on Coventry, has a very good and reasonable breakfast menu, standard fare but, I am never dissapointed. Also, Tommys on Coventry, my first vegetarian restaruant experience.
And then the Mad Greek, more expensive and for dinner.
Sharon
Posted by sharon at April 5, 2005 10:55 AMCongratulations on the job, the home and the whole neat feet-landing-on trick!
Posted by senn at April 5, 2005 12:47 PMI second the Tommy's. There are also quite a few interesting restaurants in Univ. Circle, i.e. That Place on Bellflower et al. Of course, I was a lowly undergrad when I lived there, so I never got to GO to any of the good restaurants, but that's ok.
If you want good coffee of the diner/doughnuts variety, go to Amy Joy, in Lyndhurst. It's straight up Mayfield through all the speed traps. I can't think of anywhere for decent real coffee, though. Arabica is the shop of choice, but I never liked their coffee. It's a nice place to sit and read with a cup of tea, though. The Univ Circle location has a quiet study room and everything.
As for non-food, the Cleveland Museum of Art is free every day, and pretty good.
Posted by chancel at April 5, 2005 02:32 PMCall me stupid, but is that coffe or Cap. in a glass mug? It seems like a deconstructed Cappuccino - espresso at bottom, foamed espresso-infused steamed milk at middle, and whipped cream on top.
Posted by ACm at April 5, 2005 04:00 PMIf I'm remembering correctly (there were many drinks made that day!) it's actually a mocha that has just been poured and not yet stirred, in a glass mug. Chocolate syrup goes at the bottom, then the espresso shot is pulled over the chocolate, melting it a bit more. Milk is steamed as for a latte and poured in; the espresso mixes with the milk quite a bit just from the action of the pouring, but the thickest chocolate stays at the bottom until it's stirred in.
Posted by redfox at April 5, 2005 04:13 PMCongratulations on the move and spacious home! When I moved in here, I commented to Sarah "Can we leave everything in boxes? It feels so spacious!".
Let me know how the coffee research goes. A friend who used tobe a barista was telling me about making cups of hot tea, then adding a dollop of whole milk foam to the top. Yum!
Posted by Amy at April 7, 2005 11:41 AMCongratulations and welcome to the Great Lakes Region (or the GLaRe, as we insiders call it). Maybe we'll converge one of these days in Buffalo.
Posted by Graham at April 22, 2005 03:09 PMWow. You posted the news of your move not only on the same day, but within the same hour that Stacy and I arrived in Silver Spring to sign the lease to our new apartment. And here I thought we might be inviting yinz to dinner!
shs
Posted by earthling at April 26, 2005 12:01 PMIf I may weigh in with my considerable lack of expertise as a fellow native Pittsburgher (in fact, as a fellow Allderdice-class-of-93er with an occasional hobby of Googling former acquaintances), there is supernal deli food to be had in Cleveland at Corky and Lennys. Sadly, I have no specific recollection of the coffee....
And many congrats on the studies and the (lovely) blog and the life and all that, by the by.
Posted by js at May 10, 2005 02:09 PMall breads | breakfast | dinner reports | drink | eating out | essays | etcetera | lunch | news | recipes | salads | snacks | soups | sweets | tips | travel | vegetables | weekly meals |
Hey, Don't be too dismayed by Cleveland! I spent a large amount of my time in Canton, which is an hour south of Cleveland...Cleveland was a paradise, well, not actually...but allowed much diversion... compared to Canton. Anyway, I find myself in NW Ohio these days...every area has pros and cons....learn to enjoy them and lament them as necessary.
Posted by Alice at April 4, 2005 09:26 PM