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Zipping back into Cleveland Heights for a quick bite, we stopped by one of our favorite restie Lemon Grass.
Lemon Grass in Cleveland Heights
various patrons dining at Lemon Grass
Started with a quick order of Stam Rolls which were perfectly G-B-D (Golden-Brown-Delicious).
Stam Roll
Stam Rolls – $5.95
G-B-D for shiz
Although the 6 rolls were thin, we found them to be delicious! Delicious with a light drizzle of the sweet chili sauce.
Inside the rolls
Insides were perfectly cooked and texturally awesome.
Easy order rolls again #crunchamuncha
Our typical order of Pad Thai sounded like an easy winner.
Pad Thai: the most famous thai noodle dish rice noodles stir fried with chicken, shrimp, egg, ground peanuts bean sprouts, scallions and thai spices – $9.75
Pad Thai
A bit heavy on the egg this time, but still delicious as always.
Wish they had more bean sprouts and green onions-thus providing more crunch and temperature differences. Fresh crisp and hot and spicy.
Easy order again too.
Since we’re heavy on the starches, we opted to try some fried rice (my death row meal).
House Fried Rice: Shrimp, chicken green peas, baby corn, red peppers, onion and tomatoes served with a cucumber and a wedge of lime – $11.50
House Fried Rice from Lemon Grass
Meh, OK.
I wasn’t quite sure about the cucumbers or the lime.
To me, the only “sour” taste that should reside in fried rice should come from fish sauce (if you even use it).
The char siu, green onions, etc…seemed to be cut by a blind guy.
Rough chop means chopped by a blind guy
Or maybe they just seem to like really rough chopping stuff.
Seemed like there should be more volume for $11.50 right? After all, it is the “house” version.
Well, maybe the chef lives in an expensive house.
We also ordered the special of the night, which was described as Drunken chicken noodles w/ vegetables – $10.95.
Special dish: Drunken chicken noodles w/ vegetables
Don’t remember how much this was, but to us, it seemed like a pretty typical chow fun dish w/ veggies.
After finishing this dish, I wasn’t drunk either.
Though, I guess kinda Thai w/ the addition of basil.
Overall, pretty typical busy night here at Lemon Grass.
Crowd swelled during the classic 6p dinner hour and then subsided post dinner hour during our weeknight visit.
Typical Lemon Grass night
Service was standard and our waters got filled regularly.
Overall, a great restie to dine on a weeknight in Cleveland Heights.
Also stopping off at Big Fun before AND after dinner is awesome too.
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Had a rough couple of days starting late on Sunday night.
So we decided that we’ll make our entire staff home lunch today. #SleepIn and #SlurpUp
Home lunch lineup...
Lining up the goods again for each individual serbing serving.
Home lunch Hawaii Saimin...just add dashi
Can you guess all these simple ingredients?
Psssst! Love all those noodle ladies…
Serbings...I mean servings.
How is it only Wednesday?!!??!!
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We’ve been to XYZ the Tavern a bunch of times…and everyone there raves about their food.
Our response…well…er…um….
So we decided to munchamuncha at XYZ the Tavern (@XYZtheTavern) located in the Gordon Square/Detroit Shoreway neioghborhood in Cleveland.
On Detroit Ave
Located at 6419 Detroit Ave in Cleveland….this is the sister ship tavern of the Cleveland famous ABC Tavern at 1872 W 25th St in Cleveland.
A few interesting tidbits about the menu – the guy planning out this menu must be having a threesome with a Japanese chick and an Italian chick…cause they are serving Country Fried Chicken & Waffles and Soba noodles and Gnocchi du jour!?!!?! WTH? Put those three together and it sounds like the start of a great prono!
Variety right?
Well, let me rephrase that for all those Food Network drones…
Triple D style....
Alan’s got one tavern in Cleveland…and decides he wants another one.
But he doesn’t want to drive too far.
So he grabs his two buddies – Chef Kelly and Chef Reichart…Drinks alot of Mountain Dew…
And comes up with a menu with good scratch cooking…with some “higher priced chunks of beef”…
This…is XYZ Tavern.
Winner winner chicken dinner....
Heh heh heh.
Country Fried Chicken & Waffles: with savory gravy and/or real Ohio maple syrup – $10
Chicken & waffles with maple syrup and gravy
Basically this is gigantic chicken tenders lanced with quartered waffles.
Sweet, salty, savory….the only thing we wanted was spicy. Bring on the Siracha!
For your decision whether to get gravy or waffles? Get both.
XYZ the Tavern Reuben –
XYZ the Tavern's Reuben
Oh yes we opted this guy with extra order of gravy.
Fries came out extra oily and lukewarm.
Greezy
Additionally, the fries were droopy. Not cool.
The flaccid fries at XYZ the Tavern
Corned beef was well marbled but could have used more time in. Comparatively, we like Corky & Lenny’s, Jacks, Slyman’s, and Lucky’s better.
Marbling...
But in the heat of the moment, this sandwich would do since the near west side seems to have a lack of corned beef places in my drunken stupor.
Should we?
Go for a swim?
Oh yeah, we decided to go big and dip our reuben IN the gravy.
Ahhhh yes.....Gravy goodness
Delicious…..just delicious.
Now the best part of our visit? Hands down – the staff. (how often do we get to say that?!?!?!)
Three sips of water, and different wait staff was Johnny on the spot to fill our glasses.
Needing another napkin, the waitress from another table rushed one to us w/in 30 seconds.
Half way done with my Stella, a different waiter slid in and asked if I wanted another.
And then another staff member brought us our beers! Halleuja!
Beer me please...
This cohesive team of wait staff are incredible!
Yes, the staff members/bar tenders at XYZ the Tavern will have us coming back again and again and again…
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