In Praise of Good Gas Station Eats at Speedy's

In Praise of Good Gas Station Eats at Speedy's

Gihad Zayed knows restaurants in America the way hipsters in a lazily written, early-2010s comedy sketch know obscure bands. "My wife is from Chicago," Zayed tells me outside Speedy's Grub Shack, his unconventional eatery on the Lakewood/Cleveland border (14001 Lakewood Heights Blvd.).

By Billy Hallal 08/16/2017

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