T-minus 5 hours until first pitch. Gah!

If you’ve already burned through a couple of hours watching and re-watching the 9 Tribe Playoff Memories we posted earlier this morning, we bet you’re ready for stage 2: pre-gaming.

Here’s a list of 10 delightful downtown bars perfect for pre-gaming tonight’s Wild Card Game and tomorrow’s Brown’s game.

Enjoy, and go Cleveland!!


This article appears in Oct 2-8, 2013.

Jason Beudert has had a dynamic career as a leader with The Walt Disney Company, ESPNZone, The Cleveland Indians, and as a restaurant entrepreneur. He is utilizing his twenty years of hospitality experience along with his love for the Cleveland food scene to contribute exciting and insightful food pieces for Scene. Along with being one of our food writers, Jason is also the food critic for WOIO 19 Action News, and makes a weekly appearance on Q104's Fee's Kompany radio show to promote food and the Scene. Jason is also a contributing writer for Travel + Leisure Magazine.