Credit: Courtesy Sauce the City
This coming Saturday, July 20th, will be the last day of business for Sauce the City (14480 Cedar Rd.) in University Heights. Owner Victor Searcy Jr. opened his chicken sandwich shop two and a half years ago in the Cedar Green shopping plaza. 

“We need to get back into the city, we need to get back into Cleveland,” he explains. “We just ran our course out here.”

Searcy launched his business at the Ohio City Galley in 2018, keeping it going long after the Galley Group pulled out of the building. After that venture closed for good in 2022, he moved into the University Heights location.

Searcy says that he might reopen in a different location if he finds a suitable one.

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This article appears in Jul 17-30, 2024.

For 25 years, Douglas Trattner has worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and author. His work as co-author on Michael Symon's cookbooks have earned him four New York Times Best-Selling Author honors, while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own.