Eric Williams, along with his partner Randy Carter, will open Jack Flaps, a 40-seat “urban breakfast shop” in Ohio City. Set in the former home of Palookaville Chili (3900 Lorain Ave.), the breakfast and lunch cafe will serve a short stack of creative waffles, pancakes and French toast dishes.
Items might include vanilla bean pancakes with crumbled graham cracker crust, lemon curd, whipped cream and fresh blueberry; malted milk waffles with chocolate ganache and cereal milk whipped cream, “which taste like a Whopper,” says Williams; and a breakfast burger with homemade chicken apple sausage, lettuce, tomato, onion and a fried egg.
City Roast coffee and hard-to-find canned sodas like Cherikee Red will round out the limited menu.
For the last three years, Carter has worked alongside Williams at Momocho.
“I’m helping Randy open his own business and become a chef-owner,” says Williams. “The place also fills a need in the neighborhood, and I just want to have fun with my next place.”
Jack Flaps will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 7 a.m. until approximately 3 p.m. Look for a mid-December opening.
This article appears in Nov 6-12, 2013.
Good to see things happening in Ohio City that aren’t booze driven, and aren’t on W25th.
Good to see that candy ass open another mediocre place for uglies to feast
Tommy Pee is a lonely choad.
Cherikee red, yes that’s how it’s spelled. Is not hard to find you can but it at every marcs store in Northeast Ohio
I just hope it’s not another over priced foo foo food hangout (Bon Bons)for (yuppies/Hipsters)… The kind that charges you $2.00 for extra syrup on your pancakes. Btw, this doesn’t fill a void, it’s just in competition with Nick’s Dinner one block up.
Cherokee red was that 25¢ can of soda in early nineties.
Are you ready to wait 2-3 hours for a waffle of pancakes? Well that is how it will be there.
Man, Cleveland is full of whiney bitches. Best of luck on your business Randy and Eric.
I love breakfast food so I’m in
Good luck to you!
We are there! Much success wished for you!
Eric R. I agree, but not all of us are whiney bitches:) Cleveland needs things like this to bring the city back up. Cleveland can be the greatest city in America if we just make it that way. Perfect location and plenty to do and see here. The food is getting better it seems every day. We have great sports fans and good hard working people that need to see the pride in they’re city. Good Luck Jack Flaps.
I wonder if I will have to make a reservation two weeks out to sit in a half empty dining room . Yes , I’m talking about you Momocho.
Wow Drew! Clearly you have no idea how a restaurant or reservations work. It’s best you just stick to ordering breakfast from Mickey D’s drive-thru.
Brooked, that is just rude. Would you really wish the good people of McDonald’s the misfortune of waiting on a subhuman such as Drew? I don’t even understand his complaint. He made a reservation at a restaurant to avoid a potential wait. Now he is upset because the restaurant wasn’t packed? Am I missing something? Was obtaining a reservation some gruelling, traumatizing process? Did he have to fork over his first born or something? I’m guessing no. The only explanation for his e-tears must be that he is probably just dense.
Momocho was good. I wouldn’t penalize a place because of its popularity. I can critique the portions paired with the price. Good food, don’t get me wrong, but 4 taquitos are not worth what they charge.
For that I’d gladly head over to Barocco or Barrio
There are so many lousy breakfast places in that area, it would be nice if this one wasn’t. : )
Freaken LOVE pancakes and waffles!!!!
Just make ’em BIG!!!!!!
With good coffee and you’ll have a winner!!!!!!
YUM!!!!!