“Revival is well under way in downtown Cleveland, as young professionals move in and historic buildings are repurposed,” reads the recent write-up in Travel + Leisure’s Best Places to Travel 2015 series. And, if you look past the scourge of social, political and economic problems searing across every neighborhood in the city — very much including downtown — then, absolutely, yes, revival is under way here.
And that’s not meant to be cheeky. Cleveland certainly has stuff it’s gotta work out, but for incoming visitors the city is a veritable treasure trove of awesome.
Travel + Leisure is nothing to sniff at. The near-constant buzz over Cleveland in the national press is a nice counterpoint to decades of jokes, and getting some ink in legitimate travel rags is a boon. Here’s more (dining-related, duh):
One of downtown’s most buzzed-about 2015 openings is Mabel’s BBQ from Iron Chef and native son Michael Symon, who wants to establish a Cleveland-style barbecue. (He’s finessing the sauce, likely a mix of mustard, Ohio maple syrup, and vinegar.) The innovative local food scene also counts farm-to-table Flying Fig and Mitchell’s Ice Cream, which began churning out seasonal small-batch flavors in April 2014. Both are in the hip Ohio City neighborhood, near the West Side Market, linked to downtown by new bike lanes.
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2014.
Man, Eric Sandy is a miserable bastard. Not sure the guy has written a single positive article about the city without being condescending. Probably doesn’t move because he can’t get another $30,000 a year job in any other city lol.
Ripping the city apart and saying you don’t mean it as ripping the city apart is just like kicking someone in the balls, but then telling them you didn’t mean it to be a kick in the balls. Intention really doesn’t matter with something like that. I’m not president of the “I Hate Eric Sandy” Club like ph8059 is, but we at least agree that the article should have just stayed positive about Cleveland.
woo cleveland!!!
when giving a compliment on your smile I don’t make a cheek joke about your huge nose after or before, mainly cause I’m not a dick! Write positive words, really it’s mainly clevelanders reading this hoping to leave with a sense of pride and forgetting about their huge nose for a second!