Rick Doody isn’t one to sit on his hands. He and his brother Chris founded (and have since sold) the Bravo Brio Restaurant Group, Doody opened Cedar Creek Grille in Beachwood, Coastal Taco in the Flats, and Lindey’s Lake House in Beachwood. This past winter, he redeveloped the Flats property into his second Lindey’s Lake House and come Monday, May 13, Doody will unveil the third location.
Like the other two spots, the Lakewood Lake House features a beach-chic vibe with exposed bricks, pickled wood floors, white-washed ceilings and theatrical lighting. A wall of glassy garage doors ushers in a remarkable amount of light, and when open, unites the indoors with the outdoors.
In terms of food, diners can expect most of the items from the Beachwood and Flats location supplemented with some of the most popular items from the adjacent Cedar Creek Grille. On the bill of fare will be small plates like crab cakes and calamari, wedge and chopped salads, al pastor and chicken tinga tacos, crispy flatbreads and entrees such as fried chicken, fish and chips, lobster rolls and steak frites.
“It’s like the best of both worlds,” Doody notes.
This article appears in May 1-7, 2019.
Lakes nice. I like swimming in it. Is that on the lake or in the wood?
Looks exactly like a converted firehouse I lived near…and ate at…in suburban Chicago. circa 1982. Nothing new or original.
“Were trying to build a brand in Cleveland,…People love the vibe of Coastal Taco, the bar-centricness of the place, but youve got to have more than just tacos these days. Okay, so he took over a place that didn’t make it and died…WTF does he have to keep beating the same drum for, and kicking and defiling the corpse of a dead business?
What assholery…I have never seen anybody do that before…and not once, but over and over. Every time SCENE writes about the transformation of this place, we have to read the same disparaging comments from this jerk Doodyhead. Can you tell me WHY you are doing this?
Is the second picture the interior of The Place To Be ( in Lakewood)? Looks like TPTB painted the walls white.
Enough disrespect already,,,open your joint and shut up..: Who pee pee’d in your Wheaties lately? When an entrepreneur finds a concept that works, they tend to want to keep it working and if it means to close a place ot re-brand it, so be it. How many restaurants have you opened?
His name is doodie,,,, haha beavis.
Barrio won’t be happy to hear that tacos aren’t enough. Their stock is falling anyhow.
But as most above mentioned, this guy is a piece of work. How fortunate to have rich parents, right? All that inheritance an just make you soooo much better.
Read it again, paisano…it’s called reading comprehension for a reason. It isn’t about closing and re-opening, concepts, branding, re-branding, and all that other entremanurial crap freon Doody about vibe that all restaurant owners and developers seem to spew.
Doug Trattner has made it sound like he is harping over and over and over about the failure of Coastal Taco…but a little research shows that these stories about the closing and re-opening of the site have used the same snarky quotes repeatedly…word for word. Mostly about “ya gotta have more than just tacos…and twenty dollar tacos instead of three-buck tacos.” What a piss-poor thing to say, and he hasn’t even opened his doors yet..
Even if the guy only said it one time, it’s still a shitty thing to do…to build up your “brand” by knocking and putting down what was there before. He’s crowing about his new place by pissing upon the ashes of the old one. It’s a lovely location…one of the best on the east bank of the Flats. But will it be better than what preceded it? Time will tell. Customers will soon find out. Many a location has seen three, four, five or more “concepts ” that fail, layer upon layer. I could spit on a few from here.
Why are there so many angry people on this thread?