Entering Slow Train, the cozy array of various-sized wooden tables, comfy chairs, and wall art are illuminated by light from the floor-to-ceiling windows. Baristas brew coffee and toast bagels while the customers chat, work on laptops, or simply enjoy the space. The Slow Train Cafe, established in 2010 by Oberlin College graduate Jessa New and …
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Ian Watson and Conner Levitt Mason’s Creamery, located in Cleveland’s the Near West Side, undergoes a metamorphosis every winter and spring, when the ice creamery becomes something wholly different: a ramen shop. Mason’s creamery is a place that transforms itself to suit drastically different seasons in Cleveland. While Mason’s is now a neighborhood institution, it …
Photo credits to Ella Bezkorovainy The Black River Cafe was flooded with natural light when we came to visit, at around three in the afternoon on a Thursday. The space was furnished with what must have been hundreds of cookbooks, bottles and boxes of wine, and six-packs of various beverages on bookshelves that lined the …
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Edited For Clarity by Shira and Al Our class took a field trip to Ohio City to visit bars and restaurants in the Near West Side neighborhood, controversially rebranded and redeveloped as Hingetown in recent years. Our first stop was Verbena Free Spirited Shoppe, a nonalcoholic bar and retail shop opened by Molly Cheraso in …
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