25 Restaurants, Breweries and Bars We Can't Wait to Open in Cleveland This Summer

Cru Uncorked

34300 Chagrin Blvd.
No restaurant project in recent — or distant, for that matter — memory comes close to Cru Uncorked with respect to spare-no-expense construction. The multi-million-dollar passion project in Moreland Hills, which should open this month, is the vision and triumph of Bill Cutler, along with parents Sarah and Sandy, who is the retired CEO of Eaton Corp. Just 108 chairs are divided among five spaces and servers will be responsible for no more than 14 guests at a time, guaranteeing that no request goes unheeded.

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LBM, a Cocktail Bar and Kitchen

12301 Madison Ave., Lakewood
When it opens this summer, L.B.M. (you'll have to find out what it stands for yourself) will be a casual cocktail bar with a full-service kitchen and chef. The inspiration for the concept originated in Chicago. The spot will utilize the same high-quality ingredients and talent of other cocktail bars, but at a price point that makes it more of an everyday type of place.

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Crust

2258 Professor Ave.
New to the new Crust operation – in addition to square footage and air conditioning – will be a bar and liquor license. To accommodate the move, Crust owner Mike Griffin will shutter the small five-year-old shop down the road.

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Terrestrial Brewing Company

7524 Father Frascati
Since the Battery Park neighborhood was developed more than 10 years ago, the eastern half of the historic smokestack-topped powerhouse building has remained vacant. That changed last month when Terrestrial Brewing Company took up residence within those red brick walls.

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Forest City Shuffleboard

4506 Lorain Ave.
After nearly a year of construction, Jim Miketo is putting the finishing touches on Forest City Shuffleboard Arena and Bar, a gorgeous new entertainment option on the Ohio City-Detroit Shoreway border. A complete gut-and-rebuild job on the former Supermercado Rico building on Lorain at West 45th has produced a spacious, but comfortable social club with indoor shuffleboard, bar and kitchen. The business is now open.

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Seafood Shake

1852 Coventry Rd.
Ever since Winking Lizard closed its doors on Coventry last summer after nearly 20 years, there has been a flurry of activity inside the space. Soon, all that prep activity will be done and Seafood Shake, much in the vein of Boiling Seafood on Lee Road and Boiler 65 in Detroit-Shoreway will debut.

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Marble Room Steak and Raw Bar

623 Euclid Ave.
When Marble Room Steak and Raw Bar opens downtown this month or next, it will immediately jump to the front of the line in terms of Cleveland's most impressive dining rooms. The dramatic restaurant inside the historic bank lobby of the Garfield Building at East Sixth and Euclid was going to become the home of Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse. When that deal fell through, there was little doubt who would step in to fill its shoes.

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Hi and Dry

2221 Professor Ave.
Speaking of games... The curtains came down on Press Wine Bar this winter, but owner John Owen was ready with a plan for the space with a springtime debut including a new name, concept, and design. The new concept has an old name: the Hi and Dry, which is the name of the tavern that the Southside replaced. And this time approximately four duckpin bowling lanes will be installed.

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Hook & Hoof

4125 Erie St.
For the past year, partners Hunter Toth and Chaz Bloom have been working to convert the old Fanucce's pizza shop in downtown Willoughby into Hook & Hoof, a New American kitchen, which recently opened. The concept for the restaurant melds the chef's experiences growing up in a family that ran a grocery store, where food and butchery were everyday concepts, with his culinary travels around the country.

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Chow Chow at the Parkview

1261 W. 58th St.
It's been a year and a half since Joseph Zegarac opened the popular Southern-styled shop Chow Chow Kitchen in Lakewood, and almost since the beginning the young chef was wondering where it all might lead. Expansion was the obvious choice, given the shop's almost nonexistent dining room. And you can now find Zegarac running Chow Chow at the Parkview Nite Club.

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