Food Fairy Dishes Dirt on Foodie Tricksters It’s Enough to Make a Child Strike Its Mother! Well, Mary, this will get your pantyhose in a knot…food fraud is on the rise! Nutritionists and foodies have been hammering us to read food labels so we know which toxins du jour agribusiness is using and [...]
Well, it was the queer equivalent of Mohammed going to the mountain, the Food Fairy finally making a pilgrimage to E. 4th Street for dinner. For the cuisine clueless, this brief block between Euclid Ave. and Prospect Ave. is home to wall-to-wall eateries and fodder-without-end for foodie blogs. Mary, will the amens & hallelujahs [...]
Claiming how a great meal can be as exciting as a rock concert, pioneering yoga teacher David “Yeah Dave” Romanelli attempted to prove his point last month with a “Yoga for Foodies” workshop hosted at The Greenhouse Tavern, Ohio’s first certified green restaurant. The yogic butt-whooping was punctuated by a playlist featuring The [...]
Sometimes the Food Fairy craves a restaurant that presents the same dish in the same way each and every time I visit. It’s not cliché – it’s consistency. That’s exactly what I’ve found on multiple visits to Sara’s Place, in Gates Mills. Though the kitchen is creative with daily specials, I know the favorites [...]
A sleek and trendy franchise from New York has graced Cleveland with its arrival. Well, Buffalo NY, but let’s give it a shot. The Chocolate Bar sits on Euclid, posing at the mouth of E. 4th as if saying, “Hello. I’m fabulous. Enter me.” What a great location – Cleveland actually looks like [...]
Words like “decadent” and “indulgent” have become cliché in the world of chocolate – every commercial insists on using them. Usually some sort of whispy font breathes onto the screen, promising sensations like “heavenly” as naked women roll around in the background, draped in brown silk sheets and making-out with Dove bars. Ugh, I [...]
The snow is already ass-high as Lake Effect, an Alberta clipper, and the very real threat of Hell freezing over conspire to keep any Food Fairy flights grounded. This fairy is flying nowhere tonight. Primal instincts beckon us to burrow in, bank the fire in the hearth and plop pillows of dumplings into simmering [...]
Adam Richman, star of the Travel Channel’s Man Vs. Food is coming to Ohio Jan 23. Apparently, Richman doesn’t know how keen we Ohioans are to overeating, as he has thrown down the gauntlet on Facebook, where he dares us to challenge him. Go tell Richman to bring it!
Whoa! No need for 911! The Food Fairy has not “switched teams” to sample some strange. Naya is not some sultry siren who seduces with almond-shaped eyes. Nor is Naya one of those Bollywood brainiacs working tech support for Microsoft. Naya Bistro & Lounge is an eclectic eatery in Highland Heights. New in the [...]
Comfort Casual at Clyde’s in Cleveland Heights The Food Fairy got an invitation to an exclusive pre-opening peak of a brand new eatery in Cleveland Heights, Clyde’s Bistro and Barroom. A soft opening (no fanfare, no drum rolls no high-drag) is planned for Dec. 9, but FF got a good gander inside the [...]
