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 [...]
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 [...]
HERE’S THE DEAL. Get comfy. . .this might take a while. Let me chat-you-up about an issue that pushes a whole bunch of hot buttons for all the wrong reasons. I’ve given it a lot of thought, maybe you haven’t. Maybe . . . just maybe, you will. Same-sex marriage was a tough [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An oldie, but a goodie: This week (Nov. 2-7) and next week (Nov. 8-14) The Cleveland Independents are celebrating Restaurant Week. Huh? Which week? What, the paper’s now a restaurant? When did that happen? Confused? Yeah, it gives the Food Fairy a big ‘ole headache too. Here you are reading about the Cleveland Independents (the restaurants) in The Independent [...]
Well, this was going to be a big deal. A very big deal. The chance for a career-enhancing coup was within reach. The Food Fairy was going to the IX Center’s fourth annual Fabulous Food Show. If fabulous is in the title, then this fairy was going to be all over it. [...]
By: Mark R. Mackert Long before The Food Fairy started sharing extraordinary insights about edibles, we had dinner at Americano, Original Great Lakes Bistro, at One Bratenahl Place. Four, count ‘em, four times in all. Because of its convenience, we hoped it would be the last in the endless line of [...]
