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| - The room is exceptionally well thought out with attention to detail everywhere that ties into their rustic, industrial, quasi-romantic slaughterhouse look. Please bare with me as I bark out single sentences relating to the super cool things I saw, tasted and experience here for the remainder of this review.
Extra Touches/Cool S#!+:
Plastic handled cutlery like your grandparents had. Tin bowl-plates like when your parents took you camping. Cocktail glasses that, depending on the drink, range from glass bottles stuffed in brown paper bags, to classic whisky glasses, to copper mugs. Tap handles made from rusty cleavers and vintage meat mallets on an antiquated looking iron pipe bar. Chicken wire and reclaimed would cabinet fronts. Old wood, raw metal and concrete everywhere. Leather bar stools with pipe bases. Bill holders made from hollowed out bone.
The Food: Gourmet'ed up classics. They start you off with complimentary truffle popcorn served in a tin mug. Double cooked duck fat fries topped with salt and pepper served with curry aioli - $7 and totally delicious. Get this as a side if you opted for the sliders like I did. For $21 you can get the Slider Trio - 3 sliders of your choice. We went with the Pork Belly, The Crab, and the Beef. For $7 a slider, I'd expect quite a lot and Cleaver delivers. While the sliders are built on micro burger buns about and inch and a half in diameter, they're piled so high they take a wooden BBQ skewer to hold them all together.
The service was rad. We received a positive greeting from the very beginning that encouraged to check the place out. Full disclosure - I was looking to grab a cocktail at Ox & Angela but they were closed for a private function so we wandered over to Cleaver. I'd been very excited to go for a full-on dinner here but didn't think it was the right kind of place to stop by for a cocktail or two. The friendly gent assured me that we were in fact in the place we needed to be and that there was a cocktail revolution happening inside Cleaver.
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