Every restaurant I go to has now been ruined by this place. It sets the bar for food and no one has come close to touching it. If I were on death row, I would ask for a meal from Cork and Cleaver. Hits the mark in every way: amazing inventive cocktails, friendly attentive wait staff who really know the menu, and food that leaves you savoring every bite.
My favorites:
appetizer: chicken wings. hands down best wings i've ever had. the meat falls off the bone
entree: gnocchi with lamb
Although keep in mind their menu changes with the seasons, so you might be disappointed to go back and find your old favorite has been changed to something different to keep it seasonable, but I am not in anyway holding that against them. If anything its a reason to go back and see whats new on the menu. I am moving out of the Cleveland area and could cry that I won't be able to go to cork and cleaver any more.