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| - Cleveland at it's best is when it's NOT TRYING to be Portland or NYC.
In context of what's around, it is actually one of the best places out here. Best because: most unpretentious, or least pretentious, whichever you prefer.
Food is cheap, great for a student budget.
Since recently (?) you better watch out in particular ordering things like deserts using fresh cream, ice-cream, fruit salad, fish/chicken dishes or mayonnaise in salads.
Because very obviously some dishes are several days old.
Salmonella danger alert, level orange.
You can notice it if you get a fresh cheese cake with cherry on top and it has a crust, when it should be fluffy like a cloud and the fruit on top of it is chewy like a gummi bear, that means this item was born many days ago and is not safe consumed as food item.
If you see the tuna salad having brown dried edges on the tuna flakes, no matter where you see such a tuna salad actually, at Prestis or in your own fridge, do no longer eat it and also do not feed it to any of your pest you could get very sick.
Same counts for fruit salad that starts to decay, eating that one will counter act your best intentions to eat "something healthy".
Be your own judge, but don't blame me for yet again saying something unfavourable to a situation where Cleveland thinks (and promotes) it is "rust belt chicque" again.
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According to numerous staff that have worked here, many of them cute art students from nearby CIA and also other unis in town, unfortunately they still keep up old Little Italy tradition and refuse employing African-Americans, although allegedly they will with a big smile take your application (and throw it straight in the bin, as I was told.)
The minute that changes I am more than happy to add one more star.
Further: to those good people who do not realize what they're looking at: if you happen to sit in PRESTI'S (but the very same applies to other restaurants in Little Italy) and you are being approached by some very young children (at the time of writing maybe around 6, 7 years old? Who knows), asking you to buy a candy bar (the going rate at time of writing is $5) as a charity event for their school, do not buy from them.
You can read up on this problem if you i.e. put in google search "Candy Sales Another Form of Human Trafficking" is one article, there are plenty describing the issue; if you are not sure ask the kids which school they are from, they might say "Tremont" (which is the other side of town) without naming a special school, ask for their permission; late at night you may see them at the bus stop to Mayfield (opposite of Tremont) with what seems to be their moms, possibly hear them discussing the hotel where they are intending to spend the night.
Don't waste your time calling police, who will tell you there is nothing wrong with selling candy bars, or they might say, an officer was just out there and talked to the kids and there wasn't a problem, or they will ask you if you intended to create a problem for a seemingly single mom trying to earn a buck on the side for her family having her kids sell candy bars, or they will tell you, you are being presumptuous (all of these were told to me by police trying to report this, as it is suggested to do on sites that address this perhaps out here new problem that were maybe not written in Cleveland).
In any case police can't be bothered, so maybe best do not nurture the issue by buying into it, that is IF you can be bothered.
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