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| - We discovered Jake's while driving home from eastern Ohio along the Coastal route...and being hungry because it was well past lunch time.
Jake's looked like a good place to have lunch, and it didn't disappoint!
I saw fried pickles on the app menu and immediately decided Jake's could be my kind of place!
I had the Lake Erie perch sandwich-the fish tasted fresh, the fries were rough-cut skin-on, and it came with a good-sized bowl of cole slaw. My dining companion said his hamburger was tasty and cooked the way he ordered it (a big thing with him as he tends to like his burgers medium, or maybe on the medium rare side).
The place has only been open about a year and a half, but it seems to have established itself as a real "local joint". The servers seemed to know a lot of the customers, and a lot of the customers seemed to know each other (sounded like a lot lived in the neighborhood).
Service was very friendly, and we immediately felt at home ourselves.
A fellow came in toward the end of our meal who we thought might be the owner. He was joking with some of the customers about having just come in from fishing for perch on Lake Erie, and when a customer asked if he caught the fish we were all eating...he said, "yup, we do it all here...catch 'em, cook 'em".
Our only regrets? We were on the road and had a ways to go home, so we didn't have a beer. And we were so stuffed from lunch that we couldn't order dessert (cheesecake seemed to be a specialty here, and the Key Lime Cheesecake nearly made me crack!).
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