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| - I love Zack Bruell's restaurants. L'Albatross, Cowell & Hubbard, and Chinato are among my favorites in town. That said, how I wish this place was as awesome as the others. Let me explain.
Don't get me wrong, the quality of the ingredients and the food preparation are excellent. The servers are upbeat, attentive, and the service overall is just as good. The type of food here is "unclassifiable", so I put it in the "fusion" or eclectic category.
Of all Zack's restaurants, this one seems to have the experimental role, a clinical trial if there was ever one for food -- so is it fitting that it's next to the Cleveland Clinic? Here's a few examples: turkey burger with wasabi, strip steak with sweet red pepper sauce, calamari in a sauce that's sort of like sweet tamarinds... get the point? My taste buds don't. The "East" and "West" mixes they attempt are like oil and water. Order the "safe" dishes if eclectic is not your thing.
Yet I am here more often than any other restaurant because of, you guessed it, work meetings... Ironically, the last meeting was about how to get different people to work together. While of course, wishing how the different ingredients on my plate could work together.
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