...Eerily familiar calamari, fried chicken livers, duck mac-n-cheese, spicy shrimp tacos, devils on the horseback, more beer choices than stars in the sky, it has everything Deagans on the Westside is missing at the moment- including its former chef. It was a very tasty de javu - wood, malbec, fireplace, immaculate service...I just don't understand why did he have to move all this wonderfulness so far away from me? I consider it all highly unfair. Plus I am afraid this baby is going to die soon. It thrived in Lakewood simply because it had wonderful location and appropriate clientele. I am not sure Valley View has an equivalent of crowds of weird Lakewood kids eager to wash down duck's meat with over-priced larger. Valley View is not ready yet for such an extravaganza. And echo-friendly rotten spoiled lakewooders would rather consume rubbery Calamari than drive that far. Lakewood does not go to valley View. You have more choices of Lebron James returning to play for Cleveland than that happening. Place was empty on Friday night while at Deagans at the same time there was a Babylon's crowd...
So I suggest for this wonderful chef to come back home. And we will pretend you have never left. I promise.