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| - beautifully decorated, very modern, with fabric panel lined ceiling that has color changing lighting spotlighted across it.....large open room, hard to believe it was the old may co. dept. store. cocktail and wine list is extensive, menu is too with lots of selections including an all vegetarian menu for those that want it.....they cure their own meats, make their own pickles, etc.....
we had the bacon appetizer....bruleed house cured bacon with bread, pimento cheese, pickles, etc., the african peanut stew, which was SO good and the cleveland chicken dip, delicious!
dinner......2 of us selected the hanger steak that was on special for the evening, one the scallops and the other the cuban sandwich with an extra side of hash.
the hanger steak, which i had, was perfectly cook, served with roasted fingerling potatoes, mushrooms and savory beignets. the beignets were more like little dough bricks, not light and airy as i has expected, but really solid and more like compacted squares of bread.....neat idea, but not realized.......
for dessert a peanutbutter and jelly bombe and a small dish of ice cream, both OK, but nothing great...........overall everybody liked everything, but we all agreed that we'd come back again if somebody we were with wanted to visit pura vida, but probably wouldn't say "we have to go back there". it's good, but not memorable, it's hip but seems like it would be a better lunch spot than for dinner.....it doesn't have a dinner vibe but more of a luncheon spot.....go, try it.......it is good, but there is a lot of "just good" in cleveland......the ones that are great are the the restaurants i return to again and again.................
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