Amazing food! A good friend and coworker has been urging... Pushing... Coercing... Blackmailing... (you get the picture) me to go here. Finally she made reservations; invited me and my significant other as well as some friends for dinner and drinks.
Suffice it to say i have a new favorite place on the east side that I will be finding many excuses to end up here for at least a drink and app if not my evening meal. I had maple-adobo pork shank with spaetzle. Slight kick and tasted a bit like breakfast with the maple glaze. Jessica had the Zinfandel short ribs (melt in your mouh and big flavor), Rachel had the "Quackitori" ... Their signature item ... A yakitori with Asian BBQ duck breast served with soba noodles, seaweed salad and shrimp chips. It was too good! Oops ... I went straight to dinner and skipped apps. Cheese board with smoked Gouda (really smokey), some kind of Swiss, and a moody Blue. Crab cakes that were flavorful and cooked perfectly.
The cocktail menu was full and even had some interesting specials including their own take on a moscow mule. Beer selection is good and very seasonal from a micro standpoint. The wines I had heard were very exceptional. They actually opened a bottle of vien and poured us a couple glasses ... Usually sold by the bottle in every other place I've ever seen it at.
All in all the tavern is quite the treat tucked away on a neighborhood street in Collinwood. On the pricier side but totally worth it!