Observer Staff Recipes for the #QuarantineCooking Recipe Exchange
Sarah Parr, Director of Business Operations
April 14, 2020
Remember when chain emails talked about curses and boasted 12 fonts and 14 colors? I guess that changes when email is one of the few connections you have left with people. By now, you or someone you know has probably received a chain email encouraging them to participate in a good old-fashioned ...
A typical night at ABC the Tavern
Tobili Hatcher, Contributing Reporter
February 13, 2020
There’s a certain aesthetic that comes with going into 11434 Uptown Ave., also known as ABC the Tavern, a popular late-night bar where all the cool kids go. Rather, where all the kids who think they’re cool go to be hip, have fun and drink. At ABC, the lights go up strictly at 1:45 a.m. and Nick,...
uISA throws Taste of India to showcase the gastronomy of the sub-continent
Shreyas Banerjee, Staff Reporter
February 13, 2020
The Undergraduate Indian Students Association (uISA), one of the largest clubs on campus, held Taste of India on Feb. 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Thwing Center Ballroom. The event touted food, activities and games. In the first of what uISA hopes to be an annual event, Taste of India featured nine ta...
Blue Sky Brews brings life back to Rising Star’s former location
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
February 13, 2020
The corner of Murray Hill and Cornell Roads feels built for a coffee shop—the location, design, everything about it, really, is perfect for sipping a latte. So when Rising Star Coffee Roasters closed its doors late last year, it left behind a hole in the neighborhood—at least until this week, when Blu...
Enjoy tacos at Barrio on a budget
Sarah Parr, Director of Business Operations
February 6, 2020
Prime dinner time on Sunday in a college town promises a comfortably spacious dining experience at one of the just-off-campus hot spots for food and drink. Bright lights and grayscale skeletons with personalities perfect for a mariachi band adorn the tasteful and busy walls of Barrio, and creative c...
Brewnuts and Mitchell’s celebrate National Ice Cream For Breakfast Day
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
February 6, 2020
“On Facebook they said this line would be fun,” said a defeated donut-seeker, heading for the door after deciding the double wrapped line inside of Brewnuts, a West Side donut and beer establishment, was too long to handle. And, in his defense, it was a very long line. It took about 40 minutes to go from the fron...
Algebra Teahouse feels like home
Matt Hooke, Executive Editor
January 30, 2020
Algebra Tea House feels like home. Behind the carved wooden door in Little Italy is a welcoming restaurant with the atmosphere of a friend's home art studio. Paintings line the wall, while homemade cabinets full of wholesale teas greet you on your right-hand side. Algebra is the child of Ayman Alkayali, a fo...
Slyman’s Restaurant and Deli has a pile of meat you’ve got to eat
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
January 23, 2020
Slyman’s Restaurant and Deli is a no-nonsense establishment. It takes up two rooms on the ground floor of a building on the corner of St. Clair Ave. and E. 31st St. The interior is red, white and black with menus covering several of the walls, the kitchen visible behind a counter, all flat top grills ...
UCCtoberfest pays tribute to German culture
Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor
November 15, 2019
Oktoberfest, an annual beer festival held in Munich, Germany, is the largest festival celebrating beer in the world. The 16- to 18-day festival brings more than six million people to Munich for parades, food, music and of course, beer. In Cleveland, a city that Cleveland SCENE called “a town built...
Review: uISA’s Diwali Dinner is a monument to one-dimensional ethnic campus events
Shreyas Banerjee, Staff Reporter
November 15, 2019
Before arriving at the Thwing ballroom for the undergraduate Indian Student Association (uISA)’s “Diwali Dinner,” I had high expectations. With uISA being one of the largest cultural clubs, and clubs period, on campus, they had a reputation for fun events filled with flavor and culture. In ...
