Another museum to visit: Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Currently showing special exhibit titled Notorious RBG. Museum is on Richmond Rd. near Shaker Blvd.

Very fond of Little Italy. My favorite restaurant is Tratoria On The Hill. (Customer parking behind the restaurant.) Check out the 2 patisseries - Presti's and Corbo's.

Huzzah, huzzah! That is one great Civil War monument -- one of the best in the nation. It was designed by Levi Schofield, who also, among many other memorable projects, was the architect for what was then known as the Athens Lunatic Asylum. The folks who work in museum that is in the base of the monument are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Don't hesitate to ask them questions. One interesting bit of trivia is that Schofield designed the monument so that he would have a good view of it from his office in nearby office building. Enjoy!

In addition to the main Art Museum, they built a Contemporary Art Museum (https://mocacleveland.org /) which is in that same University Circle area. I haven't been but I heard good things. It is walking distance from Little Italy...

The neighborhood that the Westside Market is in (Ohio City) and bordering neighborhood (Tremont) have a number of trendy bars and restaurants.

They did a very nice job on remodeling the park immediately next to the Rock Hall. It's right on the lake (Voinovich Bicentennial Park) and I believe George Voinovich was a Bobcat? Edgewater Park which is just a little west of Downtown is also very nice. Both provide great views of Downtown.

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Hansa looks like it's close to Farkas (Hungarian) Bakery where I have it circled to check out their dobosh torte. When I saw the picture of the dobosh torte at Farkas, I instantly proclaimed "bazdmeg"** because I certainly won't get one like that in Nashville.

**this word is not safe for the workplace especially in Budapest or some parts of Cleveland. I do remember hearing it used by my mother if she dropped an egg in the kitchen while making a cake when I was a kid growing up.

The guy who discovered Lucy was the curator of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History at the time, and the skeleton was reconstructed there. It has one of the few casts of Lucy. It also has, weirdly enough, Balto.

Lake View Cemetary, close by, is a recommendation for history types. Famous residents include the Rockefeller family and James A. Garfield.

There are some good and cheap greasy spoons (though some memorable ones have been lost in recent years), but none really stand out as "destination" type restaurants. Two that stand out a bit to me are Dinerbar on Clifton and West Side Market Cafe. Another one people love is George's Kitchen, which might be popular because it's the cheapest restaurant I know of in Cleveland.

+1 I read this book about two years ago. It is excellent. You really get an appreciation for Garfield and understand the tragedy of his death and its impact on our national history in a profound way. You also come away with a better understanding of medical practice at that time and a real appreciation for Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the metal detector in order to try and find the location of the bullet in the president's body. If it wasn't for the ignorance of the head doctor, he might have really aided in the president's care. It's clear by the end of the book that the president didn't die from the bullet but from the inept medical care. In short, his doctor killed him.

The Garfield monument has been closed for restoration the past few years.

I was thinking about hitting "Crust" in Tremont one night. Supposedly the Food Network (or whoever) said it was the best thin crust pizza outside of NYC. But what I was wondering, how safe is it to walk (early evening, still light out) from where Crust and "Scoops" is on Professor to where St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Church is in that neighborhood to take some pictures.

The "mind your surroundings" advice for Tremont stands for Ohio City and Gordon Square as well. As for pizza, Crust is good, but if you want classic Neapolitan, try Citizen Pie (W. 25) and for what I think it a perfect marriage of NY and Italian style, go to Il Rione in Gordon Square (W. 65).

Reports (from some people) of the demise of the West Side Market are totally overblown. There were only a couple of vacant spaces and the place was packed Saturday. The entire 25th area looked like it is doing well nearby but there are still a few empty storefronts. Lots of people with dogs around there. A nice trendy local pet store would do well. Maybe.

The article was behind a paywall, I didn't get to read it.

I will confirm that the Cleveland Museum of Art is amazing and world class. As a person who spent many years in the music business, I can also confirm that the (cough-cough) "Rock & Roll" (cough-cough) "Hall of Fame" is not in the same universe as the CMA. Not to mention the CMA admission is $0.00 and not $28/per. I would not mind paying the $28 or even double that if the RRHOF was all that it was cracked up to be. But it's not. Luckily for them, there are enough housewives and grandmothers from Dubuque and Peoria who are easily amused by a video footage loop of Elvis, showing scenes everybody in the world already saw a hundred times on every Elvis documentary on every cable channel in history... and footage/displays of non-rockers like Whitney Houston, rap, etc. (While having nothing about Queen, almost no Lez Zep and lots of other legends of rock left mostly or totally out). I emailed them a note saying that the place was borderline appalling and the note I got back from somebody claiming to be a museum curator misidentified bass player John Paul Jones as the person who wrote "Stairway to Heaven." Luckily the CMA didn't confuse Georgia O'Keeffe for Salvador Dali.