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On Saturday we drove up to Cleveland to see Joel McHale do some stand up, but beforehand we met up with friends for dinner at Zocalo on East 4th Street in Downtown Cleveland.
Of my time spent in Cleveland, I had never set foot in this somewhat newish development, but was pretty impressed.
Reminds me a bit of a cross between the pedestrian area in the Arena District (in the stretch where Gordon Biersch and The R Bar are at) and Pearl/Lynn Alleys. Lots of energy on a Saturday night.
We ate at Zocalo (across the street from Lola) and enjoyed it. Good cheap drinks, and mostly-traditional semi-upscale mexican cuisine. I'm not going to go into an indepth restaurant review, but I will quickly say that the food was tasty, the atmosphere was excellent, and the live music (jimmy buffet covers) was god awful. I imagine that would be improved on a weeknight.
That being said... MAN do I hate driving to Cleveland. We took an extra long route to spend some time with family near Canton over the weekend, but still, I can't think of a worse way to spend a sleepy Sunday afternoon than driving southbound on 71 back to Columbus. Traffic isn't entirely congested on a non-holiday, but it's bad enough to where I can't just set the cruse control and relax. Even though we wouldn't have been able to take advantage of the proposed 3C service this weekend (East 4th Street is a one mile walk from the Amtrak station BTW), I would have loved to have had some of those extra cars off the road and bodies inside of a train.
So yeah... hurry up and build the 3-C, Ohio! So that I can consider spending more money in The Cleve.
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