A behind-the-kitchen report from The Tremonster
Fat Cats Recipe:
Ricardo Sandoval’s Tandori Lamb Loin with Mint Yogurt Chutney and Quinoa Pilaf
oven temp 350 degrees
for the tandoori spice
2 teas salt
2 tablespoons sweet paprika Continue reading
Do Not Feed the Tremonster
Photo by The Tremonster
Lincoln Park, 3:10 pm on May 2, 2015, artist unknown.
Tremonsters Can’t Get Enough of Their Civilization Coffee
A special report by The Tremonster
Tremonsters love their Civilization coffee…but according to Civilization owner/operator Nancy Holcepl, “The past few weeks have been crazy!”
While scooping, measuring, brewing, and serving an endless stream of devoted customers, she explained, “We normally restock on Saturdays, but this past Friday we almost sold out. We restocked on Saturday but I had to restock again on Tuesday. It’s now Thursday, and look,” Holcepl gestured to the quickly depleting coffee bean levels in her fish bowl-style glass drums and mason jars behind the counter. Next to the jars was a bag of Civilization coffee beans with a receipt attached. She said, “People have been calling in their orders ahead of time.” Continue reading
Tremont Preschool Gets State’s Top Rating
Photos courtesy of Tim Harrison
CMSD NEWS BUREAU
4/10/2015
Tremont Montessori School’s prekindergarten has earned the top score of five stars on the state’s quality rating system.
The prekindergarten was the first in the District to go through Step Up to Quality, a voluntary preschool evaluation system that the state launched in late 2013. Five more CMSD schools will begin the process next week. Continue reading
CRUST Set to Re-Open with a New Oven
A special report by The Tremonster
Crust Tremont has been closed for the past two days as it installed a brand-new, custom-made pizza oven. Mike Griffin, CRUST owner/operator, was most impressed with the American company that supplied the new oven for CRUST, Marsal & Sons, Inc., located in Lindenhurst, New York.
Griffin said, “When you order it they start building it from scratch in New York — it comes from Limehurst, New York. They built this from scratch, and they’ve got stone slabs lining the oven bottom. This is what we’ve got going at our new downtown location [opening soon — keep an eye on The Tremonster for updates].”
As for why CRUST needed a new pizza oven, Griffin said, “We couldn’t keep up with our pizza orders with that little oven…it was crazy — especially on the weekends — it was too much.”
Tremont Farmers’ Market Opens Tuesday
Report from the Tremont Farmers’ Market
Opening Day for the 10th Anniversary season of the Tremont Farmers’ Market from 4-7pm in Lincoln Park is Tuesday April 21st! Here is a partial list of vendors for the 2015 season. The list is not final as I am still working on 13 vendor applications. Remember some vendors start later in the season as well or may be biweekly. More info to come this week!
Friends of Clark Field Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, April 4th, 1-3pm at Luis Muñoz Marin
Come and enjoy this event! Continue reading
Trace Althoff on Managing Taverns from A to Z
Trace Althoff
by Rich Weiss
Trace Althoff has one of the coolest jobs in Cleveland. He manages five of the hippest new wave of bar/restaurants popping up in neighborhoods all over the city, including the well-known ABC Tavern and XYZ the Tavern, for A to Z Taverns. Althoff is a textbook case of brain drain to Chicago boomeranging back after over 10 years to turn into a textbook case of brain gain for Cleveland.
“I went to high school at St. Ignatius, so I’m a local Cleveland guy. I lived in Chicago for just over a decade and then I came back. My mother’s from Ohio City, we ended up settling in Parma, and I went to St. Charles grade school on Ridge Road and Snow Road,” said Althoff. “My sister is now the Principal of Holy Name High School in Parma Heights; my younger sister used to teach at St. Charles, now a stay-at-home mom with two kids; and my brother is a Chicago police officer…so we kind of run the gamut with everything that we do.” Continue reading
Little Tremonsters Announces Contest for Free Soccer Classes in Lincoln Park
by Adrienne E. Linnick
Little Tremonsters
Soccer Shots is starting Spring soccer classes for ages 3-5 in Lincoln Park every Tuesday at 6pmfrom April 7th – May 26th. You can register online at https://cleveland.ssreg.org/
Little Tremonsters is a group dedicated to keeping parents, caregivers and neighbors informed about kid-trending topics in the Tremont area.
Dark Silver II: 12X at Mastroianni Photography and Arts Opens on March 13
Dark Silver II: 12X is the second installment in the new series devoted to portraits made with traditional black & white film and processed in the darkroom. For the new set of portraits, a series of parameters were created to provide a framework for the portraits. Photographs were made in the studio with a twin lens reflex (TLR) medium format camera, under a similar lighting scheme utilizing continuous hot lights and a seamless backdrop, and each subject was limited to one roll of film (12 exposures). Then, an enlarged proof sheet was created in the darkroom from each roll of film, and each proof sheet is displayed as part of an installment of the entire set of portraits. As a result, each and every shot taken of each subject can be seen; nothing was edited out. Continue reading
