Taste of Tremont

I'm generously offering two posts this evening. The first will deal with the impeccable Taste of Tremont  festival and the second will, as promised, address my current thoughts on the Indians; thoughts which may flip 180 degrees on the next loss.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Taste of Tremont here are a few pictures to summarize:

This festival in Tremont is exactly the type of thing that I hope I can get people excited about. In order to be as belligerently pro-Cleveland as I am you should first be aware of all of the amazing venues that this city offers. This is just one of the many. Tremont is a trendy neighborhood in the heart of Cleveland. As long as you can navigate the throngs of hipsters determined to plow into you with their fixed-gear bikes, you will enjoy yourself in Tremont. Here you can sample dishes from the many excellent restaurants, have drinks, listen to live music and peruse the wares of some of the little shops. These are shops that I would naturally never shop at because I'm not a hipster, but they're the types of shops that you absolutely must have in any modern successful city. I nearly forgot to mention this - but  you may also need to dodge dog poop. Because apparently another one of the nuisances that hipsters present is that they think it's cool to own dogs. Not a responsibility, just cool. It's ironic that they have a dog. It's even more ironic that they have a dog that poops in the middle of the street and sidewalk and the irony is off-the-charts that they don't have bags to pick up after the dog. It's so ironic, in fact, that they don't even really let the dog poop. They pretend they don't notice and just drag the dog along with poop falling out here and there as the poor thing is dragged. You, ugly offensive hipster chick, should be dragged on a leash. You don't deserve a dog. You really don't deserve to be in public because you offend all of my senses at one time. But that's just ironic isn't it, like the stupid mustache your unemployed hipster boyfriend sports. Winners. Moving on...

Tremont and Ohio City represent a solid revival of Cleveland that needs to continue and spread to other neighborhoods. Cleveland has always struggled because it is spread out and doesn't offer many public transportation options. I think that if there was a safe reliable transportation method (i.e not the rapid since it is both not safe and not reliable) that connected Coventry, Tremont, Ohio City, downtown and West Park, Cleveland would be way better off because of it. If the Rapid was overhauled to be faster, cleaner and safer I think it could serve this purpose well.

In my opinion Tremont offers some of the finest places to eat in the nation. Overall Cleveland is a fantastic food market to begin with but if Cleveland had more concentrated neighborhoods it would be a far more successful city. Ohio City and Tremont are doing a great job filling that gap currently but similar neighborhoods on the lake or river would be great. In all the years Cleveland has existed the city has always done a poor job offering incentives to businesses and organizing the neighborhoods properly in order to help them maintain their success. More of this would be welcome in Cleveland:

I don't know about you, but I personally would rather eat at little Tremont restaurants and drink at Ohio City or West Park bars rather than the typical nonsense chain franchises in the suburbs. So the takeaway from this is that as Clevelanders you should be taking advantage of everything this city has to offer as often as possible and then belligerently spreading propaganda to everyone you know, whether they want to hear it or not, about how amazing this city is. I love Cleveland.