3/5/2023 0 Comments Vill q reviewIf I were making dinner at home, I’d never think to mix queso and guac, but it worked. The Quesomole is an interesting concept - queso sauce with bits of fajita-style peppers and onions, combined with guacamole. The batter was thick-but-not-too-thick, and the garlic-cheese combination was perfectly balanced. I really liked the garlic-pecorino cauliflower bites, which we got with ranch dressing. We started with the Quesomole appetizer ($11) and Cauliflower “Wings” ($13), which you can order with any of half-dozen or so sauces available on their chicken wings. The menu is a mix of standard barbecue fare and tacos, making for a true Tex-Mex feel. The beers in this beer house are rotated seasonally, and most are local and/or Ohio brews. Smokin Q’s features several house cocktails - my wife enjoyed her Blueberry Lemonade - and 16 beers on tap. There are daily happy-hour specials in the bar area, which is separate from the dining room. I don’t get out that way very often, but my wife and I have friends who live nearby and met them for dinner and drinks on a recent weekday evening. The vinyl-plank flooring covers what was almost certainly once real hardwood, but if a place can be quaint and updated at the same time, this is it. There are no soaring ceilings or any fancy modern lighting fixtures, but the place has been outfitted with a Western vibe that fits with the wood surfaces that have probably been there for almost a century. Smokin Q’s maintains the charm of the space, which was birthed in the post-prohibition 1930s as a converted room in the Fisher family’s home that might have been Mayfield Village’s first-ever business. Quagliata and Ladner also are proprietors of the Village Butcher, an Italian market and sub shop just down SOM Center Road that, despite being open only a few months, recently won a “Best Subs in Cleveland” award via a public poll. And the pair’s Tex-Mex venture is housed in the space formerly occupied by the Fisher Tavern, which stood open for about 80 years. Smokin Q’s is the brainchild of chef Zachary Ladner and longtime Cleveland restaurateur Carl Quagliata, whose fine-dining establishment, Giovanni’s Ristorante in Beachwood, has been around for decades. Lakewood’s Immigrant Son Brewery makes impression with beer, food from another time and place | Restaurant review Now with an actual dining space, downtown Painesville’s La Casita Taqueria is a must-visit | Restaurant review It feels weird to say that a restaurant that’s been around for five years has “stood the test of time.” But with the tumult in the industry over the past couple of years, it’s fair to say that Smokin Q’s BBQ and Beer House in Mayfield Village already has established a bit of longevity.Ĭhef Dante Boccuzzi on schedule to open restaurant in Willoughby
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