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At one point in my life I was a vegetarian.  Hard to believe now but I was.  My parent’s were into healthy food as I was growing up and I just migrated towards vegetarianism.  Obviously I am no longer a vegetarian.  I still do not eat a lot of red meat however I do eat meat.  And I love it.

As restaurant owners the Chef & I come in contact with many vegans and vegetarians.  Two of my closets friends are vegan and the Chef has absolutely no problem in getting them fed in our restaurant.  We regularly have customers who are interested in our veg options and I am proud that we offer quite a few.  Last night I came home to 6 different emails regarding a Facebook Group of Vegans & Vegetarians talking shit about our restaurant.  After I saw it we started to get countless emails regarding our ‘lack of options for vegetarians & vegans.”  We also got a few mean emails accusing us of putting ‘fish’ in our vegetarian entree.  We OBVIOUSLY do not do that.  If we did it would not be vegetarian. Duh.

I am pretty sure we are the only (non vegetarian themed) restaurant in Cleveland that has a constant vegetarian entree on our menu.  It changes based on seasonality and it has always been fucking delicious.  Today it is a  Parisian Gnocchi Ratatouille.  We also offer a vegan entree which is the Grilled Romain Puttanesca.  We have countless other options that again change based on seasonality.  As most of you know the Chef is really into the freshest, most local food he can find.   Our servers are well versed in the options.  All one has to do is ask.  The Chef is brilliant (if I might say so myself) at cooking vegetables and he is quite happy to do so.  At this point in time we have 11 different courses that can be vegetarian.  Eleven.  Most restaurants have two.

Since I started writing this, I have gotten three more emails regarding this subject.  I encourage these people to actually come to The Greenhouse Tavern and decide for themselves instead of letting a Facebook group tell them what we are all about.

If you have eaten at our restaurant (talking to you Dana) I gladly invite you to discuss your vegetarian or vegan experience on their group page.  They asked.  We shall tell.

The Downtown Cleveland Alliance is now renting bikes on East 4th!  We absolutely loved renting bikes in Paris and we plan on renting them in Chicago for Lallapalooza.

Save Ohio Libraries! Gov. Dickland is trying to cut libraries budget by 50%.  Pretty soon the states libraries will be in Costco’s.

The Greenhouse Tavern is Open for Lunch!

Bar Symon opens this Wednesday!

Veggi U Food & Wine Celebration is Going to Kick Ass.  Win tickets so you can hang out with the Chef & I (and many other badass famous chefs)!

And the best Cleveland news to date.  The Chef & I are moving to Cleveland!!!  After months and months of trying to rent our pad we finally did it!  No more ‘burbs for us!

I am strangely sad over the news of Michael Jackson’s death.  I heard the news via Twitter before it was actually confirmed and knew it was true.  My heart hurt for a moment.  It was so weird. I felt like I lost someone who I had been close with my entire life.  I was though.  Close with him.   As were you.  We all were.  How could we not be.  His life was a real life Truman Show.  He grew up on film.  He lived on a film.  He died on film.

I think that my heart hurt because Michael Jackson never stood a chance.  I know he was odd.  He dyed his face for chrissake.  Something must have happened in your past to physically alter your skin color. Besides the point. From that moment his mean daddy put him on that stage, his life had ended.  A shell of a man was born.  A man who we will never know the intricacies of.  We will never know if he was as fucked up as he seemed.  But we shouldn’t know.  He is not our brother.  He was not our friend.  Even though we were told  he was by the media’s our obsession with his life from child to man.

I am sad for his family.  I am sad that my kids will never see his concert live like I did.  But that sadness only lasts a moment, for as I turn on the soundtrack of my childhood and dance with my own children, the sadness fades.  Michael Jackson taught us that music can do that. It can make the hard times a little bit easier simply by dancing to the music.

Louisiana shocked me yesterday when she started Moonwalking during our MJ Tribute Dance Party

Catcher has some serious moves. Thinking of selling him to Michael Flately.

Beat it he did.

In all seriousness, I really hope that this is not true. Although MJ turned out to be somewhat of a freak, the man could get down like no one else. His role in modern music changed everything and the majority of pop musicians would most likely be playing in the Mall of America on a Tuesday had he not paved the road for them.

My role in the restaurant is not very defined.  One could actually say it is all over the place.  I answer the Chef’s emails (he gets like 300 a day), I try to keep the calender updated, I stay on top of all the social media (including Facebook, The Greenhouse Tavern blog,  & Twitter), I host on the weekends, and handle other random shit that gets thrown my way.  On top of that, I have also been taking on some of the restaurant’s PR.  We have not actually reached the point financially where we can hire the Chef’s old publicist, so I have been trying to play the role.  It has been difficult because I don’t know that much about PR and I think it’s kinda cheesy that the Chef’s wife is doing it but that all changed when I finally booked something I was going for.

I am very proud to say that I actually booked The Epcot Food & Wine Festival for The Greenhouse Tavern! Dinner for 1000.  Whoa. We had gone to it a few years back and always wanted to participate.  This year I went for it and we got invited!  As of this moment we are not sure we are going to can do it financially.  But just the fact that we got invited after I worked so hard for it makes me feel really fantastic.

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