Momocho Mod Mex in Ohio City

My fiancee wanted to go to Momocho for her birthday dinner.  After reading all of the glowing reviews and even seeing them on Unique Eats, we just had to see what all the hype was about.  It turned out that we met another couple for drinks before hand and asked them to join us for our meal!  This would be our first time eating dinner at Momocho.

Food

We started our meal with the guacamole sampler.  This gave us a chance to pick three different guacamole.  From bottom to top in the picture below we picked the goat cheese with tomato chile and poblano peppers, the jicama with pineapple, chile habanero, and mint, and finally the garlic confit with bleu cheese, and chile verde.  The goat cheese really stood out in contrast to the avacado. I enjoyed how each bite packed a punch. The sweet pineapple and jicama blend was my personal favorite because of the way it blended with the heat that came in late, and lingered on until the next bite.  The bleu cheese had a lot of potential, but only a few bites actually got a bite of bleu cheese, the rest was just normal tasting guacamole.  

Lee Anne Wong Pop Up at Noodle Cat January 21st Giveaway

Lee Anne Wong's first trip to Noodle Cat for a Pop-Up dinner was a huge success.  If you missed the first event, you won't want to miss her second trip back to Cleveland on January 21st at 6:30pm to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Lee Anne Wong is best known for her success on the first season of Bravo’s Top Chef, where she then went on to be the supervising culinary producer. She has competed on Iron Chef America and is the host of Unique Eats on the Cooking Channel. Lee Anne lives and works mostly in NYC, but enjoys traveling and cooking all over the world.

The dinner for this event will feature 5 courses for $69.
The Menu Includes:

• Crispy Fish Salad w/ romaine, parmesan & lemon sesame dressing 
• Char Siu Pork Jiaozi w/ soy chili dipping sauce 
• Seamed Fish w/ sizzling oil, green onion, ginger & soy 
• Kung Pao Prawns w/ celery & rice salad 
• And much more!!

Tickets can be purchased at : http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2671429317/efblike

***And the winner is....Comment #35 by Jen who said...The Kung Pao Prawns sound amazing!  Jen, please email me at clevelandfoodandbrews@gmail.com 

Giveaway

Ready for some good news?  I've been given two tickets to give away to one lucky reader. To enter the giveaway simply read the directions below!

 There are 3 ways to Enter The Giveaway

1. Leave one comment on this post telling me which of the three posted courses you are most interested in trying.

2. Share this post on Facebook by posting this link: http://hops.me/bte

Then come back here and post a comment with your Facebook link.  You can only do this once, and it counts as one entry.

3. Share this on Twitter: 

I want to win 2 tickets to the @bricknmortar216 pop-up featuring @leeannewong!  Check out the @CleFoodandBrews Giveaway: http://hops.me/bte
The come back here and post a comment with your Twitter link. This will count as one entry. You can do this every single day. Just make sure to leave a comment each time you tweet!

Rules:

--You have until Thursday,  January 19th, 2012 at 9:00pm EST to enter.

--The winner will be picked at random using Random.org.   
--Only comments  with links left on this post will count.  If you tweet, facebook or enter in any other way be sure to leave a comment here telling me you did it with the link to that post.  
--You must leave a SEPARATE comment for each Entry, otherwise your entry will only count once.  

--Winner has 24 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. 
--The winner will get their tickets at the door when they arrive for the event.

Flour Rustic Italian Kitchen in Moreland Hills

After being open now for several months and with new head Chef Matthew Mytro at the helm, we decided to check out Flour Restaurant in Moreland Hills.

Willoughby Brewing Company Review #2

Our last trip to Willoughby Brewing for dinner left a very good taste in our mouths. We recently went back for dinner because they had once again updated their menu with some very interesting items. Would this experience be as positive as our last?

Key Bank Rewards Week: Free Food Truck Grub and a Giveaway

That is right, Key Bank is picking up your tab at local food trucks!  All you have to do is follow the trucks on twitter to find out their location.  When you show up Wednesday December 14th, Key Bank will pay for your food!  This is all part of Key Bank's week long rewards event where they are offering different promotions around the great city of Cleveland!  To see what else is going on this week just visit Key Rewards Week.

To make your life easy, I've linked the food trucks names below directly to their twitter handles!  Happy Eating Cleveland!  (As a side note, the number of free meals is limited so be sure to get there early!)

Participating food trucks include: 

JiBaro World Eats

StrEatMobile

Nosh Box

Fahrenheit

Dim and Den Sum

Hodge Podge

Umami Moto

Motor Mouth

Zydeco Bistro

Sweet! The Mobile Cupcakery

Giveaway

In addition to this wonderful Key Bank Food Event, I've also been given a $25 Key Possibilities MasterCard Gift Card to give away to one lucky reader.  You could use this to visit your favorite food truck anytime!

And the winner is comment #6 by Crystal! 

 There are 3 ways to Enter The Giveaway

1. Leave one comment on this post telling me which truck you would like to get free food from.

2. Share this post on Facebook by posting this link: http://hops.me/855

Then come back here and post a comment with your Facebook link.  You can only do this once, and it counts as one entry.

3. Share this on Twitter: 

Check out the $25 Key Possibilities MasterCard Giveaway that @CleFoodandBrews is doing at: http://hops.me/855 #KeyRewardsWeek
The come back here and post a comment with your Twitter link. This will count as one entry. You can do this every single day. Just make sure to leave a comment each time you tweet!

Rules:

--You have until Sunday December 18th, 2011 at 9:00am EST to enter.

--The winner will be picked at random using Random.org.   
--Only comments  with links left on this post will count.  If you tweet, facebook or enter in any other way be sure to leave a comment here telling me you did it with the link to that post.  
--You must leave a SEPARATE comment for each Entry, otherwise your entry will only count once.  

--Winner has 24 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. 
--The card will be mailed to the winner.
--Disclosure:  I offered two $25 Key Possibilities MasterCard Gift Cards for helping to promote this Food Truck Event.  (One for myself and one to giveaway.)

Sunday Supper--Grilled Chicken with Spicy Mango Chutney

This Sunday Supper was inspired by something I got to take part in earlier this year thanks to the National Mango Board.  Back in early August I had the opportunity to judge a food event that featured mangos as the special ingredient.  This event was a blast, and thanks to Crystal of Eat Drink Cleveland you can read about it here.   Something I took away from this event was just how versatile mangos really are.  Besides eating them raw and using them in our homemade mojitos we have never experimented cooking with them.  Here is where Mango.org comes in handy.  They have a wonderful recipe database, and this Sunday Supper will be featuring their Very Mango Chutney recipe with a few tweaks.