 A favorite of mine. I almost always enjoy my meals here. In the newest Hudson store, the addition of the pub side means better drinks and more entertainment. So now, alongside the hibachi tricks and sushi bar conversations, there are also karaoke on Wednesdays and live bands on Saturdays. (FREE!) The energy feels good...cozy with enough modern feel to make it feel relevant. The basil chicken is my favorite. The pad thai is Amy's. The sushi is best when you order it omakase style (chef's choice) from the chef's. Lori, the bartender, made some of the best perfect negroni's I've had in quite some time. 
Basil Chicken 
Yakiniku Steak 
Perfect Negroni's  
Otani's in Mayfield is the original sushi bar in Cleveland. Opened in 1978, they have been making sushi in the same location for 34 years. Wow. They definitely do sushi right. It's like a 1, 2 punch of classic sushi items and modern sushi. They also have a huge vegetarian selection that makes Amy happy. We had a sushi platter of 4.5 rolls, fire king rolls, maki moriawase (sushi roll sampler) and ankimo (monkfish liver) that was great. Amy got a zaru soba (buckwheat noodles) and age-dashi tofu (fried tofu) that she really liked. 
sushi platter 
ankimo sashimi (monkfish liver) 
zaru soba (buckwheat noodles) and age-dashi (fried tofu) 
crab salad hand roll with tuna 
Ingredients
Preparation
Mexican street food? Hell Yeah! I have a simple policy...if food stalls have plastic chairs, I'm down to try it. 
Fried cheese empanadas with salsa verde.... 
Goat meat sammiches and cheese quesadillas....and 40oz. of Pacifico... 
Mayo, cheese, hot sauce and corn? Elote is always the right choice... 
Goat head tacos with grilled peppers.... 
Tripe tacos with pickled onions and grilled leeks/g. onions... 
White menudo, pork tacos and fish/rajas tacos.... In no particular order, other than what comes to mind... 1. Amy and her kettle corn 2. My Moms 3. John Reed making me laugh 4. Gandolf the Grey 5. Board meetings at the CH 6. The Justice League...and Kid Flash 7. Liga Privada cigars 8. Community. Don't f@ck it up, NBC. 9. Bear Boat Russian River Valley pinto noir 10. My body finally getting used to waking up at 6am 11. Chili Peppers Fresh Mexican Grill 12. Glenlivet 21, Macallan 18 and Johnnie Walker Blue (trust me, it's all one thing.) 13. Subway footlong oven-roasted chicken subs with extra peppers 14. Everyone i've met through W.E. 15. Tatuaje cigars 16. Negroni's 17. The color changing wall behind the Hudson sushi bar 18. Mr. Dan and his mutant power to fix anything 19. Audiobooks 20. George RR Martin...although it's more of a love/hate relationship. 21. Downtown lunches with JBM 22. Sokolowski's 23. Sunday night dinners at home 24. chefheinzyee.com 25. DnD 26. The Walking Dead 27. Chris revamping entire menus and then making bar shelves in one night. 28. The McKenzies 29. Skyline with Zimm 30. My iPhone 31. Halloween costume making with Amy 32. Li Wah's dim sum not getting any worse 33. Jeremy building my humidor 34. Waking up 35. Arie Shapiro and Ron Goldman 36. Masterpiece Mystery 37. NPR 38. Washington Enterprises 39. 20 minute naps 40. Eddie's Grille...nostalgia Americana 41. Sup Sam Yee, Karl and Master T 42. The Toons 43. Chinese dinners with the Family 44. Jason M. 45. Wonton Gourmet 46. Pallotta's Bakery 47. Coffee Colony 48. Down range time 49. Reconnecting with my Hong Kong peoples 50. Bill Murray 51. Partagas Cigars 52. Really great friends...you know who you are. 53. The ability to travel 54. Saffron Patch in the valley 55. Handel's Ice Cream...especially Graham Central Station! 56. Adam Jorgensen's crazy tattoo skills 57. Candied bacon 58. Vanilla bacon bourbon manhattans w/ real maple syrup 59. Great Harvest Bread - especially the cinnamon apple bread. Insanity in a loaf! 60. Seoul Garden - repping Korean food in Cleveland 61. Kimchee Chronicles 62. Unbroken 63. Finally finishing my bug out bag and car kits 64. The Booty Bandit 65. Mid Autumn Festival Ball 66. Couchsurfing 67. Sam and Marco 68. The Wedneday night Half Priced Sushi crowd 69. Sydney Bechet 70. Blue Mountain Coffee 71. Kuma's proper Japanese gyoza 72. Sherlock on Masterpiece Mystery 73. The first 2 months of Wine Club 74. Monster By Mail 75. LifeFactory glass bottles 76. Pyrex food containers 77. Mario Batali 78. Karaoke Wednesdays 79. Mitchell's Ice Cream...their new local flavors are amazing. 80. The Swizzle Sticks Band 81. The Tony Koussa Jr. Band 82. The Survival Mom Website 83. Kwong's hot and sour soup 84. Marrying Amy 85. Ricky Pun's new attitude 86. Joss Whedon 87. Our house, especially, our kitchen 88. Getting beers on tap 89. Everything Amy has done for me 90. Having good jobs 91. FM 91.5, the Great American Songbook 92. Scrabble with Amy 93. Holiday traditions 94. Holmes on Homes...for scaring the $h!t out of me. 95. Game of Thrones and the entire Song of Fire and Ice series for ruining any chance I had at happiness and productivity. 96. Still enjoying martial arts after all these years 97. How I Met Your Mother...although there were some suspect plot lines. 98. Everything 99. The fact that you are reading this 100. Everything Amy has done for Otani's  Blueberry and Dulce de Leche Pizza  Fig, Blue Cheese and Sage Pizza One of my favorite tips to make pizza at home is to buy pizza dough from your favorite pizza shop. Then, it's just a matter of a hot oven (500 degrees) and moderation in toppings to make easy pizza at home. 
Funny enough, i see it in a lot of drink recipes...even i have included it in the negroni recipe on this page. Yet most people do not know exactly how to "express an orange peel" and after searching for it online, it's not really explained too much online. Expressing an orange peel means to bring the oils on an orange peel to the surface of the orange skin. This can be done simply by removing the skin of an orange with a paring knife or a vegetable peeler...then twist/flex the skin of the orange to bring out the oils. 
Be sure not to take too much of the white parts under the peel. That brings a lot of bitterness to the cocktail if you drop the expressed peel into your drink. 
Simply fold the peel along the curvature of the stripe and pinch or gently twist to release the oils. The oils will spray along the fold, so aim it over your drink. 
Another popular method is called flaming an orange peel. This is done by bringing the oils of the orange skin to the surface by gently warming it with a lighter. 
Wave a lighter or match flame under the orange peel to bring the oil to the surface. There should be visible oil. When you are ready, squeeze the peel (in the same fashion as the expressing an orange peel) at the flame and it should ignite. Not only does it look cool, it does bring a bit of extra flavor into your drink. Just remember to aim the flame at your glass and you are good to go. 
get the f' out of here! an oreo baked into a chocolate chip cookie?! 
This looks amazing...cherry pie baked into chocolate cake, pumpkin pie baked into yellow cake and apple pie baked into white cake and then layered and frosted?!?!?! I am in love. | Rants and Raves
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