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Friday Nights-old favorites new places

 So Fridays are hard....I cannot lie.  I want to go out, but I am tired!  But Recently Ronnie and I went out on a Friday night!  It was March in Cleveland and not too cold, so worth it to go out for a night.  

We started at one of our favorite places- Stone Mad.  Stone Mad is such a great place to go.  We know so many people there but they also just have a quality product from drinks to food.  Well on a Friday night, it is packed.  We were in the bar areas and decided just to do drinks.  Joe made fantastic drinks, as per usual.  Ronnie had his Woodford old Fashion and I had a simple Campari and Soda. They were made perfectly and so enjoyable to just sit and unwind on a Friday night.  thanks Joe for always making it an enjoyable experience at Stone Mad.  



But, we were hungry and after I had 2 drinks, Ronnie was drinking, we needed some dinner.  We decided to go to XYZ, another old favorite of ours.  So we drove up the street, as it had started raining.  We found parking in one of the lots on Detroit and started walking towards XYZ.  As we did, we had to walk by one of Gordon Square's newest restaurants, La Playa.  W had not ben there yet so change in plans, lets stop in.  It was rocking from the outside.  Live music, the really large interior was bustling and nearly full.  We went inside and the energy was phenomenal.  We were sat right away.  I ordered a Jalapeno Margarita, Ronnie a beer.  They served us super fresh chips and a spicy fresh homemade salsa.  


It was a Friday during Lent so I was doing no meat.  They had ample choices for that on the menu.  Our Server was a very energetic young man who was attentive but not overbearing at all.  We decided to order their Cajun boil.  It was $45 and came with crab legs, craw fish, tons of shrimp, mussels, clams, potatoes and corn and the next day we discovered there was also sausage in there.  That is how large it was- we did not even se the sausage in it that night.  It was more then enough for both of us to eat that night and take home a very very full container.  This could easily be split among 3 people if you added an appetizer to your meal probably 4 people.  And the sauce....the lemon, garlic, Cajun seasoning all coming together wee just fantastic.  The sauce was just so flavorful I wanted to drink it  


You can see as we ended the meal how much was still left and how happy Ronnie was with his meal.  We have heard they also have an amazing happy.  We cannot wait to go back again!  This is definitely going into the dinner out rotations!


   

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