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What’s seriously annoying is going on a food-related road trip, getting to where I need to be, seeing mounds of fresh food everywhere … and not being able to eat any.
Yeah, that would have been today. Mountains of freshly-made mushroom ravioli … and I mean absolute mounds of the stuff … and not a single pot of boiling water anywhere.
That just sucks.
Oh yeah, the shirt the young man making the pasta was wearing had the pasta’s cooking instructions printed on the back. But could I so much as practice?? Nooooo … sorry, no can do.
What you’re seeing in these top two photos is the manufacturing kitchen at Ohio City Pasta. Located in the Old City area just east of Cleveland overlooking Lake Erie, these folks staff this facility 24/7 to keep up with orders from multiple restaurants in multiple states. You may have had some of the pasta from Ohio City Pasta in a restaurant and not even known it. And if you get a chance to visit the West Side Market in the same Old City area you can purchase their pasta for your own kitchen at home.
I’ll tell you what, this is some darn good stuff. If you can’t get to a restaurant serving Ohio City Pasta products, get over to the West Side Market on Mondays or Wednesdays and get some of your own. I’m not so sure, though, that if you ask for cooking directions they’ll give you the shirts off their backs. In fact I’ll hasten to say it:
Probably not.
I’m a native Clevelander and can I just say how much I love the West Side Market? Family trips down there on Saturdays were common in my house when I was growing up. Oh, to have a bundle of smokies from Leu Bros. in my fridge right now…
Cool. The West Side Market was one of the highlites of my trip to Cleveland several years back……brings back nice memories.
Mmm…you had me at mushroom ravioli 😉