Top 10 Posts on Strongsville Patch in 2011
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
The Week in Review: Top Stories of the Last 7 Days
Here's what happened in Strongsville
1. Gag order lifted on Mad Cactus owner. Tom Krukemeyer was allowed to speak publicly about the Restaurant: Impossible episode that aired Nov. 2 -- and he had plenty to say about the two-day makover by Food Network chef Robert Irvine. 2. School levy loses, upset in council race. Tuesday's general election saw the school district's renewal levy going down to defeat, long-time Ward 2 Councilman Ray Haseley losing his seat to 20-year-old Matt Schonhut and Jim Carbone taking over in Ward 3. Richard Micko will be the new member of the Strongsville School Board. 3. City launches new emergency call-out service. Strongsville has installed a new program that allows police or other officials to call residents' phones to notify them of problems. 4. …
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Mad Cactus Owner Can Finally Talk About TV Makeover
Calls Chef Irvine 'a hothead' and says crews tricked him
Tom Krukemeyer and Food Network Chef Robert Irvine didn't exactly get off to a great start. Within minutes, the TV chef was hopping mad. "I'd never even met him until two minutes earlier," said Krukemeyer, who owns the Mad Cactus, focus of a Restaurant: Impossible makeover this August. Here's how it happened: Producers had Krukemeyer and Irvine walk to their places to be introduced on-camera. But the director changed his mind and asked them to switch places. Irvine went ballistic, Krukemeyer said, calling the director names. Then he demanded his coffee, even though it was sitting on a table a few feet away. "He actually waited till the producer came and picked up his coffee for him," Krukemeyer said. After the scene, Krukemeyer went to …
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
TV Makeover for Mad Cactus Seemed Tame, Viewers Say
If there were fights between chef and owner, they didn't make the show
Last night's episode of Restaurant: Impossible on the Food Network promised a prickly situation as chef Robert Irvine made over the Mad Cactus Instead, the show was less than spicy. One viewer called it the least controversial episode he'd seen. "Robert Irvine looked desperate when he tried the bash the manager and the restaurant. Much ado about nothing," he said. Another called the makeover mild. "There's usually more fighting," she said. "This one was pretty boring." Mad Cactus owner Tom Krukemeyer said he is prohibited from talking about the show for five days after it airs, so we'll have his reaction next week. Irvine spent two days at the Pearl Road Tex-Mex restaurant in August, revamping the decor, staff and menu. Krukemeyer said …
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Will TV Chef Trash Mad Cactus? Find out Wednesday
Owner is nervous about seeing the makeover on 'Restaurant: Impossible' Nov. 2
The Mad Cactus will be featured next Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 10 p.m. on the Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible series. Restaurant owner Tom Krukemeyer isn't sure he'll be watching. "I'm probably not going to," Krukemeyer said. "I don't know what they edited out, what they left in." Crews from the show were in town in mid-August to revamp the menu and decor of the 20-year-old Tex-Mex restaurant on the corner of Pearl and Whitney roads. But shows like that are notorious for making restaurants -- and their food and staff -- look as bad as possible before the chef makes them over. Here's how the Food Network website describes the episode: "Chef Robert Irvine finds himself in a prickly situation as he travels to Strongsville, OH. Here, he …
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Holly Barnes
10:03 pm on Wednesday, November 2, 2011
I"m watching Restaurant Impossible. Can't wait to see the transformation!!! more ›
Monday, September 12, 2011
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Does a New Mad Cactus Offer an ‘Impossible’ to Resist Menu?
The Strongsville Gourmet visits restaurant after TV makeover
If you asked my wife what channel I watch the most, she’d tell you, without blinking an eye, the Food Network. And she’d be right. It’s my go-to channel, especially when there’s nothing on, which for me is often. In the beginning, “Emeril Live” gathered a big fan base and brought a lot of viewers to the channel. Oddly enough, I didn’t really get into Emeril all that much, but there was this other “small” show they offerd, “Good Eats” with Alton Brown, that caught my attention and quickly made me a fan. My addiction grew from there, from watching the dubbed original Japanese version of the “Iron Chef” to watching the English version of kitchen stadium. I loved the creative lunacy found in “Ace of Cakes” (last year we drove by Charm City …
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Jay Bloesinger
11:13 am on Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Actually at $3 a basket without a meal that is quite fair considering the food costs involved. As for bottomless, that is not viable. Food cost is not free. right? more ›
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Food Network Highlights Another Strongsville Restaurant
J Bella's cavatelli is featured on 'The Best Thing I Ever Ate' Aug. 22
A week after the Food Network was in town to make over the Mad Cactus, food from another Strongsville restaurant will be featured on the cable TV network. A dish at Bucci's J Bella, 12201 Pearl Rd., will be part of the Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate, a series in which chefs share their favorite food from restaurants around the country. "Michael Symon picked our cavatelli as the best he ever ate," owner Joe Bucci said. The episode airing at 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22 features chefs' childhood favorites. The show was actually filmed at the original Bucci's, 1 Berea Commons, in Berea. Bucci said the Food Network visited the restaurant about four months ago, spending six hours filming the cavatelli being made and Michael Symon munching …
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Crowd Welcomes B Spot, Michael Symon on Opening Day
Iron Chef makes an appearance at his new burger restaurant.
At 10:30 a.m., a half-dozen people were outside the door of B Spot, Michael Symon's new burger-brat-and-beer restaurant in the Greens of Strongsville, waiting for the grand opening at 11. "We always like to be at a new restaurant on the first day," said Joe Kaderabek of Strongsville, who was at the head of the line with his wife, Linda. "When Don's Pomeroy opened, we were there. We got a free lunch -- I told the waitress if I'd known, I'd have ordered dessert." Behind them in line, Tom Firment waited patiently with his daughter, Alyssa, 10. "We always go to the latest and greatest in Strongsville," Firment said. By 11 a.m., when general manager Brian Deibel swung open the door and said, "Welcome to B Spot," the line of lunch customers had…
DC
8:11 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Just saw a rerun of this episode. I ate there one time and the food was terrible, now I know why. I doubt it is any better considering the attitude of the jerk off owner. How ungrateful are you Tom???? more ›