City Works offers a unique dining experience

What is better than seeing your waiter or waitress coming to your table with hot food: your juicy, thick burger topped with a golden bun. A great restaurant to be your new favorite is only about 25 minutes away called City Works. City Works is located in Orange Village, apart of the shopping center, Pinecrest. The restaurant is considered American-Traditional restaurant. City Works is the unique pairing of ultimate sports bar and delightful restaurant.

City Works is an eatery and pour house style restaurant, with a focus on classic American food with a twist, an impressive selection of drinks, and an upbeat, energetic atmosphere. The pour house offers 90 craft beers on draft as well as wine on tap for those who are 21 and above. They have around 9,000 sq ft of dining space, with a large bar area and fantastic outdoor patio seating.

On Monday thru Thursday, City Works opens at 11:30 am and closes at 12:00 am. On Friday and Saturdays, they are open from 11:30 am till 1:00 am. Then on Sundays they are 11:30 am till 11:00 pm. You are able to a make a reservation, if you have a party 7 or more they recommend making a reservation just to make sure they have room. This is the only City Works located in Ohio, other locations include Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas and Illinois.

A few of the foods I’ve tried from the restaurant were a couple of appetizers like the fried pickles and the calamari. The fried pickles include Kosher dill pickles and are beer battered with a side of ranch dressing, which cost 8.00 dollars. The calamari is a basket of Point Judith fried calamari with a side of horseradish cocktail sauce, which cost 13.00. The fried pickles have sour taste, but the sweet ranch balances it out so it gives the pickles are a pretty sweet taste to them which I really enjoyed. The calamari was very tasty as well. They have the perfect amount of crunch to them and taste pretty sweet.

For my entree I got the bacon cheeseburger. The cheeseburger includes house-smoked candied thick cut bacon, aged Vermont white and yellow cheddar cheeses, shredded iceberg, vine-ripened tomato, red onion, toasted brioche bun, which cost 16.00 dollars. My burger’s bacon was pretty burnt and very crispy, but besides that the burger was very yummy as well. The burger was juicy and the bun was soft and did not get soggy which I thought was very uncommon, and made the burger stand out.

City Works is great combination of a sports bar and nice, classy restaurant. Part of the restaurant is for those who want to enjoy sports and other part of it is for those who want to enjoy a nice dinner with their friends and family, which makes the restaurant very unique and different from many.

All in all, I highly recommend City Works, they have delicious food and a great atmosphere for a variety of people. City Works will soon become one of the best restaurants in the Cleveland area.