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The 10 Best Cities For Recent Grads -
Huffington Post

Cleveland, top 10 in the nation

 

CNN

the top 10 cities for new grads are:
1. Indianapolis
2. Philadelphia
3. Baltimore
4. Cincinnati
5. CLEVELAND, OHIO
6. New York
7. Phoenix
8. Denver
9. Chicago
10. San Antonio

 

Forbes

Cleveland
#10 America's Safest Cities
#14 Best Cities for Singles

Once a manufacturing center, Cleveland
has since transitioned

 

Cleveland

Ranked #6 America's Manliest Cities

1. Nashville, TN (▲ 3 spots)
2. Charlotte, NC (▼ 1 spot)
3. Oklahoma City, OK (▲ 22 spots)
4. Memphis, TN (▲ 24 spots)
5. Columbia, SC (▲ 8 spots)
6. Cleveland, OH (▲ 9 spots)

 

Business Week

Best Cities for New College Grads

Cleveland #17

 

Chicago Tribune writer blown away by how completely wrong his bias toward Cleveland was:


Michael Ruhlman, the world-famous food writer...
you might think that this dashing uber-
foodie would make his home in a culinary
capital such as New York, San Francisco
or even Chicago, right?
Nope.
Cleveland.
"What I love about Cleveland is that it is
so eccentric," Ruhlman says between sips
of a negroni cocktail in his favorite
hometown bar. "There's no other place
like it. People are so quirky."
One of those quirky people is Ruhlman's
friend and the nation's newly minted
"Iron Chef," Michael Symon. In a
surprising upset a couple of months ago,
the born-and-bred Clevelander Symon
beat out New Orleans chef John Besh to
claim the national "Iron Chef" title. His
two restaurants in town -- Lola and Lolita
-- are busier than ever.
But he's not the only culinary bright spot
in the city.
The national food press -- Gourmet, Food
& Wine, Esquire and Playboy.com --
heaped praise on several Cleveland spots
this year for best new restaurant, best
steakhouse, best farm-to-table programs
and great new neighborhood eateries.
During the last 10 years, Ruhlman says, he
has seen food offerings blossom from
retail to restaurants.
"Today I can pick up a few baguettes from
Adam Gidlow [On the Rise Bakery] that
are every bit as satisfying as the best
Parisian baguettes," he says. "I can swing
by Paul Minnillo's Baricelli Inn for some
raw-milk cheeses and then stop by Bob
Fishman's Grapevine, where Bob picks out
some incredible American wines for my
under-$20 budget. All five minutes from
my house. ... We couldn't eat better even
if we were in the Dordogne, [France.]
This shows the extraordinary product
available even to us schmoe s in
Cleveland.
"And, yes, more and more restaurants can
do ambitious food because people here
now demand it. ... What this means is that
someone like Dante Boccuzzi -- for five
years chef de cuisine at Aureole in
Manhattan -- is happy to move his family
back here because he can open a
restaurant and serve the kind of food he
did in New York."
Whoa. Is there something going on in that
city that I should know about? Had
Cleveland quietly become the epicenter of
the food scene?
I'd never been there. Never even
considered going ....
But suddenly it dawned on me that I
might be missing out on some fabulous
Cleveland-style chow.
So I called Ruhlman and asked if he'd take
me on an eating tour of his hometown.
The author had been traversing the
country on a book tour for his latest
work, "The Elements of Cooking," but I
caught him back home on the heels of a
holiday weekend.
We started the tour Friday with old-
fashioned cocktails in a luxurious
speakeasylike bar. And in the next 48
hours we would eat, drink, visit and shop
at Ruhlman's favorite restaurants, bars
and markets. In the process, I would learn
that Cleveland is not the culinary
backwater that arrogant Chicagoans may
assume, but an affordable town full of
joints we'd be lucky to have.
By the time I hit Cleveland for the grand
culinary tour, Ruhlman had the routine
down. Earlier in the year, his chef/writer
pal Anthony Bourdain had filmed a whole
episode of his Travel Channel show "No
Reservations" in Cleveland. Ruhlman
acted as his main guide, along with
Cleveland icon Harvey Pekar and chef
Symon. Etc etc etc

 

GQ Magazine

The 5 Best Beer Cities in America

#4 Cleveland
The Old-School Beertown
A hard-working frontier town built on
booze (one of its earliest businesses was a
distillery on downtown's Whiskey Island),
Cleveland has no truck with pretension.
Just want a damn beer? You got it: a nice
cold lager, clean, bright, balanced. But
this is Cleveland, so the beer is
Dortmunder Gold from Great Lakes
Brewing Co., the best of its kind this side
of the Rhine. In a city where you can
watch the symphony orchestra while
eating a burger at the Happy Dog bar, the
beer is top-notch but down to earth, a
welcome respite from snootier beer
meccas on the coasts. Market Garden's
brown ale is the country's best; the pedal-
in bar Nano Brew Cleveland will pour you
a bready amber ale while they tune your
bike; even Heinen's, the (proudly) family-
run grocery chain fills growlers.— W.B.

 

Too often the mention of Cleveland Ohio is
met with jokes and jeers. As we
residents know, however, the truth is far
different from the national perception.
Cleveland is a great place to live.

 

You realize it's only a beer capital because if they weren't drunk they'd be killing themselves due to depression?
And it's great for recent grads because it's so cheap to live there because nobody wants to be there.

Cleveland sucks.