The Amazing West Side of Cleveland

Cleveland continues to amaze us. We drove west on Lorain from the West Side Market and found a pocket of the Middle East. The markets were filled with olives and cheeses, spices and huge cans of olive oil. The owners were Palestinians, Lebanese and the clientele, some in chadors, were all speaking Arabic.

We bought home-made Pita bread and tabbouleh then went on to Lakewood to sample the Hungarian bakeries ‘cottage cheese squares’. Lakewood had a few hidden Victorian gems—Italianate style-side by side with Stick style and Tudors.
We ended the day at the Tremont Greek Festival at the Church of the Anunciation.
Food was the order of the day—gyros, schwarma, moussakka, pastitsio,baklava—from outside food tents to a huge auditorium lines with tables of food and pastries.