Post #326133 by tikibars on Thu, Aug 16, 2007 4:58 PM

On 2007-08-16 12:41, TIKI DAVID wrote:
well? did you make it to Vhooda? Did you try the shrimp dish? What did you think of FLOWER CHILD? or have you been there before? Next time on the back yard.

Vhooda is a disaster, a joke.
The Mayan temple look in the main dining room was sorta cool, but I took one look at the very pricey menu (the food seemed TGIFridays quality from what the people around me were eating), the manager I said hello to was brain dead, and the (very sexy) bartenders told me that they discontinued the tropical drink menu in the (almost) tiki bar because it was too much trouble. I bailed out of there and ate in Lakewood at Melt, which was pretty good (not at all Tiki).

I checked out Flower Child (small antique mall), which is about 2 blocks from my old pad near the Cleveland-Lakewood border, and found it to be very cool. Wish it had been there 15 years ago when I lived over there...
Lots of Tiki stuff in there, but I am being extremely selective about what I buy these days, so I just got a little Maori mask carved for the New Zealand tourist trade.

Both of these places, and a lot more, will be in my next article for Tiki Magazine, which will cover the Midwest.