Jimmy O'Neill's Tavern   

2195 Lee Rd
Cleveland, OH 44118
216-321-1116

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Jimmy O'Neill managed a neighboring restaurant for 17 years and when this restaurant space became available, he took over. It retains the former occupant's wine cellar look, but feels more like a pub. The affable O'Neill is usually on hand to make you feel at home. There's O'Neill's regular menu of sandwiches, including a great steak sandwich; salads, including a terrific portabello mushroom salad with an irresistible house balsamic dressing; and appetizers, including some of the best chicken wings around. And there are also about a dozen specials every day, some rotating, others once-in- a-lifetime creations. They always feature chicken, fish, steak, seafood, vegetarian choices and sometimes game. On one visit, specials included pecan-crusted chicken breast with a honey glaze, mashed potatoes and a vegetable medley; pasta topped with sauted portabello and crimini mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and goat cheese, accented with baby carrots and asparagus; duck confit with wild rice and vegetable medley; grilled fresh striped bass with basil-almond butter and wild rice; and fresh crabcakes with ginger, shallots, lime zest and white wine sauce. Soups have included turkey borscht and crimson lentil-chick pea. The most popular dessert is the beet cake, a rich chocolate take on the trick that home cooks have long known.