Northside Bar and Grille is located in one of the more economically and culturally resurgent corners of downtown Akron, next to what might be the city’s most iconic culinary institution, Luigi’s, and the best possible example that the once burned-out Rubber City is trending upward, the rock star-owned vegan restaurant Vegiterranean. Before vegan restaurants and multimillion-dollar condos, the Northside district was a couple of family businesses, a metal catfish statue and the vague suspicion that your car was going to get broken into. But people came. They didn’t have a choice, really...
There are lots of reasons to drink: Celebration. Commiseration. Experimentation. A basic understanding of world events. Self-awareness. You’re from Barberton. You’re awake. As Humphrey Bogart was fond of saying, “The problem with the world is that it’s always one drink behind.” It’s fitting then that on his deathbed he said, “I should never have switched from Scotch to martinis.” But when it comes down to it, reasons for drinking can be pretty much subdivided into two basic categories: You drink because you’re loving life or you drink because you’re not. Pat’s Ir...
