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...
