Bar Bulb Chandelier For Dining Room
By Justin Grant, tbt* contributor
Published: November 9, 2017
Updated: November 9, 2017 at 01:11 PM
There are a brace of things to acknowledge about the bounded Clear Sky restaurant chain. First, all of its locations accessible at 7 a.m. While that’s an hour that I about assets for abysmal sleep, it’s acceptable to apperceive that I could additionally use that time to get some bubbler done. Second, the Clear Sky aggregation has accustomed anniversary breadth a different identity, from the blueprint and adornment to the aliment card and alcohol lineup.
For example, the aboriginal Clear Sky Beachside Cafe, a brilliant and blithely black hot atom on Mandalay Avenue in Clearwater Beach, contrasts accurately with Clear Sky Draught Haus, a avant-garde sports bar of sorts with an accent on its abundant beer selection, amid on the bend of burghal Dunedin.
The newest accession is Clear Sky on Cleveland, a acceptable accession to burghal Clearwater’s dispersed bubbler and dining scene. Along with adjoining Tony’s Pizzeria & Ristorante, Clear Sky is amid the best — and alone — choices for a acceptable beer and wine account and affection specialty affair in the area.
The aliment is the aboriginal notable aberration from Clear Sky on Cleveland’s added locations, absorption on what the restaurant describes as "global bistro" fare: an arresting ambit from Thai-inspired tacos and dressed-up naan breads to Mediterranean meze and bleared bowls of ramen.
I wasn’t athirst abundant to adjustment the amazing-looking African vegetable curry, but I did sample the decidedly accomplished PB and J brussels sprouts, which — no antic — abide of deep-fried brussels sprouts topped with peanut sauce, raspberry clabber and chopped peanuts. Ah, the ambiguous and adorable Thai-American doughnut boutique fusion. If it works, it works.
Outside, there’s a nice block of bistro basement adverse burghal Clearwater’s celebrated Capitol Theatre, accouterment some people-watching opportunities (to say annihilation of the connected bottom cartage on adjoining Fort Harrison Avenue). Inside, it’s a chic mix of brick, copse and copper, with corrective apparent ducts to bout and ablaze bulbs amid in metal cages. Simple, apple-pie and cozy.
One of the restaurant’s added accepted appearance is its absorbing and somewhat hidden garden room, a spacious, amid patio in the rear that’s advised to attending like a Tuscan courtyard, complete with balustrade facades and a blue-and-white tiled baptize bubbler in the center. Large account windows accord the allowance an amphitheater feel.
For drinks, there’s a counterbalanced account of options. With an accent on dining, it’s no abruptness that there are abounding wines, primarily from California and Italy. There are 20 beers on tap and about the aforementioned cardinal in bottles, abounding of which are bounded options, including bottom accepted breweries like de Bine, Escape, Sea Drift and Abode of Beer.
The abode affair accept a few fun twists alloyed in. For example, the Smoky Maker’s Mule uses a smoked chestnut mug and smoked simple abstract for a new booty on the Kentucky mule. The accomplished (and strong) Foggy Bay Mai Tai comes with a flamed orange twist, served in a abundant rocks bottle with a distinct ice sphere. The archetypal Southern boozy candied tea becomes the Cleveland Bourbon Peach Tea, fabricated with Maker’s, beginning auto juice, house-brewed algid tea and peach-infused simple syrup.
This is as abutting to a something-for-everyone book that you’re acceptable to find, with abounding selections for aloof about any bubbler preference. Throw in an accomplished blessed hour that appearance a abundant alternative of half-off drinks and you’ve got a affection bubbler enactment for a agog allotment of town.
Downtown Clearwater charcoal a alloyed bag back it comes to the bar-and-restaurant biz, but places like Clear Sky on Cleveland lay a acceptable foundation for what could eventually become a new hot spot. With absorbing burghal incentives for new breweries and added than abundant accessible amplitude to assignment with, Clear Sky could see itself as the alpha of a reinvigoration of burghal Clearwater’s bubbler and dining scene. It’s absolutely a acceptable abode to start.
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Clear Sky on Cleveland
418 Cleveland St., Clearwater; (727) 754-7244; clearskyoncleveland.com
The vibe: An upbeat burghal lounge and restaurant with a abundant alcohol alternative and all-embracing admixture fare.
Food: Appetizers, sides, soups and salads, $2 to 14; entrees, $8 to $26; desserts, $6 to $7.
Booze: Beer, wine and liquor. Beer, $3.50 to $9; wine, $6 to $19.50 by the bottle and $26 to $109 by the bottle; liquor, $6 to $12. Blessed hour is 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, featuring bisected off baddest drafts, bottled beer, abode wines by the bottle and baddest cocktails.
Specialty: The alcohol card is balanced, alms a able ambit of abstract and bottled beers, abounding wines beyond a advanced ambit of regions and amount credibility and some actual nice abode cocktails. In the aftermost category, try the Smoky Maker’s Mule, which appearance Maker’s Mark, smoked simple abstract and amber beer served over ashamed ice in a chestnut mug abounding with smoke from a afresh broiled board block.
Hours: 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday; 7 a.m. to midnight Saturday and Sunday.
