By Joe Crea, The Plain Dealer April 19, 2010 CLEVELAND, Ohio — In Zack Bruell’s world, the restaurant is a stage. The dining room is a theatrical set. Lighting, sound, colors all create the mood. Cooks are lead characters, working from a script called the menu. Servers play featured roles. The customers are the stars. [...]
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Among the big names of Cleveland restaurants, Zack Bruell is the most acclaimed chef you don’t know
April 18, 2010 – 7:07 am
Zack Bruell’s Chinato translates Italian very nicely: Restaurant Review
April 1, 2010 – 3:28 pm
By Debbi Snook, The Plain Dealer “Dreaming of Florence, Italy? Step into Chinato on East Fourth Street in Cleveland where one panoramic wall provides the passport. A cityscape mural — sprawling, vintage view with river, bridges and domed churches — glows with so much yummy, golden-hour light you might want to hold onto something to [...]
Bruell Inventions
March 24, 2010 – 10:35 am
Cleveland’s most adaptable chef does it again, this time with Italian at Chinato by Douglas Trattner “Here, Bruell takes on Italian, refining and redefining the classics in contemporary fashion. And — surprise, surprise — he nails it. I’ve sampled four of the dozen or so pastas, and I’d order every one of them again. Each [...]