Halloween 2014

Bars continue to open and close, great (and not so great) seasonal beers appear and fade away, and thus the blog must continue. Here is the Every Bar in Lakewood list of Lakewood Halloween parties. I’ll add more to the blog as they are submitted. 

We are celebrating Halloween all week at The Side Quest!

Each night is a different theme ending with a huge party on Friday Night to show off your best Costumes.  Drink & Food Specials all week.
Prizes for Best Costume Nightly!

Monday: Video Game Cosplay Theme Plus Mario Mondays console gaming with GDL Entertainment

Tuesday: Medieval Cosplay Theme Come in your best Game of Thrones, Middle Earth, or Renaissance Faire attire!

Wednesday: Freak Show Cosplay Theme Bar Against Humanity at 8:00pm American Horror Story Freak Show at 10:00pm

Thursday: Star Wars vs. Star Trek Cosplay Theme The ultimate geek showdown! Battle it out to see who wins! Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes starts at 8:00pm.

Friday: Halloween Party! All Cosplay Themes! Come in your Cosplay Best and party at the Geekiest Spot in Ohio!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1493166937621260/

Bevy in Birdtown 

Halloween Costume Party 8pm, Halloween 21 & over only Drink Specials, Spiked Cider and Prizes.
EVERYONE in costume will receive a raffle ticket to be entered in drawings to WIN:

Cleveland Browns Blankets
TWO Hall of Fame tickets &
GRAND PRIZE of 2 CLUB seats for Browns Game this year

Come join in on the fun!

https://www.facebook.com/events/294898094029429/ 

The Sloane Pub 

The kinder, gentler Halloween this year. We will have Pumpkin Pie pudding shots for $1.00.

Lakewood Village Tavern 

We are doing a party Friday and Saturday that weekend. Costume prizes both nights and captain Morgan and Malibu specials.

Harry Buffalo

The Flying Rib

We are partying Friday night with drink specials and a costume contest. Shannon and Vieda are creating some very interesting Halloween shots.

World of Beer

Corner pub 

Halloween party Friday October 31 9pm. $50 1st place costume, minimum 15 people dressed up. Drink specials under $3.50. DJ Dawn for karaoke and music requests

16-Bit Bar+Arcade

NO COVER | DOORS OPEN AT 4PM | SPECIALS ALL NIGHT | PRIZES/GIVEAWAYS | TREATS | CRAZINESS | AND WIN AN ARCADE CABINET!

Qualifying rounds held at 10pm, 10:30pm, 11pm & 11:30pm...
All qualifiers plus two wild cards will compete for an Arcade Cabinet of choice from the 16-Bit Warehouse at MIDNIGHT!!!

THAT'S RIGHT PEOPLE, WIN AN ARCADE CABINET OF CHOICE FROM THE 16-BIT WAREHOUSE!!!

Corky's

Our party is Nov. 1st starting at 10 with Scary-oke. Cash and prize for the scariest, sexiest, and most or Original Angry orchard, apple pie shot, and spooky shot $2 each.

Iggy's Bar



5 O'Clock Lounge

It's secret soul club its awesome! Best dance party, voted 1 in cleveland magazine!

Mahall's

We've got Womack Band and ANgela Perley & the Howlin Moons plus pumpkin carving, costume contest, halloween drinks & eats - Oct 31

The Stache 

Halloween Party! Sponsored by Angry Orchard and Fireball! Fireball girls, free giveaways, drink specials AND a Costume Contest!! Bob for shots, free candy! Costume Contest Winners will get... 1st Place $200 2nd Place $100 21+ ONLY Pre-registration starts NOW until 10pm 10/31 To register either stop in and sign up or email thestachecleveland@gmail.com with your name and costume!

https://www.facebook.com/events/581887185276662/ 

Around the Corner

Something's brewing and it's going to be a wicked good time... Calling all goblins, ghouls, and freaks alike, join us in Lakewood for a spooktacular night! Fly over on Friday, October 24th & park your broomsticks at Around The Corner.

Wear your costumes whether witches or ghosts, Daniella Dior will be your host! Be there by 10pm to meet your fate, wear your wildest costume and bring your tastiest date.

Our models are ready for this magical night, filled with mayhem and mischief and other such freights! Halloween Costume Fashion Show starts just before the witching hour at 11pm!

Spooky shout out to our sponsors Pinnacle Vodka, Sam Adams Octoberfest & Adult Mart! Thank you for helping make this night enchanting.

 Our treats will delight you, be there if you dare! Creepy Cocktail Specials: $3 Pinnacle Boo Bombs Scary Sam Adams Octoberfest Contact Jessie Nunn to setup VIP bottle service in the warehouse web. Mysterious MC Lu Cas will keep you on the edge of your coffin, with devilish dancing all night w bizarre beats by DJ Ace! Photo opportunities with our event photographer John Yuhas, from Sites4sight Multimedia.
We're so happy we could scream!
Why?
Because it's Halloween!!!

 https://www.facebook.com/events/856365871048883/

Bar #13 Bonnie and Clyde's Bar (Deceased)

One of the biggest hurdles that I have to watch out for while doing this blog is the raising of expectations. You hear these great things about a bar and the bar just gets better and better in your head. This week's bar is one such bar. I'd heard their food is great and have only heard about how wonderful the bar is. The question is does Bonny and Clyde's Bar do a bang up job or is this bar the unlucky #13?

Kelly and I arrive at Bonnie and Clyde's a couple minutes early and waste a couple minutes out front until Katie and Johnny arrive. Before they arrive we are met my new craziest old guy we've met at a bar. We're looking up the street seeing if we see them when suddenly there is a loud high pitched sound directly behind us. I spin around and am greeted with an old man with a giant gray/white beard on a bicycle. He was wearing a backpack with a single flower sticking out of it. He then motions to me if he can have a smoke. I say no, and he silent rides off up the sidewalk. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of my ninja, hobo friend.

Katie showed up next but Johnny wouldn't meet us for a while as he was thwarted by animals for the third time that day. The first was that he helped save a dog hit by a car that morning on his way to work (he didn't hit the dog.) The second was his car was attacked by a bird. This last time, a herd of 20 deer blocked off the exit from his parking lot.

The excitement never stops out front of Bonnie and Clyde's Bar as we approached and greeted by Bonnie, the owner. She was very friendly and excited to show us around her bar. She was one of a couple of bars that had invited us to come see them early on in the blog. She did not have a tommy gun.

They have two rooms with fun 20s style and they place was busy. The seating, even the bar seats, was quite comfortable, I've rarely found the seating worth mentioning and even rarer bringing up their comfort. There was paintings of Bonnie and Clyde's scenes throughout the second room. It also included some dart boards.

Bonnie then brought us back to a very nice hidden back patio. She took pride in it and it showed. We also heard a story about a woman that decided to move both above and next door the two bars at this location. She calls the police on a regular basis complaining about the noise. I'm not going to say that a bar patio is never noisy but Bonnie's is hardly one of Lakewood's rowdier bars and there's no speakers outside. But I would like to know why she moved into a location that was surrounded by bars?

 

My beer was a Lemon Berry Leinenkugel. I didn't hate it but I didn't like it either. It was a mixture of berry and lemons but really tasted fairly generic.

We put our orders in with our waitress with our hopes high after many accounts of how good the food was. I ordered the day's special, a ground beef quesadilla . A few minutes later, two more of our friends showed up, Beth and Yvette. They waitress immediately began to help them but disappeared when they said they were going to go look at the taps. They got their orders in within the next 10 or 15 minutes. 

 

Our conversations included exciting topics like: Everything tastes better with dog hair in it (no dog hair was found in or near food from Bonnie and Clyde's) and mechanical claw games that allow you to catch live lobsters.

A little while later they got their food. 15 minutes later I went to the bar to ask what had happened. The cook couldn't give any reason but our waitress was very apologetic.

Eventually, the food did come. My quesadilla was giant and good. Nothing that I would have complaints about as was everyone's food that came. It didn't quite live up to the expectations of the best food ever made but it never does.

Bonnie and Clyde's Bar is an overall solid bar with a good beer selection, food, and atmosphere. It's owned by a woman that really cares about her bar and making it a place to go. As a comparison to Bar #11, after I left Bonnie and Clyde's I was still happy and had good things to say about it. Basically, you gotta give Bar #13 a shot, you won't regret it.

Awesome: Atmosphere, Food

13603 Madison Ave.

216-228-0706

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bonnie-and-Clydes-Bar