Monday, April 15, 2013
Beach Club Grill and Skye Restaurant won best cuisine and best presentation, respectively for the second consecutive year
The Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce has announced its winners from this year's Restaurant Showcase and it included several defending champions. Beach Club Grill and Skye Restaurant won best cuisine and best presentation, respectively for the second consecutive year. A panel of VIP judges from the community tasted the cuisine from each of the restaurants and carefully evaluated the presentation and display from each venue. As the night went on, they also decided to add another category highlighting desserts. Confectionary Cupboard won the award for best dessert. Jimmy’s Backyard BBQ and Lakeshore Eatery received honorable mentions for cuisine; Pickle Bill's was the honorable mention for presentation. About 25 area restaurants participated, …
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Check out some images from the city's tasty event, the Restaurant Showcase
The Mentor Restaurant Showcase returned Wednesday in a bigger and yummier fashion than last year's inaugural event. Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Kevin Malecek worked with the city to secure a bigger space, the Mentor Civic Ice Arena, because he anticipated more guests. That turned out to be a good plan, as he estimated that about 200 people showed up. "It's going as well as we expected," he said during the event. "There's no excuse to leave here hungry." About 25 area restaurants participated, including:
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Find out which restaurants have confirmed so far
It's almost time for Mentor residents to sample a couple dozen of the town's eateries in one fell swoop. Tickets are on sale for the annual Mentor Restaurant Showcase, which the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce will host from 6 to 8 p.m. April 10 at the Mentor Civic Ice Arena. Chamber President Kevin Malecek believes the organization will attract 25 restaurants to the event. Tickets cost $30, with a $5 discount code available on the chamber's Facebook page. VIP tickets, which include a reception and wine tasting event before the showcase are $40. "This is a tremendous way to showcase all the different dining establishments and options we have in Mentor," Malecek said. "When people come to this event, they get samples from all these …
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Fish announced a new restaurant and discussed entrepreneurship at a Mentor Area Chamber Commerce event
It's been nearly four months since Melt Bar & Grilled opened a Mentor location, but a trip there still reveals a packed house on most nights. That's clearly not a problem for owner Matt Fish, who opened his first location in Lakewood about seven years ago. "It's been a great experience out here — I know I don't have to tell you guys how fantastic your community is," Fish told the audience at the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon this week. "This is a community I was eyeballing for many years with our growth." The Chamber invited Fish to the luncheon to discuss restaurant entrepreneurship and how to make it a success. He shared the stage with Joe Longo, who announced that his family would open a new restaurant in Mentor later this …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Superintendent Matt Miller also highlighted several high points from the last year for Mentor Schools
Mentor Schools Superintendent Matt Miller did not talk about many new issues when he gave his State of the Schools address Tuesday to the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he used it as an opportunity to highlight the district's year. He noted that Mentor Schools received the grade "excellent with distinction" -- the highest possible ranking -- from the Ohio Department of Education. Mentor Public Schools students also exceeded the state standard for proficiency in all subjects at every grade level tested and exceeded the attendance and graduation rates required. The district also increased its performance index score for the fifth consecutive year, going to 104.5 from 103.8 last year However, Miller noted that the ODE will change …
Friday, November 30, 2012
New app allows people to search combined databases of all five chambers in Lake County, including Mentor Area Chamber
Do you want to support local businesses? Want an easy way to search for local businesses that will have what you are looking for? Well, the Lake County Chambers of Commerce have launched a smartphone app that allows you to do both. The app provides a database to the more than 2,000 businesses who are members of a Lake County Chamber, including the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce. The free app also gives people access to special offers and coupons for some businesses. The app is available for iPhone, Android and mobile web at http://www.lakecountychambers.com. The database includes all the businesses in the Mentor, Painesville, Western Area, Willoughby and Madison-Perry Chambers. To get listed in the database one need only join one of those…
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Mentor VetsNet gives veterans 10 percent off goods upon showing identification
As Veteran's Day approaches, the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce hopes to add businesses to its Mentor VetsNet discount program. The program features businesses who give a 10-percent discount to veterans, reserve, and active duty service members. More than 40 companies already participate in VetsNet. "Mentor VetsNet provides tangible recognition and gratitude for the service given by the men and women of our armed forces past and present," MACC President and CEO Kevin Malecek said in a statement. "It is a way to honor and support those who have given the their all to guarantee our freedom." A consumer must display his or her active duty or reserve identification or a membership card from the VFW, American Legion, AmVets or another veterans…
Friday, October 19, 2012
After more than a decade away from business, the Verdi family took over Fontina's this month
Randy and Gerri Verdi's purchase of Fontina's Imported Foods is just two weeks old, but they already have plenty of familiarity with their new business. Fontina's is located where the couple opened Great Harvest Bread in the '90s. The Verdis sold that business in 2001 to focus on family and Randy's career as a financial analyst. Many of the memories and familiar faces from Great Harvest came back to Randy as he opened Fontina's under new ownership this month. "It's surreal," he said. "We're excited to be back in the business community. We've grown up business-wise in the Mentor community, and it's great to have a business back in here." Randy, a previous chairman of the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce, says his family's newest venture is …
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Friday, October 5, 2012
A family from Illinois traveled to Mentor to tout the plasma therapy provider's work at its grand opening ceremony
One of Mentor's newest businesses doesn't need to tout its employees as heroes. BioLife Plasma Services has families from all over the country taking care of that. As part of the plasma therapy provider's grand opening ceremony this week, a family from the Peoria, Ill. area told a crowd of city officials and Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce members about the kind of company they should expect with the arrival of BioLife. "Some of the people in this room saved my children's lives," Dana Fladhammer told the crowd. The Fladhammer family has three children who were each born with immunodeficiency. Despite years of struggle — 120 sick visits to the doctor in less than a year at one point — Fladhammer says the children each began piecing their …
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The candidates for Ohio senate even disagree on if the state has a problem with partisan bickering
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Lake County chambers of commerce, including the Mentor Area Chamber, hosted a forum for the region's state and national legislative candidates last week at LaMalfa Centre. Both candidates for the Ohio Senate's 18th district seat -- incumbent John Eklund (R-Munson Township) and Democrat Jim Mueller, a Russell Township trustee -- attended the forum. Eklund and Mueller were both asked how they would overcome partisan bickering in Columbus. Eklund replied by saying that the current state legislature actually accomplished quite a bit without political brinksmanship getting in the way. Meanwhile, Mueller said that facts have a way of overcoming partisanship. For more from Mueller and Eklund at the chamber forum, watch:
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This was a fun and relaxing event, and you certainly get your moneys worth of food, plus two drink tickets/person! My husband and I shared a little bit of everything so we could try it all (taking a break in between to let our stomachs settle). We didn't realize this event was held last year: someone sitting with us informed us of that. We would have attended last year if we'd known about it. We …   more ›