Ambika Bridgemohan will forgo a four-year education to help her family operate a Caribbean restaurant to open on Mentor Avenue.
The Bridgemohan family had two choices regarding 18-year-old Ambika's future. "Either she goes to college and she's in $100,000 in debt after four years, or we take that money now and open a business for her and she can learn it from the ground up," her mother Deborah said. The family decided on the latter and, on July 7, they will open Maracas, a Caribbean-flavored restaurant to be located at 7597 Mentor Ave. Instead of enrolling at a four-year university, Ambika, who will soon graduate from Mentor High School, will be the restaurant's vice president. Allowing a daughter to forgo college in favor of a startup would be tough for many families, but Ambika believes her Trinidadian roots played a role in taking the calculated risk. "We're the…
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Owner won't say when, but Brown Derby will soon open in former site of Damon's Grill & Sports Bar
Residents and visitors should expect a taste of nostalgia when a new restaurant opens in Mentor. Restaurateur Parris Girves twice declined to reveal an opening date, but said he will soon open a Brown Derby location on Diamond Centre Drive. The restaurant will be housed at the former site of Damon’s Grill & Sports Bar, which closed last fall. Girves’ father, Gus, birthed the Brown Derby concept in 1941. Since then, the family chain branded many locations as Brown Derby Roadhouse. However, the Mentor eatery will open as a Girves Brown Derby, signaling a return to the white-tablecloth, modestly priced dining experience that popularized the restaurant throughout Northeast Ohio. “It’s somewhat nostalgic, in the sense that here’s something very…
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Elliot Ness
12:28 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
The owner did on another another blog site. A guy froze the page and has it on Clevelands Craigslist R&R. She was talking about whites being racist ruining the suburbs and said the only problem with obama is he is half white. I don;t think I can paste it on here. Try this http://cleveland.craigslist.org/rnr/3491151028.html more ›