Table 45

First night in Cleveland wanted to hit up something good & gluten free which was close to our hotel (Intercontinental). Found this joint on Unilocal and took a shuttle from our hotel to this place which is located inside another Intercontinental hotel.
This restaurant and bar is decorated very cool, and has like a shoot a music video inside of here feel to it, none the less first impressions of a Cleveland restaurant were legit. Real sleek and elegant and good views, the bar is pretty large itself. The bartender however lacks basic drink mixing skills, 3 cocktails he made completely sucked.
Appetizer: Pork Wraps, these were pretty decent, tasty, and gluten free.
Appetizer 2: Lady got the naan bread appetizer and liked it. (not gluten free)
Main Course: Burgundy Braised Short Ribs (GF) which was pretty tasted and had a good beef stock juicy flavor to it, id order it again. The carrot side mixed with the sauce was nom nom.
Dessert: Crème Bru Le which was a little cold and not really a toasted top but none the less was tasty.
Service: Our lady was pretty decent for being a dead restaurant, however at check out took a few minutes to find her.
If your in the hotel’s around here and looking for a decent bite to eat with a slight tough of class this place will do it for you.

Avoid the Kitchen Burger! Grass fed beef and lamb with bacon sound pretty tasty but apparently what they do is grind up the bacon and make a burger out of it. This means it comes out with a very pink and raw look to it. It was really unappetizing. I tried to send it back for being undercooked but the waitress said it just looks pink because of all the bacon. It did not taste raw but it did taste like it was pure grease. Basically it just tasted disgusting.
We did come back another night and I had some yummy sushi but their rolls are extremely small so you would have to get 2 or 3 to make a meal out of it and that would be ridiculously expensive. I left hungry even though I had also ordered the seaweed salad (which was delish).
So, overall two strikes based on the food but the décor and service were ok.

Didn’t care for the food. My pallet isn’t refined enough. Food on the fancier side. Servers were very attentive to special needs and allergies. Ambiance was delightful.

First the good: The service was fantastic. We had 2 servers (not sure why for a party of 4), and they were great. The naan was delicious.
Now the not so good: I’m not typically a fan on Bruell restaurants (although I do love L’Albatros) and this is probably the worst of them. I remember coming here the year they opened and I didn’t like it then, and that hasn’t changed. They have a decent wine/​beer/​cocktail menu. I liked my beers, but the husband ordered a cocktail which was WAY too sweet. We started out with a couple of appetizers, the red curry mussels and the tandoori naan. As previously mentioned, the naan was great, but the dips (hummus, tapenade and a red pepper mayo (?)) were so tiny that each of us got 1 taste of each before they were gone. There should have been more of the dips for the price. The mussels were pretty bland and not great mussels. Thai red curry certainly shouldn’t be bland, but here we are. For entrees, I ordered a lo mein dish which was ok. My husband had sushi and he really hated it. He said the fish was fresh, but the rice was so vinegary that it overpowered the fish. One of my friends ordered the trout stuffed with crab and also thought it was bland. Can’t remember what the other party ordered. We shared a pecan pie for dessert. It was small but ok. The restaurant was also pretty slow for a Saturday night.
Overall, pretty boring, bland food for the price. I can’t envision myself returning.

Service was painfully slow at lunch with less than 30% occupied seats! Only game in the area (Cleveland clinic) no value/​food was good not great I wouldn’t buy into the hype

The service is generally good but the food is variable. For example, at my last visit, the kafta meatballs were good and my salad itself was tasty, but the grilled chicken on top was dry and unseasoned. Way overpriced for what I actually got.
Maybe Cleveland Clinic has gotten to them in their crusade to make food as bland and «healthy» as possible.

I’ve been to just about all of Bruell’s restaurants. I would have to unfortunately say I was least impressed with Table 45. I understand that it is located in a hotel, but there is no ambiance. The food was pretty good. I enjoyed the soy sauce for the sushi. I liked the salmon, however, it was a bit too salty.

The appetizers were the highlight of the experience. The Moroccan Kafta Meatballs made of lamb and beef were my favorite. They were very tiny and there were only four of them, but they were served in a chilled sauce and with a side of naan and tomato and olive salsa ($ 14.00). Great appetizer, but definitely not large enough for more than two people to share.
The other appetizer I had was The Table 45 Cleveland Pierogi. This was served with 2 perigees piled high with caramelized onions and set on a bed of sour cream. The dough of the perigees was interesting — thick dough. These definitely are not Polish pierogis, and the cheddar flavor was not really noticeable, but they were good.
I tried the Grilled Peach Salad. It contained goat cheese, pecans, and spiced balsamic vinegar. For $ 12 it was very small. There were three wedges of peach provided with the dish. The wedges were set off to the side and were not in edible sized pieces or incorporated into the salad in any way. I had to cut them up and ended up eating them separately. The dressing flavor was good, but the salad was badly mixed. The goat cheese was clumped off to the side and the large pecans off to another side. This was more of a deconstructed salad whether that was the intention or not.
I ordered the Deconstructed Puerto Rican Skirt Steak Burrito for my main. I love Table 45 for it’s «world» dishes; I usually find them so creative. This dish however, the flavor was not bad — but it did not wow me. There was no overwhelming spice or heat and my steak was cooked to the temperature I ordered it (medium well) but it was uncomfortably, oddly soft. The dish came with some pita so you could make your own burrito if you wanted to, but I chose to just eat the meal sans wrap. That’s the point of deconstructed anyways isn’t it? I suppose the steak pushed the price of this entrée up to $ 24, but really it seemed to me like a basic lunch entrée, not dinner.
Our server was blah. There was no energy or excitement or enthusiasm. The only time she really opened up to us was when she said she tasted the blueberry sorbet that came in that day and that she thought it was really good. Even as she said it was really good though she didn’t sound like she believed it. (And after I tasted it I didn’t believe it either).
You get bread with oil and balsamic vinegar to start the meal. In the past the server would pour oil into a small plate on the table. Now they put oil and vinegar bottles on the table and let you pour it yourself. I don’t mind this as it prevents wasting the oil and vinegar if you don’t really want it but touching the caps and getting all greasy fingered is not ideal so this process still needs to be reworked. It’s also pretty funny for people who used to come here all the time. The same oil plates they used when they poured it for you are still on the table when you are seated.
Valet parking now costs three dollars where previously it was free. There is no sign indicating this upon arrival — it is stamped on the ticket they give you and the valet doesn’t mention it.
I hadn’t been here for awhile because the kitchen messed up the last time I was here. After trying it again I think for now I’ll stick to this place for drinks and appetizers and enjoy mains at the other Zack Bruell places which have recently been much better.

I work at Cleveland Clinic and it’s amazing to have a place within main campus to literally walk over to right after work for a drink or a bite to eat with your coworkers. And, if it hadn’t been for the horrendous service we received when we went for happy hour last week, I would be just as excited to return! Not so much, anymore.
The reason for the 2 stars is that the food was still decent and the convenience to work or people visiting the clinic. For food, I ORDERED the tandoori naan shared plate and what I received was a dollop of hummus and naan. I figured I misunderstood what the description meant (but thought I was supposed to get two additional dips). After seeing my receipt, I realized our server had decided to order me the happy hour naan (just hummus). Don’t get me wrong, the hummus and naan were delicious, I just didn’t order it — and since I didn’t get what I ordered, I was still hungry — so got the truffle fries, which were also delicious. Other items ordered by people in our party included various sushi rolls, calamari, and the kafta meatballs. Everyone enjoyed their food.
Service was immensely lacking. It wasn’t busy by any means; the bar area was full of people there for happy hour, but that was it. The rest of the restaurant was empty. Our server, Chawki, was barely able to keep up with his job. We saw him once when he dropped off menus and we had to flag him down to take our orders. It was a long wait before we received our drinks and even longer before we received our food. One girl in our party arrived late and since he never came back to see how we were doing, we finally had to flag him down so she could order off of the happy hour menu; at which point, he kept saying she had one minute before the system locked happy hour out… thanks? that’s why we flagged you down. He never returned for second drink orders and when another coworker said something about that, he did bring a free glass of wine for her, but the service never improved. At the end, two of us remained and we didn’t see him for 10 – 15 mins after the last plate was picked up. We weren’t sure if everything else was on the house? But, we finally flagged down one of the other servers who said our server was on break, and he brought us our check.
We will drive somewhere off main campus for happy hour next time.

This place is classy with a wide variety of food choices. I came to Cleveland for a work conference and stayed at the InterContinental. The service and atmosphere at the restaurant was great.
My coworker and I ordered a dragon roll sushi and each got an Argentinian steak. The sushi was delicious and had just the right amount of avocado in it.
My steak was cooked to a medium and was quite tender. I will try getting it a medium rare to have a better taste of the juices and meatiness of the beef. They also included bone marrow with the dish which I didn’t particularly like because it was very fatty.
There was a corn dish on the side and it was sweet with a dash of healthiness.
We came back later the next night for drinks and watched the game on one of its TVs. The bar is pretty live at night, mostly from travellers and people visiting the area.
I would definitely recommend staying here and checking this resto out!

Eclectic menu takes you on a culinary world tour, but maybe it’s too eclectic for its own good? We searched in vain for really standout flavours.

I think the food here is overpriced and I’ve had some expensive sub par dishes. I’ve also had some excellent dishes. I wouldn’t recommend the stuffed tomato or the shellfish pasta. I really like coming here for happy hour drinks and snacks. The bartenders service is excellent and there’s a couple TVs.

I’m a fan of other Zack Bruell restaurants, but this one is a disappointment. The menu is just boring. The food is well executed but uninspired. The dining room is cold and institutional.
On the positive side, the sushi is amazing. Stop in for happy hour and it’s affordable, too. Unfortunately, they took it off the lunch menu.

Really disappointed… First time I disagree with the reviews from my Unilocalers…
Ambience: I thought it was actually very nice for a hotel restaurant. I sat by a window and the fall colors on the trees outside were beautiful!
Food: bland would be a compliment. I was craving sushi, and this place was at a walking distance, so I decided to give it a try. What a disappointment. The best part of the meal was the bread, had a slice of asiago bread and one of olive bread, both delicious.
Ordered edamame as an appetizer: overcooked, mushy and tasteless. Ordered salmon roll and scallops spicy roll, they served me the smallest, less filled with fish sushi I’ve ever had, and I’ve been to some bad places in my life…
Desert: chocolate cake, again bland, tasted like it was store bought and just warmed right before serving.
Really disappointed. I don’t mind paying a lot for food if it is tasty, fresh, looks good and is well prepared.
They got two stars because staff was great!

My family and I ate here while in Cleveland. Table 45 is highly esteemed.
On our visit in May 2014, we had the tandoori pork on polenta, salmon sashimi, salmon roll, ice berg wedge with mid-​rare flank steak, hamburger with kimchi slaw, bread basket with a bright green olive oil and a nicely aged balsamico.
The ingredients were all very fresh. The execution was excellent.
The restaurant was odd; we were seated waaay in the back, hidden from the entrance. Why? From the entrance, it looked abandoned.
It also smelled like it had been a smoky karaōke bar the night before.

Ugh. I wanted to like this place, especially since I luuurve L’Albatros and Parallax. This place was horribly disappointing. Service was meh and the ambiance is that of a typical hotel restaurant (read: boring). I’m all for east-​meets-​west fusion food but the execution here is clearly lacking. The seared tuna tataki was okay. The spiced chicken was dry and way overpriced. No one at my table of four seemed particularly impressed. Give this one a miss.

Let’s start this on a high note:
Complementary valet parking = balla’ when you live in a city that snows five months out of the year.
A table of 3,
My order: seaweed salad and the soup of the day (which was a vegetable/​meat some european origin name)
Both were really really good, I even recall telling our waiter to complement the chef for me.
My company: Seared Scallop dish w/​Red Pepper Sauce & other accompaniments that are now currently on the menu.
The Lamb Dish
Both were very pleased, and were of good portion size.
Yeah, the restaurant is located inside of a hotel. But, seriously, who cares? Open mind – people. They have to get their base clientele from somewhere… this is Cleveland, not Miami.
Down note:
Let’s just say the interior, is not so ‘easy on the eyes’. The décor and layout looks like an upscale dining room of an assisted senior living home…
And the front dining/​bar area is a tad better with a airport-​boarding area feel. I’d love to know who deemed this look as ‘modern’. 2.5 stars
Thankfully for Table 45 I base my return on food not décor, so my return is likely. I’ll just be that chick in the corner eating with her eyes closed.

I love Zack Bruell’s restaurants. L’Albatross, Cowell & Hubbard, and Chinato are among my favorites in town. That said, how I wish this place was as awesome as the others. Let me explain.
Don’t get me wrong, the quality of the ingredients and the food preparation are excellent. The servers are upbeat, attentive, and the service overall is just as good. The type of food here is «unclassifiable», so I put it in the «fusion» or eclectic category.
Of all Zack’s restaurants, this one seems to have the experimental role, a clinical trial if there was ever one for food — so is it fitting that it’s next to the Cleveland Clinic? Here’s a few examples: turkey burger with wasabi, strip steak with sweet red pepper sauce, calamari in a sauce that’s sort of like sweet tamarinds… get the point? My taste buds don’t. The «East» and «West» mixes they attempt are like oil and water. Order the «safe» dishes if eclectic is not your thing.
Yet I am here more often than any other restaurant because of, you guessed it, work meetings… Ironically, the last meeting was about how to get different people to work together. While of course, wishing how the different ingredients on my plate could work together.

This is probably one of my favorite Zach Bruell restaurants. Their lunch special of a soup, salad and small entrée is a hearty and tasty lunch.
Very good location for a business lunch. Impressive, great service and nice dining room,
Free valet parking is icing on the cake.

Atmosphere: I really think they missed on the «modern» feel. The bar area at least, resembles the boarding area of an airport. Maybe that’s the look they were going for. I didn’t like it at all and felt it gave a weird vibe. They did have another dining room which looked comfortable and cozy. We were sat in between the two in front of the sushi bar and kitchen area.
Is this place dressy or casual? I went thinking it was dressy — it seemed half the patrons were dressy and half were casual. The wine offerings also confused me. They had bottles on their wine list that you could purchase at Giant Eagle. They have expanded their offerings at GE, so maybe this is not as weird as it sounds? I don’ know.
We had a big group so I was lucky enough to try a few different things off the menu. Onto the food, AMAZING! Everything was great. We started out with the Naan which was accompanied by 3 delicious sauces: hummus, olive tapenade, and some sort of spicy mayo-​y sauce possibly. The naan was perfectly cooked and served warm. Of the three dipping sauces I preferred the spicy one and olive tapenade to the hummus. We have the Table 45 roll which was delicious. Followed by the Arugula Salad — with pine nuts!!! I love pine nuts so that was a great addition and the light citrus vinaigrette was a great balance to the bitter arugula.
Entrée wise: I ordered the short ribs. WOW! They were packed with flavor and fell apart like butter. I didn’t use a knife at all. The mixture of the squash and potatoes was pretty good. The short ribs were really really great and I’m salivating thinking about them. I also tried the duck. It was excellent — packed with flavor. Cooked to perfection. It was my dad’s entrée and he enjoyed it more than the duck he ordered from Lola last weekend.
Needless to say, food was delicious and we will definitely be back! If only their «look» matched the quality of the food …