PREVIEW: Annual Wine Tasting @ Sokolowski’s University Inn
Wed 1/26 at 6PM
Most people in Northern Ohio know Sokolowski’s University Inn in Tremont as a great place to eat lunch or to go for pierogies and stuffed cabbage on a Friday or Saturday night. The old style cafeteria restaurant and tavern is one of the real gems of our city.
A lot of us don’t know that every so often they dress the Inn up and have a special event, with the next one being their Annual Wine Tasting on Wed 1/26. The night is being co hosted by Wente Vineyards of California and will feature as master of ceremonies the vineyard’s Midwest Sales Manager Paula Witkowski, who will give the background and history of each wine of the evening. For $60 patrons will get a five-course meal each featuring a glass of wine. I went to last year’s event and it was well worth it. The evening gets started at 6PM with a champagne greeting.
Besides the wine, the menu will include a blue cheese and bacon topped lettuce salad and homemade beef barley soup; will feature both tilapia topped with a shrimp and scallop cream sauce and short ribs with roasted root vegetables; and end with some of Sokolowski’s delicious homemade desserts.
For more information or to make reservations call 216.771.9236. You can also check out University Inn’s website at http://Sokolowskis.com.
Greg Cielec is a local writer who covers mostly music and sports for a variety of publications and websites. He is also a full time English and creative writing teacher at Streetsboro High School; an adjunct professor at BGSU Firelands College and Lakeland Community College; and a football coach at John Carroll University. He has published two books of fiction, My Cleveland Story (1998) and Home and Away Games (2006), and the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Michael Heaton has called him “the Mark Twain of Cleveland.” Check out his website and blog at http://www.GregCielec.com.