Rocking the weekends in NEOhio

Just imagine it: gourmet pizza on the table, craft beer in your hand and great live music in the air. Do they make a better way to enjoy a Saturday night in November?

We think not.

Beach Club Bistro serves up live music and terrific culinary experiences with our Saturday Night Shows each week from 8-11 p.m. This month's line-up features:

Nov. 6: Carlos Alberto Calabrese
Nov. 13: Tom Todd
Nov. 20: Carlos Alberto Calabrese
Nov. 27: Jeff Soukup

Buenos Aires-born guitarist Carlos Alberto Calabrese is a staple of the Beach Club Bistro's Saturday Night Shows. He's a master of all musical styles, but celebrates his Argentine heritage with beautiful Spanish guitar performances. He's toured extensively around the country and puts his special flavor on a range of tunes from cultural classics to rock classics. Listen to some of his music.

Tom Todd is the amazing one-man band. His playlists run the gamut — from Jethro Tull to Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Buffett to the Beatles — amidst an entertaining, inspiring show that often involves up to nine different music instruments. Get more info on Tom Todd.

The Jeff Soukup Band plays the Grill Nov. 20.
Soukup plays solo at the Bistro Nov. 27.

Cleveland musician Jeff Soukup is a veteran of the local music scene, playing shows with 1970s rock bands Sweet Evil and Foul Play, as well as folk act Bait and Switch in the 1980s and East Side Rockers in the 1990s. He's also co-written songs for Anne Cochran's debut album. Soukup loves rocking the Bistro (and the Grill) for Saturday Night Shows. Check him out on Reverbnation.

Fridays and Saturdays at the Grill
A little farther east, Beach Club Grill rocks the Concord night with live music on Fridays and Saturdays from 8-11 p.m.

The November schedule includes:

Nov. 5: Joey Vanilli
Nov. 6: Turnaround
*Nov. 11: Special Thursday Show with Mary Taylor Brooks and Friends
Nov. 12: Turnaround
Nov. 13: Bongo Joe and Little Steve O
Nov. 19: Steve Jochum
Nov. 20: Jeff Soukup Band
Nov. 26: Tom Todd
Nov. 27: Mary Taylor Brooks Band

Weekend concert series at both the Bistro and the Grill offer a wide range of music and an close-up look to some of the local music scenes most entertaining acts. Learn more about the musicians on their Web sites or drop by the Bistro and the Grill every weekend this month to see them all.

Thank you for being a fan.

Beach Club Bistro and Beach Club Grill announced this week fan-appreciation deals for the first week of November.

It's a healthy nod of pizza pies for patrons in the social sphere.

On Tuesday, Nov. 2, both the bistro and the grill celebrate Facebook fans with Free Pizza Tuesday. The first 50 fans who RSVP'd to the events on Facebook receive free pizza (with beverage purchase). Guests will be given vouchers to print out and bring to the restaurants.

Not yet a Facebook fan? Join us on the Beach Club Bistro and the Beach Club Grill pages.

It's not just about free pizza days on Facebook: fans can keep up with the restaurants' latest news, learn about new menu items and deals, see the weekend specials and share their feedback and favorites from their restaurant experiences.

We like having an open conversation with our patrons. So, pleas fan our page and let us know what you think. About everything!

Twitter fans get a special day too: on Wednesday, Nov. 3, we're celebrating our followers on Twitter. To "RSVP" to this event, we're asking followers to tag Beach Club Bistro in their Twitter status with their favorite pizza name.

For instance, you might write:

My favorite @BeachClubBistro pizza is the Coronado pizza.

To tag BCB: Use the @ symbol with our Twitter name, BeachClubBistro (no spaces), as shown above. Need to decide your favorite pizza? Check out our menus.

While it's obviously a great way to share with your friends your love of Beach Club pizza, the tagging mechanism also enables us to keep track of who has tweeted and be able to get them vouchers for the event.

Join us: follow us on Twitter and name your favorite pizza.

Warm up your weekend with cozy specials

Dick Goddard calls for yet another pleasant and mild weekend in Cleveland. We're getting warm breezes off the lake in Euclid at the bistro, and sunny skies lay ahead for the grill in Concord.


It's the second to last weekend to enjoy outdoor dining on the Beach Club Bistro patio (seriously: we're still loving it outside in late October!). We're open for lunch—and football— on Saturday and Sunday, as well as our typical dinner times.

So, stop by and have a pizza, a craft beer or one of these weekend specials on the bistro patio:

House-made chili
Sauteed shrimp in lobster cream over pappardelle
Homemade pot roast dinner

Also this weekend: we welcome Carlos Alberto Calabrese for the Oct. 23 Saturday Night show at the bistro.

See a clip of Carlos below and catch him live on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Al fresco isn't just for summer

Fall officially fell a few weeks ago in Northeast Ohio. Lucky for us, autumn is one of the best times of the year. Particularly for the Cleveland's east shore.

A block from the coast of Lake Erie, the Beach Club Bistro makes for a perfect spot to enjoy warm breezes off the lake, sunset skies and our region's beautiful fall season. In fact, the patio at the bistro is open until Nov. 1.

Two patrons enjoy a sunny October lunch next to the tranquil patio greenery and fountain.

Imagine that: al fresco dining less than a month out from Thanksgiving. In Cleveland!

Our secluded and landscaped patio extends off the back of the restaurant. It's open air, but covered all year round. So, you can enjoy your meal (or late-night drinks) rain or shine.

And as the temps drop below sweater weather, you won't need mittens to go al fresco.

The patio is warmed by heaters that will make this outdoor dining experience like a night in San Francisco. (Except you can't find pizza like this anywhere near the Golden Gate Bridge.)

Now, which pizza goes best with a pleasant evening on the patio?

Clambake at the Grill Oct. 17

The first annual clambake at the Beach Club Bistro was Oct. 3 was a hit!

In fact, our tasty reputation preceded us: the event was a featured clambake on Unmiserable Cleveland.

But you haven't missed your shot at one of Northeast Ohio's best clambakes yet. We're taking the bake to Concord on Oct. 17.

Get one dozen clams, half a roasted chicken, homemade chowder, corn and roasted potatoes for $19.95. Want more clams? It's $9 per dozen.

Call the Beach Club Grill at 440-350-0088 to save your bake. They're going fast!

Downtown Euclid rocks Saturday nights in October

If you're walking in downtown Euclid on Saturday night and you hear something rocking, follow the beat to the corner of Lakeshore Boulevard and East 220th Street.

The Beach Club Bistro is making a name for itself — and not just for our pizzas! Week after week, we're bringing musical acts to the bistro stage for our Saturday night shows.

Mark your calendar for these October Saturday shows:

SAT. 10/2 Dan Ecker
SAT. 10/9 Jeff Soukup
SAT. 10/16* Sweetest Day show with Tom Todd
SAT. 10/23 Carlos Alberto Calabrese
SAT. 10/30 Dan Ecker

Watch a preview of tunes by Carlos Alberto Calabrese, who plays a Saturday show at the bistro on Oct. 23:

Weekend entertainment at the Grill

The Beach Club Grill is fast becoming the weekend hotspot in Concord, Ohio, for live entertainment.

Each week, we welcome live music on Fridays and on Saturdays from 8-11 p.m. Don't miss these October acts:

Mary Taylor Brooks Band on 10/30

FRI. 10/1 Dan Ecker
SAT. 10/2 Carlos Alberto Calabrese

FRI. 10/8 Joey Vanilli
SAT. 10/9 Steve Jochum

FRI. 10/15 Turnaround
SAT. 10/16* Sweetest Day with Rick and Sharona

FRI. 10/22 Tom Todd

FRI. 10/29 Jeff Soukup Band
SAT. 10/30 Mary Taylor Brooks Band

CANCELLED: Octobeerfest (Oct. 18)

PLEASE NOTE: OCTOBEERFEST HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Last year, Cleveland started a grand new tradition: Cleveland Beer Week. It's a celebration of craft brews with countless tastings, pairings, dinners and other activities at venues all around Northeast Ohio — including Beach Club Bistro.

This year the bistro celebrates beer week with Octobeerfest on Monday, Oct. 18 from 5-8 p.m. Mark your calendar!

Festivities feature an Oktoberfest-themed buffet: think pork schnitzel, spaetzel, potato pancakes, homemade German-style potato salad, cheese pierogies with sauteed, buttered onions, and sauerkraut with German sausages marinated with beer and served with homemade bourbon whole-grain mustard.

(What's the word for delicious in German?)

The night also includes 36 (count 'em thirty-six!) beers to sample and seven visiting craft or import brewery reps to chat up about beer.

A beer week celebration wouldn't be complete, however, without visiting all-stars. Octobeerfest welcomes Rogue Ales president Jim Cline to the bistro as guest of honor.

Participating breweries include Rogue, Merchant du Vin, 21st Amendment, Duvel, Smutty Nose, Sam Smith, Victory, Thirsty Dog and Ommegang.

Tickets are $55 and include the köstlich Oktoberfest-themed buffet, 36 beers to sample, a souvenir sampler glass and a Beach Club Bistro growler to take home.

So long to summer

Fall officially begins on Wednesday. In preparation, the Beach Club Bistro has a deliciously entertaining last weekend of summer planned.

First: the specials.

Cozy up to a cool evening on the patio with two hearty specials. The bistro serves up piping hot shells stuffed with ricotta cheese, mushrooms and spinach baked in marinara sauce this weekend. We're also featuring a fish and chips special with battered cod, house-cut fries and Dogfish Head 90-Minute beer.

Have dinner on Friday night to the tune of Phil'n The Blanks, playing classic rock the way it was never intended (in a good way). Watch this preview of the band and then catch the live show at 8 p.m.

Beach Club Football returns this weekend for Ohio State vs. Ohio University on Saturday at noon. The Browns kick off their home opener at 1 p.m. on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs. Enjoy gametime specials on Saturday and Sunday, including half-price pizzas, $2 domestic and $2 off craft beers.

Even if you don't do football, you can savor these specials.

Be sure to mark your calendars for Oct. 18: Oktobeerfest features tasty foods, 36 beers to sample, plenty of beer reps to meet and Rogue Brewery's Jim Cline. More details to come.

What is mole sauce?

Ever since the Coronado Club pizza debuted on the Beach Club menu earlier this year, it's raised plenty of eyebrows.

It features authentic mole sauce, roasted chicken, poblano peppers, onions, chihuahua cheese and fresh cilantro, and is as good as it sounds.


The name, which means "crowned" in Spanish, comes from Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the 16th-century Spanish conquistador, whose expeditions across what's now the southern United States sought to conquer the mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

Well, Francisco never found his cities, but anyone who orders this pizza totally strikes gold.

The question we often hear, however: what's mole sauce?

Good news is it has nothing to do with a small, furry animals. Even better news is it's delicious.

Most regions of Mexico have their own versions of mole—a thick dark-brown or reddish sauce that typically starts with roasted and then ground peppers, like poblano, ancho, pasilla and chipotle. Mole poblano, featured on the Coronado pizza, is Mexico's premiere mole sauce.

Named for the state of Puebla in south-central Mexico, mole poblano is a nutty and robust spicy sauce that contains up to 20 different ingredients. Chief among them: chili peppers and chocolate. But don't expect a sweet chocolate fudge over your pizza. The light cocoa in mole works to tame the heat of the chili peppers and enhance their flavor.

Legend has it that mole poblano was made by 17th-century nuns in Puebla to braise turkey for a banquet in honor of a Mexican archbishop. We've found mole poblano works wonders with roasted chicken and gets just a little more kick with extra poblano peppers on top.

Pair the Coronado with a spicy rye stout, maybe even a hard cider. If you're really into the cocoa, try something roasted and almost chocolatey, like BBC Bourbon Barrel Stout (or tell us what you think tastes best!). Whatever the pair, the Coronado Club pizza is sure to raise your eyebrows with delight.

Are you ready for some football?

NFL may have begun tonight, but football season at Beach Club kicks off this Saturday.

Watch Ohio State take on UMiami on Saturday, Sept. 11 at 3:40 p.m. Both Beach Club Bistro and Beach Club Grill are celebrating the season with gametime specials.

Get half off pizzas, $2 domestic beers and $2 off craft drafts during the game. We have several screens at each location, waiting for you to enjoy some gridiron action.


Beach Club Football gives "pizza and beer" a refreshing (and delicious) new spin.

But football fantastic doesn't stop on Saturday: join us to kick off the Cleveland Browns season with a 1 p.m. game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Half-off pizzas and beers specials run all game long (there's a good reason for overtime, eh?).

Not into the game? No sense in not "going out" for the game. Grab your crew and enjoy our football specials and full menu in the dining room. We'll tell you the score before you leave—you know, in case someone asks.

See you Saturday... and Sunday!

What's your favorite Beach Club pizza?

The hardest thing about Mondays: Beach Club is closed, and you have to wait until Tuesday to sink your teeth into some serious pieces of deliciousness.

On the upside, it gives you time to consider your options.



Looking for meat? Utopia Club’s pepperoni, sausage and bacon over red sauce hit the spot. Feeling sassy? Have a little Caribbean salsa with your Noble Beach. Want to try something new? Specialties like Grand River, Concord and Coronado Clubs offer a range of new flavors—from truffle-infused red sauce or garlicky clams to spicy mole and Chihuahua cheese—that might make Wednesday a pizza night as well.

But with more than a dozen specialty pizzas at Beach Club Bistro and Beach Club Grille, it’s hard to pick which combination is best.

What’s your favorite? Share your preferred pies below—whether they’re established clubs or your own creations, we want to know your top tastes.