The Brothers Lounge — Restaurant in Cleveland

Today I arrived at the brothers lounge at 7:45 pm for the music they have every Wednesday and when I arrived there was a server who was on duty wearing a white hat and white shorts and another with a green shirt and black pants. Both ignored me. The server was wearing a green shirt and black pants with glasses 15 min after I arrived the server asked me if she could help me I said yes, can I have a cup of water with ice and lemon. She returned sat the cup down and quickly turned away I had to stop her and ask for the menu. After that she didn't stop to see if I was ready to place an order or anything and the one time she looked my way 30 min after I received water, customers that were already served that I arrived before stopped her and asked for something and she got it for them and completely went back to the bar not looking in my direction. At 8:48 pm I asked for a manager and a short guy, brown hair with glasses came out and asked what was wrong I told him I arrived at 7:45 pm got my water and was ignored the entire time and that the server didn't stop to see if I was ready to place an order. He said what do you want? What do you want me to do? I said I should be accommodated for free meal since I couldn't eat while enjoying the music. He asked did I try to get the server attention or stop her and I said No it's not that busy, and I shouldn't have to, she saw me arrive and knew I was there just like other customers. She finally looked in my direction and a customer stopped her for more drinks, She got their drinks then walked past me that quick and on her own I watched her refilled customer drinks without them asking so as a paying customer she could've came up to me the same way especially if she wants a tip. I told the short guy with brown hair and glasses I started watching the server to see if she'd make eye contact or look in my direction and she didn't. I watched her laughing while looking on the phone with customer talking. Then proceeded to wash cups refill drinks at the bar and didn't look in my direction at all. I come here every Monday for jazz and the server Stella was the same way. The short guy with brown hair and glasses was bartending on a Monday and I put in an order and when it was done he asked me to come get it instead of bringing it to me. He brought it to me after I followed him with a drink in my hand and said I couldn't because my hands were full then he bring food to my table. I've been coming here for yrs and the servers are either picking who they want to serve and keep up on or their customer service skills sucks. Now here's a situation where I did nothing wrong and can't come back to the bar because the guy threatened to call the cops on me because I overheard him talking to the server about the situation and I said your wrong and he threatened to call the cops on me. I'm a local I live down the street and if this is how the BROTHERS LOUNGE servers treat certain customers then somebody needs to look into them because what just happened to me was not fair at all. I'm still hungry, the bands are done and now I have to go somewhere else to get food. I wanted to dine in and enjoy the music at the same time what a...

Steve and I selected three of the new Vegan menu items at Brothers Lounge, the first being FRIED PLANTAINS.

We had no idea what to expect. I’ve never tasted a plantain, but heard they were denser than a banana with less of a banana flavor, more vegetable-like than fruit-like – more of a potato texture. Actually it was more of a cross between a potato and a banana, only denser with a more meaty chew than not.

Even while living in Hawaii and knowing Hawaiians and Samoans, I never tried one – it just didn’t appeal. Of course the cooked ones I saw in Hawaii didn’t look like these patties.

Deep fried they were – and the way they crisped up while remaining chewy was impressive. The chimichurri sauce that substituted for whatever animal-based sauce that came with them was perfect, especially when mixed with ketchup – delicious combination. I think I discovered something new. Who mixes chimichurri sauce with ketchup? The Animal-Free Chef, that’s who!

The new menu offered an array of small plates and Steve’s choice today was the TOFU CURRY over rice with a side of flour tortilla triangles. The tofu presented as a rough chop in a sweet curry sauce. I couldn’t tell you what was in it that created the subtle but complex flavor achievement, but my tastebuds said it was designed for a fine dine experienced palate.

Steve’s only complaint was there wasn’t enough of it – he wanted more. This coming from a guy who’s not a fan of curry!

My small plate that turned out to be a large plate was TOFU STEAK with grilled asparagus and fingerling potatoes. Again I substituted the animal-based sauce with the same chimichurri sauce, again mixed with ketchup. I don’t know in what ingredients that Chef Shannon marinated the tofu, but the result was in the exquisite category. Perfect textural chew, perfect flavor combinations, and a surprise juicy chew were all a delight to experience. The best food to savor in my view!

There are other vegan items on the new menu that sound worth the try.

Brothers Lounge has more vegan items than any other animal-based restaurant anywhere in the area. So far they’ve all been excellent.

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We went to go see band last night. Got there 2 hours early and figured we would eat then see the concert event. We were waiting outside for over 30 minutes (freezing) because the line forming for the event. Then to find out when they FINALLY opened the doors to the back room there were just a handful of tables and the bar seating which isnt big were already filled up and we would have to stand for over 2 hours before the event was to even start. We wouldn't be able to even eat because we had NO WHERE to even put it down. Very. Very, very poor planning on their part. They kept selling tickets at the door packing in more and more people. Most of the people coming to see this event were approx. 50+. We decided to go back out to the bar area and at least try and find a table (BTW are very few) and try there food. The bartender was basically attending to the locals. We went up to bar and found menus ourselves. Bartender finally came over to get our drink order. That took a while to just get a drink then we were waiting even longer to get someone to take our food order. Finally a different person took our food order. We waited over 1-1/2 hrs to even getting our food. The person delivering food was to busy taking pictures of the food sitting on the counter waiting to be delivered. Our food was luke warm and someones fish sandwich wad cold. The homemade chips were cold. When we asked the bartender for our tab she went back to the bar and waited on several people and then came back to our table again to see if we wanted anything and again we told her our tabs and again she went back and took care of serving people drinks. It took over 15-20 minutes to just get our bill. Only one good thing came out of the whole experience was we're able to get our money back from the concert event because there was no room inside the event area. We all said as a group, this is NOT a place to see any kind of event unless you are there 4 hours early standing in line waiting to get 1 of the few tables to sit at. I DO NOT RECOMNEND THIS...