They have crab races at night sometimes so that's different. At night it's a riot, a younger crowd than nearby bars. I have to be in the mood to go here.
I also went for Sunday brunch and had the eggs benedict which was pretty good. What was really great though was the service. The waitress kept all our waters and coffees full at all times and was always there when needed.
This place would not be my pick for night life, with the Abercrombie & Bud Light crowd, but I am here to write about the brunch. It's pretty decent, definitely better than what you'll expect from a sports bar. I did well with the South of the Border frittata. My wife loves the coconut pancakes with berry compote. Most meals get sausage, bacon a big hunk of toast and a fruit cup appetizer. Portions are huge, expect leftovers.The coffee is average. Â It isn't Pier W but it sure beats a Denny's.
Review Source:Went to Around the Corner for a co-workers record release last weekend. Â Actually, another co-worker was opening so I would rate the entertainment as a 5 star event :). We were in one of the side rooms where is was extremely cold and open. Â Drinks were reasonably priced and the service was decent. Â Nothing to write home about...solid 2.
Review Source:What a cool bar!
This bar is so big and has lots of different areas. If you want to hang with friends, it's perfect. If you want to dance, just go to the back and you can! Â I love the variety of it. Â For that reason alone, I will go back. Â Decent beer selection and I have not eaten there but it's great for big groups to just go hang out in the evenings. Very cool place.
I frequented this bar -a lot- in my early twenties on the weekends. Â Now I'm back on Saturdays, only during the day, for what I consider one of the best game-day specials around. Â For OSU and Browns games, the special is $20 for all-you-can-drink draft beer (Miller Lite/Coors/Bud Lite) AND a dozen wings. Â That's a heck of a deal; I don't know why they don't advertise it more!
Review Source:I have been to ATC mutiple times now, but this was the first time I had ever ordered food. I would say the food is pretty average bar food. I ordered a burger and fries and my boyfriend ordered the chicken quesadilla. The services was great even though it was really busy. We never had an issue getting more drinks from our waitress. I do wish she would have told us the drink specials before we ordered because we would have gotten the special and saved around $10.
Late night at ATC is always fun. They have multiple rooms so there is something for everyone. I always enjoy the live band they have inside. A good cover band is make or break, and they always have entertaining bands! It can get extremely busy, so I have to be in the mood to be around a lot of people. All around ATC is a great place to go hang out with friends, grab some drinks, and listen to live music!
I've been here twice now and I've had a good time.  The bar is fun, but the food isn't that great.  The outside patio wreaks of fried foods--I think the fryers vent out in that direction.  The moment I walked outside, I felt like I walked into one of those tiny Chinese take-out joints that  smells like nothing but deep fried egg rolls.  The smell was a bit overwhelming for something that's outside.  Inside didn't have the same odor problem.  There's not a massive selection of microbrews, but the bartenders were friendly and quick.  The bar was fully stocked and everyone seemed nice.  I don't think I would go here for dinner, but I would hop over for drinks with friends and maybe some wings.
Review Source:Don't go back for old time's sake. Food and service not the same. Â Slow. Â Slow. Â Slow. Â And the order was wrong. Â Waitress felt bad and said one of my beers was on house but I noticed it was still on the bill. Saw the owner, Mickey, on way to my car and told him what happened. He said "yeah, new menu." Funny because the menu had the same cartoon hamburgers it had in the mid 90s, and the same Lakewood bar food. He Offered a lame excuse, never apologized. This was our second unsuccesful attempt to happily revisit an old favorite - never going back. The same guy owns Georgetown Corners (former Three Birds spot) so expect the same great patio ruined by lousy food and lousy service there.
Review Source:Guys, it is what it is, a fun bar with one of the best patios in Cleveland, and their food specials make it a great value. Â By the way, every time I have been there the staff has been great, always friendly and accommodating, even when my son is running around the patio like a mad man. Â Great neighborhood bar!
Review Source:Young people tend to fear the proper suburbia. It's this mysterious place where rockers and pot-smokers and boozers and artists all settle down and never, ever leave its confines. It's an island, cut off from the mainland by PTA meetings and lawncare.
Walking into Around the Corner is like walking into that nightmarish landscape. Not too far from the rest of the world, it sits in the dark, serving the same patrons day in and day out. The beer selection is your standard fare--once you've left behind expectations of microbrews and specialties. White haired grandmothers sit beside budding young mothers, the servers look like they need to escape a few towns over. It's only a permissible place to drink and eat if you have no other options, like so many of the sad suburbanites.
I hear this is the kind of place you go to have a random-ass, good time. Well, that's true, with their huge patio--but I don't think I'll be coming back for food.
The man and I stopped here for a quick bite before our thrift/vintage shopping spree... you know, to fuel up! The server was nice, but totally overwhelmed with just three tables to serve. Beyond that, the service was painfully slow.
When we finally got our food, it was really subpar. My partner's hamburger was a square-shaped, grey patty. My fajitas were burnt to a crisp and had a funny taste, although the chicken was nicely cooked. It was just... not good. In fact, the man next to us must have been new to this place and shouted, "It feels like I'm eating inside of someone's old boat shoe." I don't think it was that bad, but he seemed to think so..
I will say that I hear their wings are pretty good, so maybe if I ever eat here again, I'll stick to those. I saw two men at the end of the bar enjoying them and I didn't hear a peep out of 'em!
I can see the allure of Around The Corner for great, late night (and cheap) drinks on their patio. I've been here in the summer and the most silly, unexpected and fun things seem to happen out there! It really is a hoot to see, so don't focus on the food. I mean, it's just pub-grub anyways.
P.S. The bathrooms seem to have been redone recently and aren't nearly as bad as I'm guessing they used to be based on what I read.
I've been to ATC many times and I have to say it's one of my go-to favorite bars in Lakewood. I like the fact that there's three rooms and each one is a different atmosphere. If you go in the main room there's usually a live band, booth seating and a long bar. Keep walking through and you'll get to the outside bar. In the summer this part is hoppin'. In the winter it's just a bunch of people smoking in an "outside" area (it's tarped off).. which I'm not a huge fan of because it stinks. In the summer the outside bar is my favorite though. Next to the outside bar is the second inside bar, this one usually has a DJ, and a big dance floor. There's always people dancing like idiots in there (cough cough me cough cough) and it's a fun time. I like to get drunk in the outside bar then go dance crazy in the second inside bar. Plus the bathrooms are in there so it's better.
The bathrooms are really annoying, only two stalls for all those people! Whoever designed that should probably be shot. Besides that, this place is great. Cheap drinks, good crowd (some douche bags but much better than going to downtown Cleveland West 6th let me tell you!)... There's usually a lot of cute guys here too.
Overall, this place is really fun, I've definitely had plenty of good nights here and forgotten to close my tab out quite a few times and had to do the walk of shame in the morning. Don't worry they don't judge you too much :)
Came for brunch on New Year's Day. Â The place was surprisingly dead. Â The service was good, and my food was good. Â A few people at the table got the stuffed french toast, and they all said they wished it didn't have the marzipan in it. Â Seemed like a good deal for the amount of food. Â Bathroom was dirty.
Review Source:I've been here a few times, but never made it to the outside patio. Â What is it out there? It's a whole different world out there with live music & silly dancing!
I mean, do we really have to convince you that this place is a riot? There is hermit crab racing ... yes - I said it. Â You can place a bet on a hermit crab and cheer it on as it crawls it's way to the outside of the circle. Â I felt sad for the crab, but also excited by the process. Â It was confusing.
Great for late night fun!
Popular bar with the 'main stream I don't care if everything sucks' college aged kid types. The space is great (large patio, some interesting architecture) and there's a big crowd on the weekends. Wish the music didn't suck so bad (even if it's tailored toward the mainstream type). Party Rock anthem remixes in the "dance" room is rural bowling alley music status.
Review Source:Your typical Lakewood bar (read: not very good). I ordered artichoke dip. The tortilla chips that came with it were stale but the dip was ok. I should've requested something else but I was too hungry. The drinks are overpriced - I was charged $9 for two well drinks which I thought was way too much for this kind of bar. Douche-y clientele and bartenders.
Review Source:Went here on a Saturday night with a few of my friends. The place has an outdoor patio with a bar and a live band! It was packed ...filled with college kids and cheap drinks. Your average crowd of 20 somethings and a few oldies in there. The music changes every time you move to a different room and table booths were available to sit. The lights are dim inside the bar but once you go outside towards the patio, there are xmas lights decorated around the place. Outdoor seating is available as well but because it rained that night, everyone sort of huddled around the tented area. The only other active thing going on that night were the crab races. You get $, a shot, and a beer if you guess which crab wins the race.
It would be nice to have a pool table or darts so people can actually have something to do then sit around and watch other people. Other than that, the ladies restroom were absolutely disgusting. No toilet paper or paper towels...just horrible. I'd only come again for the cheap drinks but there are other places I can find for that.
I have been going to ATC for years! It has taken a nose dive. The food is no longer good. The wait staff are ok. Â There is one waitress with VERY long hair and SHE PLAYS WITH IT CONSTANTLY!! Â I can imagine hair ending up in the food. Where is the management team?
I will go back because I love the outside seating. However, I hope the beer stays cold and the long dark haired waitress stops touching her hair!!
Toto we're not in Ohio anymore.
If you don't want to read on, take this from my review: Great for happy hour, with an outdoor seating oasis, crowded past 9 pm, and diverse crowds ranging from 50 somethings, young couples with babies, or nearly 30 singletons before 9, food is edible when you're famished, great/friendly service.
I've been here before when it's packed with wall-to-wall people. Â Hermit crab races were in full swing, a live band was covering some great 'oldies' (I can't believe I can say that now), and the same old guys that think they can get away with grabbing you without you knowing which skeeze done did it. Â It's like finding your way through the poppies. Â If you're not too drunk, make your way outside for some fresh air and relief from the gallons of Armani that infiltrates these confined places.
Only this time it was raining, Friday, 6:30 pm, and a different generation surrounded the bar. Â Oh yes, the 40 and overs. Â Not to mention the 30 something brief casers (as I call them). Â I don't why I have such angst towards business men. Â Partially because in my experience they're the ones checking out other women while their robotic blonde wives share stories of trying to getting pregnant and taking pottery classes in their "downtime", all the while sitting right next to them. Â The same guys who eyeball you to death from across the bar in their lousy attempt to make uncomfortable eye contact with you even though you have a ring on your left finger. Â The same exact guys in the office who are so unhappy with their lives that they speak ill about their better half, and attempt to have office romances with their co-workers. Â To me they're all the same. Â Needless to say, I don't like the crowd. Â Present company excluded.
I digress. Â Despite the rain we sat outside in the back on the patio. Â It was too nice not to. Â We found a dry seat under the tent near the bar and a screaming child. Â What was more entertaining were the looks my friend was getting from the mom when my friend's phone would go off. Â Yet, the screaming child didn't even phase mommy dearest. Â After 4 drinks each, a plethora of people watching, and several eyerolls later, I had only spent $12.50. Â Not too shabby.
We left and came back to get some food. Â For bar food it wasn't inedible. Â They were out of lettuce wraps (rats!), so the bartender recommended the chicken quesadillas. Â Had they not been burnt I would have totally enjoyed them. Â They were tasty, but the chicken was unseasoned, and my tortilla was burnt (double doo-doo). Â I slathered on the little dixie cup of salsa that came with my whopping 2 lb, overstuffed quesadilla. Â This monstrosity could have fed 2 gals. Â The 'guac' that came with looked like pureed baby food, and it looked like it had been dispensed from a frozen icecream machine. Â
Going to ATC is just as disappointing as making your way to Oz only to find a man behind the curtain and no wizard. Â There's no magical remedy when trying to find a safe haven from the monotonous night life that's consumed Lakewood down the stretch of Detroit. Â It's just a horse of a different color. Â
Bottom line, you have to be drunk to be here in order to deal with the Wizard of Oz misfits that find their way in. Â
Truly, there's no place like home.
I have only been here for drinks, but I love the atmosphere. The bar in the front usually seems pretty chill depending what events or live music are taking place. If you are into patios this bar is a must. The patio is very large and has a totally different vibe than the bar in the front. The scene is is definitely on the younger side. Great bar to go with a group of friends.
Review Source:If you are a person who enjoys going to a bar that has slow service, sub par food that serves drinks in plastic cups, offers food in plastic baskets, and use plastic utensils...then i guess this is a place for you.
Extremely hard to find, and this is clearly a dive. The service is very slow and the food was "ehhhh..."
I will not go back to this place.
Me like: Â cornhole on the back patio and outside seating
Me no like: Â the food. Â The chili was downright nasty--bland and super greasy. Â The burger was tasteless. Â And the service was slow. Â Wait, I almost forgot to mention the greasy Italian dressing for the salad. Â I'll stick to having beer at this place.
I went to Around the Corner on a weekend night in the summer, and while it seemed like it could have been a perfect place to have fun in theory, it was just too mobbed and loud to have a good time with friends. Â If I wanted to grind on the dance floor among blackout drunk people, I would go back to college. Â The patio seemed nice, but I'd rather check it out on a day or night when there's less belligerent traffic.
Review Source:I decided to get nostalgic and went to one of the dumps I used to frequent; Around the Corner in Lakewood.
Well it's not really a dump anymore. Â The patio is huge, they expanded the thing into a warehouse space in the back, they have a party room off to another side but the main room looks very much the same minus the rickety chairs and tables. Â By the same I mean it still has that rustic looking ugly green wall paper and looks like a Yacht Rock bar. Â I never really did ever like to come here to be quite honest when I was younger and I really don't have much intention of going back there as a hey I really want to go to Around the Corner kind of night. Â The tree still grows on the outskirts of the patio which I always thought was silly but now I appreciated it as the sole standing reminder of the place I remember.
The servers were great, I believe ours was named Vanessa and she was attentive and as sweet as pie. Â Same with all of the bar staff I came into contact with. Â Service is great. Â The bar is comfortable and the band was great. Â It was Chris Allen and Brent Kirby doing their acoustic kind of thing. Â Two incredibly talented musicians up there on stage. Â No one was really paying much attention to them though fortunately for folks that wanted to do so. Â There were very few people in what once was a packed to capacity room 20 years ago. Â I only saw Chris a couple of times jump on stage at a couple other shows but he is a very talented songwriter. Â I actually heard him unknowingly on NPR when they were doing a special on The Ohio City Singers Christmas CD. Â This cat has worked with folks like Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. Â To put that in layman's terms these are the guys behind some of the best records by bands like REM, Counting Crows, and Pavement. Â Tonight he worked with Brent Kirby blending together a great Americana set including originals from both of their many releases and covering everyone from Springsteen to Uncle Tupelo.
So where is the problem? Â Seems like I had a decent night, right? Â Staying in the main original barroom was fine it was anywhere outside that general area I took issue in. Â Not because it of the bar itself it was more of a people thing for me. Â Old man Jason just wasn't hip to hanging with the much younger crowd. Â The last time I saw that many Ed Hardy T's was in the TJ Maxx clearance bin. Â The Baby Gap sized shirts on these cats was disturbing to me. Â The girls weren't much better and there really is something to be said for some sense of modesty. Â It wasn't everyone in the bar but apparently the hip fashion trend for most is looking like that Situation dago and Snooki from the Jersey Shore, which for the record I only watched once, but was well enough for me to understand it. Â Most of the people were orange in hue from the fake baking and just had a presence that shouted "Yes, I am a douchebag". Â The girls...ah the girls. Â Yeah lots of cute girls but the titty popping low cut stuff on some of you was a bit much even for me. Â The super short skirts that leave nothing to the imagination I think could have been worn by strippers at The Lido. Â
The bathroom...ah yes the bathroom. Â There are a couple of them. Â The one in the basement is disgusting. Â There was piss all over the floor and it is a giant 3 urinal stainless steel troff thing. Â It is a hideous metal beast that splashes urine all over the fucking place. Â Someone did the honors of puking all over it on one end early on in the night and as the night went on it was never cleaned up. Â Beyond the puke it was still disgusting with piss all over the floor. Â Just seriously pay better attention to the cleanliness as every so often you might just have a grown adult at your bar in the evening. Â So the bathroom is strike 2, the people were strike 1, strike 3 for me was the fact they serve everything, minus bottled beer out of plastic cups. Â Seriously Around the Corner folks I am not at some frat party and as an adult I am not coming to your bar to drink in a plastic fucking cup. Â I was drinking Tequila rocks, lime. Â It does not belong in a plastic cup. Â For that matter neither does a pint of Guinness. Fuck it...none of it belongs in a plastic cup.
Add to the fact I kind of wanted to watch some of the Tribe game they either don't have Fox Sports Ohio there or they couldn't find it on TV either way that was kind of silly. Â To end the night off the Bouncer comes through the bar like a deranged maniac with a bull horn shoeing people out like cattle. Â Really? Â You seriously need a bull horn? Â I so wanted to shove that thing straight up the guys ass. Around the Corner is like this training camp for the people who aren't quite ready to take their douchebaggery to the West 6th Street level. Â I imagined the Pink Floyd meat grinder from the wall just churning out preprocessed popped collar, orange hued, cleavage popping, 3 sizes too small shirted guys and girls
Around the Corner is your standard bar with a fairly standard bar menu. When I'm visiting my mom this is our last resort - no creative thinking place to stop. They've got great burgers and reasonable prices but they are seriously lacking in service.
If you stop by in the summer be sure to sit at the patio.
Clearly one of the most happening, young, crowded watering holes on the Westside. I usually only tend to stop by with a group and when its incredibly busy. The outdoor patio and stage-bar area are excellent to drink and socialize and dance. Summer nights are fun.
I once watched someone try to pluck a Lobster out of the Catch-a-Lobster claw game. Drop in some money, position the claw, watch it drop on a live lobster just to see it slip away as the claw ascends. Definitely funny to watch with a drink in your hand. If you can catch one, its yours to eat or otherwise... I think.
If you like fun, crowded, loud, drinking and dancing this is a great summer, westside spot.
Around the Corner....
Keep in mind this, like all yelp reviews, are subjective.
(I've never had their food, this review is based solely on my experiences there on Weekend nights).
With those caveats out of the way, Around The Corner has been packed every time (~6) I've been there. Set-up wise, there's a large dancing floor and an outdoor bar [and space heaters out there in the fall, a plus]. Beer-wise, it's Great Lakes, leinenkugel [score for me], Blue Moon, and the domestics.
Every time that I've been there, it's very busy. Waits for the bathrooms (there are two of them) but I commend the staff for somehow keeping it clean considering the amount of customers. Considering the large crowd, service at the bars is all right. Some of the times I received my orange with my Blue Moon without asking, some of the time they did ask, sometimes they don't ask and don't give it. $4.50 for a short Blue Moon ?! I didn't know Lakewood began charging a price premium.
There are crab races on 2 nights a week. You pay $1, stand around a large poker table, and with an MC/official, root on your crab to out 'run' the others to the finish circle. Can be entertaining, especially if you're not sober.
It can also get entertaining to watch the hooknasties barely able to walk in their stillettos out of the door, but the entertainment can wear off fast.
The music is top 40 from the 2000s with some very popular 'classics' (I'm using that term broadly here) from the 70s, 80s (hang on sloopy, journey, bon jovi).
If you're into the scene that I described above: a large crowd (from 21-40 ages, with a slight majority college-aged) with its share of popped collars and hooknasties, music, and prices I mentioned, then add a couple stars to my 2.5. I'll admit: the atmosphere doesn't just jibe with me well, But it's just not that place for me.
The crowd is terrible on Friday and Saturday nights. If you happen to be someone who likes going here on the weekend, well disregard this review and know we would not get along. During the week I like to go here and order up some Buffalo wings or mini burgers. They have really good bar food. The wings are my default choice. They are cooked well done and are never mushy, rubbery and weird. My favorire hot wings in Cleveland. The music is hit or miss but mostly misses. Usually cover bands that play Hang on Sloopy, that song about the neighbors complaining about the noises above or any lame 80's or 90's song. Sometimes you may get the bands that try to be edgy by covering a gangster rap song. Really lame on the weekends. The patio is a great oasis during a summer day or night, as long as it isn't busy. They charge way too much for garbage domestic draft beer because of all the people from Rocky River that hang out here and other yuppies that pay these prices for sub-par schwag.
Review Source:A Lakewood institution.
The bar food, especially burgers and wings are above average.
Drinks are slightly overpriced in comparison to most other Lakewood bars. Â
The patio is one of the best in Cleveland during the summer although it gets uncomfortably crowded with a younger (21-26) crowd.
This place was really busy on Friday night.
Met my bro here for a couple cocktails... The band played inside, while most of the crowd hung around the outside bar/patio area. Crowd was young (21-25). Drinks were cheap and everyone was friendly... good times :)
In walking distance of several other bars in case you get bored.
Decent corner bar...
THE UP-SIDE:
Nice corner bar with good bar-style food. Â Servers are usually pleasant and hard-working. Â In summer, always sit on the back patio; great feel to it and much more fun.
THE DOWN-SIDE:
Food isn't anything spectacular (but good for a corner bar.) Â
THE SUM-IT-UP:
Yeah, I go here every once in a while to just kick back with friends on the back patio. Â Give it a try.
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