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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The culinary scene in Cleveland, in the last 20 years, burgeoned and blossomed with no end in sight, with creative eateries opening in all pockets of the city and surrounding burbs. One would close, and others would pop up. It took a virus to put the brakes on what some would call a saturated restaurant market. But there was a time when classic restaurants, without the trappings of artistic plating, rock-star chefs, or other sizzling attention-grabbing draws pulled people through their doors and into seats. One constant for diners could be found in the Flats, a view of a growing city laid out before it. That restaurant was Jim’s Steak House. Marc Bona. The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

What might have been … beginning to end … from the back of the house memories.