Eden Valley Enterprises -- What they're saying about LOST RESTAURANTS OF DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND

The Word Is Out!

From the Mail Bag...

David Pastor: Ms. Higgins, I listened to your appearance on the Ray Carr show last Tuesday and picked up your book. Your appearance and your book brought back many memories for me. My grandfather Walter Jann was a chef at the English Oak Room, Hotel Cleveland and The Alpine Village. Herman Pirchner was a close family friend and very polite man to me.
............Thank you for your book. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Kelly Ann: Hello! I got your book yesterday and I'm obsessed.

Rosemary Kubera: Your book is wonderful! More relevantly, it is really good. It will be a resource for many for
years to come.

Robert Anderson: Bette Lou, know that you have delivered many, many delicious memories with your new book… Well done … lots of kudos to you for a great writing style along with yard and yards of accurate research … you are responsible for many souls who now can live deliciously in their memories.

Estelle Rodis Brown,Boomer and Beyond Magazine (November/December 2021): Elyria Author Higgins takes readers on a historical tour of the restaurants that used to keep Clevelanders well fed, watered and entertained… With detailed research and first-person accounts, Higgins tells the colorful backstories of beloved eateries at Public Square, the Terminal Tower, the theater district and more as it existed outside the front door.

Cheryl McConnell: Bette Lou, Gary and I both read your book and enjoyed it immensely. You were able to bring the history of past Cleveland restaurants to life in a truly enjoyable way. Some of the restaurants were a fun trip down memory lane while others showed the interesting development of Cleveland's culture and society over the past 100 plus years. Rafferty's Monkey House/Museum was highly entertaining and, wow, what a menagerie of animals! We are telling our friends that this book is a great reading experience!

Jeff Sigsworth: I LOVE all the research and stories you collected; not only about the restaurants, but also about the great bands, singers & performers who've appeared at many of them through the years. A GREAT read!

Marv Jonason: I ... really enjoyed your book on "Lost Restaurants of Downtown Cleveland". It was a culinary delight and wonderful historical trip through time as the restaurant scene developed in Cleveland.

Our companion storytelling program, A TOUR OF CLEVELAND RESTAURANTS IN 30 MINUTES -- MORE OR LESS!, is also garnering rave reviews!

Dawn Sardes of Euclid Library hosted the program on April 5, 2022 and later e-mailed us: "The pacing of the presentation was perfect, and Ms. Higgins' humorous delivery lent it a fun & light-hearted journey into the past." An encore presentaton on June 13, 2023 prompted this comment: "As always, Ms. Higgins naturally creates a bond with the audience and makes her presentations fun as well as educational."

Kathleen Joswiak of Willowick Library hosted the program on September 20, 2023 and told us that it "Exceeded expectations."