Frank Wagner hopes that guests to their new restaurant of wonderful meals in Kirtland really feel they’re consuming in a home.
In a approach, they’re: Casa Rosa Cucina was a home in 9350 Chillicothe Street earlier than he and his spouse, Mimi Wagner, labored to rework her right into a restaurant. After years of labor, it now has a bar, eating rooms and a lounge with sofas and a tv.
“It is like being at house,” Frank stated. “You’re consuming at your loved ones’s home, you’re consuming at your greatest pal’s home and having fun with, and that’s the sort of theme we wish to observe.”
Casa Rosa is the second restaurant of the Wagner in Kirtland, since they’ve operated within the block in 9209 Chillicothe Street for greater than 4 years. Frank stated that Casa Rosa will provide “extra unique meals” like “an Italian theme restaurant with a Mediterranean contact.”
“Whereas we really feel that meals is great in each locations, it’s only a totally different sort of gastronomic expertise,” he stated.
Frank stated that the skilled chef of Casa Rosa focuses on a steak and veal and makes a risotto that’s “unsurpassed.”
Meal choices embody a mere with a cream corn truffle, different shellfish similar to scratch and salmon, lamb chops, strips fillets, crushed veal chops and pasta plates similar to Orechiety and Pappardelle. The restaurant’s rose rooster has mushrooms, tomatoes and extra.
Along with Italian influences, Frank stated the restaurant may have dishes with Spanish, Portuguese and probably Greek influences.
“We attempt to keep away from the usual rooster parmesan, the parmesan of veal, the meals of Parmesan of eggplant,” he stated. “Whereas these dishes are scrumptious, we needed to be slightly step ahead, some distinctive flavors that you simply can not discover anyplace else.”
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Cadros, chairs, tables and a tv fill the lounge at Casa Rosa Cucina in Kirtland. (Bryson Durst-The Information-Hald)
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Cadros, chairs, tables and a tv fill the lounge at Casa Rosa Cucina in Kirtland. (Bryson Durst-The Information-Hald)
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The restaurant does all the pieces that may from scratch, Frank added.
He stated the menu can change because the restaurant grows. Within the close to future, Casa Rosa will add cocktails and dessert choices.
Upon getting into the constructing painted crimson, guests will discover a bar and a pair of desk rooms on the bottom flooring. Going up a stairs sport, you will discover extra tables and the lounge, which Mimi stated it may be reserved.
The partitions additionally comprise images. She stated she took most of them and Frank selected others.
Mimi stated the home was divided into flats once they purchased it in 2021. The diners now eat in what was once areas similar to a lounge or a kitchen. The restaurant kitchen operates from what was once a storage.
Trying in direction of the longer term, he stated they plan to increase a porch alongside the second flooring of the constructing. They’ve a entrance courtyard, and he or she stated they plan to place furnishings when the climate permits it.
“This was my husband’s dream,” Mimi stated. “It has been his dream since he was a small little one, a very good meal institution. So, it is nice.”
Whereas they labored to present life to that dream, the Wagners related to Kirtland Excessive Faculty college students. Enterprise professor Kim Ruggeri arrived at college this yr after educating at Cleveland State College. I used to be in search of a solution to affiliate with a neighborhood enterprise and stated Frank was open to an affiliation.
The 64 college students of their class did a aggressive evaluation analysis on different excessive -end eating places and introduced their data, Ruggeri stated. Additionally they offered suggestions on the right way to promote the restaurant.
They returned simply earlier than the restaurant opened to get pleasure from a meal, he added.
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The doorway to Casa Rosa Cucina in Kirtland is proven in 9350 Chillicothe Street. (Bryson Durst-The Information-Hald)
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The doorway to Casa Rosa Cucina in Kirtland is proven in 9350 Chillicothe Street. (Bryson Durst-The Information-Hald)
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“I needed you to investigate an issue and discover clever options,” Ruggeri stated. “Then, as a substitute of merely memorizing and reciting, that type of studying, for me, strategic pondering and downside fixing is rather more troublesome, and this was the proper alternative for them as a result of they may see an actual state of affairs and discover actual options that had been going to assist that enterprise.”
Mimi stated college students additionally offered data on the right way to beautify the tables.
Frank added a scholar to write down concerning the historical past of the restaurant.
“The scholars actually took a step ahead,” he stated.
Casa de la Casa Rosa
9350 Chillicothe Street, Kirtland
Hours: Four-10 pm from Wednesday to Saturday and from 12 to six pm on Sundays. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Data: Casa Rosa Cucina on Fb or 440-664-5657. The restaurant may even launch an internet site quickly.