Bites Nearby: Moe's Restaurant in Cuyahoga Falls

Cuyahoga Falls has its share of fine dining restaurants, and Moe’s falls into that category. Owner Maureen “Moe” Schneider and Executive Chef Jared Kirby present an imaginative menu and specials that change on a regular basis. Moe’s boasts that everything is prepared fresh daily on the premises, including bread, pasta and potato chips. Seafood is brought in fresh daily.

Lunch sandwiches range in price from $8 for the BLT with egg on ciabatta to $13 for Crabby Patty with slaw and tartar sauce on a Kaiser roll. The Italian braised beef sandwich ($9) is piping hot and tender and juicy. You might need a second napkin. The chips definitely do not come out of a bag. House bread is warm and substantial, accompanied by whipped garlic butter.

Entrees and desserts are listed on blackboards in the dining room. Desserts recently offered include vanilla bean crème brulee and lemon cheesecake with a ginger snap crust.

Dinners can be expensive, especially if you include a cocktail and wine. Entrees change monthly and range from $20 to $30 or so. Some suggested wines include Caymus cabernet sauvignon, $94, and Cake Bread chardonnay, $60. Cocktails include an extensive list of “Moetinis.” Appetizers range from fresh-shucked oysters ($1.75 per) to homemade chips and dip ($5) to lobster and shitake mushroom pierogies ($14).

Schneider has been in the restaurant business for most of her life. She opened Moe’s in 1998.

Housed in the brick 1916 Schnabel Building surrounded by car dealer parking lots, Moe’s is split roughly in half with a dining room that seats about 45 and a tavern room that seats about 30 and has an old wooden bar. In the dining room are arty black-and-white photographs of eggs; the number of eggs in each photo corresponds with the table numbers where they hang at tables one through four (a former bartender/waiter notices these things).

Moe's is the kind of place you take a date (or client) you want to impress. At least the meal will be a hit. 

Moe’s Restaurant, 2385 Front St. Cuyahoga Falls, 330-928-6600. Email moemoe@neo.rr.com. On Facebook.