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D2 Akron Beacon Journal Thursday, May 10, 1984 ibi. MlvW Food is decent at 'Bomb Group' FUU 4 COURSE J. 1 tvsi DINING OUT TIRED OF GOING OUT AND SERVING YOURSELF? WE SERVE YOU! SEVEN (7) DAYS A WEEK MOTHER'S DAY 100th Bomb Group 26001 Brookpark Road Cleveland 1-267-1111 Honrs: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday for lunch, and 5 to 11 p.m.

Monday through Thursday; 5 to midnight Friday; 4 to midnight Saturday and to 10 p.m. Sunday for dinner Entree price range: $4.95 to $14.95 Wheelchair access: yes Drinks: martini, $2.50 Reservations: for eight or more only, Sunday through Thursday Credit cards: MasterCard, VISA, Diner's Club, Carte Blanche, American Express E3 6 1 Fresh Carnations To The First 400 Ladies Family Reservations Suggested Banquet Facilities Open 7 Days for dipping. The portion easily serves two. The escargots swimming in a crock of thin garlic-butter sauce, were a bit pretentious under their puff pastry dome. The pastry was slightly doughy.

The escargots were large and tender, but needed a more assertive sauce to stand up to their musky flavor. Pass up the onion soup. The robustly flavored cheese topping was excellent, but the broth was much too brown and much too salty to be homemade. The soup of the day, chicken noodle, was the real thing. It was brimming with wide egg noodles and chunks of shredded chicken.

The bibb lettuce and spinach salads were both large and fresh, with plenty of extras sprinkled over the greens. The dressings could have been a bit more balanced. They were astringent with vinegar. The walleyed pike Florentine ($11.95) consisted of two small walleye fillets on a bed of sauteed fresh spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes. The fillets were sweet and buttery, and the vegetables just barely cooked.

It was a nice combination. The Cognac-mustard sauce that cloaked my pork tenderloin ($10.95) had obviously been made on the spot. The creamy texture and rich flavor were excellent. The sauce was served over four sauteed medallions of pork. The medallions were fine, although a bit large and chewy for tenderloin.

Rice, not on the menu but offered by our waitress, was fluffy and moist, studded with big chunks of celery and onion. The Yorkshire pudding was actually a popover, minus the meat drippings customary to this normally pancake-like dish. The restaurant's showy desserts are reasonably priced and worth the calories. Notable confections include fresh fruit in a melon chocolate mousse berries and cream chocolate cake with orange liqueur ($1.95) and the two we ordered, French eclair ($1.95) and apple pecan upside down pie with ice cream The pie, loaded with still-firm apples and topped with a layer of gooey pecans, was served warm alongside a scoop of cinnamon ice cream. The large eclair had the light, crisp texture of a cream puff.

It was filled with vanilla pastry cream and drenched with bittersweet chocolate. By Jane Snow Bmcoo Journal food writer When a restaurant relies on gimmicks to sell food, it's usually because the food needs all the help it can get. Not so at the 100th Bomb Group restaurant in Cleveland. Although the food isn't exactly inventive, it is decent. And that's about all you can expect of a place that packs 'em in the way this popular eatery does.

The restaurant's popularity, by the way, is its biggest drawback. Reservations for groups of fewer than eight are not accepted. We arrived early on a Tuesday evening and waited an hour for a table. Snagging a table on weekends, we hear, is a test of endurance. Expect at least a two-hour wait.

The restaurant is one in a chain of 60. More are in the works. The format is a winner: posh food in a fun atmosphere. The rambling restaurant resembles a bombed-out farmhouse, supposedly a replica of the one that served as the 100th Bomb Group's headquarters in Europe during World War n. There are army vehicles in the parking lot and bales of hay in the turreted entrance foyer.

A section of the roof (over the patio) was set on fire before the opening last September to give the structure a war-torn look. Inside, things get plushier, but the country atmosphere is preserved. The three large bi-level dining areas have rough plaster walls and beamed ceilings. Country-print quilted tablecloths and napkins and ladderback chairs add to the effect. There are fireplaces (with fake logs) in every room.

The walls are crowded with war posters, photos and other memorabilia, most of it authentic. Floor-to-ceiling windows overlook a runway at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, and diners can watch planes take off and land. Much hullabaloo has been made over the tableside headphones that enable patrons to monitor the control tower at the airport. We learned (too late) that only a few tables are equipped with headphones, and these tables must be requested on arrival. The wait is long, we were told.

We didn't spot a soul using the headphones, anyway. The restaurant's lighting is so dim that you may want to consider memorizing the RQ fS INCLUDE DOUBLE PORTION OF SliT? SHRIMP, PLUS FRIES 6 COLE SLAW Tj I Wrm 1321. Norton Avenue I t'fetx Norton, Ohio 44203 FAMILY RESTAURANT menu in advance. It consists of 23 entrees, most in the $10 to $13 price range. Broiled steaks and seafoods are complemented by a number of more ambitious offerings such as beef Wellington shrimp in a sauterne cream sauce ($11.95) and chicken with ham, Jack cheese and demi-glace sauce In keeping with the times, three lighter entrees are offered: crab and shrimp quiche brie baked in mari-nara sauce ($6.95) and soup, salad and bread The restaurant's go-withs are mendably varied.

Entrees include a choice of onion soup or soup of the day, homemade bread, Yorkshire pudding or baked potato and one of five salads: Caesar, garden vegetable, bibb lettuce with blue cheese, tomato and onion, and spinach with hot bacon dressing. This is an ambitious menu, considering that the restaurant seats almost 400 and tables are seldom empty. But on our visit, the kitchen was equal to the task. Everything tasted freshly prepared, and the one sauce we sampled was very good. Of the two appetizers we sampled, the deep-fried zucchini ($1.95) was the better bet.

A small enameled skillet was heaped with French-cut slices of zucchini, batter-coated and deep-fried to a crunchy brown. They came with a cool cucumber-dill sauce treat mom Sunday 11 to 3 Summit Mall, Chapel Hill, Rolling Acres A trip hack to '50s expressionism REVIEW lunch or dinner brunch 2.99 4.75 One half orange-glazed chicken, served with savory rice pilaf and tossed fresh garden salad Fruit Bowl, Bacon, Sausage, Scrambled Eggs, Biscuits Gravy, Hash-browned Potatoes, Muffins 6 CHINESE HOUSE OP HtfMW RESTAURANT His paintings are personal and seem filled with inner turmoil. The expression of emotion, so apparent in the gestural brushwork of Johnson, comes across in Kitner's work in the tension set up within and between the figures and the evocative use of color, which glows with a bruised, almost irrides-cent, light. Kitner denies any attempt to achieve these particular color qualities: "I look at them almost as lifelong devices," he said, "certain ways of doing certain things. "One way of arriving at a volumetric form is working from the edges toward the center moving across an entire area then cutting back into it again." And true to the abstract expressionist credo, he refuses put parameters on his art.

"You have (in a work of art) a live environment and people can walk into it and make of it what they want. "I am just setting up the props," he said. "I don't want to finish these things for the viewer. It disturbs, and you find out what it is only by adding something on your own." Kuban Galleries in the Hanna Building at 2037 E. 14th Cleveland, is open from 11 a.m.

to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and evenings for Playhouse Square theater shows. CocktaW Lounge The Johnson works exhibited seem authentic representations of that time and that philosophy.

Executed in the late 1940s and 1950s, they have a feeling of conviction in the value of struggle and the bravura gesture that were the hallmarks of that era. One or two of the works have been damaged, apparently by improper storage, and several of them are hung too high, but on the whole, it is a remarkable body of work by an artist who died, unfortunately, at the height of his powers. And it sets up the viewer for another trip through time (and distance) to the Kitner exhibit in the upstairs gallery. Kitner is a Cleveland-area artist, trained in painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art and holder of a master's degree in art history from Case Western Reserve University. Until 1980 he was a professor of art at Kent State University.

Now professor emeritus at Kent, he teaches in the fall semester and spends the rest of his time painting. Kitner's work has always been figurative, even in the 1950s and 1960s, when abstraction was the dominant mode. Though his style is not so obviously tied to the Abstract Expressionist era as Johnson's, his philosophy of painting is very much influenced by it. By Dorothy Shinn Beacon Journal art critic Imagine what it was like to visit an art gallery in New York in the 1950s. Often it was like walking into a Buddhist shrine.

This was the period when Abstract Expressionism reigned supreme in New York City. The walls were hung with the abstract, gestural, often calligraphic, works by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell. At Kuban Galleries in Cleveland, that era has been nearly re-created in an exhibit featuring the paintings of Anthony Peter Gorny, Jim Johnson, Harold Kitner and Gregory J. St. John and the sculpture of Charles L.

Herdon. The exhibit, which can be seen through June 1, is a remarkably handsome one with impressive works by all the artists. But it is the work of Johnson in particular which dominates this exhibit and lends to it an abstract expressionist air. Johnson died in 1963 at the age of 38 in New York City in a motorcycle accident. Each of his wives had a cache of his paintings.

It is the cache belonging to his first wife, Mar-jorie Johnson, which is on exhibit at Kuban. Johnson, according to gallery owner Ed Kuban, was a friend of de Kooning's and greatly influenced by him. 2717 W. MARKET ST. IN FAIRLAWN PLAZA OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK FREE Carnations for Mothers (While They Last) on Mother's Day this Sunday Mother's Day Dinner Specials from $5.75 (Includes Tea, Fried Rice, Soup, Egg Roll Fortune Cookie) Mother's Day Hours: 12 Noon -10 P.M.

Painting by Harold Kitner "He was friends with de Kooning after he went back to New York in 1962," said Mrs. Johnson. "Elaine de Kooning probably remembers him and his paintings. I am not sure if Willem would these days. But they did both hang out at the Cedar Bar and McSorley's Saloon." Abstract Expressionists had a highly romantic view of the artist as a kind of heroic individual living on the cutting edge of culture, pointing the way for the rest of society.

Their lives often seemed defined by extremes working, playing and drinking themselves to the brink, sometimes beyond. 13 flcTTV II- 1 TOlit2zmflM Miki your mtrvitltns now 864-8215 Major Credit Cards Dining Room or Carry Out Family Party Dinners TS -Jlll Stark County artists in May Show Rene Kunz; photography by Steve Lake and wood carvings by Joe Leonard. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays in the Garth Andrew Building, 1969 N.

Cteveland-Mas- ailon Road, bath. IN THE FAIRLAWN PLAZA John Davla Gallery Sculpture by John Parcher and works bv Rebecca Seeman. Through May 19. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tuesdays through Fridays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays in the Centran Building, 161 S. Main St Kent State University Kent Student Center Gallery: JewelryMetals, a show of sculpture metalwork from KSU Jewelry Metals Studio. Through Sunday. Hours: 10 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and noon to 4 p.m. DINE WITH US ON MOTHER'S DAY Sundays.

Kuban Galleries Paintings from the estate of James Johnson. Also, figure studies by Harold Kitner, stift-Nfes by Greg St. John, sculpture by Charles Hernoon and prints by Anthony Gorny. The 43rd Annual May Show of the Little Art Gallery features a variety of works by Stark County artists. The 76 pieces in the exhibit were selected from 177 entries by Patricia Zinsmeister Parker, a professional artist and educator, and John Klassen, director of the Massillon Museum.

Represented styles range from primitives to realism, impressionism and three-dimensional pieces. The exhibit can be seen through June 1 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturdays at the North Canton Library, 185 N. Main St. OTHER AREA exhibits: Akron Art MiiMum Robert Longo: Drawings 4 Reliefs. Jo Kkschenbaunv Porcelain. Through June 10.

Photography in California: 1945-1980. Through June 10. Hours; Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays at 70 E. Market St. University of Akron Exhibit ot faculty works.

Hours: 10 a m. to 4 p.m. Moo I days. Wednesdays. Thursdays and Fridays in Perkins Gallery.

Gardner Student Center. Almond Tea Ganery Women's Art League ot Akron 50th Anniversary Exhibit. Through May 30. Hours 11 30 i a to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through I days and 1 1 a.m.

to 1:30 p.m. Satur-f days at 2250 Front St, Cuyahoga Fails. Arte Whyte Co. Ongoing mixed-media snow. Hours: 10 a m.

to 5 p.m. Show, 64th annual exhibit bv artists and craftspersons from the Western Reserve area. Through July 17. Rembrandt, a selection of about 90 prints from the museum's collections. Through May 20.

Loie Fuller. Through June 10. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; 10 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Wednesdays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 6 p.m. Sundays at 11150 East Cleveland.

Cleveland State University The 13th Annual Student Art Exhibition. Friday through June 8. Hours: Opening reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, then 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays in the CSU Gallery, 2307 Chester Cleveland. Creative Frame end Art Gallery Paintings by Gloria Elasky of Massillon and photography of Chris Dougherty of North Canton. Through May. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mondays through Saturdays at 2940 Woodlawn Ave. N. Canton. Don Drumm't Studtoe ft Gallery Annual Spring Show, featuring fanciful ceramic vessels by Don Montano and African imagery by prmtmaker Marie Lrn. Through Friday.

Also, Jewish ceremonial art by Don Drumm, plus a continuing exhibit of American contemporary art and crafts and ornamental and functional works by 300 artists, including the Drumms. Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays in the afferent Drummer Gallery.

437 Crouse SL Gallery 732 Paintings by Thomas Baden-Powell Williams. Through May 25. Hours: 1 1 a m. to 3 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays.

11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays at the Akron Woman's Crty Club, 432 W. Exchange SL Gallery Upstairs Ongoing mixed-media exhibit with architectural impressionist MAe Guyot basketry by Through June 1. Hours 1 1 a.m.

to 5 GALLERIES Mondays through Fridays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays at 655 W. Market St. Artisan Shop Works by glass blower Jim Shumate of Kent.

Through May 31. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays at 2152 Front Street Mall. Cuyahoga Falls.

Baldwin-Wallace College Annual Student Art Exhibition. Through June 3. Hours: 2 to 5 p.m.. Tuesdays through Fridays and on Sunday in Fawick Art Gallery, Art and Drama Center, 95 E. Bagtey Road, Berea.

Butler Institute of Art 48th Youngs-town State University Student Annual Exhibition. Through May 20. Youngs-town City Schools: A Showcase lor Young Artists. Through Sunday. Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting ot the 1930s, works by Thomas Hart Benton, Philip Evergood.

Jacob Lawrence, Fteginald Marsh, Alice Ned, Ben Shahn and the Soyer brothers. Through June 9. 100 Views Along the Road, black and white watercokxs by Alfred Leslie. Through May 27. Hours: 11 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Wednesdays until 8 p.m. and noon to 4 m. Sundays at 524 Wick Youngstown.

Canton Art Institute School Art Exhibit. Through May 27. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 2 to 5 p.m.

Sundays, with additional viewing hours from 5 to 7 m. Tuesdays through Thursdays at 1001 Market Ave. N. Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty exhibition. Through May 20.

Hours: 9 a m. to 4 pm weekdays with additional hours from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9 a m. to noon Saturdays and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays at 11141 East Cleveland.

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Mondays through Saturdays and until 9 p.m. Thursdays at 226 S. Mam St. Tomorrow's Treasure! Picture Frem ere and Gallery Ongoing show by area artists. Hours 9 a.m.

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