Pizza and beer fests, Good Company, Barrio Tacos – our WTAM 5-minute food-drinks chat

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Our 5-minute chat with Bill Wills of WTAM covers Good Company, Barrio Tacos, an upcoming pizza fest in Akron and a beer fest in Cleveland. Here’s our 5-minute food-drinks chat with WTAM’s Bill Wills.

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2 fests set to return: Beer and pizza

The Grand Slam Beerfest at Progressive Field and the Akron Pizza Fest are both scheduled to be held this year. The ballpark beer fest sold out last year and is slated for July; tickets go on sale this week. The pizza fest is scheduled to return over Labor Day weekend in downtown Akron. Here are details on each: About the beer fest and about the pizza fest

Barrio Tacos expanding in its 10th year

Ah, people love their tacos. And that’s a good thing for Barrio Tacos, the Cleveland-based company that is marking its 10th anniversary with some serious expansion projects. Barrio, which opened a restaurant in Strongsville at the end of last year, is set to open this year in Columbus near Ohio State’s campus as well as just north of Pittsburgh. About Barrio’s projects

Good Company restaurant in, well, good company

Buildings & Food hospitality collective has acquired Good Company in Cleveland’s Battery Park neighborhood, to go along with the Spotted Owl cocktail bars in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood and Akron as well as Prosperity Social Club in Tremont: About Buildings & Food and Good Company

Bon appetit and cheers!

I am on cleveland.com’s life and culture team and cover food, beer, wine and sports-related topics. If you want to see my stories, here’s a directory on cleveland.com. On the air: Bill Wills of WTAM-1100 and I talk food and drink usually at 8:20 a.m. Thursday morning. Twitter: @mbona30.

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