Last Thursday, Mer and I headed up to eastern Cleveland to meet up with her friend Jill. Jill is a fun person, so Mer and I were both looking forward to the evening. Plus, Jill was recommending we go to the very cool Coventry neighborhood. Coventry has great restaurants and unusual shops.

We started the evening with a fantastic dinner at Tommy’s. Mer and I had been to Tommy’s a couple years ago, and were happy to be going back. The food was excellent, and Tommy’s has pretty good art on the wall. This time, it was really spiffy thread drawings that I liked quite a bit. Tommy’s also endears itself to us because one of the main entrances into the restaurant is to and from a book store, where we spent a few minutes browsing.

Jill then encouraged us to check out the local toy store, saying we would like it. She was quite right. The store has lots of original fifties-through-eighties toys in stock for sale, and has lots of currently produced, but retro in style, merchandise. There were Star Wars action figures and comic book heroes and cartoon characters from the eighties and gag gifts and old video games and more. The place was crammed with interesting things, and we spent about an hour in there. It is a great place.

We dropped Jill off at her place and headed home, as we had to work on Friday. A great meal and reliving my youth are hard to beat for a way to spend an evening.