Best of Cleveland 2017: Hidden Bar
by Dillon Stewart | Oct. 30, 2017 | 6:00 PM
Evan Prunty
A hotel bar shouldn’t be kiddie stuff. Quiet and intimate, it should be a secret adult hideaway for non-work conversation or to avoid talking all together. Tucked inside the lobby of the Drury Plaza Hotel Cleveland Downtown, The Teacher’s Lounge is schoolbook strict about that tradition. Built in 1930s, the historic building formerly housed the Board of Education for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, hence the name. “Like the teacher’s lounge at school, this is a place you go to escape and get away from the madness,” says Drury Plaza Hotel general manager Scott Schmelzer. Perfectly mixed cocktails such as the minty Bourbon Smash ($9) and civilized nibbles such as the bourbon and Brie flatbread pizza ($10) help take the edge off the 6 p.m. blues. “After a rough day at work, it’s a sanctuary that just gives you the feeling of, ‘Ah,’ ” says Schmelzer. 1380 E. Sixth St., Cleveland, 216-357-3100, druryhotels.com
Dillon Stewart
Dillon Stewart is the editor of Cleveland Magazine. He studied web and magazine writing at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and got his start as a Cleveland Magazine intern. His mission is to bring the storytelling, voice, beauty and quality of legacy print magazines into the digital age. He's always hungry for a great story about life in Northeast Ohio and beyond.
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