CELEBRATE YOUR HOLIDAY GATHERING AT
LIGHT BISTRO
Private Parties
Business Functions
Family Fun
Light Bistro has two (2) private rooms.
Carroll Ct. Party Room (first floor) is great for groups up to 45 people
Bridge Party Room (upstairs) is great for groups up to 60-70 people.
(includes a private bathroom)
Under the expert leadership of Chef/Owner Matthew Mathlage
Light Bistro will design a menu to meet all food/beverage needs and budgets.
Let Light Bistro help make your event a success!
Call 216-771-7130 for details or to reserve your room!
GIFT CERTIFICATES
Looking for that special holiday gift? Get them a Gift Certificate to Light Bistro. Values start as low as $25.00. It’s the perfect gift for that person who has everything.
Monday Wine Tapas and Tasting Series
The next tasting will be held on Monday September 13th at 6:30pm. Light Bistro will feature wines from Winsome Estates from Lodi, CA. Chef Matt will expertly prepare tapas to bring out the best flavors from four Reserve wines including a Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and an Old Vine Zinfandel. Diane Mercure from Euro Fine Wines will join our guests to share her wine expertise with the group. Get out and enjoy the end of Summer and come spend an evening with Light Bistro. The cost is $25, not including tax and tip. Call 216-771-7130 to reserve your spot today.
The New Patio is Now Open!
Come down to Light Bistro and enjoy our new expanded patio! The fence is up, the tables are out and the umbrellas are shading the sun. Come on over and have a cocktail or something to eat while sitting outside. A great spot to hang with friends or colleagues. Happy Hour food and beverages are available on the patio too! It's a great time to enjoy all that Cleveland has to offer.
The New Retail Wine Shop is Now Open!
Light Bistro has opened a retail wine store in the restaurant! There are over 130 different wines to choose from in beautiful new custom built wood cabinets. We have something for everyone. There are wines from all over the world. All wines are sold at retail prices, bottles start at $9.00 and increase from there. Come down and check out all that we have to offer. If we don't have what you want, let us know and we will order it in for you. Come down and see what the buzz is all about!
Light Bistro and J Palen House Special:
Receive a 10% discount at Light Bistro during your stay at the J Palen House Bed & Breakfast. The J Palen House is located directly across the street from Light Bistro at 2708 Bridge Ave, Cleveland OH.
Contact the J Palen House at 216-664-0813 for details.
Light Bistro’s Happy Hour Specials
We are pleased to add to our Happy Hour menu options. The details are listed below.
Happy Hour Specials
Monday - Friday
2:30 – 7:00pm
All Bar Menu food items for $5.00 each.
Selected domestic beers for $1.50
Selected specialty beers for $2.00
Glass of wine from our wine list for $5.00
Glass pour of selected red and white wine for $3.00
Specialty cocktails for $3.00
What can be better than tasty food and cool drinks at really great prices! Let Light Bistro take your cares away. It’s a great way to relax from a hard day or a better way to start the evening off right.
In March of 2007, Light Bistro opened with the idea of creating a new dining experience for Clevelanders. Over the last 2 years it has been wonderfully received. The response and feedback from our dining customers has been overwhelmingly positive. The reviews from the local media have been equally as impressive.
During 2007 Light Bistro was fortunate to receive many awards. Including;
Light Bistro is thankful for the honors. We appreciate all of those who believe in what we are accomplishing.
Matthew Mathlage is Light Bistro’s chef. Underscore chef. He is passionate about the food, the menu, and the preparation and cooking of it. Unlike a lot of chefs, he prefers to work behind the line, not in front of it, merely expediting.
Mathlage invents (there is no better word) the menu, prepares and cooks the ingredients side-by-side with his line cooks. He does it all. That’s the way he wants it. “If all I was doing was expediting, I’d lose my enthusiasm for the job,” he said. Rest assured, however, that long before plates leave the kitchen, they’ve been “expedited” by Chef Matt (as he likes to be called) and the rest of the cooks. They are inspected scrupulously to make sure the dish is exactly what the guest ordered. “I’m constantly on the line,” he says, “never in the office. Best part of the job is the creative control I have of the menu.”
Chef Matt calls his style of cooking, “progressive American,” and that lends itself to an assortment of interpretations and permutations. There are, he says, infusions of Eurasian, French, and Italian cuisine as well as representational dishes from the Carolinas, low country Louisiana, the southwest, everything modified to reflect decidedly Midwest flavors.
The menu features 20 small plates, 10 to 12 traditional large plates, either for sharing or for a solo indulgence. Prices range from $3 to $14 for the small plates; $14 to $40 for the large plates. There are two special small-plate tasting menus, one, Chef Matt describes as “our market menu,” fashioned daily according to what’s available at local markets; the other, a combination of small plates, is offered at a special price. Regular small plates include portions of ahi tuna, braised oxtail, Kobe short ribs, eggplant flan. Large plates feature Colorado lamb, venison, rib-eye, and farm-raised trout.
In Eric Dietrich, COO, co-owner, and longtime buddy, Chef Matt has the ideal left-brained partner. He relieves Mathlage of most of the P&L responsibilities, allowing him ample time to cook, expedite, and massage the menu. “We’ve known each other for a long time,” says Dietrich. “We have a great working relationship: he stays out of my way and I stay out of his. I believe in Matt: his style, the way he cooks, and his ability to create and think-out recipes. At the end of the day, we succeed or fail based on what the staff and Matt do in the kitchen.”
A few final notes: bottled waters are offered. Most wines, priced from $30 to $40, are from single vineyards. Forty-percent are U.S., the rest from France (mostly organic), Italy, Spain, Chile, and Australia. The tea your grandmother used to make from Hibiscus is available hot and iced. The coffee is organic; the bread house made.
Says Chef Matt, “Ninety-percent of what we offer is made here from scratch.”