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  • Funshi Revolving Sushi Restaurant to Open Sept. 29 in Avon – Cleveland Scene

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    Northeast Ohio’s latest conveyor-belt sushi restaurant is just days away from its grand opening. Funshi Sushi, Ramen and Boba will open its newest restaurant, Funshi Revolving Sushi (35918 Detroit Rd.) in Avon, on Monday, September 29. Funshi opened its first restaurant in Rocky River earlier this year, but this is an entirely new concept for the homegrown restaurant, says Christine Xiao, partner and manager.

    “We are a family business,” explains Xiao. “We have been in the sushi industry for 20 years with Hibachi Sushi, but we created a new concept – something fun, you know?”

    For its latest act, Funshi has devised a space-age, interactive dining concept that features a conveyor belt, train track and robot servers. Items like edamame, seaweed salad, sashimi, sushi and sushi rolls will glide through the restaurant on the conveyor belt for diners to grab at will. Hot foods like ramen, rice bowls and stir-fries can be ordered on tabletop e-menus. Those items will be delivered directly to the table via the train. Drinks like boba, fruit teas and smoothies are transported to diners by robot servers.

    Unlike other conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, which use different colored plates to designate prices, all of the conveyor-belt items will be a single price, adds Xiao.

    “We will have more sushi options than other places around here,” she says. “And we will have the same price for any plate you want.”

    There will be two plate colors, she clarifies, white and black, a system that lets diners easily distinguish between raw and cooked items.

    Following quickly on the heels of the Avon restaurant is a second location in Beachwood, specifically the former Bomba Tacos space at the corner of Cedar and Richmond (2101 Richmond Rd.). That restaurant is on pace to open in November, according to Xiao.

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  • First Look: Antica Italian Restaurant, Opening in Beachwood on March 20

    First Look: Antica Italian Restaurant, Opening in Beachwood on March 20

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    Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20.

    Hecks just celebrated its one-year anniversary in Beachwood. In a week, that restaurant will be joined by Antica Italian Restaurant (3355 Richmond Rd., 216-831-1004), which is preparing to open in the adjacent space that formerly was home to Red and Cut 151. When it opens on March 20, it will become the second Antica, the first of which opened in Avon back in 2021.

    Owner Fadi Daoud said it was the natural choice for the attractive 100-seat restaurant.

    “I think the space kind of lends itself perfectly to cozy Italian, casual-fine dining,” Daoud explains. “We just kind of tied them together.”

    A gentle renovation warmed up the previously contemporary interior, making it more in line with the original.

    Since opening, Antica has not only built a local following for its Italian cuisine, but also has become somewhat of a destination restaurant for those outside the immediate area.

    “We’ve made really good progress at Antica in Avon,” the owner adds. “It’s everybody’s favorite now; it’s the place to be on that side of town.”

    Diners in Beachwood can look forward to a very similar menu, with the exception of a few more steak and seafood options. Everything from the pizza and pasta dough to the tiramisu is made in house. Appetizers include arancini, Kobe meatballs, shrimp scampi and fried calamari. A roster of soups and salads joins a half dozen thin, crisp pizzas, including the signature chicken parmesan “pizza.”

    “Originally, we didn’t want to put chicken parmesan on the menu, but everybody wants chicken parm so we said, let’s do something different,” Daoud explains.

    The popular dish swaps the customary dough for a shell made from seasoned ground chicken, which is pressed, shaped and deep fried. It is then topped with tomatoes, cheese and greens.

    Homemade ravioli is filled with braised short ribs and topped with parmesan cream sauce; rigatoni arrives in a spicy vodka cream sauce; and a bounty of shellfish is tossed with linguini in a lemon and garlic white wine sauce. In the big-plate department there is veal piccata, roasted branzino, grilled lamb chops, and bistecca alla Fiorentina.

    To finish, there’s tiramisu, cannoli and Nutella panna cotta.

    Soon, the restaurant will begin serving on the 60-seat patio, which it shares with Hecks.

    click to enlarge Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20. - Douglas Trattner

    Douglas Trattner

    Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20.

    click to enlarge Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20. - Douglas Trattner

    Douglas Trattner

    Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20.

    click to enlarge Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20. - Douglas Trattner

    Douglas Trattner

    Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20.

    click to enlarge Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20. - Douglas Trattner

    Douglas Trattner

    Antica Italian opens in Beachwood on March 20.

    click to enlarge Chicken parm "pizza" at Antica Italian. - Courtesy photo

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    Chicken parm “pizza” at Antica Italian.

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