Look for tantalizing food descriptions, so good you can taste and smell the flavors, in upcoming restaurant reviews on iShopBlogz.com. Our reviewers will traverse northeast Ohio in search of the best eateries to be found, and will report with rapture (when they find deserving delicacies) in titillating detail that will tempt your appetite and treat you to an inside look into the creation of local culinary delights.

In the 1950s Americans weren’t patronizing local restaurants like they do today. During that not-so-long-ago golden age of stay at home moms we were only spending about 25% of our grocery money to eat out. That statistic has doubled as today nearly one half of our food budget is spent at local eateries. America’s restaurants are currently the second largest private-sector employer in the country with one in 10 American workers reporting to restaurants. The Ohio restaurant industry also commands its own respect as an economic force by having projected $16 billion dollars in sales during 2011. Continue reading →