Kyla in the news…and yeah, she does give credits to Sam McNulty for opening up Bar Cento & Bier Markt.
Friday, September 25th, 2009Bar-restaurant entrepreneur Sam McNulty brings worldly ideas to West 25th Street: Tastemakers
By wmcmanam
Plain Dealer, September 13, 2009, 12:01AM
Sam McNulty left town with a backpack and returned with a bar.
“I was backpacking through India when I randomly met this Polish guy,” says McNulty, a devotee of beer and traveling. “And it just so happened that he had worked in a Belgian-style bar in Australia.”
A light went off in his head.
It was a little blurry, he admits. After all, McNulty had been drinking all day.
But that light kept flickering until he returned to Cleveland — and until he opened McNulty’s Bier Markt.
Since 2005, the Belgian-style bar has helped make West 25th Street one of the area’s most happening entertainment districts.
“At first, I thought about opening a bar that served all kinds of international beers,” he says. “Then I realized: Belgian beer is my favorite — and there aren’t any in the area, or even Ohio.”
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