# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C7hephSN3ie
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18175885-clevelandmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-05-28T19:00:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

## Caption

Griddles Cafe in Medina is a simple place. 

The beige walls a display modern artwork, mixed in with a United States flag featuring the seals of each of our country’s military branches, advertisements for biscuits and gravy and T-shirts representing the restaurant that have a $20 price tag. 

“It’s All Good!” the shirts say across the back. 

“Are we doing sweet teas?” waitress Nicole Jackson says to a customer seated in the back corner of the restaurant before she yells back to her mother, one of the owners of the cafe in the kitchen.

“I’ve lived here my whole life,” Jackson says. “It’s not as small as it used to be. But most of the people are nice here.”

The cafe is tucked into a shopping plaza that’s near a bevy of chain restaurants on North Court Street in Medina. In some ways, it’s the perfect metaphor for Medina. It’s a growing city that still finds a way to have a small-town feel, even if that feel can be fleeting at times.

🔗Click the link in our bio for more on Medina and our Best Places to Live project.

🖋️ Danny Cunningham
📸 jeani_brechbill 

#suburbs #bestplacestolive #inthecle #intheland #cleveland #mediina

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