So, first, the food. The food is really very good. It's interesting, well-priced, and high quality. The drinks--and especially the happy hour--I hear are also very good, but I usually come here for work lunches and therefore don't participate. (I should change that!) Next, the ambiance. It's classy without being overdone, and the giant wall of French windows next to the outdoor patio seating alongside a busy campus thoroughfare makes for a kind of a vibrant, swanky feel. The indoor seating is also set up with many little alcoves, perfect for groups who want a little more privacy because they're working (or partying) too hard. Now, the growing pains. Any college campus' new and nicer restaurant is going to have those, and for Michelson and Morley this includes inconsistent service and food options. The service is frequently slow, which is troublesome when you're the closest restaurant around for a nice, working lunch, and now your customers are late to their next appointment... Further complicating this is the ever-changing menu. I'll frequently show up excited for the meal I had last time (That I've confirmed is good, quick, and easy to eat while working and talking.) to find it is no longer available. For fine dining restaurants, a seasonal menu is good practice. For working lunch spots, it is not. ((Maybe only change your dinner menu, M&M??)) Four stars, though, still. I think they will grow out of their growing pains and lunches will become faster, service and food more consistent, and the things that are good about Michelson and Morley are so good: the quality food, the great ambiance, the location. All of that is here to stay, and I know I'll be back. Four stars. read more

Michelson & Morley - Could this pomodoro flatbread possibly have any more toppings on it?! Yum - American Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

A very small menu but still a great spot to grab dinner before a concert or show at Case. The shrimp risotto is a must have! Good wine selection for a smaller place. The service is great, attentive and quick. read more

Oh boy. This could be a fine place on the Case Western Reserve University campus. But it is not. Food is good and the ambiance is ok but the service is from yesterday. You cannot pay with your phone for example. Better go to Albatross nearby. Much better food and modern service. read more

Fancier dining in Case campus for business casual to formal. Delicious mustardy spicy fried Brussels sprouts. Also delicious fried chicken sandwich with crispy breading although it needed sauce of some kind. I got ketchup on the side thankfully. The salad it came with was well appointed w olives and blue cheese and the ranch dressing tasted homemade. The bread was soft and tasty with the red chili pepper flake olive oil dip. Nice views through the large glass windows by diners. read more

The menu on yelp was totally different that the menu on the website and in person. I liked all of the vegan and vegetarian options I saw but, the actual menu only offers 1 option. I got the 1 thing I could got and it was all just eh. Flavors were off. Grilled bread tasted like old oil- like the cooking surface had not been cleaned in a long long time. My table of 4 all felt the same Way about their food. When we were finished we all had full plates of food and left hungry. Looking around at the neighboring tables showed the same experience. Service was slow, and there is not proper signage to get to the place. read more

Waited 30 minutes without service, not even water, and this on a concert night! The pomodoro flatbread we eventually got was tasteless. What was supposed to be a Cubano pulled pork sandwich was sliced ham with a few strings of sad pork wedged in on the side. After a few bites to stave off hunger, we left. Won't be back until the new management shapes things up. read more

Michelson & Morley - Cubano Sandwich - American Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

Atmosphere: fairly classy, modern, quiet, small restaurant in a campus building. Service: poor. This is what significantly drops the rating for this restaurant. Although the food is good, the hostess (an older lady) was very disrespectful because we were students. She didn't treat us nearly the same way she greeted other customers who were older. Server was slow and seemed to not know what he was doing. There was some miscommunication with our to go orders as well. As a server, I was pretty baffled by the way the hostess greeted us, beginning with "we're really busy today (there were MAYBE 4 seated tables), I suggest making reservations".... I expected a little more respect from a more upscale restaurant on a college campus. Food: limited menu. Very confusing though because my friend and I received two different menus. Food came out pretty late. Quality was great though. Portion size is good too. I had the veggie black bean burger which one of the best veggie burgers I've had in my life. The second time around I had the shrooben which is mushrooms and some sort of pickled radish on Rueben). The shrooben was great as well. Although, they put too much sauce on it. My friend got the flatbread (cheese pizza with ham on it?) very greasy. Price: reasonable. Not cheap. Not expensive. Something you'd expect when you first enter the restaurant. read more

Michelson & Morley - Menu - American Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

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Came here for a pre-Cleveland Orchestra show dinner around 5:45PM. We had reservations which made seating pretty quick. We were starving and wanted to make sure that we could get to our show a little early, so we were glad we could get seated right away. We waited, and waited, and waited, but no one came to take our order. We weren't even sure who our waiter was so couldn't try to grab anyone's attention. Finally someone came and took our drink order. I got the Westsider and my boyfriend got the Whiskey Island. Then we waited some more.....no bread service, no drinks. Our drinks finally came out, the waiter asked if we wanted bread (YES!!) and then he took our food order. Food: The Westsider drink was tasty and very citrus heavy- pretty good but a little too sweet for me. The Whiskey Island cocktail was a perfect blend of sweet and bitter. We ordered a calamari app to share. It was cooked really well but I think it could have done without the slices of carrots in it. Mayo sauce was bomb. I ordered the farmhouse burger with side salad for my entree. It was tender, full of flavor and a perfect portion, not too intimidating but definitely filling. Loved the half melted slice of gouda and mayo sauce on it! My boyfriend ordered the hot chicken sandwich which was also very tasty and perfectly portioned. Medium hot-ness level which was balanced by the coleslaw on the sandwich. Shoestring fries are not my favorite but my boyfriend liked them. Overall the food and drinks tasted great and were reasonably priced. The service was what really ruined our experience. I have a pretty high tolerance for service- if the food is excellent, I can forgive mediocre service. But here, we really felt neglected. No one came to ask us if we needed anything else and it took forever to order. There was a lady who was walking around and asking other diners how they were doing but just walked passed us even when she saw we had no bread and hadn't ordered. It was convenient location for a dinner before the Orchestra show, but I would not recommend or return. read more

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The menu does not have a variety of choices to choose from but the flatbreads caught my eye immediately. I had ordered the Cuban without pickles and it was definitely tasty. However, the meat was a little tough and the flatbread was a little cold. read more

Michelson & Morley - Cuban flatbread - American Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

I had not been here for several years but recalled it as a good spot for lunch on CWRU's campus. Met a friend there today. Service was very good and the overall environment was nice. Not many customers. I ordered the fish tacos along with fries and was shocked at the lack of taco filling! There was so little filling in the tacos that even if you had combined what was in 3, into 1, it would not have filled it! Ingredients sounded tasty but there was so little to taste. I left feeling hungry. read more

Great restaurant on Case Western Campus. Menu changes every three months. Thoroughly enjoyed the fried Brussels Sprouts! Also the blacked shrimp Po-Boy was excellent too! read more

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Their lunch isn't anything spectacular and they're never open at reasonable hours. They close at 5 pm on weekdays, which is silly because that's basically the dinner service hour. It's not inconvenient to go to, but this restaurant is empty about 70% of the time because the food is mediocre for its price point. The restaurant has open glass windows... but the windows face a spirit wall that college kids paint on to advertise events. It's not pretty. Meanwhile the other side of the building faces an open grass meadow. Clearly a misstep when the university planned the location of this restaurant. The service is its shining point. They will bring you bread basket after bread basket. The wait staff clearly knows their menu well and is good at refilling water cups. The restaurant is clean, and shiny. The wait staff is the only saving grace. Their food takes a while to prep because there really isn't that much staff to begin with. Their pizza is like upscale bar pizza, and that's the same for their tacos. It's not worth coming here for lunch. Then again, their dinner is pretty mediocre too. Their potatoes are too salty and their root vegetables come out a bit overcooked. They nail their proteins, but the supporting acts are a hit or a miss. Considering that lunch averages around $25 per person and dinner averages at around $40, I would recommend choosing a nicer restaurant... one with better hours and better food and isn't on a college campus. read more

Michelson & Morley - Tacos - American Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

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I've visited this restaurant on many occasions. (Not on my own dime) Every experience has provided a different result. Here's a condensed pro and con list of all of them. Pros 1. Waitstaff has always been gracious and knowledgeable. 2. Environment is nice Cons: 1. Food is average which is fine unless you are paying $12-$30 per entree 2. The wait time feels extra long for some reason (with or without people) 3. Atmosphere can feel super uppity which is quite juxtaposed on a college campus. Hope this helpful. read more

This is a very pleasant spot for a lunch meeting, and my two companions had food that looked good to me and they enjoyed. The price point seemed reasonable for the environment. Those features along with me feeling generous add up to a 4 rating -- even though I thought my own lunch was quite poorly executed. I ordered the "Korean pork / hoisin sauce / provolone / kimchi" flatbread. Do NOT order this. It was bad. The hoisin sauce was absolutely overwhelming, and the pork was extraordinarily fatty. So fatty that I initially thought it was only fat. I guess it was good for me to have a lunch that I only ate a third of because I ate plenty for breakfast and had a nice dinner. read more

My husband and I always try to have a really nice dinner on NYE. This year, Michelson & Morley was the winner in a long search for somewhere that we hadn't been to and we could agree on. We were both a little leery, since we went to CWRU and are familiar with Bon Appetit (I'm sure many will agree with our not so great outlook on the company). But, despite our worried expectations, this meal was fantastic! The calamari was delicious, not rubbery, and very lightly breaded so the breading and oil wasn't overwhelming. The light aioli sauce was also delicious! I got scallops, which were some of the best I've ever had. The sear was perfect and they weren't over-buttered or salty. My cocktail, the Bellflower Basil was also surprisingly strong and tasty! My only complaint is that service was slow at the beginning, but it picked up and our server ended up being great! It's totally worth the strange walk through the student center as a non-student to get to this place. I can't wait to hit up happy hour! read more

Michelson & Morley - Perfect scallops and the Bellflower Basil. - American Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

I ordered the bibb salad, described as: bibb / tamari-marinated beet / green onion / goat cheese / sesame cashew / carrot-ginger dressing $10 There was a lot of bibb lettuce. Whole leaves, not torn into bite sized pieces. The beets tasted like beets, no marinade flavor at all. The sesame cashews were in a block that I had to chip apart with a knife and fork. The dressing was good. read more

This restaurant is right inside the student center at campus. The decoration is modern style, have only been there for lunch, sitting next to the French windows made me feel quite relaxed. The food there is quite nice, not the best in town but the price is actually good. Just had today's special Ahi tuna. read more

Every dish is fantastic. Cool history for the name and for a campus restaurant. Would go on an afternoon where you have a chance to enjoy case western campus and take your time. read more

We had a high expectation when we reserved the seats; however, the waiter was very sassy and the manager kept talking in a condescending tone. The manager was nice to other older people. Very disappointed. read more

All flash, not much substance. Poorly trained staff, mediocre food, adjacent tables not bussed, over cooked and unremarkable burger.

Put simply. Great service, 5 star food for half the price. Good wine selection. Great place to go on a date.

Food was delicious and prices very reasonable, and they give you plenty of food so you leave feeling full. Bottle wine prices are reasonable. My boyfriend and I were looking for a place to have an early dinner (4:30pm) before going to the Cleveland Orchestra on a Friday night and wanted this dinner time so we could relax, have a cocktail, enjoy our dinner but not be rushed. I was very impressed with this place. Loved the atmosphere, looking forward to going back and sitting on the patio once they put the tables outside. read more

This is my second time at this casual fine dining restaurant. It is in the Tinkham Veale University Center at Case Western Reserve University. Bon Appetit, the company that runs food service for Case, runs this restaurant. Bon Appetit's Ed Kasper is the general manager and Tony Smoody is the executive chef. Today I had the greens salad. They offered me bread service with it. The multigrain bread they gave me was fabulous. I thought the lettuce was dry though. They offered me extra dressing (a reisling vinagrette). They have a happy hour here that starts at 3:00. I came here for a dessert snack the last time I was here, and ordered a light flourless Neopolitan Torte that was very, very good! They also have a passion fruit charlotte with fresh berries, which I'm told is also a light dessert, and I look forward to trying it. This restaurant has Case Wireless and Case Guest wifi. They have power outlets all along the bar. read more