If you work in downtown Akron then you can get across different buildings through a connected…read moreSkywalk. I think the fact that the city of Akron developed a skywalk is really great. I took the skywalk on 28 February and went straight to the Polsky Building to get some lunch at Chick-Fil-A. The Polsky building has a Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, a snack shop, and a University of Akron bookstore. The shops are on the 3rd floor I believe. My team walked on the Main street / High street skywalk - this skywalk is called the Main Place skywalk which is named after the Main Place building. There is also a skywalk between High Street and Broadway called the Ocasek Skywalk since the Ocasek building is the main connector. (see my attached photos with maps). The skywalk is convenient during the winter months when you don't want to walk outside. It is connected through different outlet points and even has a tunnel in the Cascade Parking garage. Some parts of the skywalk are cold and one particular section of it (a hallway) smells bad. Maybe the smell is due to some construction in the area outside. But, for the most part, the walk above the streets is nice. You will enjoy looking through the windows and you will fee the bright sunlight over your face. Also, there is some artwork on a few walls on some parts of the Skywalk. I also enjoy the little exercise posters on the walls that encourages movement as you walk through the skywalk. If you are walking leisurely, the walk will take you between 5-10 mins depending on where you are going and where you are coming from. Overall, I recommend the Skywalk as a good form of exercise because you get to leave your desk at work and move around. The buildings you will go through are old but there is no need for building admiration here since the point of the skywalk is to not walk outside. This, the skywalk meets its purpose without looking 100% aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Rating: 3/5 just because of the bad smell in a section of the skywalk and it is cold in some parts of the skywalk. *** - 39 total reviews in 2019 - 249 total Yelp reviews - Reviewed on 1 March 2019

Went again. Merchandise booths change periodically. Items are locally made. Lots of unusual and…read morepractical items. I buy Akron Honey: Small business-family owned, including being bee keepers. Casual, open air restaurant was booming.

My first time visiting this market! What a concept for entrepreneurs to freely showcase their…read moreideas, skills and share their creations. A few stores are closed like the boba tea shop. This place definitely could use a specialty coffee/tea bar. It was a long wait since there was only one worker serving a long line just to get a hot drink. I enjoyed checking out unique products made with passion and creative skills from local honey to sweaters made with Alpaca wool materials.

I feel completely disappointed and disrespected by La Vonne (owner of Amish Table Talk)'s attitude…read moreand customer service. I had a very unpleasant tour experience with La Vonne. Her attitude was very disrespectful. Her van broke down and she didn't show up at the meeting location. She didn't provide any tour. She hired someone to take us instead. I understand that this kind of problem can happen. Ok, her van broke down; however, why having such a disrespectful attitude? When I got on the phone with her, she was very rude. She did not apologize at all. Rather, she raised her voice and yelled at me. The other tour guide she hired showed up late, and drop us off at the location late so we could not enjoy our time. I didn't have internet and she kept demanding for Venmo payment when we were supposed to pay cash to her in person. Some of my friends did not have Venmo account so this was a problem. She threatened that if we don't pay her in few minutes all the rest of the tour would be cancelled. We didn't have a good reception of internet and we were busy from listening to the other tour guide but she kept demanding us to pay to her using Venmo. Very impatient, rude, disrespectful, and accusatory!! I do not recommend her company. Very unpleasant and rude customer service.

Flight is a lovely sculpture designed by Denise Romecki. It is located outside of the Columbus…read moreCultural Arts Center, in the garden space. It depicts a figure that appears to be gazing upwards, while what may be wings or feathery looking clothing wraps around the body. I enjoyed considering the possibilities of what the figure was gazing at and thinking about.

Returned to the Akron Art Museum after being in storage, the Eagle Wheel artwork is a painted steel…read moresculpture by artist Mark Di Suvero. It is located in the upper part of the outdoor sculpture garden and is available day or night. This is the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden nestled next the museum on High Street. Eagle Wheel was a fixture in the museum's former sculpture garden from 1981 to 2004 when it was removed and placed in storage as part of a massive expansion and renovation of the space. If you're in downtown Akron whether you visit the museum or not, check out this very interesting piece. [Review 1352 of 2024 - 271 in Ohio - 22375 overall]

This artwork is located in front of the John S. Knight Center on a sidewalk next to a busy…read moreroundabout. It commemorates the 9th Gay Games and the vibrant LGBTQ+ community of Akron. The sculpture is captivating, a three-dimensional sheet of steel, pressed into a cylinder that depicts athletes competing in various sports. It is dynamic and bold and is a reminder of the transformative impact the Gay Games had on Northeast Ohio, fostering collaborations and relationships that continue to benefit the region. There is a marker adjacent that provides some history. "Let us mark this location and always remember in our hearts the incredible opportunity and responsibility we had hosting GG9 in August 2014 and be proud that our community came together to share with the world our kindness, pride and respect for all." It is "signed" by the County Executive and the Mayor of Akron. [Review 2052 of 2024 - 294 in Ohio - 23072 overall]

Went to celebrate an event in our married lives. We were regulars for years at this eatery. Always…read moregreat food and service. This last time we were both disappointed by service and food. I ordered a pasta dish with pomadoro sauce and a ceaser salad. My wife ordered pasta with seafood. It was easily 20 minutes from salad to entre. When It did come, my pasta was swimming in sauce and not what I had hoped for. My wife's dish had overcooked shrimp, scallops and other seafood was also overcooked. The dessert was good as the wine was too. Sorry to see thus happen to a once great Italian eatery. We won't return.

Stopped by yesterday with 2 friends for a 4:30 reservation - there were few other diners there yet…read more When the server seated us, she said that our table was booked with another reservation at 6:30 - insinuating we had a time limit, it seemed. Now, a server may think along those lines all the time in their job, but to say it out loud to diners was tactless and less than welcoming. By 5:30 we did not have food yet, and joked with each other that we weren't going to make it in time. Ultimately, at the end of the meal the owner came around and I told him what the server had said. He went into a discourse about how the online booking service (which we did not use) uses 2-hour reservation slots etc etc, either missing or avoiding the point entirely. I mentioned it took an inordinately long time for our orders to come to the table. He said good food takes time. A cop-out, but okay. Consider my plate of salmon piccata. The salmon was not prepared as requested. Capers appeared to be absent (the whole point of piccata) but found a mere 4 under the fish. The asparagus was missing altogether, but the server did bring some quickly. The pasta wasn't overcooked, so that was right. But there was the bread, "focaccia", $2 ala carte. It was so dense and tasteless, except for the garlic on top. There were no air bubbles in sight. Granted I'm not Italian but this was not focaccia. So we'll go back to our usual place on White Pond.

The center of African-American culture in Akron during the mid-20th century, Howard Street was home…read moreto many of the city's black-owned business and entertainment establishments, and provided an atmosphere in which minority-owned businesses could thrive. Attracted to the vitality of the neighborhood, entrepreneur George Mathews (1887-1982) established a barbershop here in 1920 and in 1925 opened the adjoining Mathews Hotel. The hotel quickly became the anchor of the Howard Street district. George Washington Mathews was the first African American hotel and barber shop owner in Akron.1 His barbershop and hotel were located on North Howard Street at the junction of what is now Howard Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Mathews was one of many successful African American business owners along Howard Street from the1930s to 1960s. Hotel Matthews remained open until 1978. As the rubber industry in Akron declined, so did the Howard Street District. The hotel, along with many other businesses on Howard Street, were bulldozed in the early '80s to make way for the Innerbelt Freeway, a project that was part of Akron's Urban Renewal Movement. The historical marker here reads, "Enthralled by the vitality he witnessed as a visitor to Akron in 1920, George Mathews put his entrepreneurial spirit to work and established a boarding house; soon after a barber shop, then a beauty salon. Over the next half century, The Hotel (spelled "Matthews") was home to a series of shops and businesses including a photo studio and record store. Not the least of its fame was as the Akron home to the greatest "jazz age" entertainers who came here to perform and were guests at The Matthews. George Mathews and his establishment on North Howard Street were the anchors of a rich and glorious district in the lifestyle of Akron's minority community from the mid 1920s through the 1970s." The buildings are long gone but the memories live on. [Review 1354 of 2024 - 273 in Ohio - 22377 overall]

This is my favorite pizza. Always good and reasonably priced. Sweet and tangy wings are also very…read moregood.

Pizza was excellent. Hot and ready when they said it would be. First time trying it but I'll…read moredefinitely be back.