It looks like the Flame had a nice niche, as the “first and only area ‘cafeteria-style’ restaurant featuring broiled steaks.”
As I mentioned in this 2012 post, the Flame succeeded the Muth Cafeteria Restaurant at that Fourth and Broadway location.
Here’s the vintage photo of the Flame from that post.
Anyway, cafeterias seem to have mostly gone away in the 2000s, except for their established presence in schools and hospitals. But there’s still a cafeteria-style restaurant in our area if you have a hankering to relive that experience of sliding a plastic tray down a line as you select your mealtime morsels: Cleveland’s Sokolowski's University Inn.
Click here to read a great article about it. It’s been a few years since I ate there (I combined it with a visit to the Christmas Story House nearby), but I do remember the great rice pudding. There was also a piano player providing dinner music.
Here’s the restaurant’s website.
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Sokolowski's University Inn is a great place to eat. I've only easten there once, but the other day that the piano player had recently passed away.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for noting that Tom Ballog, the pianist at Sokolowski's, had passed away in early January. Here is the link to an article about him:
https://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/2019/01/tom-ballog-longtime-piano-player-at-sokolowskis-touched-many-with-his-music.html
I've seen that same chef working at several restaurants (based on that drawing in the ad). He gets around . . .
--Roger Andout
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