One of the restaurants that I really miss since my family moved away from California is Clearman's North Woods Inn. To this day I still crave their Cheesy Bread and Red Cabbage Salad that are both epic and legendary. Clearman's combines both excellent food with amazing ambiance. It's the kind of place that you would go on a first date as well as place you would take you wife to celebrate a special occasion. It's the kind of place that serves a bucket of peanuts in their shells as an appetizer and encourage you to throw those empty shells on the floor and walk all over them. It's the kind of place that serves a gourmet quality meal with a glass of your favorite beer.
It's a place that looks like belongs in the Yukon (inside and out) with a roof that has snow on it on a winter day as well a 100 degree summer day located exclusively in Southern California.
I have eaten at several of the Clearman's locations and I have never had a meal that was anything short of amazing.
Information about the restaurant can be found in an article from the Pasadena Star News:
Founder John Clearman launched the restaurant enterprise in the 1940s and the business is still family owned.
“I’m a long-time customer,” said Patricia Jacobson, 67, of Eagle Rock, who stopped in with her husband on Wednesday. “My mother and father used to bring us here for special occasions when I was a teenager. I love the Tiffany-style lamps and the stained-glass windows.”
“Our salads and cheese bread is what people think about when they talk about Clearman’s,” he said. “But the other thing is we have excellent service. I get a lot of customers who will go out of their way to tell me that. They’ll call me up front. It’s always good to get that kind of feedback.”
Clearman’s serves up everything from red cabbage salads, lumberjack steaks and pulled-pork sandwiches to roasted chicken and a variety of seafood, including Alaskan king crab legs, rock lobster tail and jumbo shrimp.
Originally located in Monrovia, the business was moved piece by piece to its current San Gabriel location at 7247 Rosemead Blvd. in 1966 to make way for construction for the 210 Freeway. And Clearman’s North Woods Inn of San Gabriel is only a piece of the family-owned enterprise.
There are two other Clearman’s North Woods Inns in Covina and La Mirada as well as a Steak ‘N Stein Inn in Pico Rivera and a Clearman’s Galley adjacent to the San Gabriel location.
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