“They were old-school Italian and it was pretty good stuff,” he said.įrom there, he used to ride his bike up State Road with a buddy to wash dishes at Peking & Tokyo in Cuyahoga Falls. That's where he made pizza dough and Italian sausage from scratch. Otherwise, it was Mama Rosa’s pizza and chicken after Saturday Mass, and watching ‘Hee Haw’ in the living room,” Beau said with a chuckle.At age 13, while still lending a hand with his parents’ catering business, Beau landed his first restaurant job at Papa Felice’s near Chapel Hill Mall. “When we were kids, our special occasion was to go to Nick Anthe’s, Henry’s Lamp Light or Gus’ Chalet. More: Welcome to Prime Vine: Winery opens in New Franklin The Schmidts still managed to find time to treat the family to special meals at local restaurants.
Everything from the catering, baking and home-cooked Lebanese meals were made from scratch. Jerry, now 85, is Lebanese, and Paul, who died in 1997, was German. I don’t know how I got out of that one.” Food memories of North Hillįood was an integral part of growing up in the Schmidt family. “He decides to jump from the back seat into the front seat and kicked the cake. “Another time, I was carrying a cake in the car and his dad was driving,” Jerry said. Paul and Jerry used to cater weddings at the Carovillese Club on North Hill and Beau would tag along to help. She recalled the time her son, “who was way younger than 10,” helped himself to the corner of a wedding cake that she was decorating in their Mount Vernon Avenue kitchen. Beau’s dad, Paul, was a cook in the Army while Jerry’s forte was baking.
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