Food & Drink

The Haunted House Restaurant's Candyman Bowl Cocktail Is A Magical Potion

The ginormous cocktail served in a chalice is good, spooky fun for a Cleveland Heights restaurant steeped in horror iconography.

by Dillon Stewart | Oct. 7, 2021 | 11:00 AM

Karin McKenna

Karin McKenna

The Candyman ($34.99) from The Haunted House Restaurant in Cleveland Heights is proof some things are made for the big screen. Found on the Haunted Potion Bowl menu of sharable cocktails, this sweet-and-fizzy behemoth mixes grape and cherry vodkas, sour mix, lime juice, cranberry juice and ginger ale in a 51-ounce glass chalice. Topped with sour treats, gummies and rock candy, the cocktail is poured tableside, setting off a spooky scientific reaction that causes fog to emanate from the glass. Paired with a complimentary bowl of movie theater butter popcorn, the sweet gulp — which also has a few non-alcoholic cousins — completes the transformative cinema-inspired dining experience. “We want you to feel like you’re inside a movie theater,” says partner Andre Scott. 13463 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, 216-862-5584, thehauntedhouserestaurant.com

Dillon Stewart

Dillon Stewart is the editor of Cleveland Magazine. He studied web and magazine writing at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and got his start as a Cleveland Magazine intern. His mission is to bring the storytelling, voice, beauty and quality of legacy print magazines into the digital age. He's always hungry for a great story about life in Northeast Ohio and beyond.

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