Best of Cleveland 2015: Pork Wings

With a porcine play on chicken wings, Cantine Bar and Bottle Shop is turning us into believers: Pigs really can fly. When the Broadview Heights spot opened in December 2013, co-owner Ross Valenti wanted to elevate the idea of bar food, so he added pork wings ($8) to the menu of small plates. "We call them pork wings, but they're actually pork shanks," he says of the restaurant's most popular dish. Two hefty shanks are floured and pan-fried until they are ever-so-tender, then tossed in and served with a chili sauce. At a place that boasts about 500 bottles of wine (try pairing the dish with a syrah or an Italian wine), plus a well-stocked beer cooler, the spicy-sweet flavor is exactly what we want between swigs. "They start a little sweet and then finish a little spicy," Valenti says. 1100 W. Royalton Road, Broadview Heights, 440-877-9399, cantinebottleshop.com