Heather Haviland's Earthly Pleasures
Vine & Bean and Lucky's Café only Scratch the Surface for Foodie-Entrepreneur

In Woody Allen's 1980 movie Stardust Memories, he plays a successful filmmaker who begins to feel discouraged because he's not doing anything good for the world. But he finds enlightenment when a space alien tells him, "You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes."

Heather Haviland has found similar enlightenment, but not about movie making or joke writing. And not from Martians, but from regular people, like you and me. Well, like me, anyway. The Cleveland chef and restaurateur has learned, in more than 30 years of creating cool culinary concepts, how good it feels to make other people feel good -- and how to accomplish it. She's learned that food is a great vehicle for that, and a legitimate one.

Haviland owns Lucky's Café (luckyscafe.com) on Starkweather Avenue in Tremont and the Vine and Bean Café (vineandbeancafe.com) on Larchmere Boulevard in Cleveland, just north of Shaker Square. And she is working on a third place called Sanctuary, also in Tremont, in the former Gospel Press Building, a pre-Civil War structure that she says has housed a Bible factory and a home for cloistered nuns...

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