About

Address: 2233 West 3rd Street, Cleveland OH

Pat's In The Flats has provided alternative entertainment to Clevelanders for nearly twenty years. In a make-a-quick-buck era, proprietor Pat Hanych chose not to walk the karaoke road, instead providing a stage for local youth to make a little bit of noise. Over the years, Pats became a favorite stop for established regional and national acts as well.


The building - in the industrial Flats area in Clevelands Tremont neighborhood - has at one time or another served as a speakeasy, show bar, and gambling house, and has outlived Ulysses S. Grant (along with 24 other U.S. Presidents since). Eliot Ness would pace the planks of Pats long before the White Stripes and Death of Samantha. And yet, tucked at the very bottom of Literary Road, Pats in the Flats is an unassuming site, dwarfed as it is by the surrounding industrial infrastructure.


Pat was twelve years old, washing dishes in what was then Annie's Lunch (named after Pats Ma), when she fell in love with the humble, hard-working people that live and labor in lower Tremont and the Flats. After the war, her father ran another..