GRAND RIVER, Ohio -- Brennan’s Fish House , a lakeside landmark where Lake Erie perch and walleye are the big fish on the line, just snagged second place in the Cleveland.com / The Plain Dealer “Best Seafood in Northeast Ohio” competition.

Brennan’s is at 102 River St. in Grand River, just 50 feet or so from the Grand River.

That is another trophy in the tackle box for a family-owned restaurant, which has been casting lines into Fairport Harbor’s dining scene since the end of the Civil War.

The building’s story goes back to 1865, when it first opened as the Richmond Inn in the little fishing village just off Lake Erie. It had a hotel upstairs and a sailor’s saloon below. When the tides turned and the hotel venture sank, owners switched bait — adding pool tables, beer and fish to keep

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