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Dining

Cleveland is host to a wide variety of restaurants and is culinary much more diverse than an outsider might suspect drawing on large enclaves of ethnic neighborhoods and immigration (Ohio City, Slavic Village, Parma, Hough, Little Italy and others). Certainly, Eastern European food and Soul food are big in a city where Hungarians, Slavs, Poles, Czechs, Bohemians and Southern African Americans were drawn to the steel industry at the end of the 19th century; however recent émigrés have spiced up the mix, adding many more influences including Indian, Chinese, Puerto Rican and Central American, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean.

In the mid-1990s Cleveland was in step with the resurgence of the restaurant industry, and has many restaurants on-par with their larger-city counterparts, many of which are located in the Historic Warehouse District, Ohio City, Tremont, and the Gateway Neighborhood.

Today's Cleveland is not your Grandfather's sausage and perogie steel town.

Markets
 • West Side Market,  .
 • Shaker Square Farmer's Market.
 • Miles Farmers Market, Solon.

Budget
 • Cafe 56 great salads in Mayfield Heights, Beachwood...
 • California Salads great salads at Thornburg Station in Valley View, Beachwood and Mentor.
 • Heck's Cafe, Ohio City.
 • Johnny Mango's, Ohio City, southwestern fare.
 • Juniper Grille, southwest corner of Carnegie Avenue and E. Ninth Street, near the Jake and Playhouse Square.
 • Mama Santa's Pizzeria in Little Italy.
 • Paninis, Gateway Neighborhood, Historic Warehouse District, Flats, Independence, Berea, others...
 • Parma Pierogies
 • Ruthie and Moe's, refurbished diner buildings in Midtown-Cleveland, southeast corner of Prospect Avenue and E. 40th Street.
 • The Winking Lizard, Gateway Neighborhood, Bedford Heights, Macedonia...
 • Yours Truly, Shaker Square, Beachwood, Chagrin Falls, Mayfield Village, Hudson, others...

Mid-range
 • Der Braumeister on 13046 Lorain Ave., Cleveland (216-671-6220)  .
 • Fat Cats in Tremont.
 • The Flying Fig, 2523 Market Avenue, Ohio City (Cleveland), Ph: 216 241-4243.
 • Great Lakes Brewery Co., 2516 Market Avenue, Ohio City, 216 771 4404.
 • Frank & Pauly's, 200 Public Square, 216 575 1000.
 • House of Blues, 308 Euclid Avenue, 216 523 2583.
 • Lemon Grass great Thai food in the Lee Road district in Cleveland Heights.
 • Pacific East, 1763 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, Ph: 216 320-2302. (Japanese/Sushi)
 • Park City Diner.
 • Pickwick & Frolics, collocated with Hillarities Comedy Club on E. 4th Street.
 • Sushi Rock, Historic Warehouse District and Beachwood.
 • Three Birds Restaurant, .
 • Trattoria, Little Italy, 216 421 2700.

Splurge
 • The Baricelli Inn.
 • Battuto, 12405 Mayfield Road, Little Italy, 216 707 1055.
 • Blue Point Grille, 700 W St. Clair Ave, 216 875 7827.
 • Century at the Ritz Carlton, 1515 W 3rd Street, 216 623 1300.
 • Charlie's Crab, Beachwood.
 • Fire Food and Drink,  .
 • Giovanni's, Beachwood.
 • Johnny's Downtown, 1406 W 6th St, Warehouse District, 216 623 0055.
 • Lockkeepers Inn.
 • Lola Bistro/Lolita.
 • Moxie's, Beachwood.
 • One Walnut, Financial District in the Ohio Savings Plaza.
 • Pier W, Gold Coast, 12700 Lake Avenue, 216 228 2250.
 • Sage, Tremont.
 • Sans Souci, Tower City Center, 24 Public Square, 216 696 5600.

Drink

 • The House of Blues, downtown near Public Square.
 • The Grog Shop,, eclectic Coventry neighborhood in Cleveland Heights.
 • Great Lakes Brewery, , Ohio City.
 • The Bop Stop,
 • Beachland Ballroom,  .
 • The Agora,, Midtown-Cleveland.
 • La Cave Du Vin.
 • Lava Lounge, 1307 Auburn Ave, Tremont (Cleveland), Ph: (216) 589-9112.
 • Rockbottom Brewery, the Powerhouse in the Flats.
 • Wilbert's, Live Blues music across the street from the Jake and the Q.