New restaurants opening in Cleveland
In the 30 days to Nov 9, we logged 119 new restaurant and bar leads across Cleveland & Northeast Ohio: 73 liquor license applications, 19 new food, building, and sign permits, and 24 researched openings.
Coming soon to Cleveland
LULO Kitchen
Handmade empanadas and mango salmon head west: Colombia-born chef Stefanie Montoya and her husband Mario are taking LULO Kitchen beyond its Warehouse District flagship to a second full-service room at Crocker Park.
Crafty Steere
West Point Market's triple-layer Killer Brownies and Our Bar cheese spread are heading downtown, as Crafty Steere fills two floors of the old O'Neil's department store next to Lock 3 with a market, a 10-tap bar and a restaurant serving a half-pound…
Sundaybird
Birdietown's Tim Frazee and chef Andrew Gorski are turning the tiny former Pachamama Kitchen into a fast-casual rotisserie shop where a glass-front, 48-bird spit drips onto a bed of red-skinned potatoes, backed by collard greens, housemade Parker House rolls…
Good Company
Good Company's award-winning '72-hour' wings and The Good One burger are coming to Little Italy, where the west-side favorite is taking over the old Club Isabella building on Cornell after losing its Battery Park home.
Boss ChickNBeer
Ask for sauce at your own risk: the dry-rubbed wings that made Boss ChickNBeer a Berea cult favorite are heading to Medina's Public Square. Owners Heather Doeberling and Emily Moes brine them for 12 hours and flash-fry them when you order.
Sourwood Public House
Triple-fried Korean-style chicken and chicken-fried oysters are coming to Detroit Ave as Sourwood Public House replaces Deagan's with Southern cooking and global twists, served under freshly grey-washed brick.
Casa Nostra
Goma's big central sushi bar becomes the main bar at Casa Nostra, where tortellini and bucatini are made in house and the polpette come in five meats - Dante Boccuzzi trades raw fish for red sauce on East 4th.
Vecino
Whole red snapper painted half salsa roja, half salsa verde and laid over open fire — Detroit's NYT-listed Vecino brings its heirloom-corn nixtamal masa to a 17-foot-ceilinged corner of Tremont's new Driftwood building.
La Pecora Slice Shop
Thin, crackly 18-inch sourdough pies by the slice: the Vergaras' old Barroco Grill on Larchmere becomes a 65-seat, New York-leaning slice shop next door to their Neapolitan pizzabar.
Pearl's Kitchen and Taproom
Southern comfort cooking moves onto the bar stools where Cleveland's first Black-owned brewery poured its last beer on Sept. 27. Former cardiothoracic nurse Tiwanna Scott-Williams, already feeding the Rocket Arena concourse, takes over the MidTown taproom…
Ettore
Northern Italian is coming to the ground floor of the long-dark Rose Building, where the old Medical Mutual lobby at East 9th and Prospect gets gutted for a dining room — Doug Katz, of Fire, Kiln and Amba and a 2025 James Beard semifinalist, is writing the…
Laughing Bomb Brewery
Tanks going back into the dark, empty Working Class room on Lorain — beer, cider and hard seltzer brewed a few feet from the kitchen pass — as Zech and Brittney Laughbaum, the couple who resurrected Avon Lake's 1930s John Christ Winery, hand the west side its…
One Pot Korean BBQ and Hot Pot
The all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ and hot pot spot that built a following on Coventry is taking its grills west to Great Northern.
FrankieLynn Hotdogs
Rachel Ventura's cult hot dog cart is going permanent: a tiny Broadview Road shop with bread from Leavened and a counter of local makers.
Mappina Bakery
Mini cannoli in a gluten-free shell and anise pizzelle landing on the one Cleveland block celiacs have never been able to eat - Rachel's dedicated gluten-free, peanut-free bakery, built on four generations of family recipes traced back to her grandmother…
Black Magick
Pinball flippers clattering under heavy metal in a 1924 corner tavern — league regulars Jake and Molly Zard bought the 50-year Ugly Broad off its retiring owner and are rewiring the old dive into Black Magick.
Daniel del Prado's Neapolitan pizza concept at Intro (name TBA)
A tile-covered Italian pizza oven goes in the middle of the old Le Burger room at Intro, as Minneapolis chef Daniel del Prado, who already runs a Neapolitan-style pizza spot in the Twin Cities, rebuilds the Ohio City complex's food and drink.
Juan's Pizza
Made-from-scratch dough fired at an open counter you can watch — Juan Vergara reclaims the original Barroco space in Lakewood, spinning his cult La Pecora pizzabar into a full room with a patio and pies that are pointedly not Neapolitan.
Just opened
Forest City Shuffleboard
Ohio City's indoor shuffleboard arena slides back onto Lorain Ave with freshly sanded, repainted courts - Birdietown's Tim and Erin Frazee took the keys after the January closure, and ex-Rood chef Rachelle Murphy is cooking elevated pub fare.
Lou's Tavern
Grandma Phyllis's cavatelli and tripe chalked on a whiteboard above a vintage brass register, a 1960s Wurlitzer in the corner - 21-year-old Jack Sparent left Cleveland State to bring his family's century-old Little Italy bar back from decades of quiet.
Mestizo Kitchen & Cafe
Birria-stuffed lumpia and chicken adobo burritos just landed in old Chinatown: Jessie Mendoza and Armando Llamas' 'Mexipino' menu, served once the morning pastries and coffee clear out.
Star of India Garden
Biryani, curries and fresh breads at a Van Aken Market Hall counter: the Sharma brothers carry nearly 20 years of Lakewood's India Garden from the west side to the east, bringing Indian food back to the hall for the first time since Chutney B closed in 2021.
KneadED
Eight independent bakers and two pastry chefs bake and sell side by side at KneadED, a worker-owned co-op bakery on Chagrin Blvd where founders Adenike Harper and Saidah Farrell also teach baking classes and mentor local youth.
New restaurant leads in Cleveland: filed in the last 30 days
The earliest signals: liquor applications and new food, building, and sign permits, often months before any press. Names of filings from the last two weeks, plus every address and record, are for subscribers.
| Filed | Stage | Where | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Lisbon | B•• W••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Dover | B•••••• L•••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Salem | D•••••• on B•••••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Canfield Twp | G•• S•••••• L•• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Poland Twp | L••••• D•••• T••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Austintown Twp | R•• R•••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Mansfield | R••• A••• M•••••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor application | Mifflin Twp | S•• W•• E••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Struthers | T•••••• S•••••• O••• |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Kinsman Twp | T•••••• F•••••• - |
| Nov 7 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Lorain | P•••••• L•••••• R•• |
| Nov 6 | Liquor application | Green | B•••• C•••• P•••••• |
| Nov 6 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Middleburg Heights | F•• H••••• B•••••• |
| Nov 5 | Liquor transfer (new owner) | Mantua | H•••••• V•••••• P•••• |
This month's leads include Lisbon, Dover, Salem, Canfield Twp, Poland Twp, Austintown Twp, Mansfield, Mifflin Twp, Struthers, Kinsman Twp, Lorain, Green, Middleburg Heights, Mantua.
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Questions
How do you find new restaurants in Cleveland before they open?
We read the public record every day: state liquor license applications (often months before opening), county health and city building permits (weeks before), local press, and a daily web sweep. Duplicates are merged and the substantive leads are researched against the venue's own site and press.
How many new restaurants are opening in Cleveland?
In the 30 days to Nov 9, we logged 119 new restaurant and bar leads across Cleveland & Northeast Ohio: 73 liquor license applications, 19 new food, building, and sign permits, and 24 researched openings. Not every filing becomes a restaurant, which is why the researched openings are listed separately.
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