Ohio City Galley opened its doors last Friday.
Ohio City Galley, the third food hall and restaurant accelerator from
Galley Group, is a launch pad for exciting new restaurant concepts in Cleveland. The mission is to cultivate and accelerate aspiring restaurateurs by providing a forum to showcase their capabilities, hone their craft, develop business practices, and build a following behind their concepts.
No more negotiating and choosing what type of food you and your spouse, friend, or family feel like eating that night! There's something for everyone between the four restaurants housed there, and I can already tell it will become a good backup for Mr. H and I when we can't agree.
It's housed in the renovated Forest City Bank building on the corner of West 25th Street and Detroit Avenue, which makes for a very pretty backdrop.
With four fully outfitted kitchens, diners get to place orders at any of the four counters:
The Rice Shop,
Tinman,
Sauce the City, and
POCA.
I've already written about
POCA, since it's the same chef/owner as our current favorite Cleveland restaurant,
The Black Pig. We attended a preview pop-up event several weeks ago, and the casual Mexican food is unlike any other I've had in the city.
But, I was also excited to start trying food from the other three as well.
With over 200 seats and a giant communal bar serving craft beer, cocktails and wine, you take a seat with your numbered/color-coded cards and servers bring out your food from each restaurant as it's ready.
It was
Saturday Brunch, so we tried the
Breakfast Memelas ($10) from
POCA with chorizo, toasted masa cakes, black beans, queso oaxaca, over-easy eggs, salsa verde, and cilantro.
Great flavors and textures, I'd get this again!
I'd also started to hear that the burger from
Tinman was already becoming a "
don't miss" item, so we shared the
A.M. Burger ($16) with sunny-up egg, American cheese, S&S pickles, and special sauce.
The burger impressed, and was probably one of the
best we've had in quite a while. The side of smashed potatoes was also very good (
spicy, so beware if that's not your thing).
The space could use some warming up and additional character, in my opinion. But it's been renovated well, and the food and service were almost flawless, even for opening weekend. We'll continue to eat our way through the current four restaurants, and look forward to what the future brings in this space.
Ohio City Galley
1400 W 25th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
(216) 525-9933
