There's nothing like a nice, steamy bowl of pho, ramen, or soba noodles to warm your bones as the chill of winter descends on Cleveland. While pho has been around town for years, finding a bowl of ramen was a little more difficult until the last five years or so. Now, there's a good number of options if you're looking for the Japanese comfort food. Here are some of our favorite places that serve either ramen, pho or other noodle and soup dishes around Cleveland.
31 Essential Cleveland Spots for Pho, Ramen and Other Asian Soups
By Scene Staff on Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:05 am
There's nothing like a nice, steamy bowl of pho, ramen, or soba noodles to warm your bones as the chill of fall descends on Cleveland. While pho has been around town for years, finding a bowl of ramen was a little more difficult until the last five years or so. Now, there's a good number of options if you're looking for the Japanese comfort food. Here are some of our favorite places that serve either ramen, pho or other noodle and soup dishes around Cleveland.
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Tay Do Vietnamese Restaurant
11725 Snow Rd., ParmaThe fragrance and flavor of Tay Do's authentic Vietnamese cuisine — full of ginger, lime, cilantro, and mint — is enough to transport diners from the bare-bones dining room into a full-blown floral fantasy. You won’t be able to stop slurping this pho.
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Siam Cafe
3951 St. Clair Ave., ClevelandNeat, tidy, and friendly, this multicultural restaurant in the heart of Asia Town serves an enormous variety of authentic Asian eats. Ingredients are fresh, flavors are nuanced and masterfully balanced, and prices are notable values, particularly during the bustling lunch hours. They serve the Vietnamese soup Canh Chua, along with Thai soups Tom Kar Gai, Tom Yum Goong and Hot Liang Soup along with 15 varieties of pho and other noodle soups.
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Pho Thang Cafe
815 Superior Ave. East, ClevelandPho Thang’s pho is delicious, with 10 different varieties ranging from lean to a combination bowl with round steak, brisket, tripe and meatballs. Chicken varieties are there, too. Soups come in only one size and are served with usual accompaniments of bean sprouts, cilantro, jalapeno and lime.
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Otani Noodle
11472 Euclid Ave., and 234 Euclid Ave., ClevelandOtani Noodle, from the same owners of long-standing Mayfield Heights hibachi restaurant Otani, recently opened their second location, this time in the heart of downtown in addition to their University Circle home, and if you haven’t been yet, you’re missing out. The tonkotsu broth they use for their ramen is delectable.
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Mason’s Creamery
4401 Bridge Ave., ClevelandAn ice cream place on a list for Asian noodles? Yep, you read it right. Usually going from about October through March, Mason’s turns into a pop-up ramen shop for 2 days a month, or until they’re out of ramen. And trust us, it’s some of the best noodles in town.
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Sichuan Hot Pot
2162 Rockwell Ave., ClevelandJust when you think that Cleveland's Chinese restaurant scene can't possibly get any better, along comes Sichuan Hot Pot to gobble up some of the attention. And deservedly so, as die-hard fans of tongue-tingling Szechuan cuisine can't seem to stay away from the relative newcomer. The namesake hot pots, with innumerable iterations of spicy and non-spicy broths — or a combination thereof, thanks to a two-sided pot — come with your choice meats, seafood, veggies and dipping sauces. Design your own experience from a lengthy list that includes items like fried tofu, enoki mushrooms, eggplant, tripe, pork blood curd, spicy beef, fish filet, shrimp, Spam and squid balls, to name only a few.
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LJ Shanghai
3142 Superior Ave., ClevelandLJ Shanghai made a splash in Asia Town last year when they opened as the first true dumpling restaurant in Cleveland. While they’re known for their dumplings, or Xao Long Bao, don’t sleep on their soup dishes. They’re spicy, they’re tasty and they’re perfect for a cold winter day.
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#1 Pho
>3120 Superior Ave., ClevelandWhile many old-school Vietnamese restaurants make their dishes saltier than the Atlantic Ocean, #1 Pho makes liberal use of cilantro and tangy fruit sauces to keep your taste buds entertained (like the vegetarian pho above). Inside the restaurant's green Victorian building, the ambiance is fresh and dramatic, with blond wood floors and long red curtains hanging all the way to the floor.
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Szechuan Gourmet
1735 East 36th St., ClevelandSzechuan Gourmet is one of the most popular spots in Asia Town. In fact, they recently won Scene’s 2020 Best Chinese Restaurant. They’re definitely more well known for their non-soup dishes like their mapo tofu, three pepper chicken and beef with cumin. But that doesn’t mean they don’t crank out some extra spicy, always tasty Szechuan style soups.
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Dante Tremont
2247 Professor Ave., ClevelandEveryone knows how great of a restaurant Dante Boccuzzi’s signature Tremont joint is. But did you know that starting at 9:30 p.m. on weeknights and 10 p.m. on weekends, the restaurant turns into a noodle bar? Dante’s ‘Zuzzuto’ menu comes out, which includes a selection of broths and noodle varieties.
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