Hodge’s, the first brick-and-mortar restaurant from food truck pioneer Chris Hodgson, will close at the end of this year. The restaurant was opened in 2012 by Hodgson and Scott Kuhn, whose Driftwood Restaurants and Catering went on to open Washington Place Bistro, Cibreo, Bin 216, Republic Foods and Green Rooster Farms.

Kuhn said that the decision to let the lease expire at the end of the year was made in part to better focus his company’s efforts on Playhouse Square, where the bulk of their operations exist.

This article appears in Oct 23-29, 2019.

For 25 years, Douglas Trattner has worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and author. His work as co-author on Michael Symon's cookbooks have earned him four New York Times Best-Selling Author honors, while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own.

6 replies on “Hodge’s Restaurant Downtown to Close at Year’s End”

  1. Never made it to Hodge’s unfortunately after being big fan of Dim and Den Sum. Having been to Republic, I agree that they need to focus their efforts on that place if they don’t want it to meet the same fate as Hodge’s but sooner.

  3. This town…..becoming a ghost town. Wait till SW leaves.
    Symon is gone, stinky is going to Columbus, and Katz is just milking it.
    This place is spiraling down, and the economy is booming. Sad sad times.

  4. This place was awful. It’s telling that it was the one place downtown that OpenTable had every time slot open on every Friday & Saturday night. Seriously, one of the worst dining experiences I have had in Cleveland.

  5. Trattner, could you at least have included the ADDRESS of the soon-to-be-closed restaurant in your blurb?

  6. The address is 668 Euclid Avenue. It is inside where the Residences at 668 are located, near the 5th Street Arcade.

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