Last Week in Cleveland Food News: Build the Pho's Second Spot, Coppia's New Home and More

Build the Pho, Ohio City and N. Olmsted Eric Jun Weng, who operates Build the Pho at Uptown in University Circle, has begun work on locations number two and three. One is coming to the former Campbell’s Sweets space on W. 25th St. in Ohio City, and the other to the former Rail spot in North Olmsted. Like the original, the new shops will offer diners a build-your-own-bowl pho experience. The restaurant employs an efficient QR code-based ordering system ideally suited to pho given the variety of noodle, broth and topping options offered. Credit: Scene archives

– Coppia is now open in its new home in Willoughby. Here’s what chefs Hedy and Talia Trovato had to say about the move and what the new space brings that the original spot in Chesterland couldn’t.
– After seven years, Re:Bar is closing its doors next week.
– Build the Pho is now open in North Olmsted. The local chain’s third location in Ohio City is still making progress.
– A new owner has saved Krusinski’s Market, and Janka pierogies, in Slavic Village.
– Brick & Vine is set to replace Carpe Raci in Brecksville, with some familiar faces behind the change.
– Noble Beast’s planned beer garden in Ohio City should open by next spring.
– Chopt is opening its first two spots in Ohio, one at Eton Chagrin and another at Crocker Commons.
– Last issue’s cover story: Fidelity Hotel chef Daniel Young, a Cleveland native, is back home after professional journeys and personal tragedy.
– And a complementary piece on the food Young is serving up.
– Dee-Jays, the custom butcher that has long supplied Northeast Ohio restaurants, suffered a devastating fire earlier this year. A bunch of those local restaurants are now teaming up for a benefit.

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This article appears in Cleveland SCENE 7/16/25.