With official word from the State of Ohio that Mike Nowak can pick up his liquor license, Black Pig in Ohio City will open next Wednesday, August 15.

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Following a few Friends & Family dinners, chef Nowak believes that he and his crew are ready to go.

“They didn’t take it easy on us,” Nowak says of the restaurant’s early guinea pigs. “But we made a few tweaks and the next night was awesome. Everything went really smooth.”

Set in the space that previously housed Dragonfly (1865 W. 25th St.), Black Pig is described as a French-inspired American bistro specializing in dishes built around locally raised heritage-breed pork.

Dishes include a seared sweetbread starter with pasta and smoked trotters; a Vietnamese banh mi sandwich with pork pate, chicken pate, pork belly and slaw; butter-poached pork loin with Ohio City Farm veggies; and roasted duck breast with confit crepinette and hominy.

“The growth we’ve seen in this neighborhood over the past five years has been insane,” Nowak says. “This is one of if not the major dining and nightlife destinations in town.”

Next up: Sam McNulty’s Nano Brew, which is immediately next door.

This article appears in Aug 8-14, 2012.

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.

One reply on “Ohio City’s Black Pig to Open Wednesday”

  1. I am very glad that something is opening in the CLE right now… and a place of such seemingly high caliber is icing on the cake. Several ‘key’ places seem to be on the verge of opening. So Black Pig’s opening is leading the way!
    It will be nice to see W 25th looking respectable again. I hardly went over there this summer.
    With all the retail places empty in the Heil Block (where this is going), the abandoned eyesore that the Moda Bldg has become (Mitchell’s anyone????) and the other eyesores on 25th (which admittedly outnumber the places with curb appeal)…it was starting to look like the Market District of Ohio City was reverting back to the past. It still has a considerable way to go
    Anyway, here’s to a great future for Mike Nowak et al !!!!!!

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