CLEVELAND GUIDES / OHIO CITY
Every stand, in the right place. Find what to eat, what to bring home, and exactly where to go inside Cleveland's market.
Stand locations checked September 28, 2026 · Individual hours and offerings may change
The West Side Market vendors fill a landmark hall and a renovated produce arcade at W 25th Street and Lorain Avenue in Ohio City. Use this guide to find a specific counter, compare what each one sells and move through the building without guessing which row to take.
THE MARKET, STAND BY STAND
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The oversized gyro is the order here, finished with the stand's garlic sauce. Steve's often sells out before the market closes, so make it an early stop.
What to get gyro with garlic sauce
Choose from whole fish, sushi-grade cuts, house-smoked salmon and prepared seafood. The crab cakes and smoked salmon are useful picks when you want something ready for dinner.
What to get crab cakes, smoked salmon
This family counter specializes in smoked sausages and jerky. Look for double-smoked kielbasa, Hungarian sausage and the house beef jerky.
What to get beef jerky, double-smoked kielbasa
Also at : J&J Meats. Second counter of the Czuchraj family: house-smoked meats, fresh sausage and beef jerky.
Sweet and savory crêpes are made while you wait. This is an easy lunch stop if you want to eat inside the hall.
What to get a made-to-order crêpe
This counter serves hummus, filled pies, salads and fresh pita. Pick up a few items for a quick lunch or a ready-made spread at home.
What to get hummus, filled pies
The cases cover flavored cannoli, pastries and a wide range of breads. Pepperoni bread and cannoli are the best-known choices.
What to get pepperoni bread, cannoli
The brightly colored macaron case is easy to spot. The counter also sells baklava, strudel, meringues and other individual desserts.
What to get macarons, baklava
Fresh pasta comes in many shapes and flavors, with ravioli, gnocchi, sauces and flavored butters alongside it. Try a seasonal ravioli or roasted red pepper fettuccine.
What to get seasonal ravioli, roasted red pepper fettuccine
Sit down for breakfast or lunch inside the market instead of carrying food through the hall. The menu includes eggs, sandwiches, burgers and drinks.
What to get breakfast or lunch at a table
The brat sandwich comes on a hard roll with sauerkraut and mustard. Frank's also has a second counter on the north side of the hall.
What to get bratwurst sandwich
Also at : Frank's II. Second counter of Frank's Bratwurst: bratwurst, Italian sausage and smoked sausage sandwiches.
The butcher case covers steaks, pork, chicken, sausages and bulk cuts. It is a practical stop when you are shopping for a full dinner rather than a snack.
What to get steaks, bulk cuts
Choose from beef, lamb, pork, bison and wild game, plus ready-to-cook items. The family's nearby poultry counter has stuffed chicken breasts.
What to get bison, wild game
Also at : Dionne's Poultry. Local all natural chicken and turkey, house chicken and turkey sausage, oven-ready items like stuffed chicken breast and chicken patties, duck and rabbit.
You can assemble a cheese and charcuterie board here without visiting several stands. The shelves also hold olives, oils, crackers, sweets and other imported pantry staples.
What to get cheese and charcuterie
Pick up a buttercream cake the same day, or choose macarons, cookies and brownies. Gift boxes and vegan or gluten-free options are also available.
What to get buttercream cake, macarons
The bakery focuses on naturally leavened, slow-fermented loaves. Choose a loaf for dinner or add rolls and bagels to the rest of your market shopping.
What to get a slow-fermented loaf
At Main Hall C1, City Roast Coffee & Tea offers small batch organic and fair trade coffee roasted in-house, coffee drinks and loose leaf tea.
What to get coffee
At Main Hall A1, Johnny Hot Dog offers cooked-to-order hot dogs, burgers, chicken sandwiches and hot breakfast sandwiches.
What to get hot dog
At Main Hall F6, F7, Orale! Contemporary Mexican Cuisine offers tamales, empanadas, enchiladas, rice and beans, tortillas, chips and house salsas from mild to hot; vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options; catering.
What to get enchiladas, salsa, empanadas
At Main Hall E5, Pierogi Palace offers pierogi, stuffed cabbage, potato pancakes and four kinds of cabbage and noodles.
What to get pierogi
At Main Hall A10, Kim Se Cambodian Cuisine offers Cambodian and Southeast Asian plates made fresh daily: shrimp or chicken pad thai, stuffed chicken wings with lemongrass and peanuts, spring rolls, sticky rice in banana leaf, bubble tea; catering to 100.
At Main Hall D2, The Home Pantry offers packaged pantry goods (jams like Strawberry Rose and Blackberry Lavender, soup mixes, baking mixes, spice blends) plus fresh prepared food: salads, weekly wraps and soups, quiche, parfaits, sheet pizza by the slice, Grilled Cheese Mondays.
At Main Hall D13, Juice Garden offers fresh squeezed orange and grapefruit juice by the pint or quart, juice blends, smoothies, wheatgrass and juice cleanses.
What to get lemonade
At Main Hall E4, Pizza Di Bella offers pizza bagels, pepperoni rolls, stromboli, meatball subs and take-and-bake items, served hot on request.
At Main Hall E6, E7, Jim's Meats offers fresh beef and pork, ribs, whole pigs and freezer orders like hind quarters.
What to get steak
At Main Hall F9, Lance's Beef offers beef from Amish farms in Trumbull County, butchered in-house from sides and quarters: skirt and hanger steak, tri tip, ground chuck patties, rouladen; special orders.
At Main Hall G8, G9, Wiencek's Meats offers Ohio-raised beef mostly from Ashland County farms: sirloin and chuck ground fresh daily, marinated sirloin and tenderloin kabobs, skirt steak, English cut short ribs.
Also at : Wiencek's Poultry. All natural chicken, turkey and rabbit, house-made turkey and chicken sausage, lean ground turkey, marinated chicken breasts, seasoned wings and shish kabobs.
At Main Hall F4, F5, Foster's Meats offers locally raised lamb and goat, grass-fed beef.
What to get lamb
At Main Hall G7, Sebastian's Deli offers deli meats sliced to order including Italian and European cold cuts, ham, 24 kinds of smokies and 18 flavors of jerky; jerky ships to all 50 states.
At Main Hall D3, Walker Meats offers deli meats including souse, beef bacon, Old Chicago hot dogs and beef Polish boys.
What to get bacon
At Main Hall C11, Reilly's Irish Bakery offers buttermilk scones, Irish soda bread, shepherd's pies, Scottish meat pies, Bakewell tarts, fern cakes, Empire biscuits and a triple chocolate Guinness cake.
What to get scone
At Main Hall F10, F11, Vera's Bakery offers traditional breads (Jewish rye, pumpernickel, Hungarian white, salt sticks, beer bread, challah), kolache, cheesecake, apple fritters fried daily; now the only place to buy the Pizza Bagel Lady's pizza bagels.
What to get bread, apple fritter, cake
At Main Hall D7, Bohar Bakery offers Hungarian and European cakes, pastries, pretzels, pogacsa, kifli and flavored croissants made from scratch.
At Main Hall H6, H7, Spanos Bakery offers Greek pastries including baklava and galaktoboureko, plus breads, cookies and muffins.
At Main Hall C10, Christopher's Bakery offers stone oven European breads (Pugliese Italian, Lake Erie Sourdough, crusty 7 grain), Alabama-style sweet potato biscuits and bialy water bagels; most breads vegan, no preservatives.
At Main Hall H8, H9, The Cheese Shop offers more than 175 imported and domestic cheeses cut to order, rare cheeses, Lake Erie Creamery goat cheese, crackers, honey and specialty items.
What to get cheese
At Main Hall H4, H5, Meister Foods offers cheeses from Ohio and around the world, locally made yogurt and cottage cheese, Amish eggs, house-made salads and spreads, house butter, local pierogi, peanut butter.
What to get cheese, peanut butter
At Main Hall H10, H11, Irene Dever Dairy offers hand-cut homemade butter, cheeses, jumbo and quail eggs, homemade pierogi, yogurt, buttermilk, fresh ground peanut, cashew and almond butter, local maple syrup, honey, jams, salads, dips and party trays.
What to get cheese, pierogi
At Main Hall G4, G5, Mena's Produce offers dried fruit and dried vegetables sold from two large glass display cases.
What to get dried fruit, fruit, nuts
At Main Hall D6, Maple Valley Sugarbush offers Geauga County maple syrup, maple sugar, spread and mustard, pancake mixes, candied nuts, granola, plus their own raw and single-blossom honey, honeycomb, honey sticks and bee pollen.
What to get maple syrup
At Main Hall A8, A9, Rita's offers over 150 pickled and fermented products: pickles, hand-stuffed olives and peppers, barrel sauerkraut, fresh horseradish, mustards, spreads, fresh ground peanut butter and salads.
What to get pickles
At Main Hall C13, Campbell's Popcorn Shop offers gourmet popcorn, hand-dipped chocolates and caramel and candy apples.
At Main Hall E2, E3, Urban Herbs offers spices and blends sourced worldwide, plus beans, rice, couscous and orzo; supplies Cleveland chefs and caterers.
What to get spices
At Main Hall C5, Olive Cleveland offers small-batch single-origin olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars bottled locally, dipping oils and spice blends.
What to get olive oil
At Main Hall D10, D11, Narrin Asian Spice & Sauce offers Asian spices, sauces of every kind, vinegars, oils, coconut products, dried seaweed and mushrooms, preserved radish, canned Asian fruit, rice, beans and noodles.
What to get spices
At Main Hall D1, E1, The Nature Uncut Company offers health foods: dehydrated fruits, herbs, mushroom powders and cold-pressed oils.
At Main Hall A3, P-Nut Gallery offers nuts raw, roasted, salted and unsalted: cashews, deluxe mixed nuts, peanuts in the shell.
At Produce Arcade 13, 15, 17, Harb's Produce offers premium fruit: berries, citrus, melons, tropical fruit, watermelon and pre-cut fruit; local produce in season.
At Produce Arcade 8, 10, 12, Habib's Produce offers vegetables including beets, butternut and spaghetti squash and fingerling potatoes.
At Produce Arcade 7, 9, 11, Boutros Bros. Produce offers daily farm deliveries with Ohio-grown produce in season (leaf lettuce, kale, radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, sweet corn) and a big mushroom selection including shiitake, oyster, chanterelles and morels.
At Produce Arcade 1, 3, A&J Produce offers produce with local and organic when available, fresh herbs, and seedlings and garden starts in spring; morels in season.
At Produce Arcade 22, 24, Brothers Produce offers fruits and vegetables.
What to get fruit
At Produce Arcade 2, 4, Ehab's Produce offers fresh produce including hot peppers, green tomatoes, sweet corn, asparagus and greens.
At Produce Arcade 5, Angelo's Produce offers fruit including apples, berries, cherries, grapes and dragon fruit.
At Produce Arcade 14, 16, Luca's Produce offers fruits and vegetables including greens, sweet corn, bell peppers, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and pomegranates.
What to get fruit
At Produce Arcade 6, A-1 Quality Produce offers fruit including berries, cherries, grapes and dragon fruit.
Find this family produce stand at Produce Arcade 18, 20 in the renovated arcade.
At Produce Arcade 21, 23, Greenleaf Floral Co. offers seasonal fresh arrangements, dried designs and holiday pieces made with flowers from Ohio flower farms.
What to get flowers
BEFORE YOU GO
Steve's Gyros and Frank's Bratwurst are quick market classics. For a sit-down meal, try the West Side Market Cafe. The top 15 list above also includes crêpes, Middle Eastern food and fresh pasta.
Steve's Gyros (E13), Frank's Bratwurst (G3), Mediterra Bakehouse (B8, B9), Johnny Hot Dog (A1), Kim Se Cambodian Cuisine (A10). Bring cash for these counters; payment rules can change.
Kate's Fish (F12, F13), Czuchraj Meats (J&J Czuchraj) (B10, B11), Theresa's Bakery (D8, D9, C12, B12), D.W. Whitaker Meats (F8, E8, E9, E10, E11), Dionne's Meats (C7, C8, C9), Mena's Produce (G4, G5), Harb's Produce (13, 15, 17), Meister Foods (H4, H5), Jim's Meats (E6, E7), Habib's Produce (8, 10, 12), Rita's (A8, A9), Irene Dever Dairy (H10, H11), Spanos Bakery (H6, H7), Lance's Beef (F9), Wiencek's Meats (G8, G9), Foster's Meats (F4, F5), Narrin Asian Spice & Sauce (D10, D11), Boutros Bros. Produce (7, 9, 11), Christopher's Bakery (C10), Sebastian's Deli (G7), Ehab's Produce (2, 4), Angelo's Produce (5), P-Nut Gallery (A3), Walker Meats (D3), Luca's Produce (14, 16), A-1 Quality Produce (6). Confirm eligible items with the stand.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The market is closed Tuesday and Thursday. Individual stands can close earlier.
Use the lot behind the market, accessible from Lorain and Bridge avenues. The first 90 minutes are free during market hours, then parking is $1.50 per hour.
Yes, the market is open Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., though some vendors keep shorter hours.
Start with The Market Import Store for imported cheese, cured meat and pantry extras, then check The Cheese Shop for more cheese choices.
Pierogi Palace sells pierogi by the dozen, hot or frozen.
Czuchraj Meats and its J&J counter sell jerky and smoked sausage. Sebastian’s Deli also carries jerky and smokies.