The best AsiaTown restaurants for groups are the ones built around sharing: dim sum carts, tabletop grills, whole fish and noodle soups assembled at the table. Cleveland’s AsiaTown sits just east of downtown along Superior Avenue, Payne Avenue and St. Clair Avenue in the East 30s, so most of these restaurants are a few minutes apart by car.
This story picks the rooms that handle a big table well and says what to expect when you bring one. For every restaurant in the neighborhood, quick lunch counters included, open the full AsiaTown restaurant guide.
Superior, Payne and St. Clair
AsiaTown restaurants that work for a group
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Li Wah
Best for: Dim sum for a round table
Li Wah in Asia Plaza on Payne Avenue is where dim sum carts still work the floor every day. Shumai, har gow, chicken feet, egg tarts and sesame balls come past the table until you wave them off, which is how a big group should eat. Away from the carts there is Peking duck, Cantonese roast meats and a long menu written for a round table of eight. Larger parties should know a service charge is added to the bill.
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Siam Cafe
Best for: A banquet dinner with whole fish and lobster
Siam Cafe at 3951 St. Clair Avenue is a banquet house with tanks of live lobster and fish, and the kitchen sends out whole steamed fish, double lobster and Peking duck for big tables. The menu is long, covering pad thai, drunken noodles, stuffed wings and the full Chinese-American lineup, so nobody at the table runs short of options. Service wanders when the room is full, so plan on a long sit.
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Miega Korean BBQ
Best for: Korean BBQ for a birthday
Miega Korean BBQ is on the second floor of Asian Town Center at East 38th Street and Superior Avenue, with tabletop grills for LA galbi, bulgogi and pork belly. It is the Korean BBQ Cleveland picks for a birthday. Anyone who would rather not grill can order bibimbap, jajangmyeon, gimbap or honey garlic wings, and bingsu makes a good shared dessert. It is family owned and fills up fast on weekends, so arrive early.
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Korea House
Best for: Grills, banchan and karaoke on Superior
Korea House at 3700 Superior Avenue is one of the oldest Korean kitchens in AsiaTown, with grills built into the tables and a generous banchan spread. Kalbi and pork belly are the grill orders, dolsot bibimbap arrives still crackling, and seafood pancake and soft tofu stew cover the rest of the table. Karaoke rooms in the back make it the easy answer when a group dinner turns into a longer night.
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YYTime
Best for: A noodle soup built at the table
YYTime on Payne Avenue is built around crossing-the-bridge rice noodle soup, assembled at the table from a bowl of scalding broth and a tray of raw ingredients, so everyone gets to watch it come together. Lamb skewers, spicy pork soup dumplings, karaage and brown sugar sticky rice fill out a shared order, and every table orders by QR code, which helps when a group keeps adding dishes.
The bright room is a former tire shop rebuilt from the floor up, and older listings still call it Dagu Rice Noodle.
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Spice Spring
Best for: Dim sum and Sichuan at the same table
Spice Spring at 2142 Rockwell Avenue, in the old Emperor’s Palace space in the historic Chinatown blocks, serves dim sum all day next to real Sichuan cooking. That split suits a group with different tastes: soup dumplings, siu mai and black pepper short ribs for some, spicy crispy fish fillet and chili lamb for the others. It is also the place to go when your group wants dim sum at dinnertime.
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Szechuan Gourmet
Best for: A group that wants real heat
Szechuan Gourmet on East 36th Street is the table for people who want spice to be the point. Dry pot, mapo tofu, dan dan noodles, crispy fish and dried pepper chicken all come with real numbing heat, and the kitchen will push it further if you ask. Diners from Sichuan sometimes find it tuned for local palates, and by Cleveland standards it is still the measuring stick.
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LJ Shanghai
Best for: Soup dumplings for a smaller group
LJ Shanghai at 3142 Superior Avenue is where to take a few friends for soup dumplings. They are the reason the room stays full: thin skins, hot broth, with an order of spicy chaoshou wontons alongside. The rest of the menu covers Shanghai standards like beef and pork belly noodle soups, pan-fried noodles and cold cucumber with garlic. Bring cash, since that is all the counter takes, and collect it from the group before you go.
Before you book
What to know before bringing a group
A few practical details are worth sorting out ahead of a group dinner here. LJ Shanghai takes cash only, and Li Wah adds a service charge for larger parties. Miega fills up fast on weekends, and service at Siam Cafe slows when the room is full, so give a big group plenty of time and call ahead if you are bringing a crowd.
Asian Town Center and the 3030 Superior plaza each hold more than one restaurant, so a group can split up or add a second stop without moving the car. The AsiaTown map shows where every restaurant sits.
For two or three people
Smaller AsiaTown meals
For a quick bowl, Superior Pho in the 3030 Superior plaza is the first name most people give for pho in Cleveland, and Ha Ahn, a small Korean kitchen behind it, does soft tofu soup and hot stone bibimbap. Han Chinese Kabob & Grill at Payne Commons serves cumin-heavy lamb and beef skewers fast and cheap, with parking right outside the door.
Wonton Gourmet & BBQ on Payne Avenue has Hong Kong roast meats hanging in the window and a wonton noodle soup that keeps people coming back. Ask about the dishes that never made it onto the English menu.
Good to know
Questions before you go.
Where is Asian Town Center?
Asian Town Center is at East 38th Street and Superior Avenue. Miega is on the second floor, and Pho Lee’s, a small family pho shop, is on the first floor.
Where can a group order Vietnamese food beyond pho?
Number One Pho on Superior Avenue has a deeper Vietnamese menu than most in the neighborhood, with banh xeo crepes, com tam broken rice, lotus root salad and salt baked squid alongside brisket pho. New owners took over at the end of 2025.
Every AsiaTown restaurant
See all of AsiaTown on the map
The full guide covers restaurants across AsiaTown, from dim sum and Korean BBQ to pho, ramen and Sichuan, with addresses and a map.