Restaurants in Ohio

A big state with a sprawling culinary personality, Ohio is home to outstanding Polish and Hungarian food in and around Cleveland and to the unique layered-spaghetti Cincinnati chili known as Five-Way. Cincinnati, which also happens to be a great ice cream city, is the place to visit Old World butchers who still make their sausages from scratch and to sample goetta, a pork and pin-oat loaf that is outstanding breakfast meat. Barberton, just outside Akron, is famous for its super-succulent fried-in-lard chicken dinners; and the tiny town of Waldo has gained great fame for its world’s-best bologna sandwich. If you are making it your business to visit America’s greatest steak houses, the Pine Club of Dayton belongs near the top of your itinerary.

Ohio’s Most Famous Dishes

Mountainous sandwich holds pastrami, egg, French fries, cole slaw, and a tomato at Primanti Brothers in Pittsburg, PA

Sandwiches

Cup of chili topped with cheese and chopped raw onions

Chili

Burger on a tender bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayo ... car hop service

Grilled Hamburger

Wedge of pie with tall yellow base and even taller meringue, flecked with toasted coconut

Pies

Ohio’s Best Restaurants

Ice Cream Parlor - Moose Tracks
Ice Cream Parlor

WEST LIBERTY, OH

Golden Turtle - Exterior
Golden Turtle

LEBANON, OH

Graeter's - Black Raspberry
Graeter’s

CINCINNATI, OH

Young’s Jersey Dairy - Ice Cream
Young’s Jersey Dairy

YELLOW SPRINGS, OH

Hot Sauce Williams

CLEVELAND, OH

Sokolowski’s

CLEVELAND, OH

Balaton

CLEVELAND, OH

Sandwich holds a slab of moist, porky goetta
Eckerlin Meats

CINCINNATI, OH

Tucker’s

CINCINNATI, OH

Henry’s

WEST JEFFERSON, OH

Little Polish Diner

PARMA, OH

Multi-layer dobos torte cake
Perla Homemade Delights

PARMA, OH

Flury’s Cafe

CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH

Strickland’s

AKRON, OH

Aglamesis Bros.

CINCINNATI, OH

Kennedy’s B.B.Q.

CANTON, OH

Camp Washington Chili Parlor

CINCINNATI, OH

Pine Club - Filet Mignon
Pine Club

DAYTON, OH

Whitehouse Chicken | Unique Fried Chicken of Barberton Ohio

BARBERTON, OH

Golden Lamb - Shaker Sugar Pie
Golden Lamb

LEBANON, OH

White Turkey Drive-In

CONNEAUT, OH

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Sandwich holds a slab of moist, porky goetta

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Chicken breast with red-gold crust shares plate with French fries.

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Chocolate layer cake frosted with caramel and pecans

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