The Oriole Cafe

This is a nice little gem in Berea. A good selection on the menu reasonably priced. Enough TV’s to satisfy your sports fix, and a full bar. Stop in for just a drink or for a good home-​cooked meal!

Dive bar Heaven! Not the cleanest, not the most efficient. But oh the people watching. The food is dive bar awesomeness, the staff is friendly, and the have a pretty good tap beer selection. A go to for my gal and me when we «need» a pint. So next time you’re in the awesome Berea area give this place a shot. Or better yet have a shot when you get there.

When I say this is a local dive bar, I mean it with love. Everyone needs a local watering hole that will meet your needs on a whim. The service is always great… real, hard working people engaged in the bar experience. The prime rib is great. You can order by the ounce which makes this carnivore happy! The pasta carbonara is one of the best pasta dishes I’ve ever had.
Put any pretense aside and give this Berea staple a try!

I’ll stick with the beer… They don’t make it here. Food was … Not up to par compared to two and three years ago. The order was screwed up and the food was three different temperatures on the same plate. The Oriole onion soup was delicious. My guess is that it came out of a can. We can’t help but wonder what happened here.

I come to The Oriole Café for two things, wings and house made chips. These two items are both excellent and relatively inexpensive.
The Oriole definitely has a dive-​bar appeal and is tucked away off the road. I have eaten there a few times but mostly order to-​go because I like to eat wings while watching sports and I like watching sports at home. The place definitely has regulars for both food and spirits which is a sign of how nice the staff can be.
If you order wings I recommend the medium buffalo and the teriyaki flavors. They are properly sauced and cooked to the perfect point of being a bit crispy but still tender. Each order of wings is served automatically with a side of ranch and celery so no nickel-​and diming you on the sides.
The housemade chips are long and razor thin. My recommendation is to have them ranch seasoned or seasoned plain. While delicious I have had 2 recurring problems with the chips: 1) Sometimes they’re not cooked long enough and still bit floppy 2) sometimes there’s not quite enough seasoning for my liking. Still they’re delicious and I will continue to order them.
Friends and family reassure me the other foods there are delicious as well. The entire menu is reasonable priced. Sometimes I’ll have a beer or two when waiting for my food and that is reasonable as well. They could use another flat screen to replace the worn out tube TV they have at one end of the bar but it’s not a big deal.
Overall it’s a great local place with great local food and probably the best wings in Cuyahoga County.

Cute little bar. Pierogies are fantastic and homemade. Good prices too! BBQ sauce is kind of sweet for me, but wings are crispy.

I get to this little neighborhood spot a couple times a year when I find myself in the area. They have a pretty basic bar menu, but I usually enjoy the Lake Erie fish. There’s not a whole lot on tap, but they always seem to have Warsteiner, which is a welcome choice. Service is friendly and the atmosphere is cozy, if a bit weathered. It’s a nice spot.

The most eloquent way to describe the Oriole Café is by the famous Horslips lyrics: «Time spins down to a standstill. My hands fill with all I desire. I can feel your fire.»
This place was pretty fun when I went there on a random Sunday day-​drinking excursion. Kind of has a «towney» feel to it. People who own riding lawnmowers and septic tanks im feeling. Everyone was laid back and friendly! Happy hr all day Sunday so drinks are cheap. Food was pretty good but it was standard Sysco stuff delivered on truck and put together. Wings came crispy and salad was fresh. Both were better when slathered with some hot-​ass hot sauce. Their hot sauce is hotter than most. Jukebox played good tunes and the whole time I was there didnt hear one crappy country song! They have video poker and Keno too. They dont have a patio but you can drink indoors… like an adult. I definitely will be back…

Oriole is our local bar and eatery, a place to go to eat when we don’t feel like cooking but don’t want to drive very far, but I like it a lot. It’s a sports-​themed bar and grill, but not actually a «sports bar» –although it does have televisions to catch the current game, they don’t have the dozens of huge-​screen TVs playing every possible sports channel that today’s dedicated sports bars feature.
Basically, it’s the friendly neighborhood grill. The food is standard bar food; Mary likes it because they have buffalo burgers as well as just hamburgers; they also have a special of the day (perch, last time we were there). It does have music, but it’s quiet enough to talk (the waitress said they will turn it down if we though it was too loud, but it wasn’t)
Pretty good, in my opinion, if you want a classic American bar & grill.

I love this place! Where else can you go and get a cheap drink and an awesome burger too! They have lunch specails too! My favorite is there sirloin steak sandwich with mushrooms, onions and provolone cheese and a side of fries! all for $ 4.99 and I mean this is a steak too… not some little piece of beef! They have lunch specials through-​out the week and they do take out as well! This is one of Berea’s hidden gems. if your in the neighborhood stop in for a cold one and stay for some good food too! You wont regret it!!! :-)

Have I mentioned that I heart dive bars? Yep, that’s right… I’m a high-​class broad who loves to get her dive on.
The Oriole rocks. This might be the weirdest combination of old-​man bar meets college coed. Of course, then you fit in the high-​class broad (moi), and whoa, you’ve got a PARTY!
The booze is cheap, they make a mean Irish car bomb, and did I mention the jello /​pudding shots that change weekly and have seasonal flavors? I love the mint-​chocolate pudding shot. Don’t knock the jello /​pudding shot, Susie makes ‘em STRONG! Too many of those puppies and they’ll knock you on your rear!
I love the Oriole for so many reasons. Bob the owner is often found floating through the bar and making popcorn (I love the free and tasty popcorn!) and jumping in on your conversation. The people are generally friendly and I can’t say I’ve ever had a bad time here.
Swing on down, get yourself a Pabst… or a pitcher (Heck, its only $ 4!), enjoy a burger…(those are good too) and ENJOY!

Looks can be deceiving… This place looks like a hole in the wall beer and shot joint; when in reality it is a; hole in the wall beer and shot joint with great food and nice people. You are not going to be blown away by the atmosphere and décor at The Oriole Café, but you will have a good meal, a cold beer and an enjoyable experience. I have been here about 5 or 6 times and wonder why I don’t go more often. I will say that the owner, might want to start investing in some structural improvements and general updates, but then again maybe that is what makes the place cool, who an I to judge. I would definitely say give this place a shot!

My mother and I went to the Oriole last night. The place reminds me of the Neil Young Harvest Moon video. Or possibly a bar in Alaska. Or any bar in America with genuine people inside getting drunk and enjoying their precious and limited time on Earth. The people who were at the bar were singing along with the classic rock songs playing on the jukebox. My mom was happy that music from her generation is still enjoyed by people of all ages. They have a lot of European (Central/​Eastern) style foods like pierogies etc… The pierogies are not the kind that I like the most (farmers cheese) so I did not order them. The chicken wings were perfect Buffalo style. The cheeseburger was good. Especially for $ 6. I will be house sitting for a friend in December that lives about a half mile down the road. I will return to try the chicken paprikash.

another place in berea that some bw grads may recognize (or maybe not) is the oriole café. i met my college roommate today who was in town for. well, getting together with me. so we met up here by her request. and honestly, because it’s a bit off campus, i had completely forgotten about this place.
but it’s great.
yes, it’s a tavern and they sell beer and liquor. but aside of that, they have great food. i mean, we’ve been out of school for several years now, and all she wanted were the wings. apparently they are darn good. i can’t remember ever having them. but if you want good wings, this is the place.
on monday nights they have homemade chicken paprikash. and it’s SOOOO GOOOOOD.
good enough to add extra vowels. that good. yes, that good.
and the rest of the menu isn’t bad either. there’s bar food, lots of different types of salads, and pita sandwiches.
and bar stuff, like drinky drinks.
however, not a bad place for a lunch, either.
gooooooooood.
vowels=goodness.