Ohio City Pasta

I have seen Ohio City Pasta at West Side Market various times but had previously never tried them. However this weekend they had a tent set up at the Countryside Farmers’ Market at Howe Meadow so I decided that their pasta looked really delicious and worth a try.
And what a great decision it was! The gentleman at the market was very helpful and knowledgeable about the various pastas. Ohio City Pasta sells the pasta for $ 2/​serving. And they are very generous sized servings. The amount shown in my picture is a little less than one full serving. The ravioli and gnocchi were a little more expensive but still seemed to be a very fair price. I went ahead and bought the last three servings of their pappardelle and began to dream about what I should make with it.
I decided on a Turkish inspired squash blossoms pappardelle and it was delicious! The pasta’s texture was perfect and the instructions on the bag cooked it for the perfect amount of time.
Ohio City Pasta definitely makes a product I would recommend to anyone and provides a way to take your meals up to that next level!

Every time I’m here I get an order of the smoked mozzarella ravioli, a red pepper fettuccine and usually some gnocchi. If I am making lemon pepper chicken during the week I will pick up some lemon pepper noodles or some spinach ones… you really can’t go wrong. It’s always fresh — always delicious and SO much better for you than boxed over preservative filled noodles.
Sauces I usually skip (spillage worry) unless something spikes my taste buds — like a tomato cream or seafood anything… as they also double for sauces on naan pizzas I make at home.
If you are at the market please don’t skip it — just remember I think it’s $ 10 minimum for cards

The white bean and mushroom ravioli is amazing. Add that to their homemade sauces and you have yourself a fool-​proof delicious meal. Basically what I’m saying is, want to impress a lady? Make her a meal with OCP. She’ll be impressed. Trust me.
Also their ramen noodles are awesome. Same goes for their ramen kits. The owner of OCP (Gary) made me ramen once with one of their vegan ramen kits and it was out of this world. My only issue with it is they give a bit more veg than you really need.
What’s also awesome is fresh pasta takes like 1 minute to cook. The efficiency and taste are definitely worth the extra price when compared to boxed pasta.

After writing my original (glowing) review of OCP, I went to their stand at the NUFM — the very next day (!!). The vendor remembered my affinity for their rosemary pasta and set some aside for us. These guys really are the best!

I dont usually like pasta or italians for that matter but I have eaten this pasta on Don Johnsons boat and off of a Thai ladyboys feet. Its amazing. Try the squid ink pasta. If not, just trust these cats to come up with a great mix of pasta and sauce to definately get you some booty…

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this. We buy their pasta from the West Side Market. We had the mushroom and fontina ravioli and it was superb! I don’t eat a lot of pasta (growing up in an Italian household ruined me haha) but when I do, I buy from these guys! You seriously won’t regret it!

You can’t wrap yourself up in their delicious pasta sheets, can you? Because if I could, I would – and I’d eat my way out.
I wanted to make some homemade tortelloni (a larger version of the tortellini) using a recipe I learned at our Unilocal Elite Event at Lago. Yea – it’s really awesome being on the Unilocal Elite Squad, but I digress…
Anyway – I wanted to make it from scratch but I don’t really have the tools or the desire to make fresh pasta, especially when OCP exists. So after my search for fresh pasta sheets at specialty Italian markets and grocers proved unfruitful, in a tizzy I called Ohio City Pasta. I knew they didn’t sell out of their kitchen facility and it wasn’t a Market day*, but I had planned on making this dish for my very handsome man and I didn’t want to disappoint. I gave them a call at their kitchen facility anyway, told them my dilemma and they actually let me come to their kitchen to buy some sheets fresh off the line. What, what?! Nicest business everrr.
Ohio City Pasta saved me from a ruined dinner plan and the pasta MADE the dish. That’s an all around win if you ask me.
*Market day translation: For anyone not familiar or from the NE Ohio area, this means it wasn’t a day the West Side Market was open. Ohio City Pasta is sold at select grocers and has a stand of its own at the West Side Market, only open M/​W/​F + Saturday.

I am horrible at making pasta, so I love Ohio City Pasta. So many varieties and they are all delicious. I love pasta so I’m very picky about it and I’ve never been upset with a purchase. They are provide pasta to a lot of local restaurants like Noodlecat and it’s always delicious.

Absolutely amazing and fresh!
Try any kind of ravioli and you will not be disappointed.
Offerers GF pasta also!
Crushed red pepper pasta with red pepper cream sauce is definitely worth a try, also!

Delicious! Can seem a little pricey, but 2 dozen ravioli tossed with some sausage was enough for my boyfriend (who can eat a lot) and I, plus leftovers. They are a nice size and ravioli is always filling. We went with the most basic one (it was some type of cheese or 3 cheese or something). I wish we could have tried something else, but we couldn’t agree/​make up our minds!

This was number 1 on my list of spots to check out at west side market. I was in pasta heaven looking at the 1.50 bundles of flavored deliciousness. My husband and I each picked out a favorite, and grabbed some plain spaghetti for our son. Today we actually got to eat it. Boil some water and throw pasta in for like a minute. Done and done. He had the jalapeño something or other and I had rosemary garlic linguine. We have plenty of pesto and sauce options at home, but we were happy to just shovel it in our mouths as is. We want more, we want more. We really like it, we want more. Do they ship pasta??? Get this pasta. You can thank me later.

Even though the westside market is closed the awesome staff filled an order for me. Thank you sooooo much!!!

Raviolis — amazing, various flavored pastas — amazing, get to visit the west side market — amazing. These people do it very right. Ohio City Pasta foreva!

Want to seem like a culinary artist, or just make someone think you are way sexy in the kitchen? Buy anything from this place. I love picking up a bundle or two of handmade pasta every weekend, and I always try something new and awesome. Saffron, squid ink, ginger sesame, absolutely anything you could ever want to try. And at $ 1.50 a bundle, it’s a great way to classy-​up any dish.
My cooking tip: just toss your pasta with a little bit of olive oil, something acidic (lemon juice, a dash of a good balsamic) and fresh veggies, and you have the easiest, most delicious dinner that really features the flavor of the pasta.

Every time I’m in Cleveland, I have to swing by the West Side Market to pick up some ravioli from Ohio City Pasta. I love the roasted egg plant stuffed ravioli, and they have tons of other interesting combinations. Once I got Low Country Boil ravioli and it took me back to all the Low Country Boils I’ve been to. There is also a variety of other types of custom and unique pastas that will make your mouth water.

I hit up OCP at WSM and make the BEST spaghetti EVER!!!
Vinc’s has GREAT hot Italian sausage and I always go to that stand. The veggies are truly hit or miss, usually they look… Meh…But last weekend FINALLY some on vine tomatoes that were destined to make GREAT sauce, and they did! Threw in some fresh-​ish Basil and guests loved the sauce, pasta and hot sausage!
Maybe a little pricey but sure makes DELISH pasta!!!
YUM!

There’s no turning back once you’ve had fresh, well-​made pasta. Flavorful, buttery soft yet also chewy in texture – it’s fresh cooked dough no package of dried pasta can ever replicate. And Ohio City Pasta certainly knows their stuff.
Picked out my own sampler of noodles at their North Union Farmer’s Market stand – angel hair, rosemary linguine, basil and lemon linguine, and at the enthusiastic recommendation of the amicable rep, a small tub of garlic butter. Toss it in with the pasta right after it’s done and draining in the colander, he says.
More like, toss your heart and soul into a raging sea of despair forevermore, should you ever run out of Ohio City Pasta noodles and garlic butter, you doomed-​to-​be-​fresh-​pasta-​addict, you.
$ 1.50 per serving of pasta’s a little pricey, but it’s inevitable when there’s no competition. They’ve got every combo of herbs and seasonings you can imagine for pasta for all you adventurous types.
Can’t wait to stop by their headquarters one of these weekends and report back on the premises!

I make damn good pasta at home. Some of it, better than OCP. But when I don’t have enough time/​energy to make my own and I have people coming for dinner, I don’t mind claiming OCP’s pasta as my own.
Great selection, freezes exceptionally well (I have a dozen or so bags in my freezer at the moment), and priced amazingly well. I love their spinach fusilli and their mushroom gnocchi (boil the gnocchi and then pan-​fry in butter… Mmmmm).
Not a huge fan of their ravioli, but I have friends that are. Maybe I’m just not a ravioli person.

I’m totally addicted and spoiled by this pasta.
I can’t even buy regular boxed pasta anymore!
There’s tons of flavor options to choose from if you hit up their stand at the West Side Market. You can find their pastas in certain markets, but selection is limited.
Check them out on Facebook. They run specials often!

Ohio City Pasta is freshly prepared pasta that is never dried or frozen and sold locally. An allotment of Cleveland Restaurants, including Crop Bistro buy from Ohio City Pasta. Home chefs can find their pasta at The West Side Market. I’ve also seen a few of their items sold at Heinens.
Those of you who’ve tried fresh pasta will agree that it is far superior to that of the boxed, dried variety. Ohio City expands on fresh pasta by offering various cuts, varieties and custom flavors.
The varieties of pasta cuts including Angelhair, Linguine, Fettuccini, Spaghetti and Pappardelle come in custom flavors such as roasted red pepper, lemon, garlic & chive, black pepper basil, orange-​sesame ginger, cajun, chipotle, spicy lime and cilantro among others.
They also sell stuffed pasta such as Ravioli, Agnollotti, and Tortellini. All fillings are made from scratch and Ohio City Pasta prides themselves in using only the freshest ingredients.
When cooking, make sure to heed the instructions included with every order. Fresh pasta cooks in a fraction of the time required by dried pasta. And since it’s sold fresh, eating within a week is recommended, otherwise you can freeze it up to a month. You can cook it frozen too. When the water comes to a boil, plop the frozen hunk of pasta in the water, let the water come back to a boil, then cook according to the directions. It doesn’t get much easier than that.
The fun part comes in making a sauce to pair with your pasta. And with the assortment of pasta flavors, your options are endless.