Cheap Eats: West Side Market Cafe

If you’re like us, it’s difficult to make it through a West Side Market shopping trip without wanting to eat some delicious food on the spot. We can get instant gratification from the West Side Market Cafe’s inventive dishes made from market ingredients. You’ll get hooked on the Lake Erie walleye sandwich ($11), made with a 30-year-old seasoned panko breading recipe. The catch is placed on a toasted brioche bun brushed with house-made tartar sauce and topped with American cheese, lettuce, tomato and the cafe’s own horseradish coleslaw — a colorful mix of red peppers, red onions, carrots and white cabbage. Potato chips cut and cooked daily replace the usual fries. Also Try: Cleveland’s Own Pierogi Melt ($9), two of Parma-based Perla Pierogis’ potato-and-cheddar gems, Muenster cheese and sauerkraut sandwiched between grilled rosemary bread is a twist on an Eastern European staple. Vegetarians can delight in the wild mushroom grilled cheese ($9), a layering of stone-ground mustard, Swiss and Muenster cheeses, and roasted shiitake, oyster and button mushrooms on rosemary bread. 1979 W. 25th St., Cleveland, 216-579-6800, westsidemarketcafe.com