Nipa Hut Oriental Food Mart

This place is one of our FAVORITE places to go! We love Filipino food! We drove 8 hours round trip to enjoy this lunch buffet! It is also a grocery store!
This is Located in Parma Heights, Oh which is close to Cleveland.
We got here around 1115 and the buffet starts at 11 and goes until 1500. It is 14.99 per adult. I am not sure what the price is for kids. The food is fresh tasting and it definitely doesn’t taste like reheated food. There is a lot of choices there but half the stuff I have no idea what is is. I still it eat however. I usually come here with my dad and he tells me what I’m eating. I guess I’m not a real Filipino haha.
Food wise, the only think i know is th garlic fried rice which is AWESOME and the lumpia (mini egg rolls). Other than those 2 things I had no idea what I was eating but it was AWESOME!
And of course can’t forget about our dessert! We both got halo halo. I got it with mango ice cream and my wife got ube ice cream.
The restaurant is very clean with very friendly and helpful staff.
We will be coming here on a monthly or bi-​monthly basis!!! Check out the Filipino food!

This place is overpriced and overrated! You are better off going to any Asian stores like Cams or Shop to Park or Kainan for cook filipino foods.
I avoid this place like a plaque for the lady owner will try to sneak a charge or two if she can so watched her very carefully when she is charging you at the counter. At first I thought it was an honest mistake but when she did it to me a couple more times I knew then that she is a cheat!
I definitely do not recommend this store!!!

Delicious filipino foods!!! So glad to finally had gone to this place. Saturday from 1130am to 3pm they serve a delicious buffet of filipino foods. They dont make they same things everyday apparently but everything they had was great. Since moving to Cleveland for a little over a year now definitely miss my parents home cooking & this place just reminds me of home & how there’s always that variety of filipino whenever we have family parties. I was also able to order some halo halo dessert which was so delicious. There’s also a store connected yo the restaurant so incase you need anything to make filipino food yourself at home you can purchase it from the store. Staff was great, lots of seats for family, price was very affordable. Definitely will be back here especially when i start to grave my home cooked filipino meal :)

I love hole-​in-​the-​wall-​back-​of-​the-​market places like these. Because for it to survive, it has to offer something more substantial than good setting/​location/​service — good food! I’ve never truly had filipino food, so I was happy to try what appeared to be a very authentic looking place. How do I know it’s authentic? I came for the saturday lunch buffet and I’ve never had a buffet where it looked like all the dishes were homemade. As if I went to someone house and all the asian grandmas were cooking in the kitchen. And it had a decent amount of people — mostly filipinos eating in the restaurant. Another confirmation that it’s legit. I would love to return and order their desserts (the pictures of the halo halo look amazing!) and dishes off the menu. This place definitely deserves more attention.

I went for the buffet and was incredibly disappointed. For $ 16.50 I was surprised my fave Filipino dishes were not on hand especially Adobo. None! This is a staple Filipino dish I thought for sure I would get some. I was looking forward to bisteak and none. I heard good things and that both wld be available but didn’t have either today. The Sisig is not what I expected, dry and lacking the chillin and calamansi. Just seems they cooked the food fast and were missing the Filipino flavor of onion, garlic, and Patis I was expecting.

Came one Saturday afternoon to try this Philipino buffet after reading these Unilocal reviews. It was a charming experience– like joining some church potluck with lots of dishes in slow cookers and on the mix of serving plates. There were over 20 choices of foods to try– and most of them were delicious. It would be even better if all dishes were labelled, they weren’t. The Wife was a little weirded out because she didn’t really know what she was eating at any particular time, but it was mostly delicious. The fried whole fish was really tasty, but they didn’t refill it after it had been picked apart which is a shame, because it was probably the best thing there. Also loved the stews and that purple rice cake dessert.
It was not exactly cheap at $ 14 per person, but I think that I got my moneys worth and would not hesitate to go back in the future. Come expecting a little hole in the wall and you’ll appreciate it more.

Nipa hut was one of the best places I ate my entire trip. We went on Saturday for the buffet and it was tops. I loved the adobo, pancit, dirty rice, and bikol. I would say you should eat here. Have a lumpia for me

My mom is filipino so, I’m always in here buying something for her. I have yet to try the buffet but, I’ve tried the refrigerated foods like the palabok & the siapio. Both are my favorite & are always very fresh. If you want a refreshing cold dessert, try the halo halo which is made to order. The magnolia ice creams are really good too.

The buffet is great my hubby loved it and he always ask me to go back there! Hihihi and finally found a filipino store!

The Saturday buffet is usually why we come here, it is decent enough. Some of the food is really good, other things are meh. Service is always friendly and efficient. I guess my one complaint is with the store. The prices are very high for certain items, especially things like rice cookers and household goods. I understand the need to make a profit, but it is excessive. They recently (last year or so) started selling beer and that is also too expensive… $ 3 – 4 dollars more here than any other place I’ve seen San Mig or Red Horse. I do appreciate the place considering the dearth of Filipino stores in NE Ohio. One last thing. I would not use the shipping service here, it takes much longer than they claim.

The buffet is great and the price is very reasonable. Very large selection. I come here to eat the Filipino food that I don’t know how to make. I’m Filipino so this is the food my parents would cook when I was growing up. It reminds me of home.
The grocery store also has all of the ingredients you would need to make any Filipino dish. I always make sure to pick up some mung bean hopia when I go there!

I haven’t been to many Filipino places, and I’m admittedly a harsh critic (1 star for Kapit Bahay in Las Vegas; 2 stars for Isla Pilipina in Chicago), but the Saturday buffet at Nipa Hut is easily the best of those three. The buffet layout is simple and homey – food is cooked and brought out on dishes – sometimes a little sign will tell you what the dish is, sometimes not. I wish I had taken better notes, but I remembered a couple of Filipino staples: Chicken adobo, lechon, pancit, menudo, kare kare, dinuguan, shanghai rolls, and whole fish. I was also really surprised at a big plate of very large oysters, easily big and tasty enough to put a couple of non-​seafood specialist places (steakhouses, in particular) to shame. Unfortunately, there was no cocktail sauce to be found to go with oysters. Of the dishes, I thought the menudo reminded me closest of home cooking, but I was really disappointed by the kare kare (my favorite dish) which was a little on the bland and runny side and completely bereft of any ox tail (though I can imagine at a buffet those chunks could go quickly). Some tripe in there would have also been a well-​appreciated bonus.
There didn’t appear to be any set menu (like you might see at a run of the mill Chinese restaurant buffet), so there’s a little excitement knowing that anything could come out of the kitchen at any time. It looked like there was also halo halo and leche flan available at an additional charge for dessert, but we were plenty full with the included offerings. I would have loved to see some of my other Filipino favorites: empanadas, fresh lumpia, and callos. The buffet lunch for 2 came out to about $ 28, which in my opinion, for the variety and uniqueness of the food, is entirely reasonable.

Let me preface this by saying I never eat Filipino food.
I eat here. I like it.
It also a grocery store where I can hoard up on my Filipino beers. I don’t particularly like Pinoy beers but I do drink them when I’m in the Philippines so when I drink them here i feel it brings me closer to home.

I came here a month ago on a Saturday afternoon. The dining area is connected to a store. They have Red Horse beer which is cool. The buffet is a good deal for the cost. I think it was around 11 dollars. I tried a little bit of everything that was laid out and enjoyed it all. Filipino food is good. I don’t know of any other Filipino restaurant in Cleveland so you may as well come out to Nipa Hut for their weekend buffet.

Friendly staff, ultra clean. Excellent food, buffet is nice. Store has all the best Filipino foodstuffs, even specialty ice-​cream that’s hard to find. Most importantly, it’s FRESH. You can even order your lechon (whole pig) here and have it made for your parties. Perfect pancit, adobo, menudo…
Also they sell the awesome, ultra strong «my shaldan» air fresheners! Everyone’s favorite Christmas gift (next to Pocky!)
Prices are good.

I haven’t been here in a few years, but judging by others’ recent reviews, I’m glad to know it’s still going strong.
The weekend buffet is spectacular. You are really cheating yourself if you don’t go.

Nipa Hut is a full-​fledged Filipino grocery store. It has everything a Filipino needs… they even sell Magic Mic karaōke sets! Naks! Need halo-​halo ingredients? You’re set. Craving hopia? Otap? Pastillas? Sky flakes? Look no further. They even sell San Miguel and Red Horse beer, ay sus!
You can find some of these items at the Asian stores downtown, but this place is probably the most comprehensive of Filipino goods for your convenience. Expect items to be a little bit more expensive here, though. You’re paying for the convenience and exclusivity. You can’t get Red Horse anywhere else.
They also have a restaurant on the side, but I haven’t eaten there so I can’t comment on it. I can only say that it definitely passes the look and smell test. Sarap naman!

A good filapino food store is a good thing to find and reasterant to boot. Oriental stores have a little of everything. this place is focused on the Philippine cusine. The wife is a filapina and loves the place and the food. Also live blue crabs when in season. Freindly and clean

why has no one reviewed this place? argh.
alright, i’ll sacrifice myself.
nipa hut is a little bit of filipino happiness hidden on W 130^th street. although nipa hut functions mostly as a grocery store, the place’s saturday buffet has grown in the last few years from a few tables in the front of the store to a whole banquet room attached to the side.
now, i worked at a filipino bakery/​restaurant for most of my adolescent years, and was raised on mom and grandma’s ilokano cooking, so my expectations for filipino food deliciousness are high. nipa hut is one of your few choices in the greater cleveland area, but this place ain’t too bad.
favorites: the sour sinigang, crunchy lechon kawali, and peanut butter-​y kare-​kare. there’s plenty of white rice (no brown… oh well!) to eat with your baon, and a small but delicious array of desserts (mostly rice cakes). don’t know the foods i mentioned? guess you need to make a visit to the saturday buffet, or if you can only make it on the weekdays, order a la carte. if you’re a vegetarian: i’m sorry, you can have the water.