Ebreeq Coffee House

Ebreeq Coffee House opened in May 2025 on the ground floor of 200 Public Square, the 45-storey office tower on the square, with its entrance on the Euclid Avenue side. Cleveland Magazine introduced it that February under the headline Yemeni Coffee Comes to Cleveland, naming Abdulhamed Alduais and Ali Alwasim as co-owners and describing a 2,200-square-foot room with a culturally inspired interior and traditional Yemeni music; the design is by Pontia Architecture of New Albany, Ohio. Alwasim told the magazine the aim was the original way of coffee, rich and full of flavour. Signal Cleveland, which interviewed co-owner Dia al-Baadani after the opening, began its piece with the smell of cardamom at the door.

The drinks are the Yemeni standards. Signal Cleveland listed mufawar, Yemeni coffee with cream and cardamom, and qishr, which is brewed from coffee husks with ginger and cinnamon and drinks more like a spiced tea. Cleveland Magazine singled out the Adeni chai, a sweet tea of black tea leaves, milk, sugar and spices, and sabayah, a layered bread made with butter and honey and sprinkled with black cumin. Al-Baadani told Signal that the coffee comes from Haraz, the mountain region of Yemen where the cherries are picked by hand. The shop describes itself in one line as authentic Yemeni coffee and traditional sweets. We have taken the drink names from that reporting, published in 2025, and have not been able to read the cafe's current ordering menu, so ask at the counter for what is on now.

It serves no alcohol, and Signal Cleveland framed Yemeni coffeehouses in general as offering the social side of coffee house culture as an alternative to alcohol and nightlife. One caution on that point: the hours are shorter than they were. When it opened the cafe was reported as trading daily until 10pm; its own profile now gives 7am to 8pm from Monday to Friday and 8am to 9pm on Saturday and Sunday. That makes Ebreeq the place for an alcohol-free meeting downtown during the day or straight after work, and the North Olmsted coffeehouses the ones to choose for a late night. It sits on Public Square itself, in the middle of downtown.