Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse reopens in Bath
See what chefs are preparing at Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse Bath
- Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse has reopened in Bath Township after a six-year closure.
- The restaurant underwent a $1.8 million renovation, including an expanded bar and updated decor.
- New menu items include Wagyu beef and more seafood, alongside live piano entertainment.
- An investment group created by the restaurant co-owner also purchased the adjoining hotel, rebranding it as a Spark by Hilton.
It’s a homecoming for Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse, which has reopened in Bath Township six years after the restaurant closed in the same space.
The fine-dining spot, which originally opened in 1998 as Hyde Park Grille adjacent to the former Holiday Inn in Bath, closed soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. At the time, the property owner had wanted to redevelop the 3-acre parcel to include a gas station, a convenience store and another restaurant.
“We had no option but to leave” at the time, said Joe Saccone, co-owner of the Hyde Park Restaurant Group that had leased the original Bath space, which was to be razed.
Those property development plans didn’t come to fruition. When Saccone was asked about five years later if he was interested in reopening the rebranded Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse in Bath Township, he was happy to return.
The restaurateur, who spent more than $1.8 million on renovations for the restaurant, reopened it March 6. Now, the full restaurant interior has been renovated, including taking down the former wall between the bar and dining room.
Work began on Hyde Park’s reopening in February 2025. The design process took about five months and construction began in September.
The bar’s size has now doubled and all of the restaurant’s light fixtures are new.
Scores of new paintings and other artwork adorn the walls, including black and white photos of the Soap Box Derby, Akron Rubber Bowl and the Goodyear blimp. Caricatures of folks who have frequented area Hyde Park restaurants also are on the walls.
The restaurant’s original, two huge murals remain.
The exterior also has received a fresh paint job, refurbished entrance, new awnings and new landscaping.
The renovated restaurant seats 250 guests in the dining rooms and four private event rooms. The fourth event room, which is being added now, will seat 70 and will open in early fall.
Saccone formed an investment group to purchase the former Holiday Inn, which is in the same building with the restaurant. The group has rebranded the hotel as a Spark by Hilton, whose target opening is by late May.
Hyde Park’s hours are 4:30 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 4:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday and 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday. The restaurant is at 4073 Medina Road in the Montrose area of Bath.
Live entertainment also is a new feature at the restaurant, where pianists play on a baby grand from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Hyde Park has added Wagyu beef to its menu as well as more seafood “by popular demand,” Saccone said.
The restaurant’s steak menu includes a 14-ounce Steak LeBron, topped with jumbo shrimp, bernaise sauce and asparagus. For an American Wagyu steak, the long bone tomahawk ribeye is a 39-ounce, heavily marbled and sliced steak, garnished with crispy onion straws.
Seafood dishes include everything from scallops with bacon and corn risotto to parmesan-crusted lemon sole, said corporate chef David Culi. Special desserts include an eight-layer Colossal Red Velvet Cake and a flaming butter cake that features bananas Foster, flambéed tableside.
Smoked Old Fashioned at Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse
See this special drink at Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse
The restaurant’s drink menu includes 25 wines by the glass and dramatic cocktails such as a hibiscus cosmopolitan, featuring a big citrus bubble, and a smoked old fashioned, served in a smoked glass case.
Saccone, who was born in Akron, grew up in Philadelphia. He returned to the area to live in Firestone Park in the ’90s and now lives in Chagrin Falls. His restaurant group owns 13 Hyde Park locations in five states, including Beachwood and Westlake in Northeast Ohio. Others are located in Columbus, Michigan, Florida, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis.
“I think from an energy standpoint, for guests walking in there that have been there since 1998, they’ll find somewhat similarities but they’ll also find a really great feeling of what the place has to offer going forward, hopefully for the next 20 years,” Saccone said of the reopened Hyde Park in Bath.
Arts and restaurant writer Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or [email protected].
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