Top : United_States : OH : Oberlin : Weia Teia82 South Main St.
Oberlin
OH
United States
44074
Telephone : 440.774.8880
Type of cuisine served :Price DetailsThe typical price range for a meal at Weia Teia is $15.01 - $30 Payment MethodsAll restaurants accept cash; additional methods of payment are :-
Alcohol : wine / beer. Dress : casual. Parking : street parking.
ReviewsThis One is Amazing! Great and imaginative food, placed like sculpture on the plate - and tasty to boot! This is a real dining experience, one not to be missed should you pass through little Oberlin (and who would have guessed such a treat would be in so small a place?) Great and imaginative food, placed like sculpture on the plate - and tasty to boot! This is a real dining experience, one not to be missed should you pass through little Oberlin (and who would have guessed such a treat would be in so small a place?) Food Rating [10/10] Service Rating [10/10] Ambiance Rating [6/10] Weia Teia - The Best Bet in Oberlin! Weia Teia serves some of the most eclectic, delicious Thai/Chinese food I've ever had. It's quite americanized, serving up vegetarian options or a big thick steak, but the influence is there. Weia Teia serves some of the most eclectic, delicious Thai/Chinese food I've ever had. It's quite americanized, serving up vegetarian options or a big thick steak, but the influence is there. I had a steak with an awesome avocado relish, and sweet potato French fries (thick sliced, cooked perfectly, garnished with a bit of salt and sugar) served in a crisp egg-roll type wrapper which was edible (quite edible, in fact - yum!). My appetizer was a crabmeat creation served on what looked like an upside-down goblet. Very creative! The service was friendly and prompt even though it was a busy weekend night. The atmosphere in the restaurant is very eclectic. Wooden menus painted silver on the outside with their funky logo were kinda creaky (I think they could have oiled their hinges!) and there are a moderate amount of choices. The perfect number of dishes - I didn't have to make a huge choice as to what I wanted, even though everything sounded great. In fact, I'm a kinda picky eater and I'd be willing to try any and all of their awesome entrees or appetizers. There was a full wine list (although I didn't try any they looked like they'd complement any of the interesting dishes quite well) as well. All in all, Weia Teia was a rare find! At first it may look like a hole-in-the-wall in a tiny Ohio college town, but inside the atmosphere is great, the food is great, and overall my experience was super. If it weren't a half hour drive from Cleveland, I'd be there every weekend. Food Rating [10/10] Service Rating [8/10] Ambiance Rating [8/10] I've been a student in Oberlin for 4 years. Weia Teia is the best dining in town, presentation is great. I order their food while I'm at work! I've been a student in Oberlin for 4 years. Weia Teia is the best dining in town, presentation is great. I order their food while I'm at work! Food Rating [8/10] Service Rating [8/10] Ambiance Rating [8/10] Terribly Overrated The food at Weia Teia is not much to write home about, mixing Asian staples in a horrifically careless fashion. What's on the menu? Nothing of note. The steaks are the only good deal, with the remainder of the menu becoming one over-priced and unappealing wash. Of course, the only reason why anybody ever goes to this restaurant is not because of how great the food is, but in the anticipation of how fantastically overdone the presentation will be. Edible antennae and giant fans on every single dish, it becomes nauseously overdone and trite, even to the usual compromising college-aged clientele. The food at Weia Teia is not much to write home about, mixing Asian staples in a horrifically careless fashion. What's on the menu? Nothing of note. The steaks are the only good deal, with the remainder of the menu becoming one over-priced and unappealing wash. Of course, the only reason why anybody ever goes to this restaurant is not because of how great the food is, but in the anticipation of how fantastically overdone the presentation will be. Edible antennae and giant fans on every single dish, it becomes nauseously overdone and trite, even to the usual compromising college-aged clientele. The atmosphere is trying for chic and modern but falls short. Carpeted office cubicles are the only separation that you have from other guests and the boots are uncomfortable at best. The bar is a joke, with virtually no selection and a bartop that would be too high for even our friends in the NBA to find comfortable. Service is very touch and go, they almost always bring something either too early or too late and the check NEVER comes unless you ask for it. The menu is also one of the many downfalls, printed paper pasted on a huge wooden paddles. Needless to say, they make the ordering experience difficult at best. Weia Teia is good by Oberlin standards, but that's really not saying much at all, with the only competition being the owner's other restaurant down the street that serves up the most insulting Chinese food that one has ever had the opportunity to suffer through. In Oberlin? Take my advice, drive up 58 and dine in style at McDonald's. You'll thank me later. Food Rating [4/10] Service Rating [4/10] Ambiance Rating [6/10] Amazing Honestly, the best food in the world. The review before mine is absurd. I am from New York City, and I have never eaten food like this. Weia Teia is a treasure. I've eaten just about everything on the menu, and I have never been even a tiny bit disappointed. The food is sort of a Thai/French fusion; French dishes made with Thai ingredients. Truly outstanding. Honestly, the best food in the world. The review before mine is absurd. I am from New York City, and I have never eaten food like this. Weia Teia is a treasure. I've eaten just about everything on the menu, and I have never been even a tiny bit disappointed. The food is sort of a Thai/French fusion; French dishes made with Thai ingredients. Truly outstanding. Food Rating [10/10] Service Rating [8/10] Ambiance Rating [8/10] Crude, Rude and Possibly Unsanitary. Chaotic and Out of Control. Im Angry. This restaurant is a nightmare out of "Fawlty Towers!" It was the worst service I've ever experienced. This restaurant is a nightmare out of "Fawlty Towers!" It was the worst service I've ever experienced. Let me explain: My friends and I were going to attend a classical music concert in Oberlin, so we made reservations for dinner at Weia-Teia, which we'd heard was a good new restaurant. We arrived fifteen minutes after the time we'd reserved (it was a long drive!) and the hostess said "No problem," and promptly seated us in one of the restaurant's tiny, uncomfortable booths. The restaurant did not smell particularly clean, but we didn't mind, since we were determined to enjoy ourselves. The hostess who seated us handed us each a dirty, dog-eared menu, pasted to some unsanitary piece of wood, and we began perusing and discussing the selections. Suddenly, the hostess returned, scowling, with some sort of personage of higher authority behind her. The hostess snatched our menus away from us, and said "You can't have this table. You were late for your reservation. We have to give it to someone who came in after you." We were non-plussed, and started saying things like, "But you showed us to our table..." "We weren't that late..." The hostess shook her head and said: "You can wait for another table. But nothing will open up until after 9." (That was two and a half hours away!) Then the higher authority, (was she the manager?) placed herself in front of the hostess. Her manner was crude and angry. "You've got to go," she shouted. "We need this table for other people. You can come back at 9." There was no tone of apology, or intimation that perhaps the restaurant had made an unfortunate mistake. No one begged for our understanding. Anyone looking on would think we were being thrown out for some outrageous breach of behavior. One member of our party began to remonstrate with our two antagonists, but I convinced him and the other that it was embarassing enough, both to the restaurant and the other diners, and that we should just go without another word. We did so. That was the end of the incident -- execept for our continuing incredulity. I've worked in restaurants and dined at restaurants around the country and around the world and have never seen such crude, unprofessional behavior. Anyone who works in a restaurant will tell you that once a party of customers is seated, you don't haul them up by the scruff of the neck and tell them to leave because of YOUR mistake. If another party was entitled to the booth to which the hostess had lead us and seated us, that was the restaurant's problem, not ours. I might add, that our party consisted of two mild-mannered gentlemen in suits and ties, and a well-dressed lady, all of us in late middle age. What I found most astonishing was that the hostess and "manager" seemed to think that we were so desperate to eat at their foul boite that we would actually put up with their treatment, and come back two and a half hours later, panting with gratitude to actually be seated AND served. Of course, there are not many dining options in Oberlin. After being ejected from Weia-Teia, we went to another nearby dining spot, where we enjoyed friendly, helpful service from a hardworking wait staff. Unfortunately, the lettuce in the salad hadn't been washed, and was literally covered with dirt: The very soil it had been planted in. I won't mention the name of the restaurant, however, because unlike Weia-Teia, they actually apologized for the problem, and didn't act like they were doing us a favor by serving us dirt. Service Rating [2/10] Ambiance Rating [2/10]Fusion failure In short, Weia Teia is unimaginative food meets overimaginative presentation. All flash and no substance. In short, Weia Teia is unimaginative food meets overimaginative presentation. All flash and no substance. Come on Oberlin, don't let these people behind Weia Teia knock you over the head and play you for idiots! Weia Teia has simply tried to hitch a ride on the global fusion craze, but has missed the point terribly. Creating fusion cuisine is not about dressing up poorly prepared asian dishes with new names and tasteless decorations, it's about creating something new and exciting. And that element is what Weia Teia lacks most. Full of pretense and fully lacking in taste, Weia Teia is NOT recommended. For the real fusion deal, try Blue Ginger in Wellesley Mass. Then you'll never want to go back to that little hole in the wall ever again. Food Rating [4/10] Service Rating [4/10] Ambiance Rating [4/10]
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