The Nut House Pub & Grille is a neighborhood pub and grille at 295 S Water St in Kent, Ohio. It is a bar with screens, a patio on Water Street and a kitchen turning out craft pizza, jumbo wings and shareables. Open seven days, 11am weekdays, 9am weekends, until 2:30am.
This page is about the place rather than the menu. If you have never been down this stretch of South Water Street, the short version is that the pub is a working neighborhood bar with a real kitchen attached, and it keeps hours that suit both a Tuesday lunch and a Friday that gets away from you.
The building sits at 295, low and solid, with the patio out front facing the street. Inside, the bar takes the long wall, screens sit above it, and the wordmark is painted straight onto the wall — the kind of detail a place only bothers with when it expects to stay put.
Kent brings a mixed crowd and the room absorbs all of it. There are people who came for a pizza and a pint and are gone in an hour. There are tables that started at dinner and are still there at midnight. There are regulars who sit at the same stool and do not need to say what they want. Nobody has to dress for it and nobody has to explain themselves.
The kitchen is the reason people plan around the place rather than just ending up here. Craft pizzas, jumbo wings, and a shareables list long enough to build a whole evening out of: Reuben rolls, cheese curds, poppers, dips, and a Bavarian pretzel with stadium mustard. Food comes out on branded liners, hot, without ceremony. It is pub food cooked like somebody cares whether you come back.
What a pub and grille means in practice is that nobody has to pick a lane. One table orders a pizza and a round. The next orders wings, curds and nothing to drink. Somebody at the bar has a pint and a Bavarian Pretzel and calls that dinner. The kitchen treats none of those as the wrong order, and that is most of what separates a pub from a restaurant that happens to sell beer.
Nothing about ordering here is complicated. Walk in and sit wherever there is room; the bar is fine for one or two and the tables take the rest. If you would rather pick up than sit down, the Toast storefront handles online orders for collection.
Calling works too, and for anything with moving parts it is better. (330) 548-9183 reaches the pub directly — use it for a table of ten, a timed pickup, or a question the menu does not answer.
If it is your first time, order one more shareable than you think you need and push it into the middle of the table. That is how this room eats.
Seven days a week, the same close: 2:30am. The opening moves — 11am Monday through Friday, 9am on Saturday and Sunday, with brunch from 9 on those weekend mornings. It is a wide window, and different hours of it feel like genuinely different rooms.
Come early on a weekday and you get the quiet version, sunlight on the patio and the kitchen unhurried. Come at nine on a Saturday and the room is doing breakfast. Come at midnight and it is a bar in a college town on a weekend, which is its own kind of good.
The other thing those hours tell you is that the place is not built around a single crowd. Nine in the morning and midnight on the same Saturday are two different rooms sharing one address, and both of them are deliberate.
The Nut House Pub & Grille, 295 S Water St, Kent, OH 44240. Call (330) 548-9183. Open Mon–Fri 11am–2:30am and Sat–Sun 9am–2:30am.
South Water Street is easy to find and the Google directions link on this site takes you straight there. The patio sits on the street side of the building. Instagram is @thenuthousepub_, which is where the pizzas and the weekend plates end up.
