Friday Meals Bites: Krema closes sandwich counter, Bottoms Up expands, Bogey Inn returning

There’s at all times lots taking place within the Columbus restaurant world! Right here’s the most recent:

• Krema Nut Firm introduced this week that it has closed the sandwich counter at its Grandview retailer. The counter served quite a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in addition to milkshakes. In a social media put up they cited staffing calls for and restricted retail house as the primary causes for the closure.
• Bottoms Up Espresso expanded to a second location this week, taking up the former Stauf’s espresso store in The View on Grant (350 Mt. Vernon Ave.). Bottoms Up first opened in Franklinton in 2016 and has modified fingers a pair instances since then. The enterprise can be residence to a coworking house, and serves as a social enterprise working to cut back toddler mortality.
• A number of sources reported this week that Rise Manufacturers, the corporate behind 16-Bit Bar & Arcade and PINS Mechanical Co., has taken over the grounds of the Bogey Inn in Dublin. The native establishment closed in 2022 after the long-time proprietor handed away. Rise Manufacturers plans to demolish the prevailing constructing and remodel the world right into a three-acre leisure advanced that features meals, a number of bars, reside music, and a 27-hole placing course.
• Central Ohio’s latest all-you-can eat Korean BBQ and scorching pot restaurant, Meetpot, delicate opened this week at 114 Hutchinson Ave. within the former Wurst Und Bier house at Crosswoods. It joins a rising variety of AYCE Korean BBQ spots like KPOT and One Pot.
• Delaware’s Ciao Café introduced that it’s increasing to a brand new store at 214 Thurman Ave. in German Village. The house, positioned close to the Fox within the Snow store, has beforehand been a pair totally different juice and shake bars. Ciao Cafe is understood for its gelato, paninis, and pastries. An actual opening date hasn’t been introduced but.
• Matt Fish, proprietor of Soften Bar & Grilled, introduced that the corporate has formally ceased operations. The over-the-top grilled cheese store began in Lakewood, Ohio however beforehand had Columbus areas within the Brief North and at Easton, each of which closed up in recent times.
• The quick informal Mediterranean spot Agape opened its latest location at 855 W. Third Ave. in Grandview Yard this week. This makes for its sixth location total.
• Bubbly Corridor in New Albany welcomed its latest vendor this week, Zero’s Pizza.
• Enterprise First reported that Liberty Tavern in Powell has closed and is being changed by Elliot’s Wooden-Fired Pizza, which relies in Newark. (You possibly can see a little bit of Elliot’s authentic location in our itinerary Let’s Go To Licking County.)
• After closing briefly for a revamp, Ghostwriter Public Home in Johnstown reopened this week.
• Little Women Gentle Serve is at present on a winter hiatus, and can reopen its store at 673 Worthington Rd. on Saturday, Feb. 1.
• COLO Market & Oyster Bar at North Market Downtown is internet hosting a five-course dinner led by chef Justin Wotring, known as Market After Darkish, on Friday, Jan. 24

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