Friday Meals Bites: Pretentious Barrel Home, Regulation Chicken Provide Home closing; Authentic Pancake Home joins New Albany

There’s all the time rather a lot occurring within the Columbus restaurant world! Right here’s the newest:

• The proprietor of Pretentious Barrel Home introduced this week that the brewery will likely be closing after Aug. 11 of this 12 months. Situated at 745 Taylor Ave., Pretentious focuses on bitter beers, and has been open since 2017.
• House owners Luke and Annie Williams Pierce of Regulation Chicken bar introduced the closure of Regulation Chicken Provide Home after this Saturday, July 27. The wine store is situated at 1306 Grandview Ave.; it happened as an extension of Regulation Chicken cocktail bar within the Brewery District, rising from the bar’s shifted retail operations in the course of the pandemic.
• The Dipped Donut in Delaware will shut its essential bakery after this Saturday, July 27, with a view to convert the house right into a manufacturing facility for its gluten free bakery subsequent door.
• The Authentic Pancake Home opened its third central Ohio location final week at 6330 E. Dublin Granville Rd. close to New Albany. This joins places in Higher Arlington and in Westerville close to Polaris.
• The brand new-ish homeowners of Starliner Diner in Hilliard introduced this week that they’ve bought the York Steak Home. The steakhouse proprietor had been seeking to retire after working the restaurant since 1966, and had put the enterprise up on the market. Its location at 4220 W. Broad St. is the final remaining retailer of a sequence that after spanned greater than 180 places throughout the nation. Readers (together with myself) have been initially confused by Starliner’s announcement, which mentioned they’ve bought the steakhouse and dishes from it is going to seem at Starliner. (The identical difficulty got here up a pair months again when the homeowners introduced that they had bought Nancy’s Dwelling Cooking recipes to serve on the diner.) They later clarified that the steakhouse and diner would stay open and unchanged.
• Talking of steakhouses… The Capital Grille steakhouse is ready to open at 1827 Olentangy River Rd. within the Lennox plaza this Sunday, July 28. That is the primary location of the chain in Columbus.
• Amidst chapter and courtroom proceedings, Soften Bar + Grilled has closed its final Columbus location at Easton. It had already closed its Quick North store in mid-2022. The remaining Soften places in northeast Ohio stay open.
• Watershed Kitchen & Bar simply launched its latest cocktail menu!
• Don Tequila Mexican Grill and Cantina opened this week at 1540 Bethel Rd. within the former Texas Roadhouse house. That is close to the entrance of the Bethel Middle, which incorporates eateries like New India Restaurant and KPOT Korean BBQ and Sizzling Pot.
• And the Ohio State Honest kicked off this previous Wednesday! It runs by Sunday, Aug. 4 and options the same old honest treats plus funky flavors of lemonade, deviled eggs, and different dishes.

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