Friday Meals Bites: Mission closes South Aspect store, Maison Skalli expands, Marx Bagels replaces Block’s

There’s at all times so much occurring within the Columbus restaurant world! Right here’s the newest:

• Mission Espresso introduced final week that will probably be closing its espresso store inside The Fort on the South Aspect. The store opened two years in the past and is connected to its roastery. Mission’s Quick North espresso store, which reopened final August, stays open.
• The Moroccan bakery and brunch cafe Maison Skalli opened a second location this week at 3708 Fishinger Blvd. in Hilliard. It joins a location that opened in Dublin within the spring of 2024.
• The Mochi Store opens its mixed storefront with Espresso Coin this Sunday, March 23. The brand new store is situated at 999 Bethel Rd. Suite D. They’ll be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day. The primary 50 clients will get a free mochi!
• Moralus Steelton Market is now open on the South Aspect at 1776 S. Excessive St.
• Marx Bagels out of Cincinnati is taking up the outdated Block’s Bagels spaced at 6115 McNaughten Rd. The Block’s cafe – the final of its places – closed final month following the dying of its founder Hal Block. Marx Bagels has been serving the Cincinnati space since 1969.
• Scorching Rooster Takeover introduced that it has closed one other of its places, this one at 4198 Value Ave. within the Easton Gateway. The recent hen store closed its Powell location a pair months again.
• A number of sources have reported that the Gentle Assembly Home Espresso Bar & Cafe is coming to 1485 Oak St. in Franklin Park, within the former outdated Addella’s on Oak house. Addella’s closed earlier this yr.
• Libby Lou’s Enjoyable Manufacturing facility is now open at Bubbly Corridor in New Albany.
• Rose Dough Donuts will once more maintain a pop-up store on the web site of its future storefront – 3375 N. excessive St. – this Saturday, March 22, beginning at 10 a.m. Get there early – they’ll promote out!

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