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

There’s at all times loads happening within the Columbus restaurant world! This is the most recent:

• Krema Nut Firm introduced this week that it has closed the sandwich counter at its Grandview retailer. A wide range of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and shakes have been obtainable on the counter. In a social media put up, they cite staffing wants and restricted gross sales house as the principle causes for the closure.
• Bottoms Up Espresso expanded to a second location this week, taking up the previous Stauf’s espresso store at The View on Grant (350 Mt. Vernon Ave.). Bottoms Up first opened in Franklinton in 2016 and has modified arms a number of occasions since then. The corporate additionally has a coworking house and operates as a social enterprise that goals to cut back toddler mortality.
• A number of sources are reporting this week that Rise Manufacturers, the corporate behind 16-Bit Bar & Arcade and PINS Mechanical Co, has taken over the Bogey Inn in Dublin. The native facility closed in 2022 after the longtime proprietor died. Rise Manufacturers plans to demolish the present constructing and switch the location right into a three-acre leisure complicated that may embody meals, a number of bars, reside music and a 27-hole placing inexperienced.
• Central Ohio’s latest all-you-can eat Korean BBQ and scorching pot restaurant, Meetpot, opened this week at 114 Hutchinson Ave. Within the former Wurst Und Bier house in Crosswoods. It joins a rising variety of AYCE’s Korean barbecue spots, resembling KPOT and One Pot.
• Delaware’s Ciao Café introduced its enlargement into a brand new retailer at 214 Thurman Ave. in German Village. The house close to the Fox within the Snow store has beforehand been a few completely different juice and milkshake bars. Ciao Cafe is understood for its gelato, paninis and pastries. The precise opening date has not but been introduced.
• Matt Fish, proprietor of Soften Bar & Grilled, introduced that the enterprise has formally closed. The superior grilled cheese store began out in Lakewood, Ohio, however beforehand had Columbus areas within the Brief North and Easton, each of which closed lately.
• Quick-casual Mediterranean spot Agape opened its latest location in Grandview Yard this week at 855 W. Third Ave. This makes it the sixth place general.
• Bubbly Corridor in New Albany welcomed its latest vendor this week, Zero’s Pizza.
• Enterprise first stated Liberty Tavern in Powell has closed and shall be changed by Elliot’s Wooden-Fired Pizza in Newark. (You may see a little bit of Elliot’s unique location in our Let’s Go To Licking County itinerary.)
• The Ghostwriter Public Home in Johnstown was quickly closed for renovations once more this week.
• Little Girls Smooth Serve is at the moment on winter break and shall be reopening their retailer at 673 Worthington Rd. on Saturday, February 1.
• COLO Market & Oyster Bar in North Market Downtown will host a five-course dinner led by Chef Justin Wotring known as Market After Darkish on Friday, January twenty fourth.

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