Friday Meals Bites: Campfire Brewing opens in Westerville, Bexley Espresso Store on the market

Photograph: Campfire Brewing on Fb

There’s at all times quite a bit happening within the Columbus restaurant world! Here is the newest:

• Central Ohio’s latest brewery, Campfire Brewing, opened this week at 6300 Frost Rd. in Westerville. The brewery is run by 4 buddies from Westerville who began a homebrewery collectively in 2019 to share new beers by the campfire.
• The house owners of Bexley Espresso Store have introduced that they need to exit of enterprise and have put the cafe up on the market. And not using a purchaser, they mentioned, the shop at 492 N. Cassady Rd. will seemingly shut on the finish of January.
• Buca di Beppo at 60 E. Wilson Bridge Rd. in Worthington has closed after 23 years to make method for Chick-fil-a.
• Metropolis Buffet, a brand new Asian seafood buffet, can be mushy opening tomorrow – Saturday, January 18 – at 3670 Soldano Blvd. on the west aspect.
• Prohibition Gastro Lounge in Powell formally reopened final week underneath new possession. It’s now owned by the Delaware-based Opa Grill & Tavern staff.
• Good Kitchen at 1485 Sunbury Rd. introduced on social media that they are going to be closing quickly, however will proceed to serve and convey again their meals truck.
• Johnson’s Actual Ice Cream introduced this week that it’s increasing once more with the addition of a second Powell retailer at 50 S. Liberty. St. Johnson’s now has two Powell shops and a Pickerington retailer opening this yr, bringing their complete to 9 areas. The brand new downtown Powell retailer will open in April.
• Charmy’s Persian Style contains a Persian scorching bar on Saturday, January 18th at Hills Market Middle (95 N. Grant Ave.) from midday to three p.m.
• Bubbles Tea & Juice opened a second location this week, this one at 1257 Grandview Ave.
• Daybreak’s Fish & Hen has graduated from a ghost kitchen in Clintonville to its first retailer at 134 Hamilton Rd. in Gahanna. Daybreak options
• Love in Dublin is introduced by Go to Dublin. One fortunate couple can win a resort keep, a therapeutic massage, a bottle of champagne and dinner for 2 on the VASO Rooftop Lounge.
• Talking of VASO, they’re providing bookable, heated igloos as a part of their Tea Week from now till January twenty sixth. Igloos may be booked on their web site.

Nice occasions:

• Charmy’s Persian Style contains a Persian scorching bar on Saturday, January 18th at Hills Market Middle (95 N. Grant Ave.) from midday to three p.m.
• Souper Heroes, a soup-focused fundraiser, returns to the Worthington Farmers Market on Saturday, February 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friends can signal as much as carry soup or simply donate and style all of them.
• 614 journal’s Restaurant Week returns subsequent week, January 20-25, the place dozens of native eating places supply prix fixe menus at completely different worth ranges.
• Columbus Underground’s Candy Treats Dessert Pageant returns to The Kee on Sunday, January twenty sixth.
• In anticipation of recent restaurant Isla opening quickly in Merion Village, Devoney Mills and Andrew Smith hosted a preview dinner at The Lox Bagel Store on Wednesday, January twenty ninth. Reserve seats by clicking on the hyperlink.

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