8 new consuming locations in 2024

Together with all the brand new eating places and cafes that opened in 2024, we welcomed a number of new areas which can be excellent for stress-free with a cocktail, beer or non-alcoholic drink. Listed below are the highlights of eight new watering holes that opened in Columbus this 12 months!

Behind an unassuming store on Bexley’s Important Road, The Lion introduced collectively a number of the metropolis’s greatest mixologists to create a dynamic cocktail bar this 12 months. Brick partitions, gentle greenery, small mirrors and chandeliers make the house a comfy enclave, excellent for sipping basic cocktails or the employees’s distinctive creations.

Learn extra: The Lion cocktail bar roars into Bexley

This 12 months, Jim Sweeney, Franklinton’s unofficial mayor, cemented his legacy by turning his home into his new favourite dive bar. Sweeney’s Walnut Road Tavern is the primary in a sequence of transformations alongside the block, the place previous houses have gotten bars, eating places and music venues. It is a informal place to spin information, sip a beer or cocktail or calm down on the terrace.

Learn extra: Sweeney’s Walnut Road Tavern opens in Franklinton

In over a 12 months the place we have misplaced a few breweries, it is good to have a brand new one open – particularly one with a storied historical past like Hoster Brewing! An previous brewery relationship again to the 1830s, this newest iteration resurrects centuries-old recipes in a west-side taproom close to the airport. Restored to seem like an old-school bar, it offers a classic backdrop to get pleasure from Hoster’s Gold Prime and different well-known lagers and ales.

Learn extra: After greater than 20 years, Hoster Brewing has a house once more

In late 2022, Donnie Austin opened Aardvark Wine & Beer, a wine store in Linworth with a delightfully colourful model, and this spring he expanded into the again of the constructing with a Dive Bar. Dive has a small bar, a mixture of seating, a pleasant number of beers on faucet, native snacks, and naturally a properly curated number of wines. It additionally completely enhances the Ray Ray’s Hog Pit automobile parked out entrance.

Learn extra: Aardvark Wine & Beer expands with a brand new dive bar

I Like It Like That arrange store this 12 months in an unused part of Grandview’s Natalie. It is a hip little place for “tips and giggles,” as their web site says, stuffed with quiet little corners and kitschy decor. (And when you go to earlier within the day, the bar has a Royal Flamingo cafe.)

Learn extra: I prefer it that manner

Franklinton-based Land-Grant Brewing has slowly grown its footprint through the years, and this spring they added The Extension, a brand new experimental bar simply steps away from the unique taproom and adjoining to Gravity Expertise Park. There they provide a number of cocktails, experimental beers, wines and different drinks.

Learn extra: Land-Grant Brewing Opens Growth Bar

Excessive Financial institution Distillery added its third restaurant in 2024, this one in Uptown Westerville. It’s totally becoming given its location on the former epicenter of the temperance motion. And it is made much more handy by including a basement speaker! The decor and title seek advice from the constructing’s historical past as a Westerville submit workplace.

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With the closing of Hoof Hearted Brewery & Kitchen in Italian Village, the brewery aspect branched out with its personal taproom within the former Brothers Drake Meadery house (Brothers Drake mixed their bar and manufacturing in Grandview). Hoof Hearted Brewing on Fifth options all of their signature cartoonish manufacturers and beers, swag, video video games, and now Ray Ray’s Reload truck.

Learn extra: Hoof Hearted Opens Quick North Bar in Outdated Brothers Drake Area

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