8 New Spots for Drinks in 2024

Alongside all the brand new eating places and new espresso retailers that opened in 2024, we welcomed a number of new institutions which are good for kicking again with a cocktail, a beer, or a non-alcoholic libation. Listed here are highlights of eight new locations for drink that opened in Columbus this 12 months!

Behind an unassuming storefront on Bexley’s Primary Road, The Lion introduced collectively a number of the metropolis’s finest mixologists to create a dynamic cocktail bar this 12 months. With brick partitions, mushy greenery, small mirrors and chandeliers, the area is a comfy enclave good for sipping traditional cocktails or the workers’s distinctive creations.

Learn extra: The Lion Cocktail Bar Roars Into Bexley

This 12 months Jim Sweeney, the unofficial mayor of Franklinton, solidified his legacy by changing his home into your new favourite dive bar. Sweeney’s Walnut Road Tavern is the primary in a sequence of transformations alongside the block, during which outdated houses have gotten bars, eating places, and music venues. It’s a laid-back spot to spin data, sip a beer or cocktail, or chill out on one of many patios.

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

Over a 12 months the place we’ve misplaced a pair breweries, it’s good to have a brand new one open – particularly one with a storied historical past resembling Hoster Brewing! The legacy brewery dates again to the 1830s, and this newest iteration revives centuries-old recipes in a west aspect taproom close to the airport. It’s been renovated to appear to be an old-fashioned bar, providing a classic backdrop for having fun with Hoster’s Gold High and different signature lagers and ales.

Learn extra: After Extra Than 20 Years, Hoster Brewing Has a Residence Once more

Donnie Austin opened Aardvark Wine & Beer in late 2022, a wine store in Linworth with delightfully colourful branding, and this spring he expanded into the rear of the constructing with the addition of the Dive Baar. The Dive includes a small bar, a mixture of seating, a good-looking assortment of beers on faucet, native snacks, and naturally a properly curated wine choice. It’s additionally an excellent complement to the Ray Ray’s Hog Pit truck parked out entrance.

Learn extra: Aardvark Wine & Beer Expands with its New Dive Baar

I Like It Like That arrange store this 12 months inside an unused part of Natalie’s in Grandview. It’s a hip little spot for “hooch concoctions and giggle water,” as their web site says, filled with quiet little corners and kitschy decor. (And if go to earlier within the day, you’ll discover the bar is residence to Royal Flamingo’s espresso store.)

Learn extra: I Like It Like That

Land-Grant Brewing in Franklinton has been slowly rising its footprint over time, and this spring they added The Extension, a brand new experimental bar simply steps away from the unique taproom and subsequent to the Gravity Expertise Park. There they serve up a menu of cocktails, experimental beers, wines, and different libations.

Learn extra: Land-Grant Brewing Opens The Extension Bar

Excessive Financial institution Distillery added their third restaurant in 2024, this one in Uptown Westerville. It’s very becoming, given its location within the former epicenter of the temperance motion. And it’s made much more becoming by the addition of a basement speakeasy! The decor and the identify nod to the constructing’s historical past because the Westerville submit workplace.

Learn extra: P.O. Field XXI

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

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

Inquisitive about extra happenings this 12 months? You possibly can examine 10 Favourite New Eating places in 2024 or 16 New Espresso Retailers That Opened in 2024!

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