Friday Meals Bites: Pretentious Barrel Home, Legislation Chook Provide Home closing; Unique Pancake Home joins New Albany

There’s all the time rather a lot taking place within the Columbus restaurant world! Right here’s the newest:

• The proprietor of Pretentious Barrel Home introduced this week that the brewery will probably be closing after Aug. 11 of this 12 months. Positioned at 745 Taylor Ave., Pretentious makes a speciality of bitter beers, and has been open since 2017.
• House owners Luke and Annie Williams Pierce of Legislation Chook bar introduced the closure of Legislation Chook Provide Home after this Saturday, July 27. The wine store is positioned at 1306 Grandview Ave.; it happened as an extension of Legislation Chook cocktail bar within the Brewery District, rising from the bar’s shifted retail operations through the pandemic.
• The Dipped Donut in Delaware will shut its primary bakery after this Saturday, July 27, so as to convert the area right into a manufacturing facility for its gluten free bakery subsequent door.
• The Unique Pancake Home opened its third central Ohio location final week at 6330 E. Dublin Granville Rd. close to New Albany. This joins areas in Higher Arlington and in Westerville close to Polaris.
• The brand new-ish homeowners of Starliner Diner in Hilliard introduced this week that they’ve bought the York Steak Home. The steakhouse proprietor had been trying to retire after operating the restaurant since 1966, and had put the enterprise up on the market. Its location at 4220 W. Broad St. is the final remaining retailer of a sequence that when spanned greater than 180 areas throughout the nation. Readers (together with myself) had been initially confused by Starliner’s announcement, which mentioned they’ve bought the steakhouse and dishes from it would seem at Starliner. (The identical concern got here up a pair months again when the homeowners introduced that they had bought Nancy’s Residence Cooking recipes to serve on the diner.) They later clarified that the steakhouse and diner would stay open and unchanged.
• Talking of steakhouses… The Capital Grille steakhouse is ready to open at 1827 Olentangy River Rd. within the Lennox plaza this Sunday, July 28. That is the primary location of the chain in Columbus.
• Amidst chapter and courtroom proceedings, Soften Bar + Grilled has closed its final Columbus location at Easton. It had already closed its Brief North store in mid-2022. The remaining Soften areas in northeast Ohio stay open.
• Watershed Kitchen & Bar simply launched its latest cocktail menu!
• Don Tequila Mexican Grill and Cantina opened this week at 1540 Bethel Rd. within the former Texas Roadhouse area. That is close to the entrance of the Bethel Heart, which incorporates eateries like New India Restaurant and KPOT Korean BBQ and Sizzling Pot.
• And the Ohio State Truthful kicked off this previous Wednesday! It runs by way of Sunday, Aug. 4 and options the same old honest treats plus funky flavors of lemonade, deviled eggs, and different dishes.

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