Friday Meals Bites: Mission Espresso returning to Quick North, Adelaide’s closes, Silav Cafe opens

There’s all the time quite a bit taking place within the Columbus restaurant world! Right here’s the most recent:

• On social media just lately, Mission Espresso Co. teased a return to its authentic retailer at 11 Value Ave. within the Quick North. Extra particular particulars haven’t been launched, equivalent to a timeline or the state of its espresso store and roastery at 2060 S. Excessive St.
• After lower than a yr in enterprise, Adelaide’s Gin Joint within the Outdated North has closed and the enterprise is up on the market.
• A brand new Kurdish restaurant known as Silav Cafe & Grill has opened downtown at 330 S. Excessive St., within the former Bonjour Cafe storefront. It’s at present open from 11 a.m. to six p.m. day by day, with a grand opening approaching Aug. 11.
• The proprietor of Lifestyle Café in Olde Towne East shared that the enterprise can be transitioning indirectly over the approaching days. It’s unclear if it’s a brand new iteration of the enterprise or a closure. Chef and proprietor Shanna Dean mentioned the cafe would run restricted hours and menu this weekend, Aug. 3-4. (Learn extra in regards to the cafe in my 2022 feature on for Ohio Magazine.)
• A brand new fried rooster spot known as Overdose Hot Chicken comfortable opened this week at 3260 W. Broad St. within the Hilltop. Quite a few residents and a few native officers have complained in regards to the identify, particularly given the restaurant’s proximity to dependancy therapy facilities close by.
• La Loma Mexican restaurant celebrates its grand opening this Saturday, Aug. 3. It’s positioned at 3051 Northwest Blvd. in Higher Arlington. This joins areas in Akron and Canton.
• The proprietor of Zammy’s Vegan Kitchen introduced that the plant-based eatery might be closing after enterprise on Saturday, Aug. 2. Zammy’s is positioned at 1155 Worthington Woods Blvd.; it opened within the spring of 2022.
• It’s been confirmed that Korean fried rooster chain CM Rooster is opening a fourth central Ohio location at 1011 W. Fifth Ave. within the Fifth By Northwest. It’s slated to open someday this fall.
• A number of sources have reported that Three Creeks Kitchen & Cocktails will substitute the previous O’Toole’s Irish Pub at 258 Granville St. in Gahanna this fall.
• The Peanut Shoppe downtown has closed for normal hours in preparation for a transfer throughout Capitol Sq. below new house owners. The store will nonetheless be open for pop-up hours associated to downtown occasions. (Learn extra in regards to the store and its historical past in my post on Ohio.org!)
• I don’t understand how I missed this, however G’s Shepard Springs Café opened a number of months again at 900 Sunbury Rd. within the Shepherd neighborhood.
• Ohio’s sales tax holiday kicked off this week and runs by means of midnight on Aug. 8. This yr the vacation was prolonged from seven days to 10, and consists of restaurant eating (however not alcohol purchases).

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