Friday Meals Bites: Katalina’s increasing to Bexley, Ampersand to Westerville; Brothers Drake opens in Grandview

There’s at all times rather a lot taking place within the Columbus restaurant world! Right here’s the most recent:

• Katalina’s introduced this week that it will likely be including a 3rd location in Bexley. It is a change from information final 12 months that the Latin-inspired cafe would open its third retailer in Franklinton. An actual location and opening date for Katalina’s Tres, because it’s known as, haven’t been revealed but. This joins Katalina’s unique location in Harrison West and Katalina’s, Too in Clintonville.
• Brothers Drake Meadery has opened for restricted hours at its newly consolidated location in Grandview. The meadery lately merged its unique Brief North bar with its manufacturing facility at 1025 W. Third Ave. Present hours are midday to six p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, with extra hours coming in February.
• Ampersand Asian Supper Membership teased this week {that a} second location might be coming to Uptown Westerville. Ampersand’s first location sits within the Brief North, and options a number of the greatest ramen in Columbus. Ampersand is sister to Asterisk Supper Membership, already in Uptown Westerville.
• Buck Metropolis Sammies, as soon as a pop-up at East Market, will gentle open a everlasting stall there this Saturday, Jan. 20.
• The Funky Duck, a burger-centric pop-up from a number of the workers on the Lox Bagel Store, will supply its subsequent dinner on Monday, Jan. 22.
• Whereas the house owners of Los Potosinos meals truck are engaged on their first brick and mortar on Lengthy Road, the truck will begin popping up at The Oracle in Olde Towne East this Saturday, Jan. 20 at 8 p.m.
• After asserting three new distributors lately, Bubbly Corridor in New Albany shared {that a} Korean fried rooster idea will exchange the lately closed Simply Rooster.
• A brand new dessert store known as Habibi Cafe & Sweets opened final week at 6520 Hayden Run Rd. in Hilliard.
• Cameron Mitchell Eating places introduced that Del Mar SoCal Kitchen within the Brief North has been rebranded as SoCal Kitchen + Bar. The Del Mar identify, which is being utilized by a CMR restaurant in Naples, Florida, will even be used on the restaurant group’s forthcoming restaurant at Easton, within the former Bon Vie house.
• Watershed Kitchen & Bar launched a brand new cocktail menu this week. The brand new menu, which is at all times fantastically and cleverly designed, includes a Select Your Personal Journey theme.
• This Saturday, Jan. 20 is Columbus Winter Beerfest on the Conference Middle.
• The winter version of Restaurant Week runs Jan. 22-24.
• The native restaurant group Columbus Independents has launched its first quarter present certificates sale.

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