(In case you missed it, Alive’s own Joel Oliphint has a pawpaw primer here.) The community event celebrates Asimina triloba through educational presentations and competitions such as a pawpaw cook-off and a pawpaw-eating contest. The 2021 Ohio Pawpaw Festival, celebrating one of America’s largest native tree fruits, takes place Friday through Sunday, Sept. Fourth St.). The dining room has been cleared out as well. The Latin American restaurant had been temporarily closed since June because of staffing issues. It's unclear whether the restaurant will relocate messages left with the owner have not been returned.

The pandemic appears to have claimed another Downtown restaurant, according to a “For Lease” sign in the window at Andes Bar & Grill (79 S.

daily, with coffee sourced from Nashville’s Frothy Monkey Roasting Co., biscuit sandwiches and pastries. New Albany has a new breakfast spot called Morning Ritual, the sister brand to LC’s sporty restaurant, The Goat. The new coffee shop is located at 5704 New Albany Road W, just steps away from The Goat. Click here to learn more about what Owens has in store at Wolf’s Ridge and about his decision to jump back behind the bar.Ĭomune (677 Parsons Ave.) announced this week that it has a new executive chef. Matt Harper joins the plant-based restaurant after serving as executive chef at Orto in Baltimore and Kensington Quarters in Philadelphia. Prior to that he was chef de cuisine at Philly's award-winning Israeli restaurant, Zahav. Harper is the third executive chef in less than three years for Comune, which was heralded as one of the best in the city not long after opening in November 2018. Since closing Curio on June 30, 2018, Owens has operated his own cocktail consulting and bar ice business, Behind the Glass. Travis Owens, the creator of what was arguably Columbus’ best cocktail bar for a time, has joined Wolf’s Ridge Brewing as its bar manager. The former Curio owner will also oversee the bar program at the brewery’s forthcoming bar, Understory, in Old North. Turbo’s Cookies is joining Budd Dairy in its new rotating kitchen for sweets, dubbed Sugar. It will make its Budd Dairy debut on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Owner Mo Jallaq, who hails from Hebron City, Palestine, opened his first restaurant last year at 5450 Westpointe Plaza Drive in Hilliard. Zaytoon replaces The Cheesecake Girl, which left the market's incubator space in mid-September and opened its first standalone storefront that same week in Dublin. The news follows last week’s announcement that Mrs. Zaytoon Mediterranean Grill is set to join Budd Dairy in the food hall’s incubator space, The Hatch. Zaytoon, meaning olive in Arabic, serves a menu of homemade hummus and falafel, lamb and beef gyros, chicken shawarma and more.

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