Friday Food Bites: Standardized Brewing opens in Lewis Center, Crimson joins campus, new Little Grand Market vendors

May 24, 2024

There’s always a lot happening in the Columbus restaurant world! Here’s the latest:

  • A new combined brewery and coffee shop called Standardized Brewing opened yesterday at 5920 Evans Farm Dr. in Lewis Center. It’s part of the new Evans Farm development, and features house brews, One Line Coffee, and donuts from Der Dutchman.
  • Crimson opened a new coffee shop late last week at 64 W. Lane Ave., inside the Newman Center across from Ohio State’s campus. It’s the second shop for Crimson, which opened its first in late 2020 at Easton. Read more in Check Out Crimson’s New Coffee Shop Near Ohio State’s Campus.
  • The Little Grand Market, coming this summer to Thrive Companies’ Grandview Crossing development, announced six new vendors coming to the market. These include a second location of Los Agavez Taqueria, For the Love of Dough cookie vendor, Gant’s Pizza out of Circleville, Just Chicken (which has a stall at East Market), Seoul Food on the Go (which is at Bubbly Hall), and Pablo’s Havana Cafe (which also has a presence at North Market Bridge Park).
  • This week Johnson’s Real Ice Cream completed a trio a new store openings with the arrival of its Canal Winchester shop. Located at 20 S. High St., it joins newcomers in Grandview and Italian Village.
  • The owner of York Steak House on the West Side announced on Facebook this week that he’s retiring after 45 years and has put the steakhouse up for sale. It’s remaining open as normal in the meantime. York Steak House first started in Columbus in 1966 and crew to nearly 180 stores.
  • BrewDog opened a small brewpub on Concourse B of John Glenn Columbus International Airport this week. Find it near Gate B20, serving BrewDog beers, guest drafts, and a menu focused around burgers, pretzels, and the like.
  • The Ohio Distillery Trail officially kicked off this week. The digital passport will take you around to nearly 40 craft distilleries all across the state. Many distilleries are hosting special events, such as Echo Spirits, which will hold a launch party on Saturday, May 25 from 4-10 p.m., with music, tours, food trucks, and the release of a maple-finished rye whiskey.
  • The Jeni’s Strawberry Jam is this Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26 at Land-Grant Brewing! It features Jeni’s ice cream, strawberries from local farms, Fox in the Snow strawberry shortcake, and Land-Grant beers – on top of live music, food trucks, and family activities. It’s taking place all over the Land-Grant campus, including their new Extension bar.

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