Friday Meals Bites: Bon Appétit lauds Agni, Los Altos joins Westerville, Mikey’s opens at Easton

There’s at all times lots occurring within the Columbus restaurant world! Right here’s the most recent:

• This week Bon Appétit highlighted chef Avishar Barua’s Agni as one in every of its 20 Best New Restaurants for 2024. The live-fire cooking eatery opened within the Brewery District early final yr, and is Barua’s second eatery following Joya’s Cafe. You’ll be able to learn Bon Appétit‘s piece on Agni here!
• Following intently on the heels of their opening in Dublin final week, Mikey’s Late Night Slice is including one other location at present at Easton. Each of the brand new pizza retailers take over the previous Weenie Surprise places linked to PINS Mechanical Co. The brand new Easton retailer is situated at 4117 Value Ave.
• This Sunday, Sept. 15, Los Altos Mexican restaurant is opening within the former Blue Santa house at 8 N. State St. in Uptown Westerville. Blue Santa closed abruptly throughout the previous couple weeks.
• A brand new Indian eatery known as Taj on Fifth is ready to open quickly at 1021 W. Fifth Ave. in Grandview. One of many companions within the enterprise is Ajay Kumar, whose household owned the bygone Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant in Previous North and AJ’s Cafe downtown. The eatery provides a barely upscale tackle conventional Indian fare, along with having a full bar.
• A second location for Slammer’s bar, known as Slammies on Excessive, has closed at 1607 N. Excessive St. close to campus. It had opened within the spring of 2023; the unique Slammer’s downtown stays open.
• A brand new espresso trailer known as Joy Local Coffee Co. celebrated its grand opening final week. The renovated 60s trailer relies in Gahanna however can be showing at occasions throughout the realm.
• This Saturday, Sept. 14, Land-Grant Brewing celebrates its 10th anniversary (!) with loads of new beer releases, dwell music, food vehicles, a Crew watch celebration, and way more.
• Each Brioso Espresso and Stauf’s Espresso Roasters have been nominated (by yours actually!) for USA Today’s 10Best awards for Best Independent Coffee Shop. Hit the hyperlink to vote for them day by day!
• The Germania Singing & Sport Society’s Oktoberfest is that this weekend within the Brewery District.
• The Locust Desk in Powell introduced a brand new sequence of particular dinners with their chef Mike Gadd. The primary dinner is on Friday, Oct. 4. Visitors can purchase tickets here.

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