Friday Meals Bites: Sunflower Chinese language Restaurant and Hoagie Metropolis shut, Prohibition will get new homeowners

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

• Danny Chung, proprietor of Sunflower Chinese language Restaurant in Dublin, introduced that New 12 months’s Day was their final day in enterprise. Chung cited the will to retire and spend extra time with household as the explanation for the closure. Sunflower opened in a strip mall off Sawmill Highway in 1986, and was identified particularly for his or her dim sum.
• The proprietor of Hoagie Metropolis in Hilliard additionally introduced that they’ve closed, citing rising food prices and inconsistent gross sales. Hoagie Metropolis opened within the fall of 2021.
• Qamaria Yemeni Espresso Co. teased that it’s including a 3rd central Ohio location, this one on Sawmill Highway in Dublin. It joins places in Hilliard and in Lewis Middle.
• The homeowners of Prohibition Gastro Lounge in Powell introduced that as of Jan. 1 the place is underneath new possession. They stated they’ve offered to a different native firm who will proceed working it as an identical idea. Prohibition first opened greater than 11 years in the past.
• Black Kahawa, which just lately opened its full-service espresso store at Broad and Excessive downtown, has expanded its hours and choices to full bar service, together with cocktails and beers on faucet. The store will stay open till 10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and midnight on Thursdays by way of Saturdays.
• Winans Espresso & Chocolate introduced that it is going to be opening a Marysville location at 132 Emmaus Rd. this 12 months.

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