Pizza Cottage slices into Lewis Heart restaurant scene
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday.
“The possibility just came up with the making, the suitable chance at the appropriate time,” Chad Dawson, a regional manager with Pizza Cottage, stated of the new area, whose generate-thru officially opened Jan. 4 and dining room opened Jan. 11 at 8753 Owenfield Drive.
It is the seventh area in the Lancaster-based mostly pizza chain.
“It’s very modern-day,” Dawson said of the 4,000-sq.-foot house. “It’s a finish, full overhaul for the building we took more than. This is a new search and new branding for us inside the retailer.”
The seem presents a good deal of grays and blues, booths all over the dining place and an open up kitchen. A banquet place could seat as lots of as 100 guests or could be divided into a few spaces.
The pie is the prototypical central Ohio design: ultrathin crust (other possibilities are offered) built on the premises, a prosperous sauce and contemporary veggies, Dawson claimed.
A number of signature pies are available in addition to create-your-personal alternatives. Just one is the loaded-baked-potato pizza: garlic butter, roasted redskins, a cheddar blend, bacon and chives, with bitter cream on the aspect.
The group favorite is the BLT pizza: bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo capped with dough, producing it much more like a sandwich.
“We’re producing 300 to 400 on a Friday night time,” mentioned Shane Shoemaker, an additional regional manager.
The menu also options wings, sandwiches, salads, calzones and pasta dishes.
Pizza Cottage has been on a slow march west given that its humble beginnings in 1972 as the Coney Cottage in Carroll.
Founders Jack and Yvonne Gorham changed the name to Pizza Cottage a number of months later on. The pair opened extra stores and shuttered a handful of alongside the way, breeching the central Ohio market in 2009 with a pizzeria in Pickerington.
Larry Tipton, who owns 10 Buffalo Wild Wings franchises, acquired the pizza business in January 2017.
The progress prepare is modest, Shoemaker stated, with ideas to open suppliers in Athens and Grove Town in the instant upcoming.
“We do not want to be on every corner,” he said. “We want to be capable to take care of the consumers that we have.”
Hrs are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. For extra facts, connect with 740-879-3001.
Catering outfit will get rebranded
Sue Preston and her daughter, Amber Preston, are now associates and have rebranded Preston Catering as Preston Eatery, 1093 Bethel Street in northwest Columbus.
The room will go on its substantial collection of seize-and-go meals but also has a menu of this sort of produced-to-get products as sandwiches and salads, Amber Preston reported.
Amid the sandwiches are homemade cranberry chicken salad a BLT with residence-roasted turkey, candied bacon, Havarti cheese and Boursin mayonnaise on focaccia an Italian sub and ham and cheese.
Most sandwiches are $8 to $10.
Preston Eatery also smokes salmon for backyard salads.
Dine-in seating is obtainable but is restricted to eight shoppers, Amber Preston mentioned.
She said she received her degree from Columbus Culinary Institute at Bradford University, now closed, and joined her mom in her catering business enterprise, which she experienced moved to Bethel Highway seven decades back.
About the past year, even so, the catering end took a strike from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, so delivery and setup have been phased out, she explained. Large catering orders still are accessible for pickup, she mentioned.
Mr. Hummus Grill expands
Mr. Hummus Grill is joining the Italian Village dining scene.
The Lebanese restaurant, with a spot previously on Bethel Street, will acquire above 5,000 sq. toes of room at 1131 N. Fourth Ave. in Columbus.
A spring opening is prepared.
Owner Tarek Albast reported the space also has an 8,000-sq.-foot patio.
Out with Boston, in with Popeyes
The word is out: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen area will switch Boston Marketplace at 5150 Tuttle Crossing Blvd. in Dublin. The website at this time is under building.
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