The Budd Dairy Hall is the latest venture from Cameron Mitchell Restaurants.
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The restaurant scene in central Ohio continues to find its way a year into the pandemic, and while an estimated 20% didn’t survive, new restaurants are sprouting up.
Today on All Sides Weekend Chefs in the City, we take a look at the latest culinary offerings, including Cameron Mitchell’s Budd Dairy Food Hall.
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After years of delays and preparation, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants is finally ready to open Budd Dairy Food Hall, which holds nine restaurant concepts and two Cameron Mitchell-run bars inside an old dairy facility in Italian Village.
With the opening just weeks away, the company provided a look inside the food hall, which will host its first guests April 6 beginning at 4 p.m.
The 14,000-square-foot building at 1086 N. 4th St. features nine restaurants surrounding a rectangular bar on a ground floor studded with televisions, including a massive theater-style screen. At the entrance is an early 20th century-style lounge intended to mimic an office in the old Budd Dairy processing facility, which ceased operations in 1967.