Customers went from eating on their feet to grabbing a seat.
Freedom a la Cart – once a food cart that was toted around central Ohio – officially opened its first sit-down restaurant, Freedom a la Cart Bakery + Café + Catering, on April 5 at 123 E. Spring St. in downtown Columbus.
The building is about 7,500 square feet, with offices on the top level, the café and kitchen on the ground floor and a commercial kitchen in the basement.
“I think it exceeds our expectations,” said Paula Haines, CEO of the organization. “I can’t think of anything more perfect than this space. I think it just feels like home.”
Customers went from eating on their feet to grabbing a seat.
Freedom a la Cart – once a food cart that was toted around central Ohio – officially opened its first sit-down restaurant, Freedom a la Cart Café + Bakery, on Monday at 123 E. Spring St. Downtown.
The two-story building is about 5,000 square feet, with offices on the top level, the café and kitchen on the ground floor and a commercial kitchen in the basement.
“I think it exceeds our expectations,” said Paula Haines, CEO of the organization, which helps victims of human trafficking get back on their feet. “I can’t think of anything more perfect than this space. I think it just feels like home.”
Before there was a smokehouse on every corner in central Ohio, there was Hoggy’s.
Certainly not the first barbecue purveyor in Columbus, Hoggy’s Restaurant and Catering as it is now called is a Columbus original and on the heels of celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
It’s been a wild ride for the chain, which once boasted 10 locations, the first opening in the summer of 1991 in Linworth.
The lone Hoggy’s is now at 830 Bethel Road.
Kyle Turner, son of Hoggy’s co-founder Mark Turner, said since a rebranding effort that started about a year ago, the restaurant is on the upswing.