The Scoop: Pasta Ditoni’s Joins Bridge Park Bexley Gets a Butcher Shop – Food stuff and Dining – Columbus CEO

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The Columbus City Council passed an ordinance Monday aimed at producing kids’ menus far more healthful by limiting the internet marketing of sugary beverage alternatives. A number of other U.S. metropolitan areas have taken identical actions to assist lower childhood weight problems rates. The new ordinance demands “restaurants to make wholesome drinks—water, lower-fat milk and 100 [percent] fruit juice—the default possibilities supplied with cafe kids’ meals.” Failure to do so will result in a $25 fine for the restaurant’s to start with violation. On the other hand, if a customer requests a substitute consume, the cafe is permitted to provide it.

Openings & Announcements

Yet another seller has designed its debut at North Marketplace Bridge Park (6750 Longshore St.). Pasta Ditoni’s is now featuring freshly made pastas, specialty Italian desserts, dry and jarred products and solutions, as very well as espresso and espresso drinks to-go. The gourmand pasta enterprise has been in organization because 1993, but this is its initial retail store. Pasta Ditoni’s joins 4 other vendors that opened recently at North Marketplace Bridge Park, together with Reuse Revolution, Dos Hermanos Tacos, Coastal Community Seafood and Industry Bar.

Macelleria East Aspect Butchery is established to open up soon in Bexley at 2474 E. Main St., formerly Cornucopia Catering Service. Phillip Clary’s new butcher store will focus on Italian-design meats, as effectively as Ohio-raised beef, pork and other proteins.

Entrepreneurs Erion Permeti and Klaudio Pali opened Rodos European Grill final 7 days at 3369 Indianola Ave. in Clintonville. Open up for lunch and meal, the new place serves a mix of Greek, Albanian, Italian and Turkish fare, these as gyros, panini, kebabs, baklava and far more.

A new Mediterranean eatery called Levant has opened inside the foodstuff court docket at Polaris Manner Position (1500 Polaris Pkwy.), replacing What is for Doner. The menu contains make-your-personal pita sandwiches, wraps and bowls.

A very hot pet place called Tasty Dawg opened this week in the Arena District. It shares room with Zoup! Eatery at 155 W. Nationwide Blvd.

Closings

Gallerie Bar & Bistro, the New American cafe within Hilton Columbus Downtown, will not return in its previous form, states a spokesperson with the lodge. Below the leadership of previous executive chef Invoice Glover, Gallerie was named a single of the city’s 10 Very best Dining establishments by Columbus Monthly a few years in a row. Soon after the high-quality-eating restaurant’s business dried up for the reason that of the pandemic, Glover parted techniques with the hotel and joined Ray Ray’s Hog Pit as its CEO. Glover manufactured the selection following discovering he would be furloughed right up until 2021. The Hilton furnished the pursuing update by means of email: “Due to the present natural environment and affect to company introduced on by the pandemic, Gallerie Bistro has been consolidated within just the bar region. Gallerie Bar carries on to present our domestically regarded complete evening meal menu, table provider and craft cocktails. At this time, the restaurant place (Gallerie Bistro) delivers breakfast on weekends.” A new govt chef has not still been named.

The proprietors of Clintonville Pizza Primo (3027 Indianola Ave.) announced that Dec. 13 was the pizza shop’s last working day in organization. On the vibrant aspect, the neighborhood won’t be without pizza for extensive. Pizza Primo is staying changed by Papa Giorgio’s, which some might recognize from Bethel Centre Mall.

The Downtown location of SuperChef’s has shut at 199 E. Broad St. to make way for a new enhancement. In a Facebook write-up, the business enterprise states it ideas to relocate its Gahanna site will continue being open up at 1344 Cherry Bottom Road.