Ray Ray’s Debuts New Truck at the Bottle Shop; Bears Bagels Lands a Brick and Mortar

Last week, Ray Ray’s Hog Pit announced that it closed its truck at Nocterra Brewing Co. in Powell and will shift it into a new concept called Ray Ray’s Reload. The redesigned truck will be parked at the Bottle Shop in Victorian Village and feature a new menu with items like lamb smashburgers and brisket fry bread tacos. The truck is set to debut on Tuesday, March 19. Late last year, Nocterra launched its own truck called Trail Magic Kitchen.

Bears Bagels, which has been operating at markets and pop-ups for the past two years, announced that it will open its own brick and mortar at 4142 Main St. in Hilliard this year. The building was formerly a DiCarlo’s Pizza.

After a hiatus, the Galaxy Coffee truck has returned to a new location in Clintonville and will celebrate a grand reopening on Saturday, March 9. The truck, which bills itself as Columbus’ first queer-owned coffee truck, will be parked at 3264 N. High St.

Pastimes Pub & Grill opens its fourth location today at 775 Yard St. in the Grandview Yard development. This joins a store in New Albany and two in the Worthington area.

Cara Mangini—chef, cookbook author and creator of the bygone Little Eater restaurant—will return to Columbus on March 28 at Gramercy Books in Bexley to talk about her latest book “The Vegetable Eater.” She’ll appear for both a luncheon and a book-signing that day. Mangini now lives on the West Coast; she previously operated two Columbus locations of Little Eater at North Market and in Clintonville. Read Columbus Monthly’s interview with Mangini in the March issue, on newsstands now. Find a copy here.