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🍴 Tour de new restaurants

Try these five new Columbia restaurants
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Try the brewery’s special local beer, the Soda City Pils. | Photo by COLAtoday
The wait is over (or almost over) for the opening of these five new restaurants in the Soda City.

From family owned franchises, like Iron Hill Brewery + Sully’s Steamers, to three new locally owned establishments, you’ll find breakfast, lunch, and dinner options at these new hot spots.

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Little Bee Bun Mee is located next door to Duke’s Pad Thai in Cayce. | Photo via City Social Co.

Iron Hill Brewery, 945 Sabal St.
  • Today is the opening day for the newest restaurant in the BullStreet District. The 7,500-sqft location offers scratch-made food, onsite craft beer brewing, and indoor + outdoor dining options.
Little Bee Bun Mee, 904 Knox Abbott Dr.
  • Opening July 11, the new Vietnamese sandwich shop features an open dining experience with its neighbor Duke’s Pad Thai, allowing diners to choose either cuisine all in one building.
The Dragon Room, 803 Gervais St.
  • The Dragon Room is a Pan-Asian Cocktail Bar from Kristian Niemi, who also owns Black Rooster in West Columbia and Bourbon on Main Street. The restaurant is now open in an “soft opening” phase.
The Hoot, 2910 Rosewood Dr., Suite 1
  • Soda Citizens Chelsea Ford, Jessica Ochoa, and Will Green teamed up to open The Hoot — a new bar and restaurant in the Rosewood neighborhood. Check out the food menu.
Sully’s Steamers, 2835 Devine St.
  • Sully’s Steamers will host a soft opening of on Monday, June 26 from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. If you pick up a steamed bagel on the way to work, you might want to use Guy Fieri’s “hunch” technique. The sandwiches are a delicious hot mess.
Lexington Medical Center
 
Events
Thursday, June 22
  • Columbia Fashion Week: The ICONs Party | Thursday, June 22 | 7-9:30 p.m. | The Venue, 1626 Main St., Columbia | $40 | Celebrate a night of non-stop, pulse-pounding, fashionable fun as Columbia Fashion Week presents a night of entertainment, fashion runways, announces Cola’s fashion icons.
  • Columbia Fireflies vs. Fredericksburg Nationals | Thursday, June 22 | 7:05 p.m. | Segra Park, 1640 Freed St., Columbia | $5-$7 | Budweiser Thirsty Thursday ($1 fountain sodas, $2 domestic draft beers & $3 craft draft beers and cocktails)*
Friday, June 23
Saturday, June 24
  • Brookdale Yard Sale | Saturday, June 24 | 7 a.m.-12 p.m. | Brookdale neighborhood, 101 Hallsborough Dr., West Columbia | Free | Cafe Strudel’s Strudel Truck and Pelican’s Snowballs will be on site so you can munch and browse.
  • Pride Market | Saturday, June 24 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | NoMa Warehouse, 2222 Sumter St., Columbia | Free | Shop 20+ local vendors from the LBGTQ+ community and the full-time vendors at NoMa Warehouse.
  • LoCo Craft Beer Jam | Saturday, June 24 | 11 a.m.-8 p.m. | City Roots Farm, 1005 Airport Blvd., Columbia | $5-$10 | Enjoy 40+ craft beer brands on tap, live music, and food trucks.*
Calendar events here
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News Notes
Coming Soon
  • Roxanne’s Market — formerly known as Fusco’s Market — will open on Saturday, July 1, at 2900 Dreher Shoals Rd. near Irmo. Much of the staff will carry over and the market will offer the same lunch menu, casseroles, and now customized salads. (The State)
Sports
  • The USC baseball program has hired Matt Williams as the new pitching coach. Matt brings 18 years of collegiate coaching experience, including a successful recent tenure at Liberty University. Matt is a graduate of Limestone College in Gaffney. (Gamecocks Online)
Edu
  • Duke University will offer free tuition to North and South Carolina undergraduate students with family incomes of $150,000 or less starting this fall. Duke will also provide additional financial assistance for undergraduate students with family incomes of $65,000 or less. The university plans to use existing resources to fund the initiative. (The News & Observer)
Civic
  • Columbia City Council approved a 5% rate hike each year for the next five years. Assistant City Manager Clint Shealy stated that the incremental 25 percent increase by 2029 will enable Columbia Water to complete long-awaited initiatives. (WLTX)
Asked
  • A 2.01 magnitude earthquake was recorded Tuesday morning near Elgin. We asked our Instagram followers and 26 people responded saying they felt the quake while 576 people said they did not.
Environment
  • Palmetto 2040, a collaboration led by American Farmland Trust and South Carolina organizations, will use Lexington County to identify future threats to SC’s farmland, jobs, and quality of life. The project will identify high-risk development areas and propose policy solutions to protect agricultural resources.
Health
  • Feel a summer cold coming on? Enter: LMC MyChart’s new Symptom Checker, which removes the guesswork when it comes to where to go to get care. Learn more (and say goodbye to Dr. Google).*
Wellness
  • “How many cups of coffee do you have daily?” If your answer is, “The limit does not exist” — and you need a little boost to keep you going through the workday — take this three-minute quiz to see which natural adaptogen supplement you should try (for 15% off with code 6amcity).*
Drink
The Columbia Museum of Art
 
Number

Healthcare

Parking that’s good for the heart
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Pull-A-Part was one of nine local businesses who sponsored meters. | Photo via City of Columbia
$9,000. That’s how much the City of Columbia raised for the American Heart Association in April via three specialty painted parking meters located in each of Cola’s downtown districts.

Nine local businesses participated in the inaugural program, sponsoring and decorating meters.
  • Halls Chop House
  • The Hilton of Columbia
  • Garvin Design Group
  • USC Pastides Alumni Center
  • Pull – A – Part Auto Parts
  • The Marriott of Columbia
  • Saluda’s Restaurant
  • PAG Marketing
  • Southern Press Printing
Good news, the program will be back next year so next spring when you’re walking around downtown and see a meter, you can drop in some change for heart health.
Answered

Last week we asked “What does “barbeque” mean to you?” and here’s what you said:
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True BBQ is a beloved locally owned barbecue restaurant. | Photo via True BBQ

53% of you think pulled pork when you hear barbecue and 25% of you think smoked meats. As for the rest of you, when you hear barbecue you think about grilling out.
 
The Wrap
 
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Today’s edition by:
David
From the editor
We’ll have our eyes on the NBA Draft tomorrow as local star GG Jackson hopes to have his named called. GG is the youngest prospect in the draft and is expected to go in the second round.
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