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Some excellent reviews from Urban Spoon and Yelp
Ryan Whitaker is the owner and head chef at @116 Espresso and Wine Bar. Whitaker took over House Coffee in May, closed it for remodeling and relaunched the business at the end of August.
What's good here?
"That's a long list."
Last time I reviewed a West Columbia upstart, the place went out of business. It wasn’t my fault: I’d been gentle — I dare say overly so — but mediocrity is what it is, and anyway the proprietors of that now-defunct mistake seemed to be playing restaurant rather than running one.
I won’t elaborate on the blogospheric beating I took at the hands of that café’s chef after his kitchen went belly-up. I’ll admit freely, however, that upon entering a newer West Cola eatery, @116 State, and seeing the mishmash of tables and chairs in the modest dining room — then studying the menu, which struck me as perhaps too ambitious — my initial thought was, “Oh no, not again.”
How delightful to be proven wrong.
We’ve told you before in this here space about @116 Espresso and Wine Bar’s fun White Russian menu. Well now, to help properly augment its brunch options, Ryan Ditman has a new Bloody Mary menu for your taste buds to explore.
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