Oak Table restaurant owners plan expansions

The Charleston-based Indigo Restaurant Group--owners of Columbia's The Oak Table at the corner of Gervais and Main Streets--will soon be opening two new sister restaurants in Charlotte.

O-Ku sushi restaurant is set to open in South End this weekend on the ground floor of the Atherton Mill building at 2000 South Blvd. Indigo started O-Ku in Charleston in 2010 and expanded to Atlanta last year. Indigo's founder and managing partner Steve Palmer describes O-Ku as, "Asian cuisine with a Southern approach."

In the spring, Charlotte will get another taste of Indigo's handiwork when Oak Steakhouse opens in SouthPark on the ground floor of the SunTrust building at Sharon Road and Ashley Park Lane.

The Indigo Road hospitality group was founded in Charleston in 2009 where it started The Cocktail Club, Indaco, The Macintosh, Oak Steakhouse and O-Ku. Each restaurant has opened to great praise and has received national accolades in renowned publications including Bon Appetit, Esquire, Garden & Gun, Saveur, Southern Living, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Every Day with Rachael Ray, to name a few. The Oak Table--which features American cuisine with locally sourced, in-season, farm-to-table products--opened in Columbia in fall 2012.

Within the next year, Indigo is also expected to open an O-Ku in Raleigh and an Oak Steakhouse in Nashville.

This story was originally published September 19, 2016 at 11:40 AM with the headline "Oak Table restaurant owners plan expansions."