Columbia’s BullStreet lands brewery and restaurant chain
A Delaware-based brewery and restaurant chain is coming to BullStreet.
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant, based in Wilmington, Delaware, announced Thursday morning it will locate on the former state mental health hospital campus.
The brewery, to open summer 2021, will front Bull Street and be near the new REI Co-op, set to open in May, and a planned Starbucks.
“Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant is an American success story of how three friends with a great idea made it happen,” said Robert Hughes, President of Hughes Development Corporation, said in a news release. “We’re thrilled that they picked Columbia and BullStreet as their third southern city in which to locate. They’ll fit right in.”
Partners Kevin Finn, Mark Edelson and Kevin Davies opened their first brewery in Newark, Delaware, in 1996, according to the company’s website. The brewery was named Iron Hill after a Revolutionary War battle that was fought atop Iron Hill outside Newark.
Two years later they opened a second location in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Today, the company has 16 locations, most clustered around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, it is now expanding into the South, with two locations in Atlanta, and a third in Greenville on Haywood Road in the building that housed the former Don Pablo’s restaurant.
The menu features steaks, ribs and crab cakes in addition to the typical pub fare of soups, salads and burgers.
The Greenville menu lists a 12-ounce ribeye at $29.50, Chesapeake-style crab cakes at $27.30 and jaeger schnitzel at $19.30.
The announcement is a coup for BullStreet, which recently lost its only restaurant, Bone-In Barbeque when caterer and chef Scott Hall folded his first bricks-and-mortar restaurant in the Ensor building near the main entrance to Segra Park, home of the Columbia Fireflies, Columbia’s minor league baseball team.
This story was originally published March 5, 2020 at 10:24 AM.