A pair of restaurants on Columbia’s Main Street are moving. Here’s where and when
A bit of a restaurant shuffle is coming to downtown Columbia.
Good Life Cafe, the vegan restaurant that has long been located at 1614 Main St., is planning to move around the corner to 1218 Taylor St., according to LTC Hospitality Group, which is owned by the Middleton family that runs a host of businesses in Columbia.
The cafe will make the move by mid-April, and the restaurant will start offering some non-vegetarian options after the changeover, according to a release.
“Good Life will continue to be the top choice for vegan dining, but we will be adding healthy proteins to round out our menu,” LTC Hospitality director of operations Christopher Yonce said in a statement. “We will take great care to prepare all vegan food in an entirely separate space to avoid any contact with non-plant-based ingredients.”
The Good Life location on Taylor Street will also have “bodega-style, self-serve items,” the release said.
The space at 1218 Taylor St. also will be home to the new Icon on Taylor boutique shop that will be at the entrance of the Good Life restaurant. Shop owner Lauren Middleton said in a statement that Icon will be “an upscale, curated boutique where the fashion-minded and interior designer can always find something unique and on-trend from clothing and accessories to home furnishings.”
After Good Life Cafe moves to Taylor Street, another of the Middleton family restaurants, cocktail-and-dessert spot The Robinson Room, will move from its current location on the lower floor of The Grand on Main to 1614 Main. That move is expected to happen in April.
When The Robinson Room moves to 1614 Main, it will add a tapas menu.
“Tapas, cocktails, and desserts naturally go together, and we think The Robinson Room will become the capital city’s evening hot spot,” Yonce said in a statement.
This story was originally published February 21, 2023 at 10:56 AM.
