Columbia’s Harbison shopping area is set to get a new restaurant. Here’s what we know
It appears a recently closed restaurant space in one of Columbia’s most well-known shopping districts won’t stay dark for long.
Bibimbox Korean Kitchen & Wings will open a new eatery at 275 Park Terrace Drive near Bower Parkway in the popular Harbison retail area northwest of downtown Columbia. The restaurant will be going into the space that formerly was an Uberrito Fresh Mex restaurant.
The Uberrito opened at 275 Park Terrace in late 2021, and closed a few weeks ago. There was a sign hanging in the window when a reporter briefly went by Monday morning saying that Uberrito is permanently closed and that Bibimbox is on the way.
There are also numerous posters in the window at the storefront touting what Bibimbox will offer. Among the menu items will be fried chicken, rice bowls, noodles, hibachi, mandu, fries, bulgogi, short ribs, tteokbokki and more. An exact opening date for Bibimbox hasn’t been announced, but signage at the restaurant indicates it could debut next spring.
Nearby businesses include an Academy Sports + Outdoors, Guitar Center, Blaze Pizza, The Juicy Crab and the Regal Columbiana Grande movie theater, among a host of others. The Harbison shopping district, in general, remains a reliably popular commercial corridor, with a host of big box stores, restaurants, bars, theaters, hotels, the Columbiana Centre mall and more located in the area just west of Interstate 26.
Bibimbox isn’t the only new Asian restaurant planned for the Harbison and Bower Parkway area. A Yummy Bowl restaurant has been announced for the nearby Columbiana Station shopping center, a couple doors down from the British Bulldog Pub.
