Ohio’s restaurant landscape keeps shifting after several notable local closings earlier this year. August brought another trio of losses, including two Cincinnati-area restaurants with a combined 36 years of history and a Columbus-area Mediterranean favorite that had served customers for about 15 years.
Each restaurant filled a different niche, but all three earned loyal customers by becoming dependable neighborhood spots rather than chasing national-chain scale.
Stone Bowl in Cincinnati
Stone Bowl closed August 16 after 12 years in Cincinnati’s Oakley neighborhood. Owners Young Park and Misook Gwon built the restaurant around Korean staples such as sizzling bibimbap while also serving ramen, sushi, bento boxes and other Japanese dishes…