More than a year after Compton’s Kitchen, a Southern food staple that welcomed regulars in West Columbia’s Triangle City for nearly half a century, closed its doors, new ownership wants to bring back a similar concept under a similar name.
With a soft opening tentatively set for Labor Day weekend, DAJ Holdings, a Columbia-based investment group wants to bring back the nostalgia of Compton’s Kitchen, with its meat and three plates and breakfast staples, under a similar name — just Compton’s.
“A lot of [the investors] were actually patrons of the restaurant … they wanted to see it come back before, they were a little disheartened that it closed,” Kira Person, the project manager for Compton’s, told The State…