The sounds of live music, conversation and laughter mingle with the smell of fresh food and burning wood at Columbia’s first open air food hall.
Gather COLA is home to 10 different food vendors, three retailers and two beverage spots. The two-story venue consists of a plethora of outdoor seating, several fire pits and a stage for live music.
Gather COLA draws inspiration from Gather GVL, an open air food hall launched in Greenville, South Carolina in 2020 by the Four Oaks Property Group, a real estate development firm based in the South Carolina upstate. The business was named one of the top ten best food halls in America for the third year in a row in 2025. After Gather’s immense success in Greenville, the developers wanted to try and replicate the concept by opening a sister location in Columbia…