Restaurants

Steve Rogge, Kevin McGrath and Bill Violante are preparing to open Outpost Pizza Co. in the former Noodles & Company in Westchester Commons.

The sports bar’s space was most recently home to Burger Bach, which closed last year after eight years in Midlothian. 

Sassy’s will be a spinoff of The Sassy Biscuit in Billings, Montana. The Hull Street storefront has been vacant for five years following the legal troubles of Butterbean owner Michael Hild.

“We always talked about wanting to open in Columbia, because it’s the Gamecocks,” co-owner Luke Phillips said. “It goes perfectly with what we’re doing.”

Brazen’s name is a nod to both the restaurant’s braised options that are cooked slowly, and the “brazen” idea to start a new restaurant in an industry that can be over-saturated. 

The national fast-casual restaurant chain, which serves salads and grain bowls, opened last week in the Publix-anchored Carytown Exchange.  

C&P Baking Co. will open today at 1717 E. Franklin St., specializing in French patisserie and Haitian cuisine from Lynchburg transplant Sherwin Pilley.

The owners of the Penalty Box Group, which runs the food operations at two local hockey rinks, is taking over Rams House from Lindsey Food Group.

Dean Giavos said they’re drawing inspiration from taverns in New York and beyond. It’ll offer “refined takes on enduring American fare in a space designed to feel like it’s been around forever,” he said. 

“We’re not trying to take over and do so much. Everything fell on this year, for whatever reason,” said Chris Tsui, whose EAT Restaurant Partners recently reopened Boulevard Burger & Brew and has more restaurants in the pipeline.