Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe

[Saw31]

Been there many times. Can't comment on the food, but the atmosphere is as good as it gets. I've eaten the food, but was always drunk so yeah, it was good, but that's not really conclusive...

 

[scooter1369]

Been there many times. Can't comment on the food, but the atmosphere is as good as it gets. I've eaten the food, but was always drunk so yeah, it was good, but that's not really conclusive...

Best thing I ever had there, food wise, was a salad. But like mentioned before, the atmosphere is second to none. Especially during football season. I watched the Dan Patrick show Live there two years ago and watched Dibs get an Ohio State Athletic Logo tat on his calf.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

This article is almost a month old. Anyone hear any updates on BHOFC?

Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe put under receiver

 

[cincibuck]

That's what happens when you destroy the Jai Lai, Woody's favorite restaurant. Don't mess with Woody.

Anyone know if Reebs is still open. It was on Livingston I believe and served up one hell of a prime rib dinner everyday.

 

[buckeyefool]

This article is almost a month old. Anyone hear any updates on BHOFC?

Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe put under receiver

I know when they annouced it they said they were going to keep running the place like they had been, just look at the numbers and try to figure out where they can save money. Hopefully they can figure something out, it's a pretty cool place, plus this is where we had mine and the wifes wedding reception

 

[gregorylee]

I know when they annouced it they said they were going to keep running the place like they had been, just look at the numbers and try to figure out where they can save money. Hopefully they can figure something out, it's a pretty cool place, plus this is where we had mine and the wifes wedding reception

You let her come too?!?!?!


Damn, when are you guys gonna learn.

 

[scott91575]

I worked at that place from the time it opened to the time I graduated in 1998. Even then there were rumors that it was not making that much money. The overhead at that place is crazy, and one reason places like that often go out of business. I am actually surprised it lasted as long as it has.

I really do like the place though. I think the economy hit it really hard, especially the banquet business which is really where the place makes it's money. That kind of stuff is being cut back on left and right, and had to really hurt the BHoFC bottom line.

 

[LitlBuck]

If I were the developer, I would build a 500 bed one

Dispatch

Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe site primed for hotel
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:09 AM
By Robert Vitale

Columbus is offering a 10-year tax break to developers who want to tear down the Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe and build a hotel near the Ohio State University campus.

City Council members gave their approval last night to a deal with a group led by Continental Real Estate, one of the owners of the restaurant building on Olentangy River Road.

The group wants to build a 134-room hotel at the site, which city development officials said will help make up for the loss of rooms and hotel-tax money from OSU's conversion of the former Lane Avenue Holiday Inn into student housing.

Columbus will lose a bit of history, though, when the restaurant building is torn down. Although the Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe is barely a decade old, the building once housed the Jai Lai, a popular restaurant that was a favorite of Woody Hayes.

The situation doesn't affect the Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe at Port Columbus, and it's unclear when the Olentangy River Road location will close.

Continental and its hotel partners will get a 10-year, 75 percent tax abatement. Deputy Development Director Mike Stevens said the hotel project represents a $13.6 million investment.

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[ScriptOhio]

Grandview Yard's "Buckeye Hall of Fame Grill" set for November opening.
Nationwide Realty President Brian Ellis said the restaurant and bar will not replicate the old Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe, which operated for 12 years around the corner on Olentangy River Road until closing last year.
There will be some natural similarities, he acknowledged. The restaurant will be adorned with Ohio State University sports memorabilia, but it won?t be the behemoth 50,000-square-foot size of the original and it won?t include a bustling game room.
?We may have a pool table,? Ellis conceded.


Read more: Grandview Yard's Buckeye Hall of Fame set for November opening - Business First of Columbus