What's New Around Bridge Park This Late Summer
August 6, 2026
August 6, 2026
For years, Dublin's center of gravity was a debate. Historic Dublin had the pubs and the parade. Muirfield had the tournament. Bridge Park was the newcomer with the Link and the parking garages. That debate has quietly ended. Walk Longshore on a Saturday morning in August and the answer is obvious.
What follows is a working map of what has actually opened, reopened, or landed on the calendar between spring and now. If you already live here, most of it happened faster than you noticed.
The old Kona Craft Kitchen space on Longshore sat dark long enough to feel permanent. It isn't anymore. HangOverEasy opened its largest location at 6757 Longshore St. this spring, coinciding with the season opening of the Dublin Market. The company calls it a breakfast bar, which undersells the footprint. The 5,500-square-foot space is On The Fly Hospitality's seventh location statewide and third in central Ohio, with seating for 116 guests, a full-service bar, and an outdoor patio.
The interesting move is the second concept tucked inside the first. Exclusive to the Dublin location, HangOverEasy added a fully dedicated coffee bar with drip and specialty drinks, house-made pastries, and light café fare, with table seating and Wi-Fi built for remote work and casual meetings. That's a deliberate answer to a gap locals will recognize. Bridge Park had bars, chef-driven dinner concepts, and a North Market food hall. What it did not have was a weekday morning room where you could take a laptop and a second cup.
Hours run 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends, which reads less like a restaurant schedule and more like a claim on the first half of the day.
The Bogey Inn closed in 2022, and for anyone who grew up watching Memorial week from that patio, the silence has been strange. The historic bar near Muirfield Village Golf Club will reopen as an "entertainment campus" under Rise Brands, the group operating Pins Mechanical Co. and 16-Bit Bar+Arcade, with a relaunch planned for summer 2026.
That operator choice matters. Rise doesn't do quiet restorations. The 16-Bit and Pins model layers arcade, bar, and event space in a way that pulls a crowd on weeknights, not just tournament week. If it works the way their other properties have, the Bogey stops being a seasonal Muirfield outpost and becomes a year-round destination that pulls dining traffic west of the river again. That is a real counterweight to Bridge Park, and it is worth watching.
If you have not been to the Dublin Market this year, the scale has changed. The Dublin Market runs every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, May 3 through September 27 at Bridge Park, presented by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, with 120-plus local farmers, bakers, makers, and craftsmen along with live entertainment and street activities. The city's own count runs higher. Longshore Street from John Shields Parkway to Banker Drive closes to traffic from roughly 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. for 140-plus vendors.
The Saturdays worth planning around, from the market's own programming:
The closing Saturday with the Zoo is the one to circle if you have kids. Every year it draws the biggest crowd of the season, and the parking garages fill by 9:30.
Two weekly rhythms are worth knowing if you have not caught them yet. Free live music runs in Riverside Crossing Park on Wednesday evenings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., starting June 10 through August 26, and guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs. The lineup skews classic hits, pop, and country, and the lawn slopes toward the Scioto in a way that makes late sun tolerable even on a heat-warning day.
For the earlier crowd, the city hosts a rotating slate of central Ohio food trucks in Coffman Park, with trucks changing weekly from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesdays for lunch. Between the two, midweek Dublin now has a public-space cadence that used to only exist on the weekends.
There is a smaller thing worth catching too. Fado on Riverside Drive hosts a freeform session with performers from central Ohio's Celtic community every Sunday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., with players rotating each week. It is not the traditional trad session some regulars remember, but it is closer to the room's original spirit than anything else Dublin currently offers.
The Bridge Park story would be less interesting if the older side of town had gone quiet. It hasn't.
Apothecary transformed an 1830s cabin into a bourbon and cigar bar with premium pours, cocktails, and an award-winning patio. Sweetgreen brought its fast-casual salads and warm bowls to Historic Dublin, which is either a sign of national retail catching up to the area or a sign that Historic Dublin has enough weekday foot traffic to justify a Sweetgreen. Either read is a change. Sasha's Sourdough is also on the Historic Dublin list of recent additions.
Farther out, on West Dublin-Granville, Chicken Salad Chick opened its ninth Ohio restaurant at 4345 West Dublin-Granville Road in Dublin in April 2026, run by Jen Crichfield, whose first Chicken Salad Chick opened in Westerville in June 2019. None of these are showstoppers on their own. Together they suggest that Dublin's dining density is climbing on both sides of the river at the same time, which is not what most suburbs get to see.
Three names to track for the rest of the year and into next:
Bristol Republic is slated for Bridge Park in spring 2026, and Panini OPA is coming to North Market Bridge Park; the Cameron Mitchell Hotel at Bridge Park is expected to begin construction in 2026. The hotel is the one to watch. A Cameron Mitchell property inside Bridge Park would collapse the last remaining reason to leave the district for a night out with visiting family, and it would push the block's evening economy up another notch.
There is also a public art piece worth mentioning because it will change how the district reads. Candy Chang, a Dublin resident and internationally known artist, was chosen from 49 Ohio-based artists to design the newest public art piece in Bridge Park, in a first-time official project administered by Dublin's Public Art Board in partnership with Crawford Hoying. Chang is best known for participatory work that turns building walls into shared writing surfaces. Whatever lands here will not be decorative in the usual sense.
The pattern under all of this is straightforward. Bridge Park keeps absorbing the concepts that used to open somewhere else. HangOverEasy did not pick a strip center on Sawmill. Chicken Salad Chick, which opens in strip centers, chose Shoppes at River Ridge instead of Bridge Park proper, and even that placement is a Dublin-first choice for a franchisee who could have gone anywhere in the metro. The Bogey Inn is being handed to an operator whose entire portfolio is built around dense, entertainment-first sites.
What that means for anyone who already lives here is small but real. Weekend routines have more overlap now. The Saturday market pulls families from Muirfield, Tartan Fields, and the Historic District into the same three blocks. Wednesday nights at Riverside Crossing draw the same mix. If you have not been in a few months, the room is fuller than you remember, and it is fuller with your neighbors, not just visitors from I-270.
The second-order effect, which is harder to see from the sidewalk, is that homes within walking distance of Longshore now trade in a different conversation than homes that require a car to get to any of this. That is not a Bridge Park story anymore. It is a Dublin story, and it is worth thinking about the next time you drive past a for-sale sign on Riverside Drive or a quiet street off Bright Road.
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