Gluten-free specialties coming to Long Street
Biscuits by Daddy-o to offer mixes for biscuits, pie crust and more
As any good Southerner, Aaron Blevins is serious about biscuits.
But a dietary change for Blevins and his wife, Amanda Golden, means biscuits would be on the back burner, so to speak.
“That’s the whole premise,” Blevins said. “I’m from the South and grew up eating regular biscuits. When my wife and I went gluten-free a couple years ago, that’s something we missed.”
Now they’re reunited – and it feels so good. Blevins will open Biscuits by Daddy-o by early February at 821 E. Long St. in the King-lincoln/bronzeville neighborhood, across from the new Adelphi Quarter, a mixed-use development at 818 E. Long St.
The small space will offer all gluten-free, mostly rice-flour mixes for customers to take home: regular, vegan, cinnamon pumpkin spice roll and pie crust. A gluten-free pizza crust is in the works.
Biscuit flour will be sold in individual portions; pie crusts will be sold in packages of four – a top and bottom for two pies.
“We’re going to keep things very simple,” he said of the cafe, which will have a few tables. “We will serve regular, vegan cinnamon, cheese and an ‘everything’ biscuit. That’s what we’re going to start with. We’ll have other simple condiments, too, like butter, jelly, if people want that.”
Basic coffee will be the only beverage at first, he said.
It’s the first store for the two entrepreneurs, who moved from Georgia to Columbus because Golden was finishing up her degree in city and regional planning from Ohio State University.
The store is named after Blevins’ great grandfather, Otho Hawkins, who loved biscuits and was nicknamed Daddy-0.
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