Another Broken Egg to open second central Ohio café in former Panera

POWELL, Ohio ( WCMH ) — Another Broken Egg Café, a brunch chain with a Southern-inspired menu, is planning another central Ohio restaurant inside a shuttered Panera Bread.

The Florida-based chain is launching the new location at 8823 Owenfield Drive near Lewis Center, taking over the building once home to a Panera that closed several years ago. The spot will mark the brand’s second central Ohio location after the first opened at Easton Town Center in 2022, also inside a former Panera.

Another Broken Egg boasts a series of brunch specialties, like cinnamon roll French toast, eggs benedict, biscuits and gravy, omelets, and buttermilk pancakes. A selection of sandwiches, salads, beverages like the salted caramel cold brew and a number of sides round out the menu.

The chain is expanding into Lewis Center as First Watch also opened a new restaurant in the area last month. The 4,600-square-foot location is the brand’s first new Central Ohio eatery since opening a Sawmill location along Dublin Center Drive in late 2022.

Other eateries opening in Lewis Center include a combo craft brewery and coffee shop that opened in May . The shop is home to a range of brews, a cocktail menu created in collaboration with Watershed Distillery, freshly roasted coffee from One Line Coffee and pastries from Der Dutchman.

A national cookie chain that unveils a lineup of new flavors every week and boasts an award-winning chocolate chip cookie has opened in Lewis Center earlier this simmer . The shop marks the brand’s first Ohio location and is joining dozens of storefronts nationwide, including in Nevada, Texas, Indiana, Florida, New Jersey and more.

A shop boasted as the state’s “biggest coffeehouse,” home to beans sourced from Yemen and a brew recipe dating back 500 years, opened in Lewis Center in March . The new location opened marks the brand’s second central Ohio shop after the first opened last year in Hilliard at 3221 Hilliard Rome Road.

A butcher shop home to an extensive collection of wine and beef produced from the owner’s personal ranch is now open in Lewis Center. Named Prime + Vine, the shop specializes in American Wagyu beef farmed from owner Jeff Gaylor’s cattle ranch in Knox County.

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