Find a little taste of authentic New Orleans in Columbus
Six partners opened the Flatiron
Bar & Diner 13 years ago. Roger McLane, one of the six partners,
says he spent a lot of time in New Orleans and loved the
culture, music and food so much he taught himself to cook
Crescent City cuisine and put his knowledge in the Flatiron’s
unique menu.
The restaurant gets it name from the architectural
style of the building, which was built at an angle. “It was
built in 1914 on a triangular piece of land. It’s pretty much
always been a bar or a restaurant,” Roger says. There’s a
building in New York that was the original flatiron building.
He says there are flatiron restaurants all over the
world. “Every once in awhile, someone will go on vacation and
send me a photograph. There’s one in Jerome, Arizona and one in
Asheville, North Carolina.” All of these restaurants are named
after the architectural style, but they all serve different
food. In Jerome the specialty is tea, coffee and baked
goods…vastly different from Columbus’ Flatiron!Location – 129 E. Nationwide
Blvd.Hours - Kitchen Hours - Monday - Thursday 11 a.m.
to 11 p.m., Friday until Midnight and Saturday 5
p.m. to Midnight (closed Sunday)Bar Hours – Monday – Friday 11 a.m. to Late,
Saturday 5 p.m. to Late (closed Sunday)
Price range – From $10 to $22 (Hand-cut
New York strip is the highest priced item)Atmosphere – Upscale casualClientele – In addition to
regulars that come from the Short North, Victorian Village,
downtown and the Arena District, they get a lot of hotel and
convention business too. “We get people come back year after
year when they come to conventions because they like our
restaurant. We get people who stay in the Red Roof Inn because
they like our restaurant,” Roger says.Food – Everything prepared
fresh daily. “We open very few packages. We make all of our
sauces from scratch. The gumbo recipe is mine,” Roger says. He
went to New Orleans, picked out what he liked and figured out
how to make it. They have a lot of nice big salads that draw
many customers in. “Our black and blue salad is popular. It’s a
mixed greens salad with bleu cheese, roasted peppers and
blackened tenderloin.”Specialties – The pulled-pork
sandwich is their single best selling item. “We do a lot of
barbeque; we specialize in barbeque and Creole, Cajun, low
country stuff. And all of our barbeque is cooked over a live
hickory fire,” Roger says. “A lot of the recipes are mine. All
of the barbeque sauce recipes are mine.” The Bar Crowd- Tends to be a
little bit older, late 20s to 60s. “We don’t do a lot of shots.
But we have 16 or 17 different kinds of scotch and bourbon. We
have a lot of single malt scotches and a lot of single barrel
bourbons,” Roger says.Happy Hour – On weekdays
from 4 – 7 p.m. they have a happy hour, offering five different
martinis for $5 each, five different appetizers for $5 each, one
being a mini version of the pulled-pork sandwich served on a
White Castle bun.Special Events – They used
to be a big cigar bar with cigar dinners. Roger says they might
do that again someday on their patio that seats 30 people.
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