New Business Update: Downtown

Olive Café and Grocery
21 N. Providence Rd.

Café Berlin has opened at its new location at 10th and Park streets, and Olive Café and Grocery took its place, opening on Nov. 10.

The decision to open the café came after owner Jamal Allza noticed his two similar stores in Kansas City were drawing customers from the Columbia area, according to the local manager, Ayman Harb. Around 60 percent of customers who would frequent a Columbia store were going to the Kansas City stores.

The Olive Café will serve 12 combination meals, including falafel, gyros, hummus and kebobs, and will sell groceries.

Chef Connection
22 N. Ninth St. | 356-4461

When owner Kasey Ryan started the Chef Connection, a catering business run out of her home, in January, she didn’t expect to be running a restaurant later in the year. The Chef Connection, which opened the week of Oct. 19 across from The Blue Note, serves breakfast, lunch and desserts Monday through Saturday.

Casablanca
501 Elm St. | 442-4883

The second location of this Mediterranean restaurant (the first is on Peachtree Drive in south Columbia) will join Bengals on the lot on Elm Street between Sixth and Fifth streets. The building is still being renovated, but the restaurant is expected to open in late November or December.

The Textbook Game
904 Elm St, Ste 212 | 441-8398

Beat the Bookstore, where students buy and sell textbooks, decided to start selling video games and change its name to the Textbook Game.

Yogoluv
201 S. Ninth St.

Yogoluv, a do-it-yourself, premiere frozen yogurt store, will be opening up along side the Missouri Theatre this month. The store will feature several flavors and toppings for customers to choose from when making their personalized yogurt creations.