Hunan Bistro Opens on Bethel Road With Wok Sauces and Late-Night Skewers
Sarah Cai and David Mei take over the former K House at 5230 Bethel Center Mall, serving Hunan classics until 1 a.m.
Bethel Road just picked up another late-night table. Hunan Bistro is open at 5230 Bethel Center Mall, the strip address formerly home to K House, with a kitchen that leans on wok-made sauces, charcoal skewers, and family recipes from southeastern China’s Hunan province.
Co-owners Sarah Cai and David Mei told local TV they already ran successful rooms in Cincinnati, Middletown, and Chicago before planting this Columbus stop. Posted hours run about 3 p.m. to 1 a.m., six days a week, with Tuesday closed, which puts the grill in range for after-work dinners and post-bar hunger alike.
Details in this story draw from ABC 6 On Your Side’s report on Hunan Bistro, Hoodline’s Bethel Road opening write-up, and the restaurant’s own site at hunanbistrooh.com.
What lands on the table
The menu mixes regional Hunan plates with Chinese barbecue skewers and familiar American-Chinese favorites. Expect braised beef over noodles, pork belly and vegetable dry pot, cumin and chili-seasoned skewers, plus General Tso’s chicken for the crowd that wants a known name next to the hotter oil. Mei has said sauces are built in the wok to order rather than held in advance, aside from the house spicy hot oil.
Official listings also call out thirty-plus skewer options, from lamb and beef to squid, quail eggs, and rice cakes. That street-food lane is the late-night hook on a corridor already dense with international counters between Sawmill and the outerbelt.
Why Bethel Road, and why it matters
Taking the old K House bay keeps charcoal-skewer energy on the same mall while swapping in a Hunan-forward kitchen. For Northwest Columbus diners mapping a dinner that runs past midnight, the practical takeaway is simple: doors stay open until 1 a.m. when the schedule holds.
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Hunan Bistro is open now at 5230 Bethel Center Mall. Bring an appetite for wok heat and skewers, and plan around the Tuesday close.
