Metsi's Teams With Park Service Coffee on a Daytime Cafe in Short North

Short North mornings are about to get a new coffee-and-plate option inside a room that already owns the dinner crowd.

Metsi's, the wood-fired Italian restaurant at 36 E. Lincoln St., is adding a daytime cafe on its first floor in partnership with Park Service Coffee. Owner B.J. Lieberman is teaming with Park Service's Cole Garside on a morning and early-afternoon program that layers breakfast, lunch, and coffee into the same footprint that already runs dinner service later in the day.

Details in this story draw from the Columbus Business First report on the Metsi's and Park Service cafe plan, plus earlier local coverage of Park Service's prior shop.

Why Park Service fits Lincoln Street

Park Service built a following as a specialty coffee brand before it shared a Short North storefront with Woodhouse Vegan at 19 W. Russell St. That coffee counter's final day there landed around July 5, 2026, after a social post framed the exit as a "see you later" rather than a permanent goodbye. Pairing with Metsi's gives Garside's coffee a new host room a few blocks east, inside a restaurant that already draws evening traffic to Lincoln Street near Goodale Park.

Metsi's itself is Lieberman's open-hearth Italian project, with a custom wood-fired hearth, multilevel dining rooms, and a cocktail-forward bar program. The new cafe does not replace that dinner identity. It fills the quieter morning and early-afternoon window on the first floor, when many Short North kitchens are still closed or only pouring coffee for staff.

Context without rewriting old headlines

Lieberman's local timeline also includes Chapman's Eat Market, which closed in August 2025. That closure is background, not today's news. Metsi's is the Short North Italian room now adding daytime service; Chapman's is not newly shutting down. Readers who followed both projects should treat the cafe announcement as an expansion of Metsi's hours, not a sequel to a year-old German Village goodbye.

Neither Business First's public preview nor Metsi's own site has published a firm cafe open date in the material we could verify. Expect breakfast plates, lunch dishes, and Park Service coffee once the partnership flips the lights on. Until then, dinner and happy hour remain the proven reasons to book the room.

How to plan the block

Lincoln Street sits one short hop off High Street, which makes the cafe useful for gallery-day brunchers and remote workers who want a real kitchen behind the espresso. It also softens the Short North's long gap between early coffee and dinner reservations.

For neighborhood orientation, start with our Short North page. Morning itineraries that stack coffee with a later meal can lean on brunch by neighborhood. If the same night turns into a High Street walk, cheap date night still maps the corridor without forcing a tasting-menu spend. Food-focused things to do around the same spine show up under Things to Do: Food & Drink.

Metsi's already owned the wood fire after dark. With Park Service upstairs on the clock for mornings, Lincoln Street gets a fuller day.