Pie of the Tiger Leaves Short North Tavern After Final Weekend of Pies
The Detroit-Sicilian pizza concept served its last pans at 674 N. High St. and is looking for a new home with no immediate plans.
Short North lost one of its thick-crust fixtures over the weekend, and the pizza kitchen is the piece that moved, not the bar around it.
Pie of the Tiger served its final pies inside Short North Tavern at 674 N. High St. after confirming the exit on social media. Owners told followers the last night was underway, thanked the room for a wild run, and invited regulars to grab a pie while dough lasted. A follow-up post made the punch line plain: they were out of dough for now, though wings and fries were still available for anyone heading to the tavern for a game.
Details in this story draw from Chili Chili / 614Now coverage of the Pie of the Tiger exit.
What left, and what stayed
The pizza concept lived in the back of Short North Tavern, a High Street sports bar that is not itself shutting down. That distinction matters for anyone who still wants a stool, a screen, and bar food on the same block. The Detroit-meets-Sicilian pans, with sauce ladled on top of a thick cut crust, are what disappeared from the menu board.
Pie of the Tiger grew out of Yellow Brick Pizza, the Columbus project from Faith Pierce and Robert Silver. It began as a March Madness 2021 pop-up, then settled into a permanent back-room berth at the tavern around the same year. For roughly five years, the pans were part of the Short North late-night and game-night toolkit, a square-cut alternative to the Neapolitan and thin-crust rooms farther up High Street.
Looking, but not racing
When fans asked about a next address, the team answered in comments that it has no immediate plans and is looking. That is not a soft opening teaser. It is a pause with an open search. Followers who want relocation news will need to watch the concept's own channels rather than assume a new High Street storefront is already leased.
In the meantime, Yellow Brick remains the related pie stop for people who tracked Pierce and Silver's thicker, inventive style across town. Short North Tavern keeps its own identity as a watch-party room with wings, fries, and beer. The pizza chapter just closed.
Why the gap lands hard on High Street
Thick-crust Detroit and Sicilian pans are still not everywhere in Columbus. Losing a permanent Short North source shrinks the map for diners who want sauce-on-top squares without leaving the gallery district. It also reminds operators how fragile a "restaurant inside a restaurant" arrangement can be when one brand is ready to move and the host room is not.
If you are rewriting your pizza night, start with our first-timer Columbus pizza guide, which walks Short North logistics beside campus slices and suburban square-cut classics. For the blocks around the tavern arches, the Short North neighborhood page still covers galleries, patios, and dinner routing. When the table wants smoke instead of pans, our 2026 Best BBQ list is the other comfort-food lane. Oddball rooms and spectacle dinners live on Best Unique Dining Experiences if pizza night flips into something stranger.
Pie of the Tiger's pans are gone from 674 N. High for now. The tavern lights are still on. The next chapter depends on whether Pierce and Silver find a room that fits the dough again.
