A decade-old Columbus food truck is finally getting a permanent home, and it's moving in with a pasta shop. Flour & Fetty's, a new collaboration pairing Flour Modern Pasta Bar's handmade noodles with the global street food of Fetty's Street Food, plans to open at Polaris Fashion Place this fall, operating out of Flour's existing space rather than a separate storefront.
The combined concept will take over Flour Modern Pasta Bar's 1,540-square-foot location at 1540 Polaris Parkway near Barnes & Noble, according to 1808Delaware. The space previously housed The Brass Tap on the south-facing exterior of the mall, and rather than leasing new real estate, the two Central Ohio brands are merging menus and kitchen operations under one roof. As WhatNow Columbus reports, the pairing gives Fetty's international flavors a permanent home after years on the road.
A Food Truck Founder's Global Résumé
Fetty's Street Food has operated as a Columbus food truck since 2016, serving fare inspired by Thai, Indian, and South African cuisine, per WhatNow Columbus. Founder Damian Ettish is a Cape Town, South Africa native who earned a commerce degree from the University of Cape Town and studied regional cuisines in London, India, Thailand and Vietnam before relocating to Columbus and launching the truck, 1808Delaware reports. He had previously run a food truck in South Africa before making the move to the United States.
The truck's menu has included Thai-style egg rolls, South African samosas, chilli paneer, and a variety of curries, according to WhatNow Columbus. Among Fetty's most popular offerings are bunny chow — a South African butter chicken curry served in a hollowed bread bowl — and phall, an extremely spicy British-Indian curry made with a Bengali five-spice blend known as paanch phoran and super-hot chili peppers, 1808Delaware notes. Ettish reportedly picked up those British-Indian curry techniques while cooking in London. The truck regularly appears at Columbus Commons and local breweries throughout Central Ohio.
The Pasta Chef Behind Flour
On the other side of the partnership is chef Yash Kishinchand, who created Flour Modern Pasta Bar and also operates the Short North Indian restaurant ROOH with his family. Kishinchand trained as a pastry chef at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa, California, and Hyde Park, New York, and earned a bachelor's degree in food business management before returning to Columbus to manage ROOH and launch Flour, according to Voyage Ohio Magazine. He has credited that pastry foundation for his comfort making fresh pasta from scratch daily. Kishinchand also co-founded Swadesi Café in Chicago with Michelin-starred chef Sujan Sarkar, per WhatNow Columbus.
Flour Modern Pasta Bar opened at Polaris Fashion Place in 2024 with a $28 prix-fixe format built around daily handmade pastas featuring global fusion flavors like Butter Chicken Alla Vodka and Spicy Kimchi Carbonara, according to Ohio Magazine. That format offered guests a set choice of bread, salad and pasta. Flour & Fetty's will apply that same fusion instinct to Italian food and handmade noodles, according to WhatNow Columbus, though neither business has announced menu details, an exact opening date, or further specifics about the restaurant space.
Polaris's Shifting International Food Scene
The new mashup lands amid a broader wave of international dining arrivals at Polaris Fashion Place. Colombian-style fruit snack bar chain Mango Biche Mia opened its first Ohio location on the mall's lower level near JD Sports and Lovesac on July 17, per 1808Delaware, specializing in mango snacks infused with chamoy, lime, salt and Tajín. Fast-casual Mediterranean chain CAVA is also adding a restaurant on an outparcel along Polaris Parkway, occupying a former Shake Shack site near Potbelly Sandwich Shop, according to Columbus Frontline — part of a national expansion of more than 400 locations pushing into Central Ohio.
Texas-based vegetarian Indian concept Simply South, based in Irving, Texas, is under construction inside the Polaris Lifestyle Center next to Benihana and is targeting an opening during the 2026 holiday shopping season, Columbus Frontline reports. The buildout adds to a growing cluster of South Asian dining options entering the shopping district. That growth stands in contrast to recent turnover elsewhere along the corridor: Chicago deep-dish chain Giordano's closed its Polaris Parkway store in June after nine years, and Applebee's shuttered its 27-year-old nearby location in July, per Hoodline's earlier reporting.
A Chef Already Testing New Formats
Kishinchand has been experimenting with expanded formats beyond Flour and ROOH in recent months. He launched Mornings by ROOH, a weekend pop-up café at his Short North restaurant, offering Indian-inspired breakfast items like jaggery chocolate chip cookies and lobster croissants alongside coffee, tea, cocktails and other sweet and savory selections, according to WhatNow Columbus. That pop-up, which operates on weekends, followed ROOH's original 2019 debut in Victorian Village.
For now, the Flour & Fetty's partnership is being framed as a chance for both businesses to experiment with new dishes rather than a fixed menu rollout. Whether the collaboration becomes a lasting joint concept inside the mall or eventually leads Fetty's toward its own brick-and-mortar location remains an open question. Flour Modern Pasta Bar and Fetty's Street Food did not respond to a request for additional comment from WhatNow Columbus at the time of publication.
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