A century-old brick storefront on Summit Street has a new life as a family-run halal food hall, with Prime Street Food serving everything from chicken tikka pizza to churros right alongside a full-service neighborhood market. The dual concept, run by Adnan Asif and his family, celebrated a grand opening at 1041 Summit St. in Columbus’s Italian Village this week.
Prime Street Food opened as a family-owned halal restaurant, according to Columbus Underground, hosting a grand opening celebration alongside Italian Village Market at the shared Summit Street address. The menu leans into fusion, offering rice platters, pasta, burgers, shawarmas and wraps alongside a pizza lineup that spans chicken tikka and chicken shawarma pies to more familiar pepperoni and cheese, plus hot honey pepperoni, spicy chicken, margherita, honey BBQ and pesto chicken varieties. For dessert, there are cookies, cakes and churros. The Asif family also runs Grandview’s Boss Eatz, which offers its own fusion of foods from Pakistan, India, Mexico and the United States, per the same outlet.
A Joint Venture Between Two Local Food Businesses
Prime Street Food didn’t spring up out of nowhere — it was developed as a joint culinary concept between Harrison’s Food Truck and Boss Eatz, blending mobile food-truck know-how with a permanent storefront to build a 100% halal fusion menu, according to 614NOW. The fast-casual takeout setup uses self-ordering kiosks and was designed with Ohio State University students and late-night patrons in mind, staying open daily from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. local time. That schedule puts it squarely in range of students craving food well after most kitchens have closed, since OSU’s main campus sits just west of Italian Village.
Italian Village Market, which shares the building, opened its doors first, in early August, as a convenience stop offering local and imported beer, wine, energy drinks and daily grocery items before the restaurant portion launched, 614NOW reports. The market also carries tobacco and lottery products alongside its beverage selection. For the grand opening, Prime Street Food gave away free rice bowls to the first 50 customers, while the market ran wine tastings from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. with prize raffles.
Renovating a 1900s Building Without Losing Its Character
Property owner Adnan Asif bought the 3,193-square-foot brick commercial building for $1.15 million in 2025, according to Realtor.com. Interior renovations began that summer, updating flooring and lighting while deliberately keeping the historic exterior brick facade intact, in step with Italian Village’s enforcement of historic preservation guidelines on exterior commercial changes. In June, the Italian Village Commission reviewed and approved a historic district sign package for the address, authorizing an externally illuminated wall sign for Prime Street Food.
The building itself dates to 1900 and has housed local service businesses for more than a century, including Reliable Advertising & Distributing Co. and Auto Transport Service Inc., per property records. Italian Village, annexed to Columbus in 1862, is bounded by Interstate 670, Fifth Avenue, North High Street and railroad tracks, making it one of the city’s earliest residential and commercial suburbs.
Prime Street Food and Italian Village Market now join a growing list of halal and Mediterranean-adjacent dining spots reshaping how central Columbus eats, following moves like Silav Cafe’s downtown relocation. For now, the Summit Street building stands as both a corner store and a late-night kitchen, serving longtime Italian Village residents and OSU students alike under one roof.
