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Jul 14, 2022 · Top Chef Alum Avishar Barua has a Second Restaurant in the Works. The chef’s Brewery District restaurant, Agni, will fill the former Ambrose and Eve space. Chef and Columbus native Avishar Barua is planning to throw a Midwestern backyard barbecue in the Brewery District, and everyone’s invited.
- Erin Edwards
- Columbus Monthly
- Moody Interiors
- Don’T Overlook The Bathrooms
- A Versatile Kitchen
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- Backyard BBQ
From Day to NightBarua’s daytime café in Worthington, Joya’s, offers a cheerful color palette of orange, peach, pink and cobalt blue. Agni’s design team, including Mary Dietsch Architecture & Design and Jenn Stevens from Mynte Design Co., wanted to create Joya’s foil, with a moody palette of dark blues, grays and natural wood elements—a stark cont...
Anime ArtWild bathrooms are a trend in restaurants of late (just visit Agni’s neighbor, Law Bird). The design team joined in the fun by commissioning Hanoi-based Blue Mint Anime (found on Etsy) to create an anime-inspired mural for one of the toilets. The scene depicts the chef around the family dinner table with his parents and brother. On another...
God of FireBarua’s happy place is making the wood fires for his new Grillworks hearth. He prefers the “romance” of making a fire from scratch rather than using starters like charcoal, organizing his wood in “log cabin” formation. The grill, a $46,000 Langelier Elite X54 model, is a masterful design, with heat controlled both by manipulating the log...
Clean LinesThere’s a sauna-like look to Agni’s 12-seat private dining room, featuring three skylights and a long, black, custom table by Common Species. For the room’s walls, Barua had wanted to use the ancient Japanese architectural technique called shou sugi ban (aka yakisugi), which involves charring wood, often cedar, and rubbing off the soot t...
MomentsThough not yet complete, Agni will eventually have an alfresco dining space behind the restaurant, just steps away from its neighbor Antiques on High. “You have these different moments in the restaurant where you have the front porch, which is street side. You have the elevated balcony, which is like sitting [on the porch of] a nice house. A...
- Erin Edwards
- Columbus Monthly
Mar 8, 2023 · Following closely on the heels of opening his Worthington spot Joya’s Cafe, chef Avishar Barua debuts his latest restaurant Agni this week! Named for the Hindu god of fire, Agni is centered around live-fire cooking, which means lots of smoking, grilling, and otherwise fun with fire.
Aug 29, 2022 · The hotly anticipated daytime café from chef Avishar Barua, a Top Chef season 18 contestant, gave a sneak peek last week and is primed to officially open Wednesday in Old Worthington. Named after Barua’s mother, Joya’s Café is located at 657 High St., formerly Sassafras Bakery.
- Erin Edwards
- Columbus Monthly
Jan 24, 2024 · BJ Lieberman, chef/owner of Hiraeth , Chapman’s Eat Market and Ginger Rabbit, and Avishar Barua, chef/owner of Agni and Joya’s, were named semifinalists in the Best Chef: Great Lakes category, representing the top talent in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
Details. Kristen is joined by judges Tom and Gail for this week’s Quickfire Challenge as the chefs are tasked to create dishes featuring cranberries in a unique way. The chefs are then treated...
May 15, 2024 · The Good Land. Kristen is joined by judges Tom and Gail for this week’s Quickfire Challenge as the chefs are tasked to create dishes featuring cranberries in a unique way. The chefs are...
