Brewpub coming to Jeffrey Park in Italian Village

One of Columbus’ busiest restaurant companies and one of the region’s growing craft brewers are teaming up for a new Italian Village brewpub.

A&R Creative Group, the family behind the Clintonville’s Crest Gastropub, is teaming up with Marengo-based Hoof Hearted Brewing Co. for Hoof Hearted Brewery & Kitchen, a sustainable brewpub set to open this summer on Wagenbrenner Development Inc.’s Jeffrey Park project at the corner of North Fourth Street and East First Avenue.

I sat down with the A&R last…