Please follow and like us: As the Buckeyes took their first victory of the season over Bowling Green this weekend, residents of the Linden neighborhood in Columbus got their first taste of a new restaurant with a strong connection to Buckeye football. Former Ohio State football players Chimdi Chekwa and Bryant Browning, along with their friends D’Andre Martin and Mike Johnson, fulfilled their longtime goal of starting a business when they opened The Pit BBQ Grille on Saturday in the Northern Lights Shopping Center on Cleveland Avenue. “This neighborhood reminds me a lot of the one I grew up in in Cleveland,” Browning said on why he and his friends chose Linden. Browning met Martin and Johnson while growing up in Cleveland and he and Chekwa, who is originally from Louisiana, were roommates at Ohio State. The friends had all talked about someday starting a business together. Browning said the planning process began at the beginning of this year, and by the end of March they had obtained the building in Linden. They spent the next several months renovating. “We hired contractors but ended up doing a lot of the work ourselves,” Browning said. In the restaurant, patrons can take…
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