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Columbus, Ohio
Nuyorican café and LGBTQ+ community anchor on Parsons Ave
Community Grounds is a Nuyorican trolley café and mercantile on Parsons Avenue in Columbus's South Side. The family-owned spot serves house oat milk lattes with house-made syrups in flavors like rosemary peppercorn and cardamom clove, plus Nuyorican food including mofongo and fresh empanadas — roughly 90% of the menu is vegan. The mercantile side stocks locally made art, soaps, zines, and hot sauces. Community programming runs deep: the café is the recurring host of BQIC (Black Queer and Intersectional Collective) Free Resource Friday on the last Friday of every month, providing food, clothing, and hygiene items to queer and trans people of color.
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