This popular Columbus restaurant expands with a new location in Alabama but same menu

A popular Columbus restaurant expands by opening a new Alabama location in Smiths Station.

Aspen Jones opened a family-friendly restaurant called Toasted last year in Columbus with his brother, Skylar Toole. Jones announced the restaurant’s new Smiths Station location behind Poco Locos Mexican Grill on Facebook.

“The whispers are true!,” Jones’ post reads. “Smiths Station Toasted is open for business and can’t wait to serve you!”

When the first Toasted held its soft opening on Moon Road in Columbus, positive food reviews in the Columbus, GA Foodies Facebook group led to the restaurant running out of food the first week it opened.

A Facebook posted on the Toasted Smiths Stations page thanks customers for their patience during the restaurant’s “not so soft, soft opening.”

This new restaurant continues the brothers’ family legacy of owning and operating restaurants in the region. Their father, Mark Jones, has owned and operated restaurants in Muscogee and Harris counties since 1995.

Customers at Toasted Smiths Station will find the same menu items as the Columbus location, and it will be open everyday except Monday.

“We are looking forward to feeding everyone here in Smiths Station,” reads a post on the Toasted Facebook page.

This story was originally published January 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM.

Brittany McGee

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Brittany McGee is the community issues reporter for the Ledger-Enquirer. She is a 2021 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Media and Journalism with a second degree in Economics. She began at the Ledger-Enquirer as a Report for America corps member covering the COVID-19 recovery in Columbus. Brittany also covered business for the Ledger-Enquirer.