Months after it was burned, Salty Nut Cafe is coming back.
The popular Five Points restaurant, known for its barrels of peanuts and open-air back porch, will reopen this Friday, according to its Twitter feed.
The announcement followed months of rebuilding after the building caught fire in the early morning hours of Jan. 6.
A month later, the Columbia Fire Department and USC police connected the incident to a string of subsequent firebombings and charged a USC student, Theodore Podewil, with seven counts of possessing an incendiary device.
Podewil is still being held at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on two separate $25,000 bonds, according to the jail’s website.
The restaurant’s manager, Phil Hopewell, said in January that no matter what caused the blaze, Salty Nut would rebuild.
Now, it has, and Columbia was left abuzz with the simple tweet that announced the reopening: “#WelcomeBackSaltyNut.”