Red Rabbit Ramen, the Columbus ramen cart that spent about three years outside Echo Spirits Distilling Co. near Grandview Heights before moving to Honest Friend Brewing, has announced its closure.

The business announced on social media around Oct. 13 that it would "close the cart effective immediately," as first reported by 614Now. The post thanked customers for "supporting small, and sticking with us throughout the journey."

The closure ends a six-year run that took Red Rabbit through a string of Columbus kitchens and dining rooms. Mike and Terry Ramsey founded the concept in 2020 and later operated from a ghost kitchen on Essex Avenue, NBC4 reported. The shop had a brief stint at Budd Dairy Food Hall in Italian Village before landing at Echo Spirits, at 985 W. Sixth Ave., in 2022.

That Grandview-area location became Red Rabbit's longest home. The shop served ramen in varieties including spicy miso, curry and tan tan. When the business left Echo Spirits in December 2025, it thanked "the bar staff, Grandview residents, and traveling foodies" in a Facebook post and said "this isn't a goodbye, just a see you later," according to NBC4.

Ten months later, it was goodbye.

When the Ramseys moved to Seattle in 2024, Blaine Carr and Xavy Perez took over day-to-day operations while the Ramseys stayed on as co-owners. Neither Carr nor Perez had culinary experience before stepping in, NBC4 reported in April 2024. Perez told the station at the time that Red Rabbit had been a date-night staple for the couple and that they could not pass up the chance to run it.

"She's vegan, so it was the only place in town that we could get a vegan broth," Carr told NBC4 in that same April 2024 report.

The new operators kept the shop at Echo Spirits until December 2025, then moved it to the patio at Honest Friend Brewing, at 2112 S. High St. in south Columbus, in January. Red Rabbit operated there on Fridays and Saturdays from 5 to 9 p.m., NBC4 reported in January.

Neither the social media announcement nor the available reporting explained why the business closed. The post said only that the operators "had imagined a different path ahead."

A birria and street taco truck has operated on the Echo Spirits patio, according to the distillery's website.