EXCLUSIVE: Gastropub with bakery window opening downtown
A gastropub with an attached bakery window is being opened downtown by a New Jersey native chef who has worked with some of the biggest names in the culinary industry.
Chef Anthony Sitek is partnering with Chef Mike Casari to open Crown Republic on the ground floor of the Eighth and Sycamore development with the goal of opening its doors by June 11. Local pastry chef Ben Arington is moving his Fat Ben's Bakery into the restaurant and operating a bakery window.
The name Crown Republic harkens back…
Birmingham council approves earlier Sunday alcohol sales
Birmingham restaurant-goers could enjoy an alcoholic beverage with their brunch as soon as this Sunday.
The Birmingham City Council passed an ordinance on Tuesday that allows restaurants to begin serving alcohol at 10 a.m. on Sundays.
The ordinance will need to be signed by Mayor Randall Woodfin and publicized as a public notice in the newspaper before the 5-0 decision can take effect.
In March, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill to allow the Birmingham City Council…
Colorado has two of 50 fastest-growing breweries in America
Colorado is home to two of the 50 fastest-growing breweries in America — both of which are smaller beer makers with limited distributions.
Nano 108 Brewing of Colorado Springs ranked as the 38th-fastest-growing brewery in the United States, according to an inaugural list compiled by the Boulder-based Brewers Association, the trade group for independent breweries nationwide.
38 State Brewing of Littleton ranked 49th in the same survey, which is based on growth from the end of 2016 to the end…
Memphis is ‘crucial piece of puzzle’ for Russian pizza chain
A Russian pizza chain that is growing globally at a blistering pace will soon have a store located at 6155 Poplar Ave.
The East Memphis spot, which is set to open in June, will be U.S. store No. 4 for Dodo Pizza, which opened its first three U.S. locations in Mississippi. The Poplar Avenue address was chosen due to the demographics and its easy access to major thoroughfares.
“We think there will be lots of customers for high-quality pizza [and it is] a good location for delivery,” said Andy Kirievskiy,…
Restaurant Roundup: Pappa Charlies reopens in Cypress, Sweet Paris expands to Katy
Here's the latest news in Houston's restaurant scene:
Just a few months after closing its East Downtown location in December, Pappa Charlies Barbeque officially reopened April 3 in Cypress, according to Eater Houston and the restaurant’s Facebook page.
Located at 25610 Hempstead Road, the eatery is inside Cypress Trail Hideout, a bar and restaurant project in a historic 1930s building near the original Hempstead Wagon Trail. The project aims to combine barbecue, southern food and an icehouse,…
Hardee’s gets new marketing vibe with a lot of help from Havas Chicago
Hardee’s, the regional fast food chain, looks to be aligning itself with the denizens of Trump Country, that large and suddenly very-high-profile contingent of Americans who helped elect Donald Trump president in November of 2016.
Hardee’s, a unit of Franklin, Tennessee-based CKE Restaurants, is rolling out a new national ad campaign from Havas Chicago that positions the fast food chain as a haven of “Comfort Culture.” For the purposes of this new campaign, Havas is defining Comfort Culture…
Nobu expected to make Houston debut in June
The Galleria mall announced in March that Japanese restaurant Nobu would open in the summer — and now, there’s a date.
The 10,000-square-foot restaurant is expected to open June 21, according to Eater Houston and the mall’s website. It will be the brand’s first entry into the Houston market and its second in Texas.
Nobu is on the second floor of the former Saks Fifth Avenue space — dubbed the Galleria VI wing — at the mall, owned by Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc. (NYSE:…
Denver’s rising cost of living pushes out those with lower incomes, and higher earners take their place
People who relocated to metro Denver from other states in the past decade earned higher incomes — by an average of $3,100 per household — than those who left, despite being a couple years younger, according to a new study.
And for those newcomers relocating from expensive coastal cities, metro Denver’s rents and home prices represented a relative bargain, which helps explain why home prices and rents here have risen above what income gains could justify and why some households have found themselves priced out.
“You are taking the brunt of California’s housing refugees. Metro Denver is still affordable to them,” said Issi Romem, chief economist at BuildZoom, a website that helps people locate contractors and conducted the study.
Romen studied migration patterns in 442 metro areas between 2005 and 2016, comparing the age, household size, incomes and educational levels of those leaving versus those coming.
His research showed a pattern of polarization, with a group of cities gaining m..
Trump’s company asked Panama president to help in hotel spat
By Juan Zamorano and Stephen Braun, The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY — U.S. President Donald Trump’s company appealed directly to Panama’s president to intervene in its fight over control of a luxury hotel, even invoking a treaty between the two countries, in what ethics experts say was a blatant mingling of Trump’s business and government interests.
That appeal in a letter last month from lawyers for the Trump Organization to Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela was apparently unsuccessful — an emergency arbitrator made days later declined to reinstate the Trump management team to the waterfront hotel in Panama City. But it provides hard proof of exactly the kind of conflict experts feared when Trump refused to divest from a sprawling empire that includes hotels, golf courses, licensing deals and other interests in more than 20 countries.
“This could be the clearest example we’ve seen of a conflict of interest stemming from the president’s role as head of state in connection wit..
Liability in fatal North Capitol Hill construction blaze not determined, developer says
Owners of an apartment that burned to rubble, killing two construction workers, have notified possible litigants that a determination of responsibility for the blaze awaits further investigation by Denver fire inspectors.
Because the cause of the blaze has not been settled, the owners of Emerson Place Apartments, and their respective insurance providers, “do not acknowledge that they are responsible for the alleged damages that prospective claimants purport to have sustained,” according to Matt Moseley, spokesman for Allante Properties, the Greenwood Village company developing the five-story, wood-frame apartment complex in Denver’s North Capitol Hill neighborhood.
The cause of the March 7 fire at 1833 Emerson St. remains under investigation. The three-alarm blaze killed two men and injured six people. It also destroyed about 30 vehicles and damaged 13 nearby buildings.
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