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Bonfire Wood Fire Cooking's St. Paul location closed on Friday, but its owner, Nath Cos., says it only shut down because it's lease was not renewed and the company is seeking another location to reopen the restaurant.

The Bonfire location, at 850 Grand Ave., opened in December 2006 and was one of five Bonfire restaurants that Nath Cos. owns and operates in the metro area. A franchised location is located in Mankato.

The space it was leasing is managed by Minneapolis-based Escom Properties. According…

Dallas-based Lombardi Family Concepts recently shuttered Taverna Pizzeria and Risotteria in the River Oaks District, and in its place a local nightclub hospitality group will open a new concept.

Bisou, which is French for Kiss, is expected to debut in the fall at 4444 Westheimer, suite A-120, according to a press release and the concept's website. Clé Group is the company behind the new restaurant as well as local nightclubs Clé in Midtown and Spire in a former church downtown.

The Clé Group…

Restaurant group Edgewise is closing Chicon, the East Austin neighborhood restaurant and bar.

The last day of service will be June 23 for the eatery at 1914 E. Sixth St.

Edgewise owner Ben Edgerton and chef Andrew Wiseheart had originallylaunched vegetable-focused restaurant Gardner at that location. It was remade into Chicon in 2016.

Now Edgerton is choosing to instead focus on his Contigo-branded concepts. That includes the group's original Austin restaurant, Contigo, at 2027 Anchor Lane, as…

Cousins Chris Tonkin and Robby Tonkin see plenty of opportunity to open new restaurant, but for now they're focused on slower, capital-intensive growth and Taco Time's culture.

A lawsuit filed by Pabst Brewing Co. against MillerCoors LLC will go to trial in November.

MillerCoors distributes all of Pabst's legacy beers, including its signature Pabst Blue Ribbon, but Pabst sued MillerCoors in March 2016 in a dispute over an Eden, N.C., brewery that MillerCoors closed in September 2015. The plant closure was explained at the time by Fernando Palacios, MillerCoors' chief integrated supply chain officer, as a way to “optimize our brewery footprint and streamline operations…

Pallantia closes and restaurant just off Walnut Street goes on the market

SendGrid is well known as a unicorn in the world of tech IPOs: the email delivery company is profitable, steadily growing its customer base and headquartered in Colorado. Back in 2016, SendGrid also was seen as

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Open Table’s new 13,000-square foot office in the Wells Fargo Center combines high-rise views with River North Art District’s “gritty” warehouse vibe.

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Clairvoyance is the ability to perceive things in the future beyond normal sensory contact. Such a skill would be an asset in commercial real estate development, where intuition must be carefully balanced by the analysis of a broad range of conditions, challenge, and constraints reaching far beyond the capacity of mere instinct.

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Exactly 10 years ago, the global capital markets were teetering on the edge of disaster when all of a sudden, the subprime bubble finally burst. In September 2008, the bottom fell out, claiming Lehman Brothers as its

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