Patrice Langston at first looked at the former cafeteria room inside of 701 N. Niles Ave. as an additional site for her catering procedure.
Langston, who life in Florida and has a company catering company referred to as A Style of Heaven in Atlanta, came to the South Bend location for a business event and satisfied with nearby developer David Matthews, who owns the creating.
But after seeing the space, she believed it could be much more.
“I noticed the area and said ‘oh effectively, you know it would almost certainly be a really superior restaurant,'” Langston claimed. “And then I began sampling restaurants around town and seen there wasn’t a large amount of comfort meals. … (At the very least) none that do what I do.”
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Together with company lover Michael Welch, Langston this weekend opened Riverwalk Cafe for takeout only inside the vibrant developing alongside the East Bank Path. The restaurant utilizes recipes from her catering organization, providing consolation food ranging from Southern to Caribbean and Italian dishes.
“I change between American soul food, Caribbean and Italian, because all of these things have a great consolation truly feel,” she mentioned.
Open up for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Riverwalk Cafe takes advantage of a large amount of butter and major cream-forward dishes to generate prosperous tasting food stuff like shrimp and grits, pancakes, buttermilk fried hen, a “Rasta Pasta” with product and spice and curry hen. The restaurant also works by using halal rooster to cook with, which is described dependent on how the chook is butchered and, in accordance to Langston, makes the meat a lot less bloody.
In get to come across the cafe, shoppers should navigate their way by means of the large 77,000-square-foot developing together the St. Joseph River, but Langston hopes in the foreseeable future to have a a lot more immediate entry by the outdoor room.
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For now, the restaurant will remain open up for takeout or delivery only, for the reason that the rest of the area outdoors of the kitchen continues to be beneath construction. The eating corridor where by buyers will ultimately be served is now however structured like a cafeteria. Langston ideas to add “comfy touches” and construct a patio that will lead to the East Lender Trail. She also designs to increase a garage doorway to the back of the cafe space to make an indoor-outdoor come to feel.
“We are just attempting to get as considerably done as attainable,” Langston mentioned. “We’ve finished it in phases so our very first period, of system, is receiving the kitchen open. So once we get the kitchen open, we want to go ahead and get the dining place open and at the time we do that, we are going to operate on the patio. … It really is been an adventure.”
Langston expects design to be entire and dine-in services to get started in August.
Riverwalk Cafe is open up Friday as a result of Monday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Nearby barbecue restaurant to open in Granger
A new nearby barbecue is scheduled to open this fall.
Dean’s Barbecue and Restaurant will be located at a 1,500-sq. foot place in the same elaborate as Beef ‘O’ Brady’s and The Chief Ice Product on Indiana 23 in Granger.
Owner Phil Gulis, who will open the restaurant with his brother Tim, stated a portion of the menu will consist of barbecue goods like brisket, half chickens and pulled pork with a Memphis-influenced dwelling sauce. The other half of the menu will be “chef-pushed” with pork chops and rotational merchandise.
Gulis, who most lately labored in kitchens at Morris Inn and Holy Cross College or university, said he anticipates opening the cafe by early September.
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Neighborhood consignment retail outlet Renegade Resale is celebrating its one yr anniversary. The apparel retail store at 928 E. Ireland Street in South Bend opened June 2020 and will be releasing a buyer rewards application in the next thirty day period. … Quick food chain McDonald’s will soon supply a nationwide loyalty software. MyMcDonald’s Benefits will be out there on the app at collaborating places to eat starting July 8. Individuals will get 100 details for each individual dollar invested on qualifying purchases and amassed points can be utilized for upcoming buys. … Michigan eating places and bars are now capable to return to complete capability for the two indoor and out of doors services. The restriction was lifted on Tuesday after 15 months of mandates by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in an endeavor to limit the unfold of the coronavirus.
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