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Friday, December 4, 2009
Dolcessa closes, but its gelato lives on
Dolcessa has closed its retail gelato and sandwich shop at 1106 Brown St. near the University of Dayton campus, but its gelato will live on in area restaurants and cafes, according to Dolcessa owner Jules Opperman.
Opperman said she wanted to focus on the wholesale side of the business, including developing custom flavors for restaurants. “We wanted to concentrate on what we do the best, which is making gelato and sorbetto,” she said.
Dolcessa was founded in late 2006 on a narrow storefront on East Fifth Street in Dayton’s Oregon District. In November 2007, it moved to its Brown Streeet location near UD.
Opperman said Dolcessa will continue to supply gelato to independent restaurants and cafes in the area, and when warm weather arrives, will sell gelato from a cart at local festivals, fairs and other outdoor events. But there are no current plans to reopen a retail store, she said on the Dolcessa Facebook page.
Therapy Cafe in Dayton’s Cannery Arts District has begun serving Dolcessa gelato-infused martinis, including a Chocolate Gelato Martini Swirl, according to Duante Beddingfield, Therapy Cafe’s public relations director. And Dolcessa’s gelato is being served at Caffeine, the coffee shop at the 2nd Street Public Market at 600 E. Second St. at Webster Street in Dayton. Restaurants such as Jay’s, Rue Dumaine, Christopher’s and Franco’s Ristorante Ristorante Italiano also are serving or have served Dolcessa’s gelato in recent months, Opperman said.
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Harrigan’s Tavern will open a second location in the former Fox & Hound in the Washington Park Plaza sometime after the first of the year, Harrigan’s owners Dave Haig and Mike Haley III said.
The new tavern and restaurant to be called Harrigan’s South will be located at 671 Lyons Road, just off Miamisburg-Centerville Road near Old Time Pottery Barn and Arrow Wine & Spirits. Harrigan’s has begun renovations on the space, which has been vacant since Fox & Hound closed in September 2008.
Haig said he and Haley have “absolutely no intention” of closing the existing Harrigan’s at 4070 Marshall Road in Kettering, which the business partners have owned since 1999. “This is just a second location,” Haig said.
The 8,790-square-feet Harrigan’s South will employ as many as 50 people, Haig said.
Haig and Haley said they will likely expand the menu at the new location to include items such as Irish stew, shepherd’s pie and steaks to the staples such as burgers, pizza and wings.
The tavern owners said they were approached by acquaintances connected to commercial real estate about moving into the vacant space, examined it, and decided to take the plunge.
Workers are installing kitchen equipment and furniture at the site now, and Haig said he expects to open sometime in January.
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