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It’s official: Meadowlark restaurant will relocate in January
The owner of Meadowlark restaurant, whom we mentioned back in August was considering moving the restaurant, has made it official: she has signed a lease to relocate to the former Madison’s Bistro at 5531 Far Hills Ave., as early as January 2011.
Meadowlark owner and chef Elizabeth Wiley said the new Meadowlark will have only a handful more seats in its main dining room — about 70, up from 56 at the current location at 2094 Miamisburg-Centerville Road — but the Far Hills Avenue location will have several advantages that the current location lacked:
— a bar area where diners can wait for their table, a frequent occurrence at the often-busy restaurant. Diners who are sitting at the bar itself can choose to be served dinner there;
— two private-dining rooms that will accommodate large parties, something the existing Meadowlark often wasn’t able to do;
— larger kitchen facilities that will make it more convenient for staff and will accommodate a new catering operation that Wiley intends to launch in the spring of 2011; and
— an expanded liquor license that will allow Meadowlark to serve spirits and mixed drinks in addition to the wine and beer it can serve now.
“I’m really excited. I think it’s a fantastic location,” Wiley said. “It will be a better place for customers to visit, and a better place for my staff to work.”
Renovations are underway, and the current plan calls for the restaurant to move during the first half of January, Wiley said. The fate of the existing Meadowlark, which Wiley opened in 2004, hasn’t yet been determined, she said.
Wiley said she wasn’t looking to expand significantly the number of seats in the main dining area, because the type of cooking Meadowlark does — a la minute, with each meal cooked when ordered — doesn’t lend itself to a larger scale.
“This will be the same restaurant, with the same practices,” Wiley said.
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