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Opening day today for new Dayton restaurant
DAYTON — Diamond D’s Diner, the new restaurant that we first told you about back in December, is scheduled to open at 11 a.m. today, Jan. 28, at 2301 Germantown St.
The new restaurant’s location formerly housed a Church’s Chicken restaurant but has been vacant for 16 years.
Diamond D’s Diner will serve chicken, fish, soups, salads, vegetables, and other items that the new restaurant’s owner, Barbara Vinzant of Trotwood, described as “soul food to health food.”
Vinzant and family members own two other businesses nearby — Vinique Beauty & Nail Salon and B&D Entertainment Store — and Vinzant said her dedication to the neighborhood and to the Germantown Street Business District Association prompted her to open a restaurant in the building that has been unused since 1995. The 70-year-old — who retired from a supervisory position in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 1995 and worked in U.S. District Court prior to that — calls the restaurant “a sweat-equity project.”
Diamond D’s hours will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, and is closed Monday. The restaurant will have limited seating and will focus primarily on carryout orders, Vinzant said. The Sunday menu will be expanded so that residents can order a “Sunday Best” dinner to take home after church, she said.
For more information, call (937) 268-3000.
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